LIVE555
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LIVE555 is an open source (LGPL)
C++
library for multimedia streaming
. It supports open standards such as RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP for streaming, and can also manage video and audio formats such as MPEG, H.263+ JPEG video. It is designed in such a way that it can be easily extended to support more formats.
It is used by VLC media player
and MPlayer
.
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...
C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
library for multimedia streaming
Streaming media
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...
. It supports open standards such as RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP for streaming, and can also manage video and audio formats such as MPEG, H.263+ JPEG video. It is designed in such a way that it can be easily extended to support more formats.
It is used by VLC media player
VLC media player
VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...
and MPlayer
MPlayer
MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor...
.