# open-webrtc-toolkit/owt-server

General server (streaming/conference/transcoding/anayltics) for OWT. (A.k.a. MediaServer)

Repository: https://github.com/open-webrtc-toolkit/owt-server
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/owt-server
Homepage: https://01.org/open-webrtc-toolkit
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: webrtc, streaming, mcu, sfu, video-conferencing
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-10-23T03:20:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2735, "days_push": 679, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1156, forks 388 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:48.119253+00:00)

## What it is
Open WebRTC Toolkit Media Server (formerly MediaServer) is a scalable SFU+MCU server for WebRTC video conferencing and streaming, with real-time transcoding and media analytics plugins. Intel has discontinued the project, citing known security escapes, and no longer accepts patches.

## Use cases
- build a self-hosted video conferencing server
- scale one WebRTC stream to many viewers
- transcode WebRTC streams to HLS or RTMP
- run real-time analytics on live video streams
- mix multiple HD video streams into one
- stream video over RTSP and MPEG-DASH

## When to choose
- you need an SFU/MCU with WebRTC, RTMP, HLS, and DASH support and accept unmaintained software
- you want Intel-optimized transcoding on Intel CPUs and can pin/fork the code

## When to avoid
- you need security patches or active maintenance - the project is officially discontinued with known security escapes
- you want a supported WebRTC SFU - prefer actively maintained alternatives like LiveKit, mediasoup, or Jitsi
- you need non-Linux production deployment - builds target Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7.6

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: video-processing, streaming, websocket, http-server, middleware
- domain: web-development, media
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: webrtc, mcu, sfu, video-conferencing, media-server, transcoding, discontinued, intel, video, real-time, linux, docker, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- open-webrtc-toolkit/owt-server (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:48.119253+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:32:08.914142+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/open-webrtc-toolkit/owt-server (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:48.119253+00:00, sha 1d54f69d41b4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.