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Show HN: Kickflip – Open Source Live Mobile Video Streaming SDKs

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Re: Show HN: Kickflip – Open Source Live Mobile Video Streaming SDKs

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Post by Mizza »

Hey guys!

Rich from Kickflip here. We've been working really hard on this for a long time and are super happy to get to announce it today.

Kickflip is some really cool tech - we've lowered the cost of mobile video broadcasting by orders of magnitude, and we've opened it up to everybody!

If you've got any questions or feedback, let me know and I'll be happy to answer them.

Thanks very much!

Re: Show HN: Kickflip – Open Source Live Mobile Video Streaming SDKs

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Post by Mizza »

elwell wrote: post #4

"python client source code" link is dead: https://github.com/kickflip/kickflip-docs#api

Nice catch! :)

The python library and client is still work in progress.

Still, I've open sourced the repo so those who are curious can take a peek, although there isn't much worth showing there yet. We'll make a larger announcement when that happens.. there's a lot of stuff we've got planned for the desktop yet.

Here's the fixed link: https://github.com/Kickflip/python-kickflip

Re: Show HN: Kickflip – Open Source Live Mobile Video Streaming SDKs

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Post by Mizza »

elwell wrote: post #5

Besides using FFmpeg, are any novel optimizations/compression being offered?

We actually don't use FFMpeg to do the compression, we use the hardware encoders, so it uses much less CPU. That's how we're able to broadcast at a much better resolution.

It's also bandwidth adaptive streaming, backed by a global CDN, and generates both Live and VOD HLS streams.

But, more importantly, we've designed it in such a way that as a developer, you don't even have to worry about that! The library just exposes a really simple API that does all of the video magic for you.

Re: Show HN: Kickflip – Open Source Live Mobile Video Streaming SDKs

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Post by Mizza »

elwell wrote: post #3

That's actually a double 720-flip, not a kickflip: https://kickflip.io/

Well, that's because we're the only live video broadcasting SDK which can do 720p!

(Ok, it's actually just because it's an awesome trick. The 720p thing is just a coincidence.)

Re: Show HN: Kickflip – Open Source Live Mobile Video Streaming SDKs

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Post by jgh »

Very cool! I've recently open sourced a good portion of my game broadcasting SDK, which now has a few people using it for purely making camera apps to stream to RTMP services. Mine is not nearly as refined as this one, nor do I have any sort of CDN heh.

Congrats guys, looks awesome.

Re: Show HN: Kickflip – Open Source Live Mobile Video Streaming SDKs

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Post by Mizza »

jgh wrote: post #9

Very cool! I've recently open sourced a good portion of my game broadcasting SDK, which now has a few people using it for purely making camera apps to stream to RTMP services. Mine is not nearly as refined as this one, nor do I have any sort of CDN heh. Congrats guys, looks awesome.

Thanks man! I really appreciate it.

All of our streams are HLS rather than RTMP, although we do have RTMP support working in the SDKs, we don't plan on making that a priority product focus right now - HLS and DASH are the future. Kickflip will likely officially support RTMP in the 1.1 versions of the SDKs.

Thanks again for your support!

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