The fediverse's answer to YouTube comes from French non-profit Framasoft: PeerTube is a TypeScript/Angular video platform where hundreds of independently operated instances federate over ActivityPub into one network. Videos you publish are discoverable across the whole video fediverse, and viewers can follow your channels from Mastodon or any ActivityPub platform - or plain RSS - without needing an account on your instance. The namesake innovation attacks video hosting's core cost problem: alongside HLS delivery, an optional WebRTC-based P2P layer lets concurrent viewers' browsers share video segments with each other, so a video going viral distributes its own bandwidth demand instead of crushing your server; instance redundancy extends this by letting friendly instances cache each other's videos. Livestreaming is first-class - stream via OBS or any RTMP software, host permanent streams, enable replays, and interact through live chat. Creators get channels, playlists, analytics, built-in video editing (trim, watermark), and an embeddable player for any website. There are no ads, no data mining, and no recommendation algorithm engineered for watch-time - the project's explicit design stance. Admins control federation policy, P2P settings, and theming; a plugin system extends the rest. AGPL-licensed, 300+ contributors, in active development since 2015.

On your own server, TypeType runs a private video platform for YouTube, NicoNico, and BiliBili, keeping subscriptions, history, and playlists out of someone else's recommendation engine. Pick a service and search it. Browse channels, Shorts, podcasts, and a home feed. Speed and quality control. Cinema mode. Native picture-in-picture. Subtitles, alternate audio tracks, and frame-by-frame stepping. SponsorBlock segments get skipped, or just marked, by category. Subscriptions, playlists, watch later, favorites, and resume positions fill the library. Import a Google Takeout export or a PipePipe backup and a new instance never starts empty. Download video or audio to local or S3-compatible storage and collect it in the browser when it is ready. Sign in locally or through OIDC. An admin console runs the instance. Block a channel and it disappears from feeds, search, and related videos. Hide Shorts. Hide personalized recommendations. Hide the suggestions column. A native Android client for phones and tablets syncs with the same instance. An optional experimental recommender can build a personalized home feed, and each user chooses whether to turn it on. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Watch YouTube without the ads, accounts, or tracking, from a server you own: TubeHaus is a private YouTube client that keeps the familiar layout, URLs, and keyboard shortcuts. Your subscriptions, watch history, resume positions, Watch Later, and playlists live as files on the server, so every device in the house shares one library and picks up a video where another screen left it. Live streams play with segments fetched ahead of the player, and captions are transcribed on the fly when a stream has none. Chapters, storyboard previews, a mini player, and theater mode make long videos easy to navigate, while sponsors are skipped automatically and dislike counts come back to the page. Save videos offline in 1080p or 4K for trips, send playback to a TV from your phone without a separate casting dongle, and drive the television interface entirely from a remote. Imports arrive from a Google Takeout export, Invidious, NewPipe, or FreeTube, so years of subscriptions move over in minutes instead of being rebuilt by hand. A calm mode hides recommendations and Shorts when you only want to search and watch deliberately. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Your folders are the library with MediaServer, a self-hosted player that scans the directories you already keep and serves their video and audio through a tidy web interface. Browsing feels like a personal YouTube: folders open as shelves of content, and the custom player keeps the video going as you explore what to watch next. Keyboard shortcuts drive playback, speed controls and player statistics sit a click away, and an ambient background glows behind the video. Every view is remembered: full watch history with timestamps, re-watch counts, per-user totals, and playback heatmaps replace the single watched tick other servers stop at. Metadata belongs to you: edit titles, thumbnails, tags, seasons, and release dates for videos, folders, and albums, and the edits survive files being moved or renamed. Music gets its own treatment with embedded cover art, a lyrics viewer and editor fed by LrcLib, and auto-scrolling lines that follow the song. Subtitles extract themselves from embedded and external files, folders and single videos share as readable links, and each share renders a rich preview card for Discord or chat. Behind the scenes, a dashboard manages libraries, scanning jobs, users, and server performance. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Feed one camera, encoder, or file into MistServer and it republishes the same media in the formats your audience actually uses: HLS for phones, DASH for browsers, WebRTC for sub second playback, and RTMP or SRT for the next service in the chain. Publish from OBS over RTMP, SRT, or WHIP, then hand viewers a Meta Player embed that picks a working protocol on its own. Records run straight to disk for later on demand viewing, and push support relays finished streams to external platforms. Processes can repackage, encode, compose, or analyze media between ingest and delivery. A JSON API on the controller port covers configuration and status, stream keys authenticate incoming publishers, and triggers fire your own endpoints on stream events. Operational metrics export to Prometheus for retention and alerting. Access control rules and HTTPS support protect interfaces and media endpoints. File libraries become on demand catalogs with the same delivery rules as live channels. Every input, output, and process ships as a separate small binary, so an installation keeps only the protocol modules it actually serves, and analysers inspect media properties when a stream misbehaves. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Unlicense licensed.

