| 1 |  SunshineSunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight. | 2026.914.233613 | Open source | September 14, 2026 | — | 18.4K ↓ |
| 2 |  DistroAVNetwork Audio/Video in OBS-Studio using NDI technology | 6.2.2 | Open source | October 15, 2026 | — | 111.8K ↓ |
| 3 |  Streamlabs DesktopFree and open source streaming software built on OBS and Electron. | 1.21.9 | Open source | August 19, 2026 | 286.6 MB | 46.5K ↓ |
| 4 |  StreamlinkStreamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC. | 8.6.2-2 | Open source | October 21, 2026 | — | 125.1K ↓ |
| 5 |  Streamlink Twitch GUIBrowse Twitch.tv and watch streams in your video player of choice | 2.5.3 | Open source | February 11, 2025 | — | 39.9K ↓ |
| 6 |  GPACUltramedia Open Source Infrastructure for Video Streaming and Next-Gen Multimedia Transcoding, Packaging and Delivery. | 26.07 | Open source | July 24, 2026 | 75.5 MB | 14.3K ↓ |
| 7 |  obs-virtualcamobs-studio plugin to simulate a directshow webcam | 2.0.5 | Open source | August 16, 2021 | — | 14.9K ↓ |
| 8 |  XSplit BroadcasterPowerful Live streaming and recording studio that offers limitless customization. | 4.6.2609.2802 | Proprietary | October 5, 2026 | 516.5 MB | 13.1K ↓ |
| 9 |  Elgato Stream DeckWith Stream Deck, unleash your creative genius and make waves across Twitch and YouTube. All while focusing on what matters most your audience. As a broadcaster that likes to produce on the fly and have high quality production. | 7.6.0.23012 | Proprietary | September 22, 2026 | 219.0 MB | 70.8K ↓ |
| 10 |  SonoBusSonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network. | 1.7.2 | Open source | January 22, 2024 | — | 377 ↓ |
| 11 |  AirParrot 3Advanced screen-mirroring and media-streaming software that enables Windows and macOS devices to mirror and cast displays to Apple TV, Chromecast, and other receivers. | 3.1.11 | Proprietary | October 23, 2026 | — | 31.5K ↓ |
| 12 | EElgato Wave LinkWave Link gives you ultimate control of your Twitch stream, YouTube video or podcast audio. | 3.3.0.4529 | Proprietary | September 18, 2026 | 195.2 MB | 3.1K ↓ |
| 13 | IicecastA streaming media (audio/video) server which supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams. | 2.5.0 | Open source | | — | 13.1K ↓ |
| 14 | KkafkaApache Kafka. A distributed streaming platform. | 4.3.1 | Open source | | — | 11.5K ↓ |
| 15 |  Azure Media Services ExplorerAzure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that provides upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live events with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided on GitHub. | 5.8.3 | Open source | June 14, 2024 | — | 4.4K ↓ |
| 16 |  FFmpeg (LGPL static variant, master branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | N-127032-g6ae491a26c-20260930 | Open source | October 16, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 17 |  FFmpeg (GPL static variant, master branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | N-127021-ge0c94b2d1c-20260930 | Open source | October 16, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 18 |  FFmpeg (GPL static variant, 7.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 7.1.5-20260731 | Open source | August 6, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 19 |  FFmpeg (GPL shared variant, master branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | N-127021-ge0c94b2d1c-20260930 | Open source | October 23, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 20 |  FFmpeg (LGPL static variant, 7.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 7.1.5-20260731 | Open source | August 6, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 21 |  FFmpeg (LGPL shared variant, master branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | N-127021-ge0c94b2d1c-20260930 | Open source | October 23, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 22 |  FFmpeg (GPL shared variant, 7.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 7.1.5-20260731 | Open source | August 6, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 23 |  FFmpeg (LGPL shared variant, 7.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 7.1.5-20260731 | Open source | August 6, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 24 |  Elgato Camera HubDial in your Facecam settings like a pro. | 2.3.0.7295 | Proprietary | August 12, 2026 | 370.6 MB | 1.4K ↓ |
| 25 |  FFmpeg (GPL static variant, 6.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 6.1.3-20250831 | Open source | August 31, 2025 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 26 |  FFmpeg (LGPL static variant, 6.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 6.1.3-20250831 | Open source | August 31, 2025 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 27 |  FFmpeg (GPL shared variant, 6.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 6.1.3-20250831 | Open source | August 31, 2025 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 28 |  FFmpeg (LGPL shared variant, 6.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 6.1.3-20250831 | Open source | August 31, 2025 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 29 |  FFmpeg (GPL static variant, 8.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 8.1.3-20260930 | Open source | October 16, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 30 |  FFmpeg (GPL shared variant, 8.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 8.1.3-20260930 | Open source | October 24, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 31 |  FFmpeg (LGPL static variant, 8.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 8.1.3-20260930 | Open source | October 16, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 32 |  FFmpeg (LGPL shared variant, 8.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 8.1.3-20260930 | Open source | October 24, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 33 |  FFmpeg (GPL static variant, 8.0 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 8.0.1-20260228 | Open source | February 28, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 34 |  FFmpeg (GPL shared variant, 8.0 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 8.0.1-20260228 | Open source | March 4, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 35 |  FFmpeg (LGPL static variant, 8.0 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 8.0.1-20260228 | Open source | February 28, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 36 |  FFmpeg (LGPL shared variant, 8.0 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 8.0.1-20260228 | Open source | March 1, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 37 | RrtmpdumpA toolkit for RTMP streams with support for all forms of RTMP (rtmp, rtmpt, rtmpe, rtmpte, and rtmps). | 2.3 | Open source | | — | 3.4K ↓ |
| 38 |  FFmpeg (GPL static variant, 5.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 5.1.6-20250131 | Open source | February 5, 2025 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 39 |  FFmpeg (LGPL static variant, 5.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 5.1.6-20250131 | Open source | January 31, 2025 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 40 |  FFmpeg (GPL shared variant, 5.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 5.1.6-20250131 | Open source | February 6, 2025 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 41 |  FFmpeg (GPL static variant, 9.0 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 9.0.2-20260930 | Open source | October 16, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 42 |  FFmpeg (LGPL shared variant, 5.1 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 5.1.6-20241231 | Open source | January 2, 2025 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 43 | SswyhStream the sound from your PC to an UPnP/DLNA device. | 1.5.0 | Open source | | — | 2.1K ↓ |
| 44 |  FFmpeg (GPL shared variant, 9.0 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 9.0.1-20260831 | Open source | September 10, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 45 |  FFmpeg (LGPL static variant, 9.0 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 9.0.1-20260831 | Open source | October 12, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 46 |  FFmpeg (LGPL shared variant, 9.0 release branch)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 9.0.1-20260831 | Open source | September 10, 2026 | — | ★ 11.9K |
| 47 |  FFmpegA complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 9.0.2 | Open source | September 21, 2026 | — | ★ 2.6K |
| 48 |  FFmpeg (Shared)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 9.0.2 | Open source | September 21, 2026 | — | ★ 2.6K |
| 49 |  B站录播姬BiliBili Stream Recorder | 2.18.0 | Open source | March 19, 2026 | — | ★ 4.9K |
| 50 |  FFmpeg (Essentials Build)A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. | 9.0.1 | Open source | September 10, 2026 | — | ★ 2.6K |