Protocols & Transport

Browse 470 curated streaming protocol resources — HLS, MPEG-DASH, CMAF, WebRTC, and RTMP specs, servers, and tools on Awesome Video.

Subcategories

• Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms & Tools 22 resources
• Adaptive Streaming 123 resources
• CMAF & fMP4 Packaging 25 resources
• DASH Manifest Tools 24 resources
• DASH Tools 29 resources
• HLS Manifest Parsers & Generators 21 resources
• HLS Tools 21 resources
• Low-Latency Streaming Tools 51 resources
• Transport Protocols 74 resources

Resources (showing 385–408 of 470)

• moq-rs — Media over QUIC in RustRust relay/client implementation of Media over QUIC tracking the draft-ietf-moq-transport spec.
• moqlivemockMedia over QUIC (MoQ)/WARP live publisher and subscriber test app with wall-clock-synced multi-bitrate output; a testbed for the emerging M…
• moqtransport — MoQ Transport in GoGo implementation of Media over QUIC Transport built on quic-go and webtransport-go, tracking recent IETF MoQT drafts.
• public-moq-demoMedia over QUIC (MoQ) testbed/demo implementing Warp-style object transport over QUIC.
• rtp2webrtcMinimal WebRTC server with simple API that broadcasts RTP streams, lightweight alternative to full streaming platforms.
• simple-whip-server (Janus)Node.js WHIP server implementation built on the Janus WebRTC gateway, reference implementation by Meetecho (Janus maintainers).
• srt-whep — SRT to WHEP/WebRTC GatewayRust gateway ingesting SRT MPEG-TS and outputting WHEP/WebRTC with no transcode, for low-latency preview/monitoring.
• tinywhipMinimal WHIP-in / WHEP-out server for testing WebRTC ingest-to-egress pipelines.
• webcodecs-capture-play — browser low-latency streaming testbedMeta experimental browser encoder and player using WebCodecs over WebTransport, with AudioWorklet-based A/V sync, targeting sub-100ms laten…
• whep-to-whipProxies WebRTC offer/answer negotiation between a WHEP source and WHIP sink, establishing a direct media path after handshake.
• whip-go — Go WHIP clientSimple, portable Go WHIP client for ingesting any media source into WebRTC-based low-latency streaming servers.
• whip-whep-jsJavaScript WHIP and WHEP client module for publish/play over WebRTC via RTCPeerConnection, maintained by Medooze.
• FOSDEM 2020: Which Video Network Streaming Protocol Should I Use?FOSDEM Open Media devroom talk comparing SRT, RTSP, RIST, WebRTC, HLS and DASH for live video network streaming use cases.
• GPAC — Multicast ABR (MABR) supportGPAC technical post on its FLUTE/ROUTE implementation for DVB-MABR and ATSC 3.0 multicast delivery of ABR content.
• Media Ingestion Protocols Review (rtcbits)Side-by-side technical comparison of live contribution protocols — RTMP, SRT, RUSH, WARP/MoQ and WebRTC/WHIP — covering reliability model,…
• Media over QUIC Transport — editor's copy (moq-wg)Always-current rendered MOQT specification from the IETF moq working group, ahead of datatracker snapshots: track/group/subgroup/object mod…
• Media over QUIC — Transfork (draft-lcurley-moq-transfork)Luke Curley's fork of MOQT, valuable as a candid critique of MOQT's design ambiguities and an alternative framing of the object model as a…
• MoQ GStreamer plugin docs (moqsink / moqsrc)Official documentation for the GStreamer elements that publish and subscribe to Media over QUIC tracks, enabling MoQ in existing pipelines.
• NGINX-RTMP ModuleAn Nginx module that adds RTMP streaming server capabilities to Nginx. It supports streaming live content via RTMP and can also be used to…
• RFC 9725 — WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol (WHIP)Standards-track RFC (2025) defining WHIP for HTTP-based WebRTC ingest, including authentication requirements and ICE/PATCH handling.
• RTMPDumpA command-line utility to download RTMP streams. RTMPDump can save streaming media content transmitted via Real-Time Messaging Protocol, of…
• RUSH — Reliable (unreliable) streaming protocol (Meta ingest over QUIC)IETF draft for Meta's RTMP-replacement live ingest protocol over QUIC: ALPN "rush", frame types, and single- vs multi-stream mapping modes.
• White Paper: SRT vs RIST for Professional Video ContributionVendor white paper comparing SRT and RIST for contribution and distribution: retransmission behaviour, FEC options, profile interop and gov…
• draft-ietf-moq-transport — Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT)Canonical IETF specification for MOQT: publish/subscribe over QUIC streams and datagrams, object priorities, partial reliability, and the r…