OvenMediaEngine ingests a broadcast feed once and delivers it to every viewer with sub-second delay over WebRTC and Low Latency HLS. Encoders push through WebRTC with WHIP, SRT, RTMP, or MPEG-2 TS, and the server can also pull RTSP sources and schedule pre-recorded files as live channels. The embedded transcoder converts incoming video to adaptive bitrate ladders in VP8, H.264, H.265, or AV1, so phones on weak signals and televisions on fiber each receive a rendition they can play. WebRTC delivery runs through an embedded signalling server and TURN server, with retransmission and forward error correction keeping pictures intact on imperfect networks. LLHLS streams carry DVR rewind, WebVTT subtitles, timed metadata, and DRM through Widevine, FairPlay, and PlayReady. Recordings dump finished streams to files for video on demand, thumbnails capture stills, and push publishing re-streams to other platforms over RTMP and SRT. Origin-edge clustering spreads a popular event across many servers, admission webhooks and signed policies control who may publish and watch, and a REST API plus monitoring endpoints keep the whole service observable. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Twitch and YouTube Live, replaced by infrastructure you control: Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming and chat server. Point OBS, Streamlabs, or any RTMP-capable broadcaster at the server's ingest port, and Owncast transcodes the feed with FFmpeg into HLS with multiple quality variants, playing it in a built-in web page with a real-time chat beside it. Chat supports anonymous participation, custom emotes, and moderation tools - message removal, user bans and suspensions - with optional authentication via IndieAuth or a Fediverse account. ActivityPub integration puts the stream on the Fediverse: viewers on Mastodon and compatible services can follow a channel and get notified the moment it goes live. Video delivery can come straight off the server or offload HLS segments to S3-compatible object storage so a modest VPS handles thousands of concurrent viewers while only managing ingest and chat. The backend is a single Go binary with a React frontend - no accounts platform, no database server, no dependency stack - and the player embeds in any website. MIT-licensed, with roughly 9k GitHub stars, zero platform fees, and no algorithm or takedown policy between you and your audience.

Point OBS or a hardware encoder at Restreamer's built-in RTMP or SRT ingest and it serves your website while rebroadcasting to YouTube Live, Twitch, Facebook, Vimeo, TikTok, LinkedIn, PeerTube, and anything else that accepts RTMP, SRT, or HLS - a complete self-hosted live-streaming server from datarhei. That multistreaming normally costs a monthly Restream.io subscription; here it's one FFmpeg process per destination on your own hardware. The web UI is genuinely approachable, with a wizard that walks beginners through camera setup, while professionals get the full surface: multiple audio/video inputs (USB, RTSP network cameras, virtual devices), codec and processing settings, separate audio muxing, and hardware acceleration via Nvidia CUDA, Intel VAAPI, or Raspberry Pi. Serving your own audience is first-class - a built-in Video.js player embeds in your site, a ready-made publication website streams without any embedding work, HLS chunk sizes are tunable, and automatic Let's Encrypt handles HTTPS. Viewer and bandwidth monitoring with limits keeps traffic costs predictable, and it's GDPR-friendly: no third-party provider, no audience data stored. A fully Swagger-documented REST API drives automation. SRT support keeps latency under a second.

Viewers arrive on browsers, phones, and desktop players, and SRS meets each of them with the right protocol from a single published stream. A broadcaster pushing RTMP can reach browser viewers through WebRTC with sub-second latency, phone apps through HLS, and desktop players through HTTP-FLV, all from the same live source without running parallel encoders. WHIP endpoints accept WebRTC ingest from browser studios and tools like OBS, while WHEP serves WebRTC playback, so an entire publish-to-viewer path can stay on modern web protocols. Operators shape each channel with virtual hosts, authenticate publishers and players through HTTP hooks that consult your own backend, and record live streams to disk as DVR archives for replay. Forwarding republishes a stream to YouTube, Facebook, or another SRS instance, and origin clustering lets edge servers pull from a central origin so one ingest feeds viewers in several regions. The built-in HTTP API reports streams, clients, and server health for monitoring, and GB28181 support ingests surveillance camera networks alongside creator broadcasts. Configuration lives in a single reloadable file, so changing a vhost or enabling HLS rarely means restarting the listeners your audience is attached to. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Point OBS at it, and the same live stream comes out in whatever protocol each viewer needs. Xiu is an open-source live media server that accepts publishing over RTMP, RTSP, and WebRTC WHIP, then redistributes every stream as RTMP, RTSP, HTTP-FLV, HLS, or low-latency WebRTC WHEP playback. Cameras and encoders pushing H.264, H.265, or AAC over TCP or UDP become browser-friendly HLS and HTTP-FLV without a separate transcoding tier, and GOP caching gets late joiners to a keyframe fast. Static push and pull relaying chains servers together: one origin ingests, regional nodes pull, and audiences play from the node nearest them; RTMP clustering covers larger fan-outs. Every live stream can also be recorded straight to HLS files, giving you an instant archive of broadcasts, lessons, and town halls. Token authentication guards publishing and playback, HTTP callbacks report stream start and stop events to your backend, and an HTTP API answers stream information queries for your own dashboards and automation. Operators shape ports, protocols, relays, and recording in one configuration file or with command-line flags, running a single binary that stays out of the way until the audience arrives. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

