Broadcast Box on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

Broadcast Box is an open source live streaming server built on WebRTC. It implements WHIP for ingest and WHEP for playback, the two standards that let video travel over the same real time transport a video call uses, so the delay between something happening in front of the camera and a viewer seeing it is a fraction of a second rather than the ten to thirty seconds a traditional segmented streaming pipeline imposes. You broadcast from OBS Studio or any encoder that speaks WHIP, or directly from a browser tab, and viewers watch in any modern browser with no plugin and no app. The bundled interface provides a stream discovery home page, a browser publish page, a player with a cinema mode, a statistics page showing stream uptime and subscriber counts, and an administration portal for managing stream profiles and rotating tokens.

It suits low latency screen sharing and remote collaboration where a delay makes conversation impossible, interactive broadcasts where a presenter needs to react to the audience in real time, and applications that want their own streaming layer rather than a commercial platform in the video path.

Common uses

• Low latency screen sharing and remote collaboration
• Interactive broadcasts where presenters react to viewers live
• A private streaming layer inside your own cloud account

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.