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Streaming media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...

systems with articles. A more detailed comparison of streaming media systems

Comparison of streaming media systems

This is a comparison of streaming media systems. A more complete list of streaming media systems is also available.-General:The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of streaming media systems both audio and video...

is also available.

Servers

Ampache
Ampache
Ampache is a free software Web-based Audio file manager / web Media Server. The name is a play on the two words Apache and Amplifier. It was originally written to take advantage of Apache's Mod_mp3 but has since been adapted to use its own streaming method...
Darwin Streaming Server
Darwin Streaming Server
Darwin Streaming Server , is the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 and 3GP.Developed by Apple, it is the open...
dyne:bolic
Dyne:bolic
dyne:bolic is a Live CD/DVD based on the Linux kernel with a focus on multimedia production, and is distributed with a large assortment of applications for audio and video manipulation...

GNU/Linux live CD ready for radio streaming
FFserver included in FFmpeg
FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line...
Firefly Media Server
Firefly Media Server
Firefly Media Server is an open-source media server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol and Digital Audio Access Protocol .-Features:Its features include:...
Flash Media Server
Flumotion Streaming Server
Flumotion
Flumotion Services, S.A. is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, which has developed a multiformat streaming media platform to publish audio and video content via the internet...
FreeJ
FreeJ
FreeJ is a modular video mixer for GNU/Linux systems. It is marketed as a "vision mixer". It is capable of real-time video manipulation, for amateur and professional uses. It can be used as an instrument in the fields of dance theater, veejaying, medical visualisation and TV...

video streamer for Icecast
Helix Universal Server
Helix Universal Server
The Helix Universal Streaming Server is developed by RealNetworks and originates from the very first streaming media server originally developed by Progressive Networks in 1994...

Helix Universal Streaming Server for mobile phone and broadband RTSP, HTTP iPhone OS, RTMP delivery developed by RealNetworks
RealNetworks
RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The company is the creator of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; RealVideo, a compressed video format; RealPlayer, a media player; RealDownloader, a download...
HelixCommunity RealNetworks Open Source development community
Icecast
Icecast
Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source...

an open source streaming media server
Kaltura
Kaltura
Kaltura is a software company based in New York which was founded in 2006.Kaltura's technology allows publishers and content owners to publish, manage, monetize and analyze their video and other rich-media content...

Full featured open source video platform running on your own servers or cloud.
PlayOn a media server that runs on a PC and supports Netflix streaming
PS3 Media Server
PS3 Media Server
PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant UPnP Media Server. Originally written to support the PlayStation 3, it has been expanded to support a range of other media renderers, including Xbox 360 and various Samsung and Sony televisions. Written in Java, it streams or transcodes many different media...

open source media server for streaming to a Playstation 3
QuickTime Broadcaster
QuickTime Broadcaster
QuickTime Broadcaster is an audio and video RTP/RTSP server by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X. It is separate from Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server, as it is not a service daemon but a desktop application...
Sirannon
Sirannon (streaming)
Sirannon is a free, open source, media server and client. The goal is to aid in video research and experimental streaming.Sirannon allows the programmer to create a wide variety of media-handling components such as streaming, reading, writing, packetizing....

an open source media server and client
SHOUTcast
SHOUTcast
SHOUTcast is cross-platform proprietary software for streaming media over the Internet. The software, developed by Nullsoft , allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio "stations"...

audio streaming (HTTP and/or multicast)
Squeezebox Server Open source music streaming server, backboned by a music database (formerly known as SlimServer)
Steamcast
Steamcast
Steamcast is a freeware streaming media server that extends the capabilities of the Icecast2/SHOUTcast framework. The creators of Steamcast intend for the project to be format/codec agnostic and want to support as many encoding, listing and client systems as possible...

a freeware streaming media server
Subsonic
Subsonic (media server)
Subsonic is a free, open source, web-based media server. Because Subsonic was written in Java, it may be run on any operating system with Java support. Subsonic supports streaming to multiple clients simultaneously, and supports any streamable media...

