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Dec 25 - Dec 31, 2023
NMOS
- DELTACAST IP Virtual Card NMOS samples (⭐4) - A demonstration of the integration of several NMOS standards with the DELTACAST IP Virtual Card through nmos-cpp (⭐122).
Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2023
Clocks & Studio Screens
- PiClock Advanced (⭐2) Improved version of PiRSClock-Full with changed layout, added timers and network capabilities.
Feb 27 - Mar 05, 2023
Control Systems
- BUG - Broadcast Universal Gateway - Control a wide range of broadcast and network equipment from your browser.
Oct 17 - Oct 23, 2022
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- Studio TV Player (⭐27) - Simple TV studio player with SDI, NDI and MPEG TS outputs.
Sep 05 - Sep 11, 2022
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- ffplayout (⭐370) - Rust and FFmpeg based playout from folder or playlists.
Jun 13 - Jun 19, 2022
Video Production
- AutoMix (⭐4) - Web-based control surface for ATEM vision mixers with automated camera switching, designed for visualised radio.
May 30 - Jun 05, 2022
Blogs
- IRT Lab - IRT blog posting developments and demos for all digital audiovisual media technology.
Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2022
Video Production
- QPrompt Teleprompter App - Convergent teleprompter software that works with studio teleprompters, tablet teleprompters, webcams, and phones.
Nov 29 - Dec 05, 2021
Multimedia content processing
- SVT Encore (⭐251) - Selfhosted video transcoding plattform, built around FFmpeg.
Aug 16 - Aug 22, 2021
Control Systems
- Lawo EmberPlus (⭐101) - Ember Plus - open protocol for interfacing to / from broadcast control systems.
- MIDIMonster (⭐439) - Lightweight adapter tool for common show control protocols.
Aug 09 - Aug 15, 2021
NMOS
- NVIDIA NMOS Docker - Docker container with Registry and Controller, IS-04/05/08/07/09, BCP-003-01
Jul 26 - Aug 01, 2021
Video Production
- TallyArbiter - Cross-platform Tally interfacer & tally lights for any camera via phones or low-cost hardware.
May 24 - May 30, 2021
Monitoring & Quality Control
- MXF Inspect (⭐32) - A Windows tool to display the internal structure of an MXF (Material eXchange Format) file.
Apr 26 - May 02, 2021
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- NodeCG - Broadcast graphics rendered in a browser using Node.js.
Mar 22 - Mar 28, 2021
NMOS
- AMWA NMOS Testing Tool - Automated test suites for the AMWA NMOS family of specifications, as used in the JT-NM Tested programme
Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2020
Streaming
- Owncast (⭐8.5k) - Selfhosted video streaming plattform (https://owncast.online/)
Oct 19 - Oct 25, 2020
NMOS
- BBC NMOS Joint Reference Implementation (⭐11) - A Vagrant provisioning to build 4 virtual machines, an IS-04/IS-05 Node, IS-04 Registry, BCP-003-02 Authorisation Server, and the NMOS Testing Tool.
- Easy-NMOS (⭐43) - A starter kit that allows the user to launch a simple NMOS setup with minimal installation steps, composed of three Docker containers: an NMOS Registry, a virtual NMOS Node, and the AMWA NMOS Testing Tool.
- nmos-cpp (⭐122) - An implementation of the AMWA Networked Media Open Specifications in C++, including an NMOS Registry and a toolkit and example of building an NMOS Node.
- nmos-js (⭐29) - A simple browser-based NMOS Client/Controller with an IS-04 Registry browser and IS-05 Connection Management.
Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2020
Clocks & Studio Screens
- OnAirScreen (⭐86) - Cross-platform "OnAir Lamp" solution targeted for use in professional broadcast environments.
- PiClock (⭐22) - Customisable network based displays of clocks, on-air, mic live and other studio indicators.
- PiRSClock-Full (⭐16) - Radio Studio Clock with studio indicators for mics, telephones etc.
Jun 01 - Jun 07, 2020
Codecs
- Lame - A high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder.
- Opus - A totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.
- TwoLame - An MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder.
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- Macadam (⭐95) - Blackmagic Node.js bindings that support HTML/CSS (via Electron) and SVG (via Sevruga (⭐4)) graphics.
Radio Production
- LibreTime - Radio broadcast & automation platform (fork of Airtime).
Software-defined radio
- Gqrx SDR - An open source software defined radio receiver (SDR).
May 18 - May 24, 2020
Multimedia content processing
- Brave (⭐631) - Basic Real-time AV Editor - lets you preview, mix, and route live audio and video streams on the cloud.
Sep 02 - Sep 08, 2019
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- Nebula - Media asset management and broadcast automation system.
Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2019
Metadata
- libklvanc (⭐57) - C library for ancillary data extraction from SDI and SMPTE ST 2110-40 (CEA-708, AFD, SCTE-104, etc.).
Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2019
Multimedia content processing
- libear (⭐22) - A C++11 library to render ADM content according to Recommendation ITU-R BS.2127.
Radio Production
- Rivendell (⭐177) - Complete radio broadcast automation solution, translated to many languages and used worldwide.
Jul 08 - Jul 14, 2019
Connected TVs
- Cross-Platform Authentication - CPA offers an open standard for associating any media device with an online identity.
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- ossia - A free and open-source intermedia sequencer.
Hybrid Radio
- RadioDNS Manager (⭐14) - Platform to manage Hybrid Radio services, e.g. RadioVIS, RadioEPG and Service Following.
Media Players
- GPAC - Multimedia player, packager and tools.
- Peaks.js - Browser-based audio waveform visualisation.
Metadata
- BMXlib - Library and utilities to read and write broadcasting media files. Primarily supports the MXF file format.
- jebu-core (⭐2) - Java port of EBU Tech 3293 EBU Core metadata, including the Audio Definition Model.
Monitoring & Quality Control
- Jmeters - A collection of graphical audio meters for JACK, including VU, PPM and EBU R 128 Loudness meters.
- MediaConch - Implementation checker, policy checker, & reporter for Matroska, FFV1, & PCM.
- Sonic Visualiser - An application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.
Multimedia content processing
- Libebur128 (⭐367) - A library that implements the EBU R 128 standard for loudness normalisation.
- MXFLib - A multi-platform C++ library for reading and writing MXF files.
- OBS-Studio (⭐53k) - Software for live streaming and screen recording.
- TuttleOFX (⭐171) - An open source image processing framework based on OpenFX plugin standard.
Network & Storage Testing
- BBC Media Storage Meter - An application for the testing of network attached (professional media) storage.
Radio Production
- Airtime (⭐615) - Radio management application for remote broadcast automation (via web-based schedule).
- Audacity - Cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
- AzuraCast (⭐2.6k) - A self-hosted web radio management suite.
- Liquidsoap (⭐1.3k) - A Swiss army knife for multimedia streaming (documentation).
Software-defined radio
- rtl-sdr - Turns a Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR receiver.
Blogs
- BBC R&D - BBC Research and Development. Checkout the weekly notes.
- 3D CineCast - A curation about new media technologies.
- Canal+ - CANAL+ Open Source Community.
- Youtube Engineering and Developers Blog - What's happening with engineering and developers at YouTube.
Apr 29 - May 05, 2019
Monitoring & Quality Control
- JACK Meterbridge - A collection of graphical Audio meters for JACK (ballistics may be incorrect).
Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019
Companion Screens
- dvbcss-synckit-ios (⭐10) - iOS libraries for companion screen applications that are synchronised frame-accurately to a TV.
- pydvbcss (⭐28) - Implementation of the DVB Companion Screens and Streams protocols for synchronised media playback.
Connected TVs
- HbbPlayer (⭐57) - An HbbTV and W3C specifications compliant application that can playback media from a URL.
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- Blender - 3D creation suite supporting 3D modelling, animation, motion tracking, video editing, and more.
Media Players
- rx-player (⭐802) - HTML5/Javascript video player that supports MPEG-DASH and SmoothStreaming.
Monitoring & Quality Control
- LTC-tools (⭐64) - A collection of tools to handle Linear Timecode (LTC) and convert to MIDI Timecode (MTC).
Multimedia content processing
- AvTranscoder (⭐159) - FFmpeg/LibAV-based high-level API to re-wrap or transcode media, with bindings for Java and Python.
- FFmpeg - A cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Supports SMPTE ST 2110.
- VideoContext (⭐1.3k) - Experimental HTML5/WebGL library for creating interactive and responsive web videos.
- Voctomix (⭐560) - Customizable conference recording/mixing/streaming software based on Python and GStreamer.
Network & Storage Testing
- SMPTE 2110-20 Analyzer (⭐61) - Analyzer to inspect network packets generated in accordance with SMPTE ST 2110.
Software-defined radio
- ODR-mmbTools - Fork of CRC-mmbTools. Adds live, DAB+, associated data, distributed infrastructure, SFN.
Subtitling
- EBU-TT-D Subtitling within dash.js (⭐11) - dash.js fork with EBU-TT-D subtitles in HTML/CSS overlay. Later added to dash.js (⭐11).
- EBU-TT Live Interoperability Toolkit (⭐24) - Components for generating, testing and distributing EBU-TT Live subtitles.
- GStreamer TTML subtitling package (⭐20) - A means for GStreamer pipelines to parse and render EBU-TT-D (TTML) subtitles.
- IRT EBU-TT-D Application Samples (⭐13) - EBU-TT-D sample files, PNG images and mp4 videos as rendering references.
