Copyright © 2013-2016 Kurento. Licensed under LGPL v2.1 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:

• Networked streaming protocols, including HTTP, RTP and WebRTC.

• Group communications (MCUs and SFUs functionality) supporting both media mixing and media routing/dispatching.

• Generic support for computational vision and augmented reality filters.

• Media storage supporting writing operations for WebM and MP4 and playing in all formats supported by GStreamer.

• Automatic media transcodification between any of the codecs supported by GStreamer including VP8, H.264, H.263, AMR, OPUS, Speex, G.711, etc.

First you need to install dependencies, there are various ways, here we describe one that is pretty simple and automated:

  echo "deb http://ubuntu.kurento.org trusty-dev kms6" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kurento-dev.list
  wget -O - http://ubuntu.kurento.org/kurento.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install $(cat debian/control | sed -e "s/$/\!\!/g" | tr -d '\n' | sed "s/\!\! / /g" | sed "s/\!\!/\n/g" | grep "Build-Depends" | sed "s/Build-Depends: //g" | sed "s/([^)]*)//g" | sed "s/, */ /g")

Then you can compile the server, just execute:

  mkdir -p build
  cd build
  cmake ..
  make -j4

If you want to create a debian package you can execute:

  sudo apt-get install devscripts
  git submodule update --init --recursive
  debuild -us -uc

Debian packages will be created on parent directory.

This software is distributed as debian packages, you can find stable releases here using our debian repository.

To install just execute:

  echo "deb http://ubuntu.kurento.org trusty kms6" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kurento.list
  wget -O - http://ubuntu.kurento.org/kurento.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install kurento-server

You can also find current development version at:

http://ubuntu.kurento.org/pool/main/k/kurento-media-server/

To install packages from unstable repository you need to execute:

  echo "deb http://ubuntu.kurento.org trusty-dev kms6" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kurento-dev.list
  wget -O - http://ubuntu.kurento.org/kurento.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install kurento-media-server-6.0

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

Software associated to Kurento is provided as open source under GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License, version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1). Please check the specific terms and conditions linked to this open source license at http://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1. Please note that software derived as a result of modifying the source code of Kurento software in order to fix a bug or incorporate enhancements is considered a derivative work of the product. Software that merely uses or aggregates (i.e. links to) an otherwise unmodified version of existing software is not considered a derivative work.

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