SRS
SRS is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Media Servers category, licensed MIT and written mainly in C++. It ships a Docker image. It has 29,369 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 29,369
- Forks
- 5,704
- Open issues
- 7
- Commits, last 12 months
- 138
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v6.0-r2Sep 24, 2026
- Created
- Apr 29, 2015
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 138 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 138 |
| Latest release | v6.0-r2 (Sep 24, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 2 |
| Releases, all time | 83 |
| Open issues | 7 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Apr 29, 2015 |
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About SRS
A simple, high efficiency and real-time video server, supports RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV and SRT.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/ossrs/srs.
Topics
- rtmp
- live-streaming
- live
- media-server
- hls
- webrtc
- srt
- low-latency
- video-conferencing
- video
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Is SRS free and open source?
Yes. SRS is open-source software released under the MIT 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 SRS with Docker?
Yes. SRS 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 SRS?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to SRS include Jellyfin, Invidious and Kodi.
Is SRS actively maintained?
The most recent commit to SRS was on Oct 26, 2026 with 138 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v6.0-r2, published Sep 24, 2026. It had 7 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.