Owncast is a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software. Have complete control and ownership over your stream, allowing you to create the content and community you want. The frictionless built-in chat allows your viewers to be a part of the action. Include custom emotes and build chat bots to encourage engagement from your viewers. Point your existing broadcasting software at your Owncast server and begin streaming. Owncast can work with different storage providers to optionally scale your videos to many viewers using only low-powered hardware. Owncast is for people who are live streamers, or who wants to host live streams for others. It’s a "one to many" broadcast much like Twitch, Facebook Live, YouTube Live, etc. Owncast is not for video conferencing or any use case where multiple people are wanting to see video of each other.
Features
- The Owncast backend is a service written in Go
- Owncast is an open source, self-hosted, decentralized, single user live video streaming and chat server
- Run your own live streams similar in style to the large mainstream options
- It offers complete ownership over your content, interface, moderation and audience
- Use with your existing broadcasting software
- Requires C compiler, such as GCC compiler or a Musl-compatible compiler
- Owncast can work with different storage providers to optionally scale your videos
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