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Flumotion Streaming Media Server

Website: http://www.flumotion.net/
Licence: LGPL

Open source live- and on-demand streaming and transcoding platform based on Gstreamer. Supports WebM, VP8 and lots of hardware.

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FFMedia Broadcast

Website: http://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/
Licence: GNU GPL

Customized FFMpeg distribution for broadcast usage. Supports a wide range of broadcast standard video formats like MXF, XDCAM and more

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OpenCaster

Website: http://www.avalpa.com/the-key-values/15-free-software/33-opencaster
Gighub: https://github.com/caghan/opencaster
Licence: GNU GPL

OpenCaster is a collection of softwares for Linux system to play out and multiplex MPEG2 transport stream format.

Use-cases:
MHP, MHEG5, HbbTv and others interactive tv standards object carousel broadcast
Playout of locally stored, offline encoded audio and video for non-live tv and radio stations
Multiplexing of input multicasted UDP transport stream to output multicasted UDP transport stream
VOD system based on mpeg2 transport stream over IP or over DVB for walled garden network like hotels with coax or ethernet.
DVB-SSU update, Data casting, Teletext generator, IP encapsualtor, PSI/SI generator, EPG generator

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CasparCG

Website: http://www.casparcg.com/
Licence: GNU GPL

CaspagCG is a great live broadcast graphics server using adobe Flash graphics / templates. It can also be used for video playout.

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Open Video Toaster

Website: http://www.discreetfx.com/openvideotoasterdownload.html
Licence:

Open Video Toaster is a retro, open source, entry level, easy to use beginners video editing/effects/switcher package

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Open Playout

Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openplayout/
Licence:

Live video mixer for linux.

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TeleKast

Website: http://telekast.sourceforge.net/
Licence: Mozilla Public License

Open Source Teleprompter software. Can be used to prompt text and various types of cues.

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Blender

Website: http://www.blender.org/
Licence: GNU GPL

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.

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EditShare Lightworks

Website: http://www.lwks.com/
Licence: unknown

Free non-linear video editor. Not open-source as far as I can see.

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OpenDesk Newsroom

Website: http://www.opendesknewsroom.com/
Licence: BSD License

Newsroom software for small radio of TV stations. Still under develpment.

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