µStreamer
★ 2.0kGNU General Public License v3.0Fully Open
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µStreamer is a small, performance-focused streaming server for V4L2 capture devices. It is aimed at scenarios where low latency, high frame rate, and efficient encoding matter, such as Raspberry...
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BinaryPackageSelf-ContainedOffline Capable
Features
- MJPEG streaming from V4L2 devices
- multithreaded JPEG encoding
- hardware image encoding on Raspberry Pi
- dynamic resolution changes via DV-timings
- drop same frames to save bandwidth
- UNIX domain socket streaming
- systemd socket activation
- built-in HTTP file server
- GPIO stream-state signaling
- Janus WebRTC integration
Details
- Last Updated
- Apr 10, 2026
- Created
- Sep 14, 2018
- Install Methods
- binarypackage-managerdockersource
- Requirements
- makegccpkg-configlibevent with pthreads supportlibjpeg9 or libjpeg-turbolibbsd (Linux only)libgpiod (for GPIO support)libsystemd-dev (for WITH_SYSTEMD=1)libasound2-devlibspeex-devlibspeexdsp-devlibopus-dev (for WITH_JANUS=1)
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- Cdeb
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
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