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Hls projects on GitHub

HTTP live streaming protocol for video delivery

As of , the most-starred Hls projects on GitHub are FFmpeg (65.3K stars), video.js (40K stars) and srs (29.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 21 Hls repositories with 347.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was FFmpeg, with +46 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+46

FFmpeg

FFmpeg/FFmpeg · ★ 65.3K

FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and command-line tools to process multimedia: decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play audio and video.

+17

IPTV

Free-TV/IPTV · ★ 21.2K

A community-maintained M3U playlist of free-to-watch live TV channels from around the world — local over-the-air feeds plus free internet services. You load it into any IPTV player.

+15

streamfirefly

rumoii/streamfirefly · ★ 278

StreamFirefly (流萤) is a local-first tool for finding and downloading media on web pages. A browser extension detects videos, audio, images and HLS/DASH manifests, while a Rust-based Windows native helper handles the actual downloading, queuing, resuming and FFmpeg merging; tasks and settings stay on your machine.

+9

go2rtc

AlexxIT/go2rtc · ★ 14.4K

An ultimate camera streaming app: it pulls video from IP cameras and other sources and re-serves it in low-latency formats like WebRTC, HLS and MP4 to browsers and smart home platforms, as a standalone app or embedded into any project.

The all-time top

21 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · FFmpeg/FFmpeg

    FFmpeg

    FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and command-line tools to process multimedia: decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play audio and video.

    65.3K
  2. #2 · videojs/video.js

    video.js

    Video.js is a free, open source video player for all web-based platforms: a full-featured HTML5 player that also works as a framework (v10) for building players in HTML and React.

    40K
  3. #3 · ossrs/srs

    srs

    SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server for live streaming: RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codecs from H.264 to AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.

    29.3K
  1. 4

    GSYVideoPlayer

    21.5KCarGuo/GSYVideoPlayer · Java

    GSYVideoPlayer is an open-source Android video player library that wraps several playback kernels — IJKPlayer, Media3 (ExoPlayer2), MediaPlayer and AliPlayer — behind one API, with caching, danmaku, subtitles, filters and ad support built in.

  2. 5

    IPTV

    21.2KFree-TV/IPTV · Python

    A community-maintained M3U playlist of free-to-watch live TV channels from around the world — local over-the-air feeds plus free internet services. You load it into any IPTV player.

  3. 6

    mediamtx

    20.4Kbluenviron/mediamtx · Go

    MediaMTX is a ready-to-use, zero-dependency live media server and media proxy: it publishes, reads, proxies, records and plays back real-time video and audio streams.

  4. 7

    ZLMediaKit

    17.6KZLMediaKit/ZLMediaKit · C++

    A high-performance, production-grade streaming media server framework written in C++11: it takes in live streams and serves them across many protocols, converting between them on the fly.

  5. 8

    hls.js

    17Kvideo-dev/hls.js · TypeScript

    A JavaScript library that plays HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) video directly in the browser. It relies on HTML5 video and Media Source Extensions, transmuxing MPEG-2 TS and AAC/MP3 streams into MP4 fragments asynchronously in a Web Worker.

  6. 9

    DPlayer

    16.5KDIYgod/DPlayer · JavaScript

    DPlayer is an open-source HTML5 video player with built-in danmaku — scrolling bullet comments — made to help people build video and danmaku into websites easily.

  7. 10

    digital_video_introduction

    16.4Kleandromoreira/digital_video_introduction · Jupyter Notebook

    A free, hands-on guide that teaches digital video concepts in plain language: how images and color work, how video compression and codecs (H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1) function, and how online streaming works.

  8. 11

    N_m3u8DL-CLI

    16.1Knilaoda/N_m3u8DL-CLI · C#

    It's a free, open-source command-line downloader for m3u8/HLS/DASH video streams, written in C# on .NET Framework. Give it an m3u8 link or a local file and it saves the video as mp4 or ts.

  9. 12

    go2rtc

    14.4KAlexxIT/go2rtc · Go

    An ultimate camera streaming app: it pulls video from IP cameras and other sources and re-serves it in low-latency formats like WebRTC, HLS and MP4 to browsers and smart home platforms, as a standalone app or embedded into any project.

  10. 13

    nginx-rtmp-module

    14Karut/nginx-rtmp-module · C

    nginx-rtmp-module turns NGINX into a media streaming server, adding RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH live streaming plus RTMP video-on-demand playback of FLV/MP4 files.

  11. 14

    owncast

    11.6Kowncast/owncast · Go

    Owncast is an open source, self-hosted, decentralized, single-user live video streaming and chat server you run yourself instead of relying on mainstream streaming platforms.

  12. 15

    react-player

    10.3Kcookpete/react-player · TypeScript

    A React component that plays media from many sources through one component and a single src prop — file paths, HLS and DASH streams, Mux, YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia and more.

  13. 16

    livego

    10.2Kgwuhaolin/livego · Go

    livego is a simple, efficient live video streaming server written in pure Go: you push a video stream into it, and it re-serves that stream to viewers over RTMP, HTTP-FLV and HLS.

  14. 17

    KVideo

    4.2KKuekHaoYang/KVideo · TypeScript

    KVideo is a self-hosted video aggregation and streaming platform built with Next.js 16, featuring a 'Liquid Glass' glassmorphism UI, parallel multi-source search, IPTV live TV, and a danmaku comment overlay.

  15. 18

    android-airplay-server

    610jqssun/android-airplay-server · Kotlin

    It's an open-source AirPlay receiver app for Android, built on UxPlay, that turns your Android phone or TV into an AirPlay-compatible display and speaker for screen mirroring, video playback, and audio streaming from Apple devices.

  16. 19

    streamfirefly

    278rumoii/streamfirefly · JavaScript

    StreamFirefly (流萤) is a local-first tool for finding and downloading media on web pages. A browser extension detects videos, audio, images and HLS/DASH manifests, while a Rust-based Windows native helper handles the actual downloading, queuing, resuming and FFmpeg merging; tasks and settings stay on your machine.

  17. 20

    tvbox-silicon

    241jo32/tvbox-silicon · Swift

    Yingxia is a native SwiftUI TVBox player for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac that plays your TVBox subscriptions: live channels, on-demand catalogs, and one search across every source.

  18. 21

    StarLive

    168SMNETSTUDIO/StarLive · TypeScript

    StarLive is a self-hosted live-streaming and interaction platform: it handles the video stream, real-time danmaku/gifts/red-packets/lottery, moderation, and a built-in StarCoin virtual-currency economy. It's a rewrite of the legacy LDLive, moving from serverless HTTP polling to a standalone NestJS backend with persistent Socket.IO connections.

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