Stream to every platform at once.
Braidcast is a native multi-destination live-streaming studio: build one composited production and fan it out to Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and more, simultaneously.
Instead of a single output, Braidcast is organized around canvases — each canvas has its own resolution, FPS, and encoder settings. You bind any number of streaming destinations to a canvas, and Braidcast encodes once per canvas and multiplexes the encoded stream out to every enabled destination bound to it. One production, many platforms, encoded once. The desktop UI is a CEF-hosted Svelte frontend.
- Multi-destination streaming — go live to Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and other RTMP/RTMPS destinations at the same time from a single Go Live.
- Canvas-based pipeline — independent encode targets (resolution, FPS, encoder) with per-canvas preview docks and scene layout.
- Encode-once fan-out — encode a canvas once, multiplex to every enabled destination bound to it.
- Platform accounts + Go Live — OAuth sign-in and stream metadata for supported platforms, with a single Go Live flow.
- Creator engagement — unified multichat, aggregate viewer counts, an events/alerts feed, and browser-source overlay widgets.
Braidcast is forked from OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com), licensed GPLv2+. It inherits OBS Studio's capture, compositing, encoding, and plugin ecosystem as its upstream base. Braidcast is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the OBS Project.
It is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 (or any later version) — see the accompanying COPYING file for more details.
Braidcast uses CMake presets (see CMakePresets.json); there is no plain
cmake . flow. Fetch submodules, then configure and build for your platform,
for example on Windows:
git submodule update --init --recursive cmake --preset windows-x64 cmake --build --preset windows-x64 --config RelWithDebInfo
The following are genuine OBS Studio (upstream) resources. They cover the underlying engine and its contribution process, not Braidcast-specific workflows:
- OBS Studio website: https://obsproject.com
- OBS Studio Help/Documentation/Guides: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki
- OBS Studio Forums: https://obsproject.com/forum/
- OBS Studio Build Instructions: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki/Install-Instructions
- OBS Studio Developer/API Documentation: https://obsproject.com/docs
- OBS Studio Bug Tracker: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues
- If you would like to help fund or sponsor upstream OBS Studio, you can do so via Patreon, OpenCollective, or PayPal. See the OBS Studio contribute page for more information.
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