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Bing-r – desktop IPTV and media player

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Bing-r is a desktop IPTV and media player for M3U playlists, live TV, VOD, channel filtering, favourites and hardware-accelerated playback.

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WebRTC

Broadcast Box – sub-second WebRTC broadcasting

September 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Broadcast Box is a self-hosted WebRTC broadcasting platform for sub-second streaming, browser publishing, playback, profiles and administration.

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MediaMTX – live media server and media proxy

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

MediaMTX is a live media server and proxy for publishing, reading, converting, recording and forwarding streams across multiple protocols.

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Music

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Servers

August 14, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

We present the finest free and open source music servers.

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Music

9 Best Free and Open Source UPnP Media Servers

July 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

A music streamer lets you share your music, photos and videos with your network. Here’s the best free and open source music streamers.

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Internet Radio

4 Best Free and Open Source Pandora Radio Clients

July 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Pandora Internet Radio is a music streaming automated music recommendation service. We pick our favourite clients.

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WebRTC

Selkies – Linux remote desktop and application streaming platform

April 28, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia

Selkies is a low-latency Linux remote desktop and application streaming platform with WebSockets, optional WebRTC and GPU acceleration.

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phiola – audio player, recorder, converter and streaming server

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

phiola plays, records, converts and streams audio, with terminal and graphical interfaces, tag editing, playlists and HTTP broadcasting.

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WiFi

FCast – wireless streaming of audio and video content

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia

FCast is an open source protocol that enables wireless streaming of audio and video content between devices.

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WebRTC

OpenVidu – platform for real-time WebRTC applications

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

OpenVidu is a self-hosted WebRTC platform for scalable real-time audio and video apps, with recording, observability and APIs.

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WebRTC

Janus – general purpose WebRTC server

May 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Janus is a modular WebRTC server with plugins for conferencing, streaming, SIP, recording and other real-time communication tasks.

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WebRTC

LiveKit – end-to-end stack for WebRTC

May 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

LiveKit is an open source WebRTC stack for building scalable real-time audio, video and data applications with an SFU and SDKs.

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Webcam Tools

Webcamoid – webcam capture, recording and streaming application

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Webcamoid is a webcam application offering photo capture, video recording, effects, virtual cameras, screen capture and live streaming.

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Video Conversion

VLC – Cross-Platform Multimedia Player and Framework

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

VLC is a versatile multimedia player and framework that handles a huge range of audio, video, disc and streaming formats on Linux.

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Recording Studio

OBS Studio – video recording and live streaming

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

OBS Studio is a powerful video recording and live streaming application with scenes, sources, filters, transitions, and flexible audio controls.

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Recording Studio

FFmpeg – Multimedia Processing Toolkit for Audio and Video

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

FFmpeg is a command-line multimedia toolkit for recording, converting, filtering, probing and streaming audio, video and subtitle content.

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DJ

Internet DJ Console – live internet radio broadcasting

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Internet DJ Console streams live radio to Icecast and Shoutcast with dual players, microphone mixing, jingles, VoIP and JACK routing.

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Deezer

Streaming with Linux: Deezer

September 21, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Deezer is a French online music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels, as well as podcasts on various devices online or offline.

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Spotify

Streaming with Linux: Spotify

September 14, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

This is a new series that surveys popular streaming services from a Linux perspective. We look at the semi-official Linux client and third-party clients.

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Music Streaming

Streaming with Linux: Amazon Music Unlimited

August 5, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

This is a new series that surveys popular streaming services from a Linux perspective. We start with Amazon Music Unlimited.

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