is an open source, web-based media server
TVersity Media Server partially open source, web-based media server
VideoLAN
VideoLAN
VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats across a local area network . It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client and VideoLAN Server , but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result...
WebORB Integration Server
WebORB Integration Server
WebORB is an integration server developed and maintained by Midnight Coders Incorporated. It is used in SOA/Rich Internet Application development projects to connect browser clients and mobile clients with backend services and databases...
Windows Media Encoder
Windows Media Encoder
Windows Media Encoder is a freely downloadable trial version media encoder developed by Microsoft which enables content developers to convert or capture both live and prerecorded audio, video, and computer screen images to Windows Media formats for live and on-demand delivery. It is the successor...
Windows Media Services
Windows Media Services
Windows Media Services is a streaming media server from Microsoft that allows an administrator to generate streaming media . Only Windows Media, JPEG, and MP3 formats are supported...
Wowza Media Server
Wowza Media Server
Wowza Media Server is unified server software developed by Wowza Media Systems. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video, audio, and RIAs over public and private IP networks to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV...

Unified media server for Flash, Silverlight, Apple iOS (iPhone/iPad), QuickTime, 3GPP mobile, IPTV and game console video/audio streaming

P2P and multicasting

FreeCast
FreeCast
FreeCast is a free software application which allows peer-to-peer streaming, sometimes called peercasting. It makes possible an audio or video stream broadcast to a large number of listeners from a simple DSL connection....

Java application which allows peer-to-peer stream broadcast
MediaBlog
MediaBlog
MediaBlog is software that distributes almost all kinds of streams on P2P network based on VLC player. The main idea of MediaBlog come from PeerCast and BitTorrent....
Octoshape
Octoshape
Octoshape is a proprietary streaming media platform. It uses throughput optimization technology to deliver HD quality streams and to break through congestion in the last mile to provide more resilient delivery...
PeerCast
PeerCast
PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007...

is a peer-to-peer broadcasting tool which allows you to broadcast without needing much upstream bandwidth
Peercasting
Peercasting
Peercasting is a method of multicasting streams, usually audio and/or video, to the Internet via peer-to-peer technology. It can be used for commercial, independent, and amateur multicasts. Unlike traditional IP Multicast, peercasting can facilitate on-demand content delivery.-Operation:It usually...

multicasting streaming in a P2P network
Rawflow
Rawflow
RawFlow is a provider of live p2p streaming technology that enables internet broadcasting of audio and video. Rawflow was incorporated in 2002 by Mikkel Dissing, Daniel Franklin and Stephen Dicks. Its main office is in London, UK...
Red Swoosh
Tribler
Tribler
Tribler is an open source peer-to-peer client with various features for watching videos online. The user interface of Tribler is very basic and focused on ease of use, instead of including features...
Veoh
Veoh
Veoh is an Internet television company based in San Diego, California. It allows users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli start-up Qlipso....

Software as a service
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

DaCast
DaCast
Dacast is a live streaming video platform that enables independent broadcasters to create video content and allows viewers to watch free or paid programs. This web-based, self- service system targets both professionals and hobbyists such as artists, entertainment companies, educational...

