Awesome Broadcasting

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source resources for broadcasters inspired by Awesome PHP and Awesome SysAdmin. Check Awesome SysAdmin for IT related projects.

• Awesome Broadcasting
  • Audio over IP
  • Codecs
  • Companion Screens
  • Connected TVs
  • DVB
  • Graphics & Video Playout
  • Hybrid Radio
  • Media Player
  • Multimedia content processing
  • Metadata
  • Quality Control
  • [Radio Production](#Radio Production)
  • Software-defined radio
  • Subtitling
• Resources
  • Blogs
  • Websites
• Contributing

Audio over IP

• Kamailio - Open SIP server. Commonly used SIP server for Audio contribution over IP using SIP (EBU ACIP)
• PJSIP - Open Source multimedia library implementing SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE. Used in some contribution equipment (dual licensing).
• OpenOB - Open Outside Broadcast project for radio contribution links and studio-transmitter links based on Opus.

Codecs

• Opus - Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.
• FLAC - FLAC Free Lossless Audio Coding. Used by some broadcaster for audio exchange, storage.
• Lame - Lame, high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder. (Warning, MP3 is not royalty free!)
• TwoLame - TwoLame, MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder.

Companion Screens

• dvbcss-synctiming - dvbcss-synctiming is a system for measuring how accurately a TV or companion are synchronised.
• pydvbcss - pydvbcss is library implementing the DVB Companion Screens and Streams protocols for accurately synchronising media playback between TVs and companions.

Connected TVs

• Cross-Platform Authentication - CPA offers an open standard for associating any media device with an online identity.
• TAL - The TV Application Layer (TAL) is an open source library for building applications for Connected TV devices.

DVB

• DVB Inspector - DVB Inspector is an open-source DVB analyzer.
• DVBlast - DVBlast is a simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.
• Opencaster - OpenCaster is a free and open source MPEG2 transport stream data generator and packet manipulator.

Graphics & Video Playout

• CasparCG - CasparCG is a professional graphics and video play-out software, proven in 24/7 broadcasts since 2006

Hybrid Radio

• RadioDNS Manager - A platform to manage Hybrid Radio static services such as RadioVIS, RadioEPG and Service Following.
• RadioTag.js - RadioTag client library in javascript.
• RadioVis Html Player - RadioVis Player using WebSocket.

Media Player

• Dash.js - A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
• Peaks.js - Browser-based audio waveform visualisation.
• VLC - Simple, fast and powerful media player.
• GPAC - Multimedia player, packager and tools

Metadata

• BMXlib - Library and utilities to read and write broadcasting media files. Primarily supports the MXF file format.

Quality Control

• libebur128 - A library that implements the EBU R 128 standard for loudness normalisation.

Multimedia content processing

• FFmpeg - A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
• FFmbc - FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage.
• LibAV - Open source audio and video processing tools.
• Open Broadcast Encoder - Broadcast encoder built from Open Source components.
• TuttleOFX - TuttleOFX is an open source image processing framework based on OpenFX plugin standard.
• UPipe - Upipe is primarily designed to be the core of a multimedia player, transcoder or streamer.

Radio Production

• Audacity - Cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
• Airtime - Radio management application for remote broadcast automation (via web-based schedule)

Software-defined radio

• CRC mmbTools - Original Tools for DAB digital radio multiplexing and software defined radio modulation.
• ODR mmbTools - Fork, continuation of CRC mmbTools. Adding new features for 24/24 365/365 live operation, DAB+, associated data (slideshow, text), distributed infrastructure, SFN.

Subtitling

• Subtitling Conversion Framework (SCF) - A set of modules for converting subtitle formats. Main target is the conversion of EBU STL and EBU-TT subtitle files. Alpha release.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge.

Blogs

• BBC R&D - BBC Research and Development. Checkout the weekly notes.

Websites

Useful broadcasting related websites.

• EBU.io - A platform for agile collaboration.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.