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camera-streamer

High-performance camera streaming for Raspberry Pi

Video Surveillance ★ 442 stars Medium setup MIT

camera-streamer is a high-performance, low-latency camera streaming application supporting MJPEG, WebRTC, and RTSP output from Raspberry Pi and USB cameras. It is designed for efficient hardware-accelerated monitoring.

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Key features

  • MJPEG, WebRTC and RTSP output
  • Hardware-accelerated encoding
  • Low-latency streaming
  • Raspberry Pi optimized

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Written in C
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

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