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 433–456 of 470)

• libRIST Open Source RIST Library TutorialRecorded start-to-finish tutorial talk on using libRIST.
• libristPrimary open-source C library implementing the RIST protocol (Simple/Main/Advanced profiles), used by VLC, FFmpeg, OBS, and GStreamer.
• Enhanced RTMP V2 Specification (Veovera Software Organization)Current E-RTMP/E-FLV spec adding FourCC codec signalling for VP9/HEVC/VVC/AV1 with HDR, AC-3/E-AC-3/Opus/FLAC audio, audio+video multitrack…
• LiveKit IngressIngests RTMP/WHIP into LiveKit WebRTC rooms, RTMP-to-WebRTC bridge for room-based infra.
• QrtmpLightweight Python RTMP client library, derived from RTMPy/prekageo rtmp-python.
• RTMP: A Quick Deep-DiveBroadcast Knowledge conference talk video deep-diving RTMP protocol internals and its displacement by SRT/RIST/Zixi in modern contribution…
• enhanced-rtmp — Enhanced RTMP Spec and ToolsVeovera's spec repository for Enhanced RTMP/E-FLV plus companion tooling: e-flv-js (MSE player) and e-flv-tool (Go FLV inspector).
• go-rtmpGo RTMP 1.0 server library with a relay example; a building block for custom RTMP ingest servers.
• lalGo media server: RTMP/RTSP/HLS/HTTP-FLV/WS-FLV with relay, cluster, record, HTTP API.
• nginx-http-flv-moduleActively maintained superset of nginx-rtmp-module adding HTTP-FLV, GOP cache, virtual hosts, and JSON stats.
• rml_rtmpRust RTMP protocol libraries including a log-reader utility for debugging raw RTMP handshake and message conversations.
• rml_rtmpRust crate, networking-agnostic RTMP protocol implementation usable with mio/tokio/std.
• rtmp (Nim)RTMP client and server implementation for the Nim programming language.
• rtmp-rsModern Rust RTMP server supporting Enhanced RTMP v2 with HEVC/AV1/VP9, keyframe caching for late joiners, and backpressure that drops video…
• rtmp-server (AgustinSRG)RTMP server in Go for live broadcast with Redis pub/sub and JWT-signed callbacks.
• rtmp-server-rsRust RTMP server with play whitelist, callback-URL publish validation, Redis Pub/Sub control, and RTMPS/TLS support.
• rtmp-srt-serverRTMP/SRT relay with web management, dynamic outputs, and universal MPEG-TS to RTMP repackaging for multi-input/multi-output workflows.
• rtmpSnoopTool grabbing RTMP stream properties from live or dumped streams, including pcap file support.
• rtmp_relayRTMP relay server with YAML-config host/client routing for lightweight stream fanout.
• rtmpdumpClassic RTMP dump/proxy tool (rtmpdump/rtmpsuck) for capturing and debugging RTMP streams.
• rtmpstressMultithreaded RTMP server stress-testing tool built on librtmp.
• HydraSRTOpen-source alternative to the Haivision SRT Gateway built on Elixir/OTP + Rust + GStreamer, with failover, supervision, metrics, and a web…
• HydraSRT — open-source SRT gatewayOpen-source SRT gateway positioned as an alternative to Haivision SRT Gateway for reliable contribution-grade transport routing.
• IETF Draft: Tunnelling SRT over QUICIETF draft specifying how to carry SRT live streams inside QUIC datagrams to gain TLS, connection migration and multipath potential.