NymphCast is an open-source and cross-platform multimedia streaming server that lets you stream audio and video over a network. To use NymphCast on macOS, you need to follow the steps described below.
Homebrew is a popular package manager for macOS that will allow you to install the required packages. To install Homebrew, open Terminal and enter the following commands:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Press Enter
and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
NymphCast requires a few packages to be installed before it can run correctly. To install these packages, you can use Homebrew in Terminal with the following commands:
brew install libtool automake autoconf libtool pkg-config ffmpeg libogg libvorbis yasm
Press Enter
and wait for the packages to install.
Visit the NymphCast website at http://nyanko.ws/nymphcast.php and download the macOS version of NymphCast.
Extract the downloaded ZIP file to a convenient location on your computer, such as the Applications
folder.
Open Terminal and navigate to the nymphcast_macos
folder using the cd
command. Then, run the following commands to make the NymphCast binary executable:
chmod +x nymphcast
Finally, run NymphCast by entering the following command:
./nymphcast
NymphCast is now running on your macOS machine.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed NymphCast on macOS. You can now stream media content to your client devices using NymphCast. Enjoy!
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