NymphCast
Turn your choice of Linux-capable hardware into an audio and video source for a television or powered speakers (alternative to Chromecast).
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Jan 2026.
Comparisons in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming: Plex Pass alternatives.
At a glance
NymphCast quick facts
- Health score
- 24/100 STALE
- Stars
- 2,571
- Last commit
- 10 months ago (Jan 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.2-alpha0, Nov 2024
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Repository Structure · Getting Started · Multi-Room Playback · Building From Source · Developer's Guide · SDK · License · Donate."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
NymphCast scores 24/100, #16 of 17 in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.2-alpha0, 2 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 2,571 stars add 13.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
v0.2-alpha0 released 2 years ago
- Stars 13.6 / 20
2.6k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 14
- Last 12 months
- 10 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #16 of 17 tools in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming by health , between üWave (#15) and Icecast 2 (#17) .
Details
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Platforms | C++ |
| Latest release | v0.2-alpha0 · 2 years ago |
| Stars | 2,571 |
| Open issues | 23 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | MayaPosch/NymphCast ↗ |
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NymphCast: common questions
Is NymphCast still maintained?
NymphCast had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 10 months ago; the latest tagged release, v0.2-alpha0, is from 2 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.