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24 alternatives to Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

A self contained OBS -> FTL -> WebRTC live streaming server. Comprised of 3 parts once configured anyone can achieve sub-second OBS to the browser livestreaming - GRVYDEV/Project-Lightspeed

Lightspeed is an open source streaming tool that captures video from OBS and delivers it with subsecond latency. It runs on your own servers rather than relying on external services. The software is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    a sub-second, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A broadcast, in a box. . Contribute to Glimesh/broadcast-box development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A powerful live streaming production studio in your browser.

    2017 · golightstream.com · its alternatives →

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    CLI Native WebRTC Agent in Rust. Contribute to bitwhip/bitwhip development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A powerful live streaming production studio in your browser.

    2018 · golightstream.com · its alternatives →

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    Boltstream Live Video Streaming Website + Backend. Contribute to benwilber/boltstream development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to share the status with the Owncast project. If Wordpress is your self-hosted version of Medium, then this is your self-hosted version of Twitch. I've been little by little chipping away at building an easy to use and super useful live streaming server for individuals. It's still early days, but some recent updates include a dashboard where you can see some basic viewer metrics, configuration settings, and how your hardware is handling all that video crunching. We all know working with video can be intensive on the hardware side, so hopefully this helps people keep tabs on things.…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Record & stream your show in a realistic virtual studio

    Jul 2026 · lighttwist.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

    2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

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    Multithreading for OpenAI calls with robust error handling

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Save up to 95% on real-time experiences, community-powered

    2023 · video.dtelecom.org · its alternatives →

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    Outspeed▲462

    Platform for realtime voice and video AI

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    A realtime server for the modern web

    2016 · deepstream.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey there! This is Dan and Ustin (@uzarubin), and we want to share something cool we've been working on for the past year - an open-source `tail -f` for your data, with a UI. We call it "Streamdal" which is a word salad for streaming systems (because we love them) and DAL or data access layer (because we’re nerds). Here's the repo: https://github.com/streamdal/streamdal Here's the site: https://streamdal.com And here's a live demo: https://demo.streamdal.com (github repo has an explanation of the demo) — — — THE PROBLEM We built this because the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    hi, this is a project I've been working on and off for the last three months, it's my first non-trivial, non-hello-world, actually useful (at least to me) go project. it would be very nice if you could just try the program and see if it works on your setup! the readme[0] explains how it works, why I wrote it and how it fits in my "command-line centric" computing environment (there is also a video demo[1] :)). if you know go, feel free to take a look at the code and review it! I'm still pretty much new to go and I'd love to hear opinions, feedback and tips from more seasoned go developers :)…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Opensource IPTV service based on gstreamer can relay/encode/shift streams and many many other features.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dynamically instrument Live applications from your IDE

    2023 · lightrun.com · its alternatives →

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    Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API. Contribute to pion/webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A platform for livestreamers to make a home for their audience. - j4p3/strimpack

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Review of the open source cloud gaming platform, cloudretrio.io written in golang and using WebRTC for low latency, interactive game play

    2020 · webrtchacks.com · its alternatives →

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    Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK is for developers to install and customize realtime communication between devices and enable secure streaming of video, audio to Kinesis Video Streams. - awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    inLive▲64

    WebRTC to Dash/HLS live streaming API with 54% less cost

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’m so excited to show my first open-source project and first post here. I initially started this project to learn Go language, it is an experimental project. The main goal is to track the adventure of a WebRTC stream from start to finish, by debugging the project or tracking the output at console. By trying out this project, you will deep dive into the steps which are taken while starting up a WebRTC session, and more. It consists of a web UI (TypeScript) and a server back-end (Golang) projects. They can run on Docker containers, in development mode or production mode, you can find…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    S2 was on HN for our intro blog post a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42480105). S2 started out as a serverless API — think S3, but for streams. The idea of streams as a cloud storage primitive resonated with a lot of folks, but not having an open source option was a sticking point for adoption – especially from projects that were themselves open source! So we decided to build it: https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2 s2-lite is MIT-licensed, written in Rust, and uses SlateDB (https://slatedb.io) as its storage engine. SlateDB is an…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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