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
- Adaptive Streaming
- CMAF & fMP4 Packaging
- DASH Manifest Tools
- DASH Tools
- HLS Manifest Parsers & Generators
- HLS Tools
- Low-Latency Streaming Tools
- Transport Protocols
Resources
- moq.dev — Media over QUIC project siteOfficial home of the Media over QUIC implementation stack (moq-lite, hang, moq-relay) with live demos, successor to quic.video.
- moxygen — Meta's C++ MoQ implementationMeta's C++ implementation of IETF Media over QUIC, including a relay and FLV streamer/receiver interop clients.
- rtcbits — RemoteEstimate RTCP Packets in Google MeetDocuments Google Meet's undocumented receiver-side bandwidth estimate RTCP packet used alongside transport-wide congestion control.
- FFmpeg RIST Protocol DocumentationOfficial FFmpeg docs for the rist:// muxer/demuxer, covering rist_profile, buffer_size, encryption, and secret options.
- FOSDEM 2020: Getting Your Virtual Hands On RISTFOSDEM Open Media devroom talk introducing an open-source RIST protocol library, cloud images, and interop with VLC/upipe/GStreamer.
- FOSDEM 2024: Streaming Live Using RIST On Demand to ThousandsFOSDEM Open Media devroom talk on a real-world RIST architecture achieving 500ms glass-to-glass latency at scale, comparing RIST vs QUIC.
- GStreamer RIST Plugin DocumentationOfficial GStreamer plugin reference for ristsink/ristsrc/ristrtxsend/ristrtxreceive elements implementing TR-06-1 Simple Profile and partia…
- KTH Thesis: Interoperable Retransmission Protocols for Low-Latency Video (RIST/SRT)Master's thesis academic evaluation comparing RIST and SRT retransmission protocols for low-latency video contribution.
- RIST ForumThe RIST forum manage the Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST), for transporting live video over unmanaged networks.
- RIST Forum: 2025 RIST vs SRT ComparisonRIST Forum's own 2025 technical writeup on protocol divergence points between RIST and SRT 1.5, covering bonding convergence and interopera…
- RIST Forum: Latest Updates to SRT and RISTRIST Forum tracking protocol evolution, referencing TR-06-4 Part 3 ancillary features spec.
- RIST Installer for WindowsScripts to build libRIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) installers for Windows. Provides easy installation of the open-source RIST pr…
- RIST Payload Format Descriptor Registry (VSF TR-06-03)Official VSF registry repository for RIST Advanced Profile Payload Format Descriptor values used to signal payload types.
- RIST VidTrans2018 Technical PosterVSF technical poster on RIST sender/receiver requirements.
- RIST vs SRT: Technical ComparisonElecard's technical deep-dive comparing RIST and SRT low-latency transport protocols.
- RIST with GStreamer (RidgeRun Wiki)Technical walkthrough with working gst-launch pipeline examples for RIST sender/receiver and bonding via multiple bonding-addresses.
- RIST-Wireshark-PluginWireshark dissector for the RIST main profile protocol (GRE-over-UDP, TR-06-02), useful for debugging RIST streams.
- VSF RIST Activity Group — Specification IndexCanonical Video Services Forum index for RIST specs: TR-06-1 Simple Profile, TR-06-2 Main Profile, TR-06-3 Advanced Profile and all TR-06-4…
- VSF RIST Activity Group — specification indexCanonical Video Services Forum index of every RIST Technical Recommendation: TR-06-1 Simple Profile, TR-06-2 Main Profile, TR-06-3 Advanced…
- VSF TR-06-3 — RIST Advanced Profile specificationOfficial RIST Advanced Profile technical recommendation: tunnel-level ARQ, fragmentation, LZ4 compression, and carriage of SMPTE ST 2110 /…
- VSF TR-06-4 Part 6: RIST Transport Stream Program SelectionRIST extension spec letting a receiver request specific TS programs via Keep-Alive so the sender transmits only those, backward compatible…
- VSF Technical Recommendations IndexOfficial Video Services Forum index linking all TR-06-x RIST specification PDFs (Simple/Main/Advanced profiles and extensions).
- galene-streamGateway bridging UDP/RTMP/SRT/RIST streams into the Galène WebRTC conferencing server.
- libRIST (VideoLAN)VideoLAN's open source RIST implementation supporting Simple and Main Profiles, used in VLC, FFmpeg, OBE, and GStreamer.