# Install srt with Homebrew

Secure Reliable Transport. Version 1.5.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-20.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:srt
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install srt
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:srt
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.6
- **Source summary:** Secure Reliable Transport
- **Homepage:** <https://www.srtalliance.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Haivision/srt>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-20T16:27:49Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- srt-ffplay (alias)
- srt-file-transmit (alias)
- srt-live-transmit (alias)
- srt-tunnel (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.6
## Project history and usage

SRT, short for Secure Reliable Transport, is an open-source transport protocol and CLI/tooling ecosystem for low-latency video, audio, and bulk-data transmission over unreliable networks.

### Project history

Haivision made SRT publicly available as open source at NAB Show 2017, positioning it as a way to deliver secure, reliable, low-latency video over the public Internet. The GitHub repository was created in April 2017, and the project published early 1.2.x releases later that year.

The project documentation frames SRT as a UDP-based transport with AES encryption, ARQ loss recovery, optional FEC, rendezvous/firewall traversal, and later socket-group bonding features. The repository includes sample command-line tools such as srt-live-transmit and srt-file-transmit, which helped make the protocol practical for engineers testing live contribution workflows.

### Adoption history

SRT grew through the SRT Alliance and through packaging across Unix-like package managers. The upstream README advertises package availability for Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Homebrew, vcpkg, and ConanCenter, while the input package facts also list Brew, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/DNF, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE package names.

### How it is used

CLI users commonly encounter SRT through its sample tools, especially srt-live-transmit for relaying streams, srt-file-transmit for file-style transfer tests, srt-tunnel for tunneling, and srt-ffplay for playback-oriented workflows.

### Why package nerds care

SRT matters to package managers because it is both a C/C++ networking library and a set of useful command-line tools, with optional crypto and media-adjacent integrations that stress build systems across Linux, macOS, Windows, and embedded/video environments.

For package nerds, it is also a good example of a protocol whose adoption is visible through formulae, distro packages, badges, and vendor-neutral interoperability work rather than through a single monolithic application.

### Timeline

- 2017-04: GitHub repository created.
- 2017: Haivision announced open-source availability of SRT at NAB Show.
- 2017-07: v1.2.0 release published.
- 2020: SRT 1.4 introduced packet-filter/FEC work documented in the upstream README.
- 2022: SRT 1.5 introduced socket groups used for connection bonding, as documented by upstream.

### Related projects

- Related tools and surfaces include FFmpeg integrations, srt-live-transmit, srt-file-transmit, srt-tunnel, the SRT Alliance, and the SRT Internet-Draft/RFC work.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/Haivision/srt>
- <https://github.com/Haivision/srt>
- <https://github.com/Haivision/srt/releases>
- <https://srtalliance.org/category/blog-posts/page/7/>
- input.source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/srt.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/srt.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation