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It's layers. Docker is better than nothing, but a VM is better still, and even better is docker on a dedicated VM on dedicated hardware on a dedicated network segment.
That's sacrificing an awful lot of latency cost for each transcode job though.
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Wow, you are not wrong. I just asked Gemini "how can I use ffmpeg to apply a lower third image to a video?" and it gave a very detailed explanation of using an overlay filter. Have not tested its answer yet but on its face it looks legit.
It could very well be legit, but if you "have not tested its answer yet" the fact that it can generate something that looks plausible doesn't really tell you much. Generating plausible-sounding but incorrect answers is like the #1 most common failure mode for LLMs.
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What sort of infrastructure do you need for scaling WebRTC multicast? Are we entering an era where you don't need Amazon's budget to host something like Twitch?
Yes we are :) When OBS merges the PR [0] things are going to get very interesting. Before you needed to run expensive transcoding jobs to be able to support heterogenous clients. Once we get Simulcast the only cost will be bandwidth. With Hetzner I am paying $1 a TB. With AV1 or H265 + Simulcast I am getting 4K for hundreds of users on just a single server. We will have some growing pains, but I am not giving up unti…
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Are there any video players which can play a webrtc stream? Last I checked, VLC and other popular tools still don’t support it.
I'd guess VLC will get support for it soon now that ffmpeg supports it.
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Are there any video players which can play a webrtc stream? Last I checked, VLC and other popular tools still don’t support it.
That's impossible, VLC supports everything. If VLC doesn't support it, it doesn't exist.
Plex and ffmpeg, perfectly fine. VLC is not a fan.
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Yes we are :) When OBS merges the PR [0] things are going to get very interesting. Before you needed to run expensive transcoding jobs to be able to support heterogenous clients. Once we get Simulcast the only cost will be bandwidth. With Hetzner I am paying $1 a TB. With AV1 or H265 + Simulcast I am getting 4K for hundreds of users on just a single server. We will have some growing pains, but I am not giving up unti…
I have found it's hard to get past ~18Gbps on commodity servers and ~90Gbps on high spec, carefully specced servers. I presume you find the same?
So if you've got ~18 Gbps of upload bandwidth you're ready for 10,000-20,000 viewers.
I am so incredibly excited for WebRTC broadcasting. I wrote up some reasons in the Broadcast Box[0] README and the OBS PR [1] Now that GStreamer, OBS and FFmpeg all have WHIP support we finally have a ubiquitous protocol for video broadcasting for all platforms (Mobile, Web, Embedded, Broadcasting Software etc...) I have been working on Open Source + WebRTC Broadcasting for years now. This is a huge milestone :) [0]…
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Are there any video players which can play a webrtc stream? Last I checked, VLC and other popular tools still don’t support it.
That's impossible, VLC supports everything. If VLC doesn't support it, it doesn't exist.
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LLMs really know how to use it incredibly well. You can ask them to do just about any video related task and they can give you an ffmpeg one liner to do it.
Wow, you are not wrong. I just asked Gemini "how can I use ffmpeg to apply a lower third image to a video?" and it gave a very detailed explanation of using an overlay filter. Have not tested its answer yet but on its face it looks legit.
Yesterday I asked it for a command to take a 14 minute video, play the first 10 seconds in realtime, and rest at 10x speed. The ffmpeg CLI syntax always seemed to be able to do anything if you could keep it all in you head, but I was still surprised to see that ffmpeg could do it all in one command.