Kurento Media Server

Kurento Media Server is Kurento's core element. It is responsible for media transmission, processing, loading and recording. It is implemented in low level technologies based on GStreamer to optimize the resource consumption. It provides the following features:

Networked streaming protocols, including HTTP, RTP and WebRTC.
Group communications (MCUs and SFUs functionality) supporting both media mixing and media routing/dispatching.
Generic support for computational vision and augmented reality filters.
Media storage supporting writing operations for WebM and MP4 and playing in all formats supported by GStreamer.
Automatic media transcoding between any of the codecs supported by GStreamer including VP8, H.264, H.263, AMR, OPUS, Speex, G.711, etc.

About Kurento

Kurento is an open source software project providing a platform suitable for creating modular applications with advanced real-time communication capabilities. For knowing more about Kurento, please visit the Kurento project website: https://www.kurento.org.

Kurento is part of FIWARE. For further information on the relationship of FIWARE and Kurento check the Kurento FIWARE Catalog Entry. Kurento has been rated within FIWARE as follows:

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Kurento is also part of the NUBOMEDIA research initiative.

Documentation

The Kurento project provides detailed documentation including tutorials, installation and development guides. The Open API specification, also known as Kurento Protocol, is available on apiary.io.

Useful Links

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Training:

Kurento tutorials

Source

All source code belonging to the Kurento project can be found in the Kurento GitHub organization page.

Licensing and distribution

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0