BSD Ports

www/owncast 0.0.7 DragonFly

Self-hosted streaming service written in Go

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
MIT
Categories
www
Package size
10572.8 KiB, 31429.4 KiB installed

Description

A self-hosted minimalistic streaming service written in Go.

It's designed for a single streamer to host his own streams. You can utilize S3 compatible object storage to distribute your stream and lower your own bandwidth needs.

WWW: https://owncast.online

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.2.1, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlywww/owncast0.0.7none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDwww/owncast0.2.1_17 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-20
HardenedBSDwww/owncast0.2.1_15 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDwww/owncast0.2.1_15 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install owncast

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/www/owncast && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

You can activate your owncast server by typing
sysrc owncast_enable="YES"
service owncast start

Your server is listening via http on port 8080, just point your browser to
http://<ip_address>:8080/admin to configure it (default user is admin / abc123).

It is recommended to use a reverse proxy (eg. nginx) to serve your owncast
instance via https - see https://owncast.online/docs/sslproxies/ for more info