Kurento is a WebRTC media server for transmitting, processing, recording and transforming real-time media streams.
It is built on GStreamer and provides programmable media pipelines rather than simply forwarding packets between participants. Applications can use Kurento for conferencing, recording, transcoding, media mixing and workloads that need server-side processing of audio or video.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- WebRTC, RTP and HTTP media transport.
- MCU media mixing.
- SFU-style media routing.
- Server-side media recording.
- Playback of media supported by GStreamer.
- Automatic transcoding between supported codecs.
- WebM and MP4 recording.
- OpenCV integration for computer vision and augmented-reality filters.
- Programmable media pipelines.
- Java and JavaScript client APIs.
- Docker deployment support.
Website: github.com/Kurento/kurento
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Developer: Kurento
License: Apache License 2.0
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