LABS
Freetur Labs — open source / industry-grade infrastructure

Open pipes. No locks. For everyone.

The open-source infrastructure behind FREETUR — media pipeline, preservation vault, loudness tooling, metadata interchange, windowing and edge delivery. Spec-complete, conformance-tested, and better than the closed stacks it replaces. Free forever, for everyone.

Explore the stack
Apache-2.0 Self-hostable ZERO TELEMETRY Spec-first
SMPTE ST 2067 IMF
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ISO/IEC 23000-19 CMAF
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RFC 8216 HLS
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ISO 23009-1 MPEG-DASH
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ITU-R BS.1770-4
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EBU R128
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ITU-R BS.2076 ADM
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DDEX ERN 4.3
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ISO 3166-1
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RFC 9000 QUIC
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RFC 8446 TLS 1.3
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RFC 8493 BagIt
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FIPS 180-4 SHA-256
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SMPTE ST 2084 PQ
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AOM AV1
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JSON Schema 2020-12
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SMPTE ST 2067 IMF
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ISO/IEC 23000-19 CMAF
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RFC 8216 HLS
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ISO 23009-1 MPEG-DASH
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ITU-R BS.1770-4
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EBU R128
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ITU-R BS.2076 ADM
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DDEX ERN 4.3
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ISO 3166-1
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RFC 9000 QUIC
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RFC 8446 TLS 1.3
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RFC 8493 BagIt
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FIPS 180-4 SHA-256
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SMPTE ST 2084 PQ
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AOM AV1
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JSON Schema 2020-12
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— 001 / LABS

Free pipes.
Open specs.
No gatekeepers.

The same rails we run, published in the open. Freetur Labs ships the open-source infrastructure behind FREETUR — pipelines, vaults, tooling and delivery, every one of them industry-grade: spec-complete, conformance-tested, and benchmarked better than the closed stack it replaces.

Built to power the free independent future — infrastructure anyone can fork, audit and self-host, so that no platform, board or landlord can ever hold the culture hostage.

Apache-2.0
Self-hostable
Zero telemetry
Spec-first
— Freetur Labs / six projects, all open

Six projects.
All open.

Production-grade repos with CI, docs and conformance suites. No CLAs, no capture.

01PIPE

freepipe

Ingest, validate, transcode, package and publish — the open media pipeline that replaces closed encoding farms.

IMF App2eCMAFMXF OP1aAV1 · HEVC
Apache-2.0 · Rust
02VAULT

vaultd

Write-once preservation daemon. Content-addressed raw vault with independent checksums and audit trails.

BagIt RFC 8493PREMISSHA-256RFC 3161
Apache-2.0 · Go
03LOUD

loudfork

Loudness, true-peak and spatial audio toolkit — measure, normalise and certify every deliverable.

BS.1770-4EBU R128-1 dBTPADM BWF
Apache-2.0 · C11
04META

specform

Rights and metadata interchange — one schema, validated round-trips to every registry and platform.

DDEX ERN 4.3ISRC · ISWCJSON SchemaSPDX 3.0
Apache-2.0 · TypeScript
05WIN

openwin

Windowing engine: territory, window and price rules compiled from one signed, declarative source of truth.

ISO 3166-1ISO 4217RFC 3339Ed25519
Apache-2.0 · Go
06EDGE

openrelay

Low-latency edge delivery — CMAF chunked streaming, encrypted manifests, no CDN lock-in.

LL-HLSMPEG-DASHHTTP/3 · TLS 1.3AES-128-GCM
Apache-2.0 · Rust
Apache-2.0 for everything
Fork it, ship it
Docs + CI included
— Conformance / what we implement

Spec-first.
Always.

Every deliverable validated against published standards — no proprietary formats, no mystery codecs.

Packaging
SMPTE ST 2067-21 · IMF App2eST 379-2 · MXFISO/IEC 23000-19 · CMAF
Streaming
RFC 8216 · HLSLL-HLSISO 23009-1 · MPEG-DASHDASH-IF IOP
Video
AOM AV1HEVC Main10ProRes 4444 XQH.264 High
HDR
SMPTE ST 2084 · PQST 2086 · masteringST 2094-10 · HDR10+ARIB STD-B67 · HLG
Audio
ITU-R BS.1770-4EBU R128 · −23 LUFSBS.2076 · ADMOpus
Metadata
DDEX ERN 4.3ISRC · ISWC · ISNIJSON Schema 2020-12SPDX 3.0
Transport
HTTP/3 · RFC 9000TLS 1.3 · RFC 8446AES-128-GCM
Archive
BagIt · RFC 8493PREMISSHA-256 · FIPS 180-4RFC 3161 timestamps
Rights
ISO 3166-1ISO 4217RFC 3339 · UTCEd25519 signatures
— Signal report / labs metrics

Open by
default.

Everything the Labs publishes, in the open — measured, not marketed.

6
Open-Source Projects
Pipeline, vault, audio, metadata, windowing and edge
42
Standards Implemented
SMPTE, ISO/IEC, IETF, ITU-R, EBU and DDEX specifications
100%
Source Open
Apache-2.0 — fork it, audit it, self-host it
0
Telemetry Endpoints
No phone-home, no trackers, no behavioural harvest
LABS
Open infrastructure / built in public

Fork it. Ship it. Keep it free.

The same rails we run — in the open, for anyone building a culture that refuses permission.

See the spec matrix
Management management@freetur.com
Co-Founder & CEO priyanshu@freetur.com
Co-Founder & COO ayushman@freetur.com
Support support@freetur.com
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