Live Streaming Video Platform
8tracks
Deezer
Deezer
Deezer is a free music streaming service based in Paris, France. Deezer was launched on August 24, 2007. Deezer has negotiated rights to make 165,000 songs available for streaming legally via an agreement with Sony, as well as some of Universal's catalog...
eMusic
EMusic
eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription. It is headquartered in New York City with an office in London and owned by Dimensional Associates. As of September 2008 eMusic has over 400,000 subscribers....
gogoyoko
Gogoyoko
gogoyoko.com is an online music store and social networking music website where artists can sell directly to their fans. The site offers free streaming of all tracks, which is subsidized with advertisements in the music store. The focus of the site is on independent music both from independent...
Grooveshark
Grooveshark
Grooveshark is an international online music search engine, music streaming service and music recommendation web software application, allowing users to search for, stream, and upload music that can be played immediately or added to a playlist...
iLike
ILike
iLike is an online service that allows users to download and share music. The website makes use of a sidebar that is used with Apple's iTunes or Microsoft's Windows Media Player. The program and sidebar are not required in order to use the site but allow for ease in discovering new artists....
Justin.tv
Justin.tv
Justin.tv is a website created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt in 2007 that allows anyone to broadcast video online. Justin.tv user accounts are called "channels", and users are encouraged to broadcast a wide variety of user-generated live video content, called...

Allows users to produce and watch live streaming video.
Last.fm
Last.fm
Last.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed 30 million active users in March 2009. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK£140m ....

Internet radio and music community website
Live365
Live365
Live365 is an Internet radio network where members can create their own online radio station or listen to other Live365 broadcasters' online stations. As of October 2006, there were about 6,500 active stations, some of which play niche genres seldom heard on AM/FM radio...

Live365 streaming media library
MeeMix
MeeMix
MeeMix Ltd is a company specializing in personalizing media-related content recommendations, discovery and advertising for the telecommunication industry, founded in 2006....
mog
MOG (online music)
MOG is a paid subscription online music service and blog network, where users can listen to, read about, and discover music. Users can play any song in MOG's catalog on their computer through their web browser; on their mobile device through MOG's applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and...
Musicovery
Musicovery
Musicovery is an interactive and customised webradio service. Listeners rate songs, resulting in a personalized programme. Reviewers have commented that unlike services that are governed by the user's choice of artist or genre, this method results in more discovery of artists to which the user...
MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
Pandora Radio
Play.it
Play.it
Play.it is an Internet radio service owned by CBS Radio. Users can create their own customized radio stations. It also streams over 140 CBS Radio stations, as well as AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music Radio....
Playlist.com
Playlist.com
Playlist, Inc. operates the playlist.com website and is a company that provides widgets for MySpace, myYearbook and Facebook.-History:...
Tikilive.com HD Streaming
Qik
Qik
Qik is a mobile live video streaming and two-way video conferencing application that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet. Qik enables users to record and upload video directly from supported cell phones...
Radiolicious
Radiolicious
Radiolicious is an internet radio service created by MySimBook, based in Lafayette, Louisiana. Users are able to search and listen to terrestrial radio stations...

Internet radio
RadioTime
RadioPalmwine
Red5Cam.Tv Erotic Webcam Chat and Video Streaming
ShareTheMusic
ShareTheMusic
ShareTheMusic is an Internet platform for legal and free music sharing, owned by Desh, ltd.It was launched worldwide on 26 October 2009. In December 2009 ShareTheMusic.com has been admitted to Microsoft BizSpark .The guiding idea of the service was to make it possible for all the Internet users,...
Songza
Songza
Songza is a web radio that streams music for free. Songza is different from other web radio services for two reasons: the stations on Songza are made by people and Songza helps people find stations by personalizing the Songza experience based on a user's interests and by displaying an activity feed...
Spotify
Spotify
Spotify is a Swedish-founded, UK-headquartered DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had...

free and paid streaming music tool (currently Sweden, Spain, Norway, Finland, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States only)
Stitcher Radio
Stitcher Radio
Stitcher is an on-demand internet radio service that focuses on news and information radio and podcasts. It provides free online streaming through the website and also using native mobile applications such as the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Palm webOS...
Tvoop.com
Ustream.tv
we7
We7
we7 is a free, advertising supported, music streaming service, with over 6.8 million tracks available for streaming in the UK and Ireland, with content from all four major record labels, and most independent labels and distributors. Most tracks and albums are also available to purchase from the...
Wuala
Wuala
Wuala is a secure online storage, file synchronization, versioning and backup, service, originally developed and run by Caleido Inc., which is now part of LaCie. Service is a combination of:...

a free online storage solution with streaming capability

Clients

Amarok
Clementine
Clementine (software)
Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X...

(forked from Amarok 1.4)
MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a...
MPlayer
MPlayer
MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor...
Screamer Radio
Screamer Radio
Screamer Radio is a freeware-licensed internet radio client with recording abilities. It is able to play back streams using WMA, MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC streams and can also record these into several formats...
StationRipper
StationRipper
StationRipper is a commercial Microsoft Windows software program developed by Ratajik Software. It acts as a front end for several other pieces of software, with a focus on recording and downloading music, including: Shoutcast streams, Web based stations like Last.fm and Pandora.com, and...
Streamripper
Streamripper
Streamripper is a stand-alone client or Winamp plugin that records Internet radio streams in the MP3 or Vorbis formats. It has an ability to override existing files in the save folder....
Totem
Totem (media player)
Totem is a media player for the GNOME computer desktop environment which runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, BSD and other Unix and Unix-like systems. It is officially included in GNOME starting from version 2.10 , but de facto it was already included in most GNOME environments...
VLC media player
VLC media player
VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...
Winamp
Winamp
Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp...

a freeware media player for Microsoft Windows
XBMC, a free and open source media center software and framework platform
XMMS
XMMS
The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins...
Zinf
Zinf
Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:...
Total Recorder
Total Recorder
Total Recorder is digital audio editor software, which is able to record any sound coming through a computer soundcard. In addition to recording through a soundcard, Total Recorder is able to record digital sound directly through its virtual sound driver...

Other and unknown

Campcaster
Campcaster
Campcaster is a free and open source radio management application for live broadcasting, remote broadcast automation , and program exchange between radio stations...

Open source radio station management, live broadcast and remote automation
FFmpeg
FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line...
FORscene
FORscene
FORscene is an integrated internet video platform, video editing software, covering non linear editing and publishing for broadcast, web and mobile....

Java video reviewing, logging, editing and publishing
LastBASH
Liquidsoap
Liquidsoap
Liquidsoap is an audio programming language developed initially to produce audio and video source streams sent to an Icecast server. The difference with other available tools is that Liquidsoap interprets a dedicated script language, which makes it very versatile and adaptable to a lot of various...
Mod4Win
Mod4Win
Mod4Win is a media player for module files written by Kay Bruns. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware. It was one the first Mod player for the Windows platform.Mod4Win was first released by Kay Bruns in 1993. Development was suspended in May 1999....
Muziic
Muziic
Muziic is a media player, FLV encoder and related website, designed to directly access flash video media files from YouTube, without the user having to visit the file's display page on the YouTube website. Muziic can also refer to the organization that created and maintains the project...
Qtch
Qtch
qtch is a filetype used by QuickTime to store audio or video files streamed from a server on the client's computer hard drive.The first 16 bytes are:Hex ; ASCII...
QuickTime
QuickTime
QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...
SAM Broadcaster
Sam Broadcaster
SAM Broadcaster is an Internet radio broadcasting application by . It features mixing functions, real-time listener statistics, and can stream to popular online streaming servers...

Professional Internet broadcasting automation system
SomaPlayer
SomaPlayer
SomaPlayer is part of the Soma project. It is an open source broadcast tool for DJing internet radio stations....
Swarmcast
Swarmcast
Swarmcast is a provider of Internet television service. It is headquartered in Minneapolis and Tokyo with branch offices in Zurich, San Francisco and New York City. It employs approximately 50 people.- History :...
Traction
Xiph.Org Foundation
Xiph.Org Foundation
Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit organizationthat produces free multimedia formats and software tools. It focuses on the Ogg family of formats, the most successful of which has been Vorbis, an open and freely licensed audio format and codec designed to compete with the patented MP3 and AAC...

Servers

P2P and multicasting

Clients

Other and unknown

See also