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Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to stream live video, privately?

7 pointsby aneeqdhkalmost 3 years ago
I&#x27;m planning to run some sessions online - mostly for free. I would need the latency to be quite low (so that I can interact with the live chat in near-realtime) and also not discoverable or accessible outside my domain (rules out YouTube).<p>I would like to embed the live session on my domain.<p>What tools or apps can I use? (open to self hosting as well)

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bobdvbalmost 3 years ago
Commercial services: * Mux.com * Vimeo Pro<p>Open source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cannonbeach&#x2F;ott-packager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cannonbeach&#x2F;ott-packager</a><p>If self-hosting, ensure you&#x27;re using a CDN, serving video from a web server to an audience will eat bandwidth and compute in no time.
olfealmost 3 years ago
If you&#x27;re open to self hosting I would look into bigbluebutton. It&#x27;s a open source web conference service, easy to install, realtime chat with presentation, screen share and external media support. Clients run completely in browser so no extra software needed there
stop50almost 3 years ago
Matrix just got video streams, but i don&#x27;t know if it is usable in that way. nginx has an rtmp module for selfmade streaming. A rtmp endpoint takes the media from your pc and saves it to disk and another part of nginx takes it and makes it available over http hls&#x2F;dash. Of course you could use rtmp itself for streaming, so that it acts as an bouncer.
giuliomagnificoalmost 3 years ago
OBS Ninja: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vdo.ninja&#x2F;v5&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vdo.ninja&#x2F;v5&#x2F;</a>