Thank you for your interest in CasparCG Server, a professional software used to play out and record professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs. CasparCG Server has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006.
The CasparCG Server works on Windows and Linux.
Download a release from (http://casparcg.com/downloads). Alternatively, newer testing versions can be downloaded from (http://builds.casparcg.com) or built from source
Install any optional non-GPL modules
Configure the server by editing the self-documented "casparcg.config" file in a text editor.
casparcg_auto_restart.bat
, or casparcg.exe
and scanner.exe
separately.run.sh
program or use tools/linux/start_docker.sh to run within docker (documentation is at the top of the file).Connect to the Server from a client software, such as the "CasparCG Client" which is available as a separate download.
The most up-to-date documentation is always available at https://github.com/CasparCG/help/wiki
Ask questions in the forum: https://casparcgforum.org/
Common problems you may encounter when running on newer and unsupported Ubuntu editions:
HTML producer freezes and/or throws "Fontconfig error" message Add below line to run.sh script: export FONTCONFIG_PATH=/etc/fonts
HTML producer throws "GTK theme error" message Install gnome-themes-standard package: sudo apt install gnome-themes-standard
Error while loading libcgmanager.so.0 Install central cgroup manager daemon (client library): sudo apt install libcgmanager0
Error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4 Install GNOME configuration database system: sudo apt -y install libgconf2-4
lib/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found cd your_casparcg_directory/lib/ sudo mv libz.so.1 libz.so.1.old sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1
See BUILDING for instructions on how to build the CasparCG Server from source manually.
CasparCG Server is distributed under the GNU General Public License GPLv3 or higher, see LICENSE for details.
CasparCG Server uses the following third party libraries: