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MistServer Open Source

Features

MistServer Open Source edition has no software imposed limits, but does come with less features than the MistServer Pro editions. A short feature list is given below, for full specifications please view our specifications page.

Feature Open Source Pro
Live inputs RTMP single bitrate ➕ RTMP multibitrate, HLS, RTSP, MPEG-TS (uni-/multicast)
VoD input FLV, MP3 ➕ MP4, TS, ISMV, HLS
Output MP4, HLS, RTMP (single bitrate), MPEG-TS (unicast), HDS, FLV, MP3, OGG➕ DASH, MP4 (live), RTMP (multibitrate), RTSP, MPEG-TS (multicast), HSS, WAV
Recording ✗ As FLV, TS
Stream analyzersRTMP, MP4, RTMP, OGG, FLV, DTSC➕ TS, HLS, H264, RIFF
Video codecs H264, Flash, Theora ➕ HEVC/H265, MPEG2, MP2
Audio codecs AAC, MP3, Flash, Vorbis ➕ AC3, PCM A-law, linear PCM
Pull from servers ✗ ✓
Push to servers ✗ ✓
DRM ✗ ✓
Access control ✗ ✓

aGPLv3 license

MistServer open source is available under the aGPLv3 license. Please review the license and determine if it fits your project. If you require a more flexible license, consider our non-commercial version, enterprise version, or simply contact us.

In laymen's terms: The source code for any project MistServer is used in / any changes made to MistServer itself must be available to any one that connects to the service.

Additional information

Here we'll list a few of the things that might be handy to view or download regarding the Open Source edition of MistServer.