Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform

Post by eropple » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 5:27 PM UTC

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Well, to be fair, there isn't a clear winner. Maybe SRT, but it doesn't have much platform support itself, and its spec is pretty strange. I get weird Adobe flashbacks about it, since it seems so heavily pushed by Haivision, and it's really made for a different use case - it's made for big broadcasters like ESPN and TV networks, not for web startups. The current motion seems to be towards hacking WebRTC to accommodat…

I work at Mux, though I don't have any special sauce on this. Instead, as a small broadcaster (Twitch and the occasional event--I ran Demuxed this year from my home office!), SRT is a godsend . I throw video around my studio all the time, because NDI has weird frame timing issues and sucks up a lot of bandwidth, and I don't always need real-time video. I would absolutely love it as a predictable, latency-configurable…