www/owncast 0.2.1_17 FreeBSD

Self-hosted streaming service written in Go

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-10-20
Commit: d81b7ba3c3
License: MIT
Categories: www
Package size: 26482.5 KiB, 109622.5 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.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

www/owncast

0.2.1_17

DragonFly

www/owncast

0.0.7

HardenedBSD

www/owncast

0.2.1_15

GhostBSD

www/owncast

0.2.1_15

Install

Binary package:

pkg install owncast

From the ports tree:

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

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	owncast>0:www/owncast

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

0.2.1_16

0.2.1_4

0.2.1_16

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

0.2.1_16

n/a

0.2.1_3

0.2.1_16

FreeBSD:15:latest

0.2.1_16

n/a

0.2.1_4

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

0.2.1_16

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

0.2.1_15

0.2.1_16

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Runtime 1

ffmpeg : multimedia/ffmpeg

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 1

lang/go127

Run dependencies 60

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES: cpe go:modules
Service scripts: owncast

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

Files

pkg-plist 613

@dir www/owncast/backup
@dir www/owncast/data
@dir www/owncast/hls
@dir www/owncast/webroot/hls
sbin/owncast
www/owncast/LICENSE
www/owncast/README.md
www/owncast/VERSION
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/LICENSE.md
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobattention.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobaww.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobblewobble.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobcheer.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobcry.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobdancer.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobgift.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobgiggle.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobparty.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobsleep.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobthinking.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/ablobwave.gif
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobangry.png
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobaww.png
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobdancer.png
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www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobscream.png
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobthanks.png
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobthinking.png
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobwave.png
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobyes.png
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/blob/blobyum.png
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/conigliolo96/LICENSE.md
www/owncast/static/img/emoji/conigliolo96/conigliolo1.gif
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File

Size

SHA256

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Commit history 6

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-20 d81b7ba3c3 Dag-Erling Smørgrav various: Bump Go ports for Go 1.26.10 / 1.27.3

2026-10-08 031fc6bfbf Dag-Erling Smørgrav various: Bump Go ports

2026-09-03 dd0905142a Adam Weinberger many: Bump go ports for 1.26.8 and 1.27.1

2026-08-19 4867821cd6 Dag-Erling Smørgrav various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.14 / 1.26.7

2026-08-14 6d39dcf04e Dag-Erling Smørgrav various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.13 / 1.26.6

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