* Cheaper servers. More competition and I want to see people running their own servers.
* Better video quality. Encoding from source is going to be better then transcoding.
* No more bad servers. Send video to your audience and server isn't able to do modification/surveillance with E2E Encryption via WebRTC.
* Better Latency. No more time lost transcoding. I love low latency streaming where people are connected to community. Not just blasting one-way video.
YouTube likely won't support streaming 3440x1440 60FPS video, and while discord technically supports it, they usually compress the footage fairly aggressively once it's sent up to the client, so I'd like to host my own; it only needs to support a few people. I wouldn't mind hosting it so my friends and side project partners can watch me code and play games in high quality.
Then you can forward your lowest quality stream to YouTube with FFmpeg/GStreamer. Hopefully no re-encoding needed!
Context here is just self-hosting my own site for friends to stream to friends (instead of whatever we squeeze out of Discord).
The WebRTC work sounds awesome, would like to try it out.
You can try it out at https://b.siobud.com to see if you like it first. It if fits your needs then go for the self host :) I run my instance on Hetzner
I want to add more features to it, but I have been focused on OBS mostly lately. If you have any ideas/needs that would make it work for you and your friends I would love to hear! Join the discord and would love to chat.
What I want to do next is make a 're-broadcast feature'. So friends can stream to it + hang out. When they are ready they hit a button and then goes to Twitch/YouTube etc...
We ended up just doing a discord screen share, which evaded all the tunnelling/transcoding/etc issues which made us give up on WebRTC.
Can you try Broadcast Box. If that is still too heavy, what could I do to make it better?
If you want more control over your video quality/capture it's nice to not have to use your browser. Trade off is its way harder to setup.
I think the best way to do it today is via a Browser Source. It is hard to get people excited because it is already technically possible.
I will keep working on that PR!
https://github.com/phkahler/obs-studio/tree/eq8
I should rebase that...
BTW they do not want it upstream for whatever reasons. I'm not complaining, I get it. But some of us like this built-in so I'm keeping it around.
BTW I hate needing plug-ins or add-ons for other software too for similar reasons - Gnome comes to mind.
Plus, on a Mac you can't even record your audio using the built in recording solution, you need a third party audio driver for that.
I wish their website had a getting started guide for this purpose but I haven't found one.
I use OBS all the time in the opposite direction, using the Virtual Cam plugin to serve video and content to a Zoom share. I have kinda draft of a walkthrough of my setup, with some explaination of like, the hierarchy of things and terms in the UI and how it all mixes together, that I haven't published but if there is a dearth of good basic setup docs for stuff it might light a fire under my ass to actually publish what I have and add some stuff for recording.
Do you know if your setup is using the new CMIO APIs? Or did you need to set the `legacy-camera-plugins-without-sw-camera-indication` override?
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/support-for-raspberry-p...
Thanks to the api you can do quite complex (or wacky) streams with obs. I don't get the "only very simple streams" argument.
I love and use free software a lot, but vMix blows OBS out of the water for semi-professional video productions.
