Decentralized Ultra-Low Latency Streaming Server

A decentralized media server designed to handle media streaming on a global scale, making it suitable for large-scale applications but with minimal cost.

It is developed by 8xFF, a group of independent developers who are passionate about building a new generation of media server and network infrastructure with decentralization in mind. While we have received support from various companies and individuals, we are not affiliated with any specific company. 8xFF is a community-driven project, and we welcome anyone interested in contributing to join us.

For a deep dive into the technical aspects of network architecture, please refer to our Smart-Routing

(Above is a demo video of the version used by Bluesea Network)

Project Status: Refactoring

We are actively refactoring entire media server and network stack with sans-io-runtime for better performance. If you are looking for an older version, please check out the legacy branch.

Features

• 🚀 Powered by Rust with memory safety and performance.
• High availability by being fully decentralized, with no central controller.
• 🛰️ Multi-zone support, high scalability.
• Support encodings: H264, Vp8, Vp9, H265 (Coming soon), AV1 (Coming soon)
• Cross-platform: Linux, macOS, Windows.
• Decentralized WebRTC SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit)
• Easy to deploy: single binary, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Easy to scale: global pubsub network, similar to Cloudflare interconnected network)

Feature	Description	Status
Cluster Room & Peer	Multi-zones room & peer mechanism RFC-0003	🚀
Simulcast & SVC	Support WebRTC Simulcast (VP8, H264) and SVC (VP9)	🚀
Whip	Whip Protocol	🚀
Whep	Whep Protocol	🚀
WebRTC-SDK	Webrtc-SDK Protocol RFC-0005	🚀
RTMP	RTMP Protocol	❌
RTMP-Transcode	RTMP with Transcode	❌
SIP	SIP calls	❌
MoQ	Media-over-Quic	❌
Monitoring	Dashboard for monitoring	❌
Recording	Record stream	❌
Gateway	External gateway RFC-0003	❌
Connector	External event handling	❌

Status:

• ❌: Not started
• 🚧: In progress
• 🚀: In review/testing
• ✅: Completed

Quick Start (not ready yet)

Prebuild or build from source

• From Docker

docker run --net=host ghcr.io/8xff/atm0s-media-server:master --help

• Download prebuild

OS	Arch	Link
MacOS	aarch64	Download
MacOS	x86_64	Download
Linux	aarch64 gnu	Download
Linux	x86_64 gnu	Download
Linux	aarch64 musl	Download
Linux	x86_64 musl	Download

• Build from source

cargo build --release --package atm0s-media-server
./target/release/atm0s-media-server --help

Run

Run first WebRTC node:

atm0s-media-server --http-port 3001 --zone-index=101 webrtc

After node1 started it will print out the node address like 101@/ip4/192.168.1.10/udp/10101/ip4/192.168.1.10/tcp/10101, you can use it as a seed node for other nodes.

Run second WebRTC node:

atm0s-media-server --http-port 3002 --zone-index=102 --seeds FIRST_NODE_ADDR webrtc

Now two nodes will form a cluster and can be used for media streaming.

First media-server: http://localhost:3001/samples/whip/whip.html

Second media-server: http://localhost:3002/samples/whep/whep.html

You can use Pregenerated-Token to publish and play stream.

Each node also has embedded monitoring page at http://localhost:3001/dashboard/ and http://localhost:3002/dashboard/

Resources

• Summary
• Getting Started
• User Guide
• Contributor Guide
• RFCs
• FAQ

Contributing

The project is continuously being improved and updated. We are always looking for ways to make it better, whether that's through optimizing performance, adding new features, or fixing bugs. We welcome contributions from the community and are always looking for new ideas and suggestions. If you find it interesting or believe it could be helpful, we welcome your contributions to the codebase or consider starring the repository to show your support and motivate our team!

For more information, you can access Contributor Guide and join our Discord channel

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all the contributors who have helped in making this project successful.