FireShare turns a folder of game captures on your server into a browsable library where every clip gets its own permanent link, ready to paste into Discord the moment something worth bragging about happens. Point it at the directories you already record to and it scans what is there: the file people watch is always your untouched original, in MP4, WebM, or MOV, never a recompressed stand-in. Privacy is set per file, public for the feed, link-only for friends, or behind a password, and whole folders can be shared as a single link. It also sorts the chaos for you, detecting the game in each capture and shelving hundreds of timestamped filenames under proper cover art you can search and browse. Trim the dead air off a clip before posting it, add a title, description, tags, and a custom thumbnail, and watch the view count climb. For screens that struggle with huge originals, optional transcoding adds adaptive lower qualities on CPU or an NVIDIA GPU, and HDR captures get tone-mapped to SDR instead of looking washed out. Friends can upload through the browser or by token from scripts, new public clips can announce themselves to Discord or an RSS reader, and accounts come with permissions, profiles, and two-factor sign-in. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Cap is an open-source screen recorder with a built-in sharing site, so the explanation you would have booked a call for becomes a link someone can watch whenever it suits them. Pick Instant Mode when speed matters: choose a screen, window, or area, add your camera and microphone, and the video uploads while you record, so the share link is ready the second you stop. Pick Studio Mode when polish matters: Cap records locally at up to 4K and 60 frames per second, keeps screen and camera as separate tracks, and opens an editor for trimming, backgrounds, zooms, captions, and export to MP4 or GIF. Whichever mode made it, a shared video lands on a page that plays in any browser, where viewers can leave comments and reactions. Owners can keep a video private or protect it with a password, and team workspaces keep a shared library organized. Share pages come from your own domain, and recordings live in the bundled object store or any S3-compatible bucket. Connect a transcription and AI provider to add transcripts, titles, summaries, and clickable chapters. Bug reports, product demos, onboarding walkthroughs, design reviews, and async standups all shrink to a short recording and a link. The desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux connect to your server through a single Cap Server URL setting. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Client feedback that arrives as "the bit near the middle feels off" becomes frame-accurate when FreeFrame hosts your media review on your own server. Reviewers drop timecoded comments on the exact frame, sketch drawing annotations over the picture, and thread replies with mentions, reactions, and attachments until each note is resolved. Video streams adaptively while audio assets get waveform review, and approval workflows track every reviewer's status so a project never waits on a mystery sign-off. When a new cut lands, version compare puts any two revisions side by side or under a draggable wipe slider, playing in sync with per-side audio and offset trim while each version keeps its own comment thread. Finished notes travel back into the edit as timeline markers for DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere Pro, or as a plain CSV, landing on the exact frames they describe. Clients never need accounts: password-protected share links with expiry dates and watermarking let them browse and comment, while you control downloads and permissions per link. Studios can white-label the whole experience with their own name, logos, favicon, and accent color across the app, share pages, and outgoing email. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Build your own image and video sharing site, with public galleries, private albums, and embeddable links, on a server you control. Uploads arrive by drag and drop, clipboard paste, image URL, camera, ShareX, or API, in AVIF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP, MOV, MP4, and WebM, and chunked transfers handle large files. Lossless JPEG handling fixes orientation and can strip EXIF data. Duplicate detection catches repeat uploads. Tags are created on the fly with autocomplete, camera models become tags automatically, and albums nest into sub-albums with covers, privacy levels, and passwords. Categories, search, and explore views help visitors find things; a bulk importer brings in folders of existing media. Each file gets viewer, direct, thumbnail, and medium links plus HTML, Markdown, and BBCode snippets with one-click copy, and oEmbed lets other sites preview a link. Roles split admin, manager, and user duties, profiles can be private, and two-factor authentication protects accounts. Files sit on local disk or S3-compatible storage, optionally served through a CDN URL. A dashboard tracks usage, color palettes and custom CSS and JavaScript restyle the site, and a single-profile mode suits a personal portfolio. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Point Emby at your movie, music, and photo libraries and it becomes a private streaming service: metadata and artwork arrive from TMDB and TVDB, everything lands in a polished browsable interface, and media transcodes on the fly whenever a client can't play the original format. The client reach is the selling point: native apps span Android TV, Apple TV, Google TV, Fire TV, Roku, LG and Samsung smart TVs, iOS, Android, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, plus web browsers and desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and DLNA devices are auto-detected for casting and remote control. Multi-user support gives each household member their own account, watch history, favorites, and recommendations, with genuinely capable parental controls: content restrictions, access schedules, time limits, and live monitoring with remote control of kids' sessions. Live TV works with hardware tuners like HDHomeRun or M3U playlists, with free guide data in the US, Canada, and UK. The server and core features are free; an optional Premiere key adds hardware-accelerated transcoding, DVR recording, offline sync, and Cinema Mode intros.