Audio and podcasting

Riverside alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI1,055GPL-3.0Browser-based video editor that runs ffmpeg.wasm for local, in-browser media processing and editing.Open on GitHub alyssaxuu/screenity18,474GPL-3.0Browser screen and camera recorder extension for capturing video and audio with a privacy-focused UI.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Ability to reliably scale live webinars to ~10,000 viewers
SOC2 / ISO27001 compliance and audit-ready controls
Deep integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo) and single-sign-on (SSO)
Polished, production-grade AI features and at-scale media processing pipeline
Unlimited hosted storage and enterprise-level reliability/SLAs

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Riverside, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.