Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

Post by dodgepong » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

GRVYDEV wrote: post #2

Welcome 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…

Post by TameAntelope » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 2:17 PM UTC

morsch wrote: post #52

rapsey wrote: post #48

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Why do you need such low latency for live streaming? For the majority of cases 10s latency does not really matter.

We were playing the Jackbox series of games together, the other folks were participating in the game with their phones. There are various minigames with 5-50 second timers, so 10s latency is a lot. Some of the games have a special streaming mode which extends the timers, but not all of them and it's best played with regular timers anyway. Obviously for true action games, you absolutely need sub-second latency, prefer…

Post by gmemstr » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

Xeago wrote: post #70

adrianN wrote: post #69

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Twitch has a low latency mode https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/low-latency-video?language=...

The latency on twitch has been around 4 seconds or 30 seconds. I believe their low-latency doesn’t get quite close to being nu able to collaborate.

Post by morsch » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 2:32 PM UTC

hnlmorg wrote: post #71

morsch wrote: post #67

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They recommend doing it that way, because what else are they going to do, post a tutorial on how to do it via OBS? I don't think so. Maybe Zoom and MS Teams offer(ed) a better fidelity. For one thing, Zoom lets you share desktop audio along with the screen. In fact, apparently these days, Jitsi can do that too, that definitely wasn't possible when I tried it early last year. At that time, at least, the experience OBS…

> They recommend doing it that way, because what else are they going to do, post a tutorial on how to do it via OBS? I don't think so. I think you're being rather unfavourable there. The Jackbox developers have been pretty responsive listening to user feedback in the past. For example Linux support was added after several requests on Steam forums. They've also added other features like subtitles specifically for stre…

Post by GRVYDEV » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 2:35 PM UTC

j1elo wrote: post #78

naikrovek wrote: post #72

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I am also pro-MIT. For me, "freedom" doesn't mean "restricting what users can do." GPL restricts what users can do, and thus restricts freedom in my eyes. Not sure why anyone would care but it seemed like a good time to explain my thoughts on that while agreeing with you. This kind of thing has been needed for some time, so thank you for creating it.

Realize how I oriented my question around how it might affect building an OSS community. A MIT or Apache license might detract contributors, because essentially these licenses say "your contribution is OSS today, but it might end up resulting as unintended free labor that helps build a commercial product of which you won't be part of". However some see GPL licenses as a guarantee that external contributions are actua…