Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
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Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
#2Welcome to Project Lightspeed. This is a project that allows anyone to easily deploy their own sub-second latency live-streaming server. In its current state you can stream from OBS [1] and watch that stream back from any desktop browser.
This has been a super fun project which has taught me more than any other project I have done. It uses Rust, Go and React and can be deployed fairly easily on a very lightweight server. For example, I have been doing my test streams on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet and the CPU usage is at around 20%. Granted not a lot of people are watching however it is more lightweight than a solution such as Janus.
The point of this project is twofold. First I wanted to learn more about WebRTC and real-time communication in general. Second, I wanted to provide a platform where people can setup their own little live-stream environment. Maybe you just want a place where you and some friends can hang out or you are sick of the main-stream platforms.
Anyhow as of writing this post it is v0.1.0 and considered an MVP release. In the coming months I (and hopefully some of you :)) will be adding more features and trying to flesh this out into as much of a full featured platform as possible. Feel free to take a look at the repo and let me know what you all think :)
[1] Open Broadcast Software (OBS): https://obsproject.com/
Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
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Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
#4Welcome to Project Lightspeed. This is a project that allows anyone to easily deploy their own sub-second latency live-streaming server. In its current state you can stream from OBS [1] and watch that stream back from any desktop browser. This has been a super fun project which has taught me more than any other project I have done. It uses Rust, Go and React and can be deployed fairly easily on a very lightweight ser…
A very interesting project, can you elaborate more on how
it is getting sub second latency and why youtube/twitch seem to have more than a few seconds of delay.
Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
#5Welcome to Project Lightspeed. This is a project that allows anyone to easily deploy their own sub-second latency live-streaming server. In its current state you can stream from OBS [1] and watch that stream back from any desktop browser. This has been a super fun project which has taught me more than any other project I have done. It uses Rust, Go and React and can be deployed fairly easily on a very lightweight ser…
Could it be possible to use WebRTC to have listeners become seeders/repeaters so you could have more listener without impacting too much your own CPU ? Something like AceStream.
Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
#6Welcome to Project Lightspeed. This is a project that allows anyone to easily deploy their own sub-second latency live-streaming server. In its current state you can stream from OBS [1] and watch that stream back from any desktop browser. This has been a super fun project which has taught me more than any other project I have done. It uses Rust, Go and React and can be deployed fairly easily on a very lightweight ser…
Thanks for sharing! I was actually just looking for something like this earlier today, can't wait to try it out.
Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
#7Demo link doesn't work.
Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
#8Welcome to Project Lightspeed. This is a project that allows anyone to easily deploy their own sub-second latency live-streaming server. In its current state you can stream from OBS [1] and watch that stream back from any desktop browser. This has been a super fun project which has taught me more than any other project I have done. It uses Rust, Go and React and can be deployed fairly easily on a very lightweight ser…
A very interesting project, can you elaborate more on how it is getting sub second latency and why youtube/twitch seem to have more than a few seconds of delay.
YouTube and twitch use RTMP which operates over TCP. This means that each time we send a packet we need to ensure that it’s been received which adds latency overhead. Lightspeed uses the FTL protocol which operates over udp thus reducing the latency overhead
Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
#9Welcome to Project Lightspeed. This is a project that allows anyone to easily deploy their own sub-second latency live-streaming server. In its current state you can stream from OBS [1] and watch that stream back from any desktop browser. This has been a super fun project which has taught me more than any other project I have done. It uses Rust, Go and React and can be deployed fairly easily on a very lightweight ser…
Could it be possible to use WebRTC to have listeners become seeders/repeaters so you could have more listener without impacting too much your own CPU ? Something like AceStream.
Yup! You could develop a web of WebRTC relays
Re: Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
#10Demo link doesn't work.
As of right now there isn’t a demo. I need to determine the most cost effective way to stream 24/7 then I will put one up