Hi:
What do you want to do?
1. Receive a stream? (Video/Audio)
2. Serve a stream ? (video/audio)
3. Or both?
I like VLC best, because I can use it as a streaming server and as a client to receive sound/video. I am not sure whether VLC is in the 8.x repo??
Totem (Videos in Mint) can be used as a streaming client also.