Shameless plug, if anyone here streams check out https://owncast.online/. If you feel comfortable setting up a docker container you can stream on the fediverse, and people on mastodon/other services can sub to you. (You can follow me if you like at https://owncast.scrubbles.tech/ )
Thanks, I knew I was skirting the rule, but I’m on a constant strive to convince people to move to fediverse alternatives. Appreciate the exception, and won’t make a habit of it.
This was an interesting question, so I took a quick dive in the docs, it seems it has an S3 integration to help with it, and some comments on the various supported services
As everything, a big “it depends”. Each viewer will eat more bandwidth, but you control the compression and qualities. For me, I have an unlimited fiber uplink, so it’s quite easy for me to self host. If someone were more bandwidth constrained, then hosting it on a cloud that then has much more egress may help - at a cost of course, but then your own personal internet would only have the one outgoing stream. Finding a provider that has super cheap egress traffic would probably help
If you have a data cap… well… not a lot you can do.
Shameless plug, if anyone here streams check out https://owncast.online/. If you feel comfortable setting up a docker container you can stream on the fediverse, and people on mastodon/other services can sub to you. (You can follow me if you like at https://owncast.scrubbles.tech/ )
I’m trying to open your link but I get a Lemmy page saying this link does not exist. Is it a voyager app thing?
That’s so weird, the markdown processor got confused. I changed the link
Works for me on mlem
I’m on voyager as well and both links opened fine in app for me
Advertising, yes but in this case I’ll allow it
Thanks, I knew I was skirting the rule, but I’m on a constant strive to convince people to move to fediverse alternatives. Appreciate the exception, and won’t make a habit of it.
Doesn’t this take up quite a lot of bandwidth if you have a lot of viewers?
This was an interesting question, so I took a quick dive in the docs, it seems it has an S3 integration to help with it, and some comments on the various supported services
More info here: https://owncast.online/docs/storage/
Still, depending on the chosen provider and the amount of viewers, it could be quite costly
As everything, a big “it depends”. Each viewer will eat more bandwidth, but you control the compression and qualities. For me, I have an unlimited fiber uplink, so it’s quite easy for me to self host. If someone were more bandwidth constrained, then hosting it on a cloud that then has much more egress may help - at a cost of course, but then your own personal internet would only have the one outgoing stream. Finding a provider that has super cheap egress traffic would probably help
If you have a data cap… well… not a lot you can do.
There’s also Peertube with the chat plugin if bandwidth is a concern