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GoCast

Deliver live events and recordings like it's the 21st century. - Privacy friendly, self-hosted and open-source.

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GoCast is a fully self-hosted platform for live-streaming and recording of lectures, in use at the Technical University of Munich as TUM-Live.

Quick facts​

GoCast is

  • Widely used at the Technical University of Munich and handles thousands of hours of video every semester for more than 150 courses and 15.000 Students.
  • Open-source and licensed under the MIT license.
  • Self-hosted: You have full control over your data and can run GoCast on your own servers.

Features​

For a detailed list of features, refer to the features section.

  • Fully automatic Live-Streaming from Auditoriums based on lecture schedules.
  • Self-service interface for lecturers to schedule and manage their videos.
  • Automated import of lectures and enrollment of students from CAMPUSonline.
  • Self-streaming via OBS, Zoom, etc.
  • Automatic recording of live-streams.
  • Video on demand uploads.
  • Automatic post-processing of recordings.
    • Detects silence in videos and makes them skip-able.
    • Transcribes videos and makes them searchable.
    • Generates Thumbnails.
  • Live Chat for listeners to ask questions.
    • Polls can be created by lecturers.
    • Questions can be upvoted by listeners.
    • Questions can be marked as answered or hidden.