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

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

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

This is really great. I've seen so many of these "self-hosted live video streaming" sites show up here and this is the first one that show the actual backend code. Usually they're just web frontends to some video streaming website. Questions:

-[0] How widely deployed is this stack (specifically nginx rtmp/vod) around the live-streaming industry?

-[1] You listed under the Feature that it support "Pay-per-view" and "Pay-per-minute" -- how exactly is that enforced if the playback is just regular HLS? (Are you checking every single request for a .TS segment in Django?)

-[2] VOD/Recording is really cool but has enormous storage costs. How does BoltStream handle the long-term storage of streams?

Edit: re [1]

It looks like there's a somewhat sophisticated mechanism [here](https://github.com/benwilber/boltstream/blob/master/ansible/...) that's just checking the requests for the encryption key instead of every single request for the MPEG-TS segment.

This is awesome though. Thanks for sharing it!

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

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Post by darig »

artfulhippo wrote: post #2

Have you performed any load testing or measured performance and scalability?

> Have you performed any load testing or measured performance and scalability?

Considering this software enables "Pay-per-minute" private video sessions, you could probably find better phrasing than "load testing".

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

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Post by dayjah »

Serendipity is great! I was literally thinking about this today with a view to improving the personal training space.

I’ve a few friends who are personal trainers, they all complain about the “zoom centric” solution where by as a client you dial in to a zoom call, and have to move a phone, iPad, whatever, around a bunch so the PT can see you.

My mates have suggested that what they really want is to be able to select from a range of views while a client performs some maneuver.

While this doesn’t solve the upstart cost (multiple cameras, bandwidth, etc), it’s cool that it does solve the “hard part” of working out how to stream to some common end point that allows the viewer (the PT) to select the best view.

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

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Post by keyle »

It's a chicken and egg problem where there is not much point in building your own whizbang streaming platform and have no one come to it.

Twitch is getting increasingly ad-nnoying and you can _ad_ barely _ad_ watch _ad_ it _ad_ an _ad_ ymore.

That said that's still where you get the viewers and that's what people will pick. The ad-revenue sharing being the carrot here which will probably mean it's going to be successful for a lot longer.

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

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

Peertube is getting live streaming capability.... actually you can check it right now on https://live.canard.tube/videos/watch/5e7b916e-c5b5-4996-a97...

The p2p part of it is the real nice deal and these guys are actually making something good here.

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