Top 15 Red5 Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Red5 is an open source Flash media server for live streaming solutions of all kinds.
It is written in Java that supports

- Streaming Video (FLV, F4V, MP4)
- Streaming Audio (MP3, F4A, M4A)
- Recording Client Streams (FLV only)
- Shared Objects
- Live Stream Publishing
- Remoting
- AMF0 / AMF3 serialization / deserialization

Red5 Pro is the paid, licensed version of Red5 with SDKs for mobile (Android and iOS) and high scalability clustering.

1. Adobe Flash Media Server

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2. Flussonic

Flussonic Flussonic is a great scalable Media Server that is a cost effective alternative to Wowza Media Server and Adobe Flash Media Server . It was specifically designed to stream HDS/HLS/HTTP. Unique features like capturing endless streams, streaming directly from Amazon S3 and other storage systems. Connect......

3. Unreal Media Server

Unreal Media Server Unreal Media Server is a software streaming server offering rich choice of live and on demand streaming functionality. It streams with variety of streaming protocols to deliver content to Flash Player, Silverlight, Windows Media Player, Unreal Media Player, mobile devices and Set-Top boxes.The server supports UMS (our proprietary, DirectShow-based, codec-independent)......

4. Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer Nimble Streamer is a server software for streaming media content over RTMP and HTTP-based protocols.This includes~ Live transmuxing from RTMP, RTSP and MPEG-TS to ABR HLS, ABR DASH and MPEG-TS.~ VOD streaming of HLS/DASH by MP4 files transmuxing from local and remote storages with adaptive bitrate support~ Re-streaming HLS, Smooth......

5. MistServer

MistServer MistServer is a lightweight, open-source multistandard multimedia server. It bridges the gap between lightweight webservers and the usually heavyweight mediaservers that support non-HTTP protocols.......

6. RTMPDumpHelper

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7. WM Recorder

WM Recorder WM Recorder is the easiest, most powerful way to download and convert video and audio from the internet. For unencrypted YouTube-like sites, just open WM Recorder, play your video or audio and it's downloaded to your PC at up to 50x playback speed. And for protected or encrypted videos, use......

8. Datarhei/Restreamer

Datarhei/Restreamer Datarhei/Restreamer offers smart free video streaming in real time. Stream H.264 video of IP cameras live to your website. Upload your live video on YouTube, Ustream, Twitch, Livestream.com or any other streaming solutions e.g. Wowza-Streaming-Engine. Our Docker image is easy to install and runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. Datarhei/Restreamer......

9. AudioIn

AudioIn Do you need a wireless headphones for watching movies or listening to music without disturbing your family or roommates? With AudioIn, you'll never hear them tell you to "turn the volume down!" ever again! AudioIn can turn your iPhone/iPod Touch into a wireless HiFi stereo headphones. Paired with our free......

10. Amahi Home Server

Amahi Home Server The Amahi Home Server is designed for home and small office environments where the technical support staff do not want the job!It is easy to use and offers cross-platform compatibility (PCs, Mac, GNU/Linux, Playstation, Xbox, you name it.)The Amahi server is open source and Linux-based, which means its reliable and......

11. OS X Server

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12. Majestic Media Server

Majestic Media Server Majestic Media Server, or MMS for short, is a Mac OS X UPNP AV Server for PS3, Xbox360 and other UPNP AV Clients. Download it for free now and start sharing all your iLife content and any other media files. MMS supports transcoding to allow the playback of some media......

13. Kurento

Kurento Kurento Media Server provides, out of the box, group communications, mixing, transcoding, recording and playing. In addition, it also provides advanced modules for media processing including computer vision, augmented reality, alpha blending and much more.Kurento Media Server capabilities are exposed by the Kurento API to application developers. This API is......

14. TVble

TVble TVble browses, downloads, and streams movies from torrents.......

15. Windows Home Server

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