Free audio and video stream broadcasting software

Free audio and video stream broadcasting software

IceCast (Free/Windows, Linux)
You can broadcast streaming MP3 (MPEG 1 Layer 3 Audio) using an IceCast 1+, streaming OGG Vorbis using IceCast 2+, streaming AAC using IceCast 2.2+ streaming server.
Icecast was designed to be Shoutcast compatible. Unlike the commercial Shoutcast product Icecast is free.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
VideoLan (Free/Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS ...)

The VideoLAN streaming solution includes:

VLS (VideoLAN Server), which can stream MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on the network in unicast or multicast,
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client), which can be used as a server to stream MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files, DVDs and live videos on the network in unicast or multicast; or used as a client to receive, decode and display MPEG streams under multiple operating systems.
VLC's stream output works under Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS and many Unices. VLS works under Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
NullSoft Video at SVCI (Free)
NSV is a new multimedia container format designed for network video streaming. The format is known as NullSoft Video or simply NSV. NSV was developed by Nullsoft corporation, the same company that produced the popular Winamp and Shoutcast streaming audio software. Winamp TV uses NSV streams.
NSV consists of free software to encode, stream and view video. There are additional third party NSV applications being developed and distributed by stations and users. Additional software can be purchased from outside commercial software vendors as well.
NSV has broken the restrictive Internet video broadcast barrier and allows anyone the ability to produce and distribute live or recorded video content.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
MPEG4IP (Free / Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, Mac OS X)
MPEG4IP provides an end-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia. The package includes many existing open source packages and the "glue" to integrate them together. This is a tool for streaming video and audio that is standards-oriented and free from proprietary protocols and extensions.

Provided are a live MPEG-4/H.261/MPEG-2/H.263 MP3/AAC/AMR broadcaster and file recorder, command line utilities such as an MP4 file creator and hinter, and an player that can both stream and playback from local file.

This code is not intended for end users, and does not contain executables. Please read all the legal information to determine if it is suitable for you.