Broadcast Box is a self-hosted WebRTC broadcasting platform focused on very low-latency one-to-many streaming.
It is designed for users who want to broadcast a screen, webcam or encoded video feed to other people without assembling a conventional streaming stack. Publishers can use a browser, OBS Studio, FFmpeg or GStreamer, while viewers receive the stream through a browser-based interface. A Go backend handles WebRTC sessions, with a React and TypeScript frontend providing publishing, playback and administration facilities.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses WHIP for WebRTC publishing and WHEP for playback.
- Supports direct screen or webcam publishing from a web browser.
- Accepts broadcasts from OBS Studio using its WHIP streaming support.
- Provides examples for publishing with FFmpeg and GStreamer.
- Uses the same stream key for publishing and browser playback.
- Offers multi-view playback for watching several active streams on one page.
- Provides a cinema mode with a stripped-down playback interface.
- Includes an administration portal for inspecting status, profiles and server logs.
- Supports reserved stream profiles protected by individual tokens.
- Allows profiles to be configured as public or private.
- Displays stream uptime, track metrics and WHEP session information.
- Supports webhooks for authorizing and logging publishing and subscription requests.
- Provides raw WebRTC data-channel support for interactive applications.
- Supports configurable STUN servers and ICE candidate handling.
- Can multiplex WebRTC UDP traffic onto configured ports.
- Supports WebRTC traffic over TCP where required.
- Can serve HTTPS directly when certificate and private-key files are configured.
- Allows the frontend to be disabled when only the backend API is needed.
Website: github.com/Glimesh/broadcast-box
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Developer: Glimesh
License: MIT License
Broadcast Box is written in Go and TypeScript. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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