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This space is starting to heat up, and I would like to take the best open-source projects as well as the paid versions out there (dacast, wowza, etc) and do a full-on comparison.
I'm in the market for this software (and I'm not shy of paying).
Why HLS instead of DASH + MSE? Isn't HLS Apple only?
Cool! Some thoughts from a former Twitch engineer: - Probably the hardest part of running these things is managing outbound bandwidth costs. You'll need to either limit inbound bitrate or transcode video down to a manageable rate, or else you'll quickly spend a lot of money on shipping 4k video for people. - Right now, your nginx hosts both do ingest and playback, if I understand it right. You might want to separate…
Having worked with AWS IVS, which is using the same infrastructure design as Twitch (or the other way around), it only accepts RTMP (well RTMPS to be fair) as an input. To me it would seem that the industry is going the opposite way, and doubling down on RTMP. An RTMP connector is planned on the Chime SDK as well (a framework & infrastructure based on Chime to create your own custom meetings), to be able to stream th…
Sorry, but it is baby solution please compare with https://github.com/fastogt/fastocloud and on Github limited version. Good luck.
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Having worked with AWS IVS, which is using the same infrastructure design as Twitch (or the other way around), it only accepts RTMP (well RTMPS to be fair) as an input. To me it would seem that the industry is going the opposite way, and doubling down on RTMP. An RTMP connector is planned on the Chime SDK as well (a framework & infrastructure based on Chime to create your own custom meetings), to be able to stream th…
Is 4-5s latency considered good? It’s an awful experience for video chat.
To clarify, the 4-5s delay I'm talking about is for IVS, which is a live streaming solution, and doesn't have anything to do with video chat. It has a RTMP input on which you send a video stream, re-encodes it and then distribute it as an HLS stream. And getting sub 5s latency on an HLS stream is pretty fast.
I brought up Chime and video chat mostly as an example on how AWS is pushing for RTMP to connect those services.
Sorry, but it is baby solution please compare with https://github.com/fastogt/fastocloud and on Github limited version. Good luck.
This comment alone makes me think twice about using whatever it is that you're "selling", but more importantly, what are you actually selling? The github page looks impressive, but the giant "PRO" links make me worried. They don't actually link anywhere useful, so I'm left wondering if this is another one of those "we open-sourced our backend but if you want to actually use it without a year's worth of reverse-engine…
Cool! Some thoughts from a former Twitch engineer: - Probably the hardest part of running these things is managing outbound bandwidth costs. You'll need to either limit inbound bitrate or transcode video down to a manageable rate, or else you'll quickly spend a lot of money on shipping 4k video for people. - Right now, your nginx hosts both do ingest and playback, if I understand it right. You might want to separate…
This might be a good time to mention that Hetzner (where I host) has a lot of unmetered gigabit options. I'm not affiliated, just a happy (long term) customer.
Sadly Germany has some laws that censor certain types of harmless content, so that's one downside, but that's not Hetzner's fault, just something to consider depending on what content you intend to host.
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They probably found that people streaming were not clicking the button often enough.
It is amazing how fast these things change. Less than a decade ago when asked about ads and sustainability, the folks at Justin tv said the cost per stream viewer isn’t very high and one ad every hour more than covers all costs. Granted this was before high definition high frame rate became the norm but still...
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Having worked with AWS IVS, which is using the same infrastructure design as Twitch (or the other way around), it only accepts RTMP (well RTMPS to be fair) as an input. To me it would seem that the industry is going the opposite way, and doubling down on RTMP. An RTMP connector is planned on the Chime SDK as well (a framework & infrastructure based on Chime to create your own custom meetings), to be able to stream th…
Is 4-5s latency considered good? It’s an awful experience for video chat.
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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…