Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to stream live video, privately?

7 points by aneeqdhk 4y ago ↗ HN

I'm planning to run some sessions online - mostly for free. I would need the latency to be quite low (so that I can interact with the live chat in near-realtime) and also not discoverable or accessible outside my domain (rules out YouTube).

I would like to embed the live session on my domain.

What tools or apps can I use? (open to self hosting as well)

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olfe 4y ago ↗

If you're open to self hosting I would look into bigbluebutton. It's a open source web conference service, easy to install, realtime chat with presentation, screen share and external media support. Clients run completely in browser so no extra software needed there

giuliomagnifico 4y ago ↗

OBS Ninja: https://vdo.ninja/v5/

stop50 4y ago ↗

Matrix just got video streams, but i don't know if it is usable in that way. nginx has an rtmp module for selfmade streaming. A rtmp endpoint takes the media from your pc and saves it to disk and another part of nginx takes it and makes it available over http hls/dash. Of course you could use rtmp itself for streaming, so that it acts as an bouncer.

bobdvb 4y ago ↗

Commercial services: * Mux.com * Vimeo Pro

Open source: https://github.com/cannonbeach/ott-packager

If self-hosting, ensure you're using a CDN, serving video from a web server to an audience will eat bandwidth and compute in no time.