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SRS (Simple Realtime Server)

A simple, high efficiency and realtime video server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV

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SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a media streaming server built on coroutine technology, aimed at realtime streaming gateway use cases. It handles multiple streaming protocols, including RTMP, HLS, WebRTC, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH and GB28181, and is designed to operate without async callback complexity.

The project is cloud native, with Docker image support, Kubernetes deployment and telemetry. Oryx is offered as an all-in-one, open-source video solution for creating an online video service. Security advisories are published for the project, covering issues such as HTTP API DOM-XSS on JSONP callback and command injection in a demonstration API server, with affected and patched version ranges listed.

SRS is open source and available under an LTS release line. No pricing, trial or seat-based packaging details are stated on these pages.

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