Restreamer
Restreamer is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Media Servers category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in HTML. It ships a Docker image. It has 5,228 GitHub stars and its last commit was on May 22, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 5,228
- Forks
- 565
- Open issues
- 264
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2
- Last commit
- May 22, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.12.0Sep 13, 2024
- Created
- Dec 9, 2015
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
MaintainedMaintained: last commit May 22, 2026.
- Welcomes contributors131 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | May 22, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 2 |
| Latest release | v2.12.0 (Sep 13, 2024) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 42 |
| Open issues | 264 |
| Open pull requests | 4 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 9, 2015 |
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About Restreamer
Access H.264 real-time video streaming on your website without a streaming provider.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/datarhei/restreamer.
Topics
- hls
- rtmp
- video
- video-streaming
- streaming
- obs
- rtsp-server
- ffmpeg
- h264
- rtsp
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Is Restreamer free and open source?
Yes. Restreamer is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Restreamer with Docker?
Yes. Restreamer provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Restreamer?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Restreamer include Jellyfin, SRS and Invidious.
Is Restreamer actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Restreamer was on May 22, 2026 with 2 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.12.0, published Sep 13, 2024. It had 264 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Maintained" as of Oct 26, 2026.