The motivation behind this project is that streaming with a feature-rich, bleeding-edge client such as the OBS Open Broadcster Software and the classic FMLE Flash Media Live Encoder is a very CPU-demanding task even for reasonably capable computers.

Feel free to open issues for other platforms if they are not yet listed. Windows, Mac, mobile) by leaving a note on the relevant Cross-platform Milestone issue. Let us know if it would interest you to see AvCaster ported to another platform (e.g. This initial target is GNU/Linux, but it has been designed for portability and includes starter projects for AndroidStudio, CodeBlocks, VisualStudio, and xCode IDEs. It is moderately configurable, with preset configurations for streaming via popular servers such as, and allows custom user-defined configurations to be stored as additional presets.

It is currently capable of recording to file or streaming to an RTMP server with screen capture (full-screen), webcam (full-screen or overlay), and audio (mono or stereo). A light-weight native gStreamer GUI for screencast, webcam, and audio streamingĪvCaster is built upon the JUCE framework, utilizing gStreamer as the media backend and libircclient as the chat backend.

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