- Subtitling Conversion Framework (SCF) (⭐50) - Modules for converting subtitle formats, incl. EBU STL and EBU-TT files.
- Timed Text Toolkit (ttt) (⭐75) - Tools that support/use the W3C Timed Text Markup Language (TTML).
Video Production
- Open Lighting Architecture (OLA) - Travel adaptor for the lighting industry, for interconnecting DMX-512, IP and USB.
- Q Light Controller+ (QLC+) - Cross-platform control of DMX or analogue lighting systems (heads, dimmers, etc.).
Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019
Documentation
- Kronekeeper (⭐12) - A web based application for recording and managing Krone frame records.
Subtitling
- Subtitle Edit - An editor for subtitles.
Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2019
Multimedia content processing
- KFR - Fast, modern C++ DSP framework, DFT/FFT, Audio resampling, FIR/IIR, Biquad, EBU R 128.
Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2019
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- Sofie - TV Automation (⭐280) - MOS-driven automation system for news casts, with many libraries for e.g. device control.
Monitoring & Quality Control
- Pi Audio Monitor (⭐127) - Audio Monitoring for Raspberry Pi, supports S/PDIF, AES3, AES67, Livewire and Ravenna.
Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2019
Multimedia content processing
- FFmbc (⭐185) - FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage.
Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2019
Metadata
- libadm (⭐33) - Audio Definition Model (ITU-R BS.2076) handling C++11 library.
Multimedia content processing
- libbw64 (⭐24) – Header-only Broadcast Wave 64 (ITU-R BS.2088) C++11 library.
Feb 11 - Feb 17, 2019
Multimedia content processing
- Beam Coder (⭐381) - Node.js native bindings to FFmpeg, with support for asynchronous processing via promises and streams.
Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018
Video Production
- MOS-connection (⭐17) - A JavaScript library for connection and MOS messaging either as MOS device or NRCS.
May 14 - May 20, 2018
Multimedia content processing
- EBU ADM Renderer (⭐70) - Reference implementation of the EBU ADM Renderer (EBU Tech 3388)
May 07 - May 13, 2018
Metadata
- SDPoker (⭐35) - CLI tool and library for testing SMPTE ST2110 SDP files.
Mar 26 - Apr 01, 2018
Radio Production
- OpenBroadcaster Open Source LPFM IPTV Broadcast Automation. Server and Player code here.
Feb 26 - Mar 04, 2018
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- Open Playout Automation (⭐163) - A CasparCG-based MCR play-out system.
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2018
Multimedia content processing
- rtmp (⭐137) - Server implementation of Adobe's RTMP 1.0 protocol in Go.
Blogs
- BBC News Labs - Open Source projects from BBC News Labs.
Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2018
Radio Production
- RAAR (⭐20) - A ruby application to manage and browse an audio archive.
Jan 29 - Feb 04, 2018
DVB & WiFi
- TSDuck - Extensible toolkit for MPEG/DVB transport streams testing, monitoring, integration, debugging, and more.
Jan 15 - Jan 21, 2018
Monitoring & Quality Control
- SilentJack (⭐21) - Dead-air / Silence detector for JACK.
Nov 06 - Nov 12, 2017
Media Players
- VLC - Simple, fast and powerful media player.
Multimedia content processing
- Kelvinadon (⭐18) - Node.JS pure Javascript module for streaming MXF files to and from JSON.
Sep 04 - Sep 10, 2017
Multimedia content processing
- Dynamorse (⭐43) - IT swiss army knife - a Node-RED media pipeline builder, adding professional media processing nodes.
Jul 03 - Jul 09, 2017
Monitoring & Quality Control
- Jack Meter (⭐43) - Text console based DPM (Digital Peak Meter) for JACK.
Jun 26 - Jul 02, 2017
Codecs
- opencore-amr - Audio codecs extracted from Android Open Source Project, including AAC.
Monitoring & Quality Control
- BeaqleJS (⭐80) - A framework to create browser based listening tests for subjective audio quality assessment.
- MediaInfo - A convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
- Photon (⭐230) - Implementation of the SMPTE Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standard.
- QCTools (⭐294) - Quality Control tools for video preservation to analyse digitized video files.
- Rotter (⭐48) - Recording of Transmissions / Audio Logger for JACK.
- silan (⭐37) - Audiofile silence analyzer.
- VMAF (⭐4k) - Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.
- Wisual (⭐19) - A web service for Visual Quality Assessment, which supports PSNR, SSIM, VQM, etc.
Radio Production
- Ardour - A digital audio workstation.
Jun 19 - Jun 25, 2017
Media Players
- IDJC - A GTK+ Shoutcast/Icecast client with two main media players.
- MPD - A flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.
- mpg123 - A fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library.
- Mixxx - A free, open source DJ software.
Multimedia content processing
- rgain - Tools and Python library to read, write and calculate Replay Gain.
Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2017
Codecs
- FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Coding, used by some broadcasters for audio exchange, storage.
- Turing Codec - An H.265/HEVC open source software encoder designed for fast and efficient video compression.
Companion Screens
- dial-discovery-ios (⭐2) - A library for the discovery of devices via the DIAL protocol on the iOS platform.
- dvbcss-synctiming (⭐19) - A system for measuring how accurately a TV or companion are synchronised.
DVB & WiFi
- DVB Inspector - An open-source DVB analyzer.
- DVBlast - A simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.
- dvbshout (⭐9) - Tool to send DVB audio to a shoutcast server or a RTP stream.
- Opencaster - A free and open source MPEG2 transport stream data generator and packet manipulator.
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
- Aurena (⭐127) - A network distributed media playback system.
- CasparCG - A professional graphics and video play-out software, proven in 24/7 broadcasts since 2006.
Hybrid Radio
- RadioVIS Html Player (⭐13) - RadioVIS Player using WebSocket.
Metadata
- EBUCore (⭐21) - The Github for maintenance of the EBUCore schema.
- TV-Anytime (⭐15) - The TV-Anytime schema github maintenance page.
Multimedia content processing
- UPipe (⭐0) - Primarily designed to be the core of a multimedia player, transcoder or streamer.
May 01 - May 07, 2017
Multimedia content processing
- SoX - The Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.
Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2017
Connected TVs
- TAL - The TV Application Layer (TAL) is an open source library for building applications for Connected TV devices.
DVB & WiFi
- ts2mpa (⭐5) - Simple tool to extract MPEG Audio from a MPEG Transport Stream (TS).
Hybrid Radio
- RadioDNS for Node.js (⭐6) - Perform RadioDNS resolutions and service lookups in node.js.
- RadioVIS Stomp Server (⭐12) - RadioVIS STOMP server written in node.js.
Network & Storage Testing
- Fio (⭐4.6k) - Flexible I/O Tester
- iPerf3 - The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool.
Software-defined radio
- GNU Radio - A software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios.
- welle.io - An open source DAB and DAB+ software defined radio (SDR) with support for airspy and rtlsdr.
Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2017
DVB & WiFi
- Project X - DVB demux tool.
Hybrid Radio
- RadioVIS Demo (⭐27) - RadioVIS client application in Python.
Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2017
Multimedia content processing
- Flowblade (⭐2.1k) - A multitrack non-linear video editor.
- Snowmix - Live Video Mixer.
Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2017
Multimedia content processing
- Codem-isoboxer (⭐105) A small browser-based MPEG-4 (ISOBMFF) parser.
Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2016
Media Players
- Media4DPlayer (⭐4) - HTML5 player focused on accessibility.
Subtitling
- imscJS (⭐78) - JavaScript library for rendering IMSC1 Text and Image Profile documents to HTML5.
Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2016
Hybrid Radio
- RadioTag.js (⭐5) - RadioTag client library in JavaScript.
Jun 20 - Jun 26, 2016
Metadata
- MAJ API (⭐16) - Pure Java library for reading and writing MXF and AAF files.
Jun 13 - Jun 19, 2016
Subtitling
- EBU-TT-D W3C XML Schema (⭐8) - Informative EBU-TT-D XML Schema to support the implementation of EBU Tech 3380.
May 23 - May 29, 2016
Multimedia content processing
- Bento4 (⭐1.8k) - Full-featured MP4 format and MPEG DASH C++ class library and tools.
May 09 - May 15, 2016
Blogs
- The Netflix Tech Blog - A Netflix blog focused on technology and technology issues.
Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2016
Subtitling
- CCExtractor - A tool that analyzes video files and produces stand-alone subtitle files.
Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2016
Multimedia content processing
- Loudness Validator (⭐13) - A set of applications to analyse, visualise and correct the loudness.
Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016
DVB & WiFi
- DTT 2 IP (⭐26) - Broadcast to IP conversion for Wifi indoor coverage.
- WiFiBroadcast - Analog-like transmission of live video data.
Media Players
- Kodi (⭐17k) - A software media player and entertainment hub for digital media.
Multimedia content processing
- GStreamer - A library for constructing graphs of media-handling components.
- MP4Box.js (⭐1.7k) - JavaScript library to process MP4 files in the browser (and in NodeJS).
Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2015
Distributed Media Processing
- StormCV (⭐168) - Apache Storm + OpenCV = large scale distributed image and video analysis.
Apr 27 - May 03, 2015
Multimedia content processing
- L-SMASH (⭐231) - A rigidly spec-compliant ISOBMFF library, which has full DASH muxing support.
Sep 29 - Oct 05, 2014
Media Players
- Dash.js (⭐11) - A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Multimedia content processing
- LibAV - Open source audio and video processing tools.
- Open Broadcast Encoder - Broadcast encoder built from Open Source components.