https://github.com/CasparCG/server
CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. Ready-to-use downloads are available under the Releases tab https://casparcg.com.
https://github.com/CasparCG/server
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CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. Ready-to-use downloads are available under the Releases tab https://casparcg.com.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/CasparCG/server
- Owner: CasparCG
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2013-03-26T06:32:20.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-01T20:17:45.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-01T21:28:04.583Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: broadcast, broadcasting, c-plus-plus, casparcg, casparcg-server, graphics, graphics-engine, professional, streaming-video, video-player, video-recording, video-streaming
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 252 MB
- Stars: 942
- Watchers: 97
- Forks: 274
- Open Issues: 216
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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README
CasparCG Server
===============
Thank you for your interest in CasparCG Server, a professional software used to
play out and record professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs.
CasparCG Server has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006.
The CasparCG Server works on Windows and Linux.
System Requirements
-------------------
- A graphics card (GPU) capable of OpenGL 4.5 is required.
- An Nvidia GPU is recommended, but other GPU's will likely work fine.
- Intel and AMD CPU's have been tested and are known to work
- PCIE bandwidth is important between your GPU and CPU, as well as Decklink and CPU. Avoid chipset lanes when possible.
### Windows
- Only Windows 10 is supported
### Linux
- Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 are recommended
- Other distributions and releases will work but have not been tested
Getting Started
---------------
1. Download a release from (http://casparcg.com/downloads).
Alternatively, newer testing versions can be downloaded from (http://builds.casparcg.com) or [built from source](BUILDING.md)
2. Install any optional non-GPL modules
- Flash template support (Windows only):
1. Uninstall any previous version of the Adobe Flash Player using this file:
(http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe)
2. Download and unpack
(http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_11.8.800.94_archive.zip)
3. Install Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.94 from the unpacked archive:
fp_11.8.800.94_archive\11_8_r800_94\flashplayer11_8r800_94_winax.exe
3. Configure the server by editing the self-documented "casparcg.config" file in
a text editor.
4.
1. Windows: start `casparcg_auto_restart.bat`, or `casparcg.exe` and `scanner.exe` separately.
1. Linux: start the `run.sh` program or use tools/linux/start_docker.sh to run within docker (documentation is at the top of the file).
5. Connect to the Server from a client software, such as the "CasparCG Client"
which is available as a separate download.
Documentation
-------------
The most up-to-date documentation is always available at
https://github.com/CasparCG/help/wiki
Ask questions in the forum: https://casparcgforum.org/
Development
-----------
See [BUILDING](BUILDING.md) for instructions on how to build the CasparCG Server from source manually.
License
---------
CasparCG Server is distributed under the GNU General Public License GPLv3 or
higher, see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.
CasparCG Server uses the following third party libraries:
- FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.org/) under the GPLv2 Licence.
FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the FFmpeg project.
- Threading Building Blocks (http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/) library under the GPLv2 Licence.
- FreeImage (http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/) under the GPLv2 License.
- SFML (http://www.sfml-dev.org/) under the zlib/libpng License.
- GLEW (http://glew.sourceforge.net) under the modified BSD License.
- boost (http://www.boost.org/) under the Boost Software License, version 1.0.