Protocols & Transport
Browse 467 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
- 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 crate, networking-agnostic RTMP protocol implementation usable with mio/tokio/std.
- rml_rtmpRust RTMP protocol libraries including a log-reader utility for debugging raw RTMP handshake and message conversations.
- 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.
- Loopy SRT Stats MonitorMonitors OBS SRT/SLS/BELABOX/RESTREAMER/RIST/NGINX connections and auto-switches OBS scene on connection failure; IRL streaming focused.
- MistServer SRT Protocol Deep DiveTechnical deep dive on SRT ingest/egress including single-port streamid-based push patterns, listener/caller modes, and latency configurati…
- SRT Alliance: Interoperability Between RTP and SRTSRT Alliance technical article on gatewaying and interoperating RTP-based contribution feeds with SRT transport.