Copyright © 2013-2016 Kurento. Licensed under Apache 2.0 License.
Kurento Media Server is the 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:
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Networked streaming protocols, including HTTP, RTP and WebRTC.
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Group communications (MCUs and SFUs functionality) supporting both media mixing and media routing/dispatching.
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Generic support for computational vision and augmented reality filters.
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Media storage supporting writing operations for WebM and MP4 and playing in all formats supported by GStreamer.
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Automatic media transcodification between any of the codecs supported by GStreamer including VP8, H.264, H.263, AMR, OPUS, Speex, G.711, etc.
Please check the section Developing KMS in the KMS Development Guide.
This software is distributed as Debian packages, here you can find both stable releases and development snapshots, using our Debian repositories. To install, follow the next steps.
First, add the Kurento repository to Apt. Run as root:
# Choose one:
REPO="trusty" # KMS Release for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)
REPO="trusty-dev" # KMS Develop for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)
REPO="xenial" # KMS Release for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
REPO="xenial-dev" # KMS Develop for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kurento.list > /dev/null <<EOF
# Kurento Packages repository
deb http://ubuntu.kurento.org ${REPO} kms6
EOF
wget http://ubuntu.kurento.org/kurento.gpg.key -O - | apt-key add -
apt-get update
Note: Run only one of the lines that set the variable REPO
. The suffix -dev
indicates a development repository, and may contain unstable packages. For a production system, choose the repo without that suffix.
Now, Kurento Media Server can be installed from the Kurento repo. Run as root:
apt-get install kurento-server
You can also find current development version at:
http://ubuntu.kurento.org/pool/main/k/kurento-media-server/
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: http://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 is part of the NUBOMEDIA research initiative.
The Kurento project provides detailed documentation including tutorials, installation and development guides. A simplified version of the documentation can be found on readthedocs.org. The Open API specification a.k.a. Kurento Protocol is also available on apiary.io.
Code for other Kurento projects can be found in the GitHub Kurento Group.
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Issues and bug reports should be posted to the GitHub Kurento bugtracker
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
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
You can contribute to the Kurento community through bug-reports, bug-fixes, new code or new documentation. For contributing to the Kurento community, drop a post to the Kurento Public Mailing List providing full information about your contribution and its value. In your contributions, you must comply with the following guidelines
- You must specify the specific contents of your contribution either through a detailed bug description, through a pull-request or through a patch.
- You must specify the licensing restrictions of the code you contribute.
- For newly created code to be incorporated in the Kurento code-base, you must accept Kurento to own the code copyright, so that its open source nature is guaranteed.
- You must justify appropriately the need and value of your contribution. The Kurento project has no obligations in relation to accepting contributions from third parties.
- The Kurento project leaders have the right of asking for further explanations, tests or validations of any code contributed to the community before it being incorporated into the Kurento code-base. You must be ready to addressing all these kind of concerns before having your code approved.
The Kurento project provides community support through the Kurento Public Mailing List and through StackOverflow using the tags kurento and fiware-kurento.
Before asking for support, please read first the Kurento Netiquette Guidelines