GoCast #

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

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.

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.

To get started with your own deployment, refer to the deployment section.