If anyone is using/testing WebRTC I would love to hear how it is working for them :) I am hoping Simulcast makes a impact with smaller streamers/site operators.
* Cheaper servers. More competition and I want to see people running their own servers.
* Better video quality. Encoding from source is going to be better then transcoding.
* No more bad servers. Send video to your audience and server isn't able to do modification/surveillance with E2E Encryption via WebRTC.
* Better Latency. No more time lost transcoding. I love low latency streaming where people are connected to community. Not just blasting one-way video.
You can try it out at https://b.siobud.com to see if you like it first. It if fits your needs then go for the self host :) I run my instance on Hetzner
I want to add more features to it, but I have been focused on OBS mostly lately. If you have any ideas/needs that would make it work for you and your friends I would love to hear! Join the discord and would love to chat.
What I want to do next is make a 're-broadcast feature'. So friends can stream to it + hang out. When they are ready they hit a button and then goes to Twitch/YouTube etc...
OBS is a great solution if you're on a budget or doing very simple streams, but I really urge anybody who is serious about live streaming professional shows to check out vMix. It's an incredible piece of software that is versatile and packed full of so many features professional broadcasts need all baked in.
In OBS, add a new "Source". Which choice you use will depend on your operating system, but on macOS they're using the built-in APIs in the OS to do the captures. I think on Linux and Windows it's "Application Capture" or "Window Capture". Choose your Zoom meeting window. Mess with the size/position as you please, and hit record. The OOBE setup that OBS takes you through on first launch should choose reasonable settings for output and audio pickup, but do a test recording first in your Personal Room and see if its picking up everything right. At least on Linux/Windows I don't think anything special needs to be done to pick up Desktop Audio. On macOS, you might need to add a "macOS Audio Capture" source as well.
I use OBS all the time in the opposite direction, using the Virtual Cam plugin to serve video and content to a Zoom share. I have kinda draft of a walkthrough of my setup, with some explaination of like, the hierarchy of things and terms in the UI and how it all mixes together, that I haven't published but if there is a dearth of good basic setup docs for stuff it might light a fire under my ass to actually publish what I have and add some stuff for recording.
* Cheaper servers. More competition and I want to see people running their own servers.
* Better video quality. Encoding from source is going to be better then transcoding.
* No more bad servers. Send video to your audience and server isn't able to do modification/surveillance with E2E Encryption via WebRTC.
* Better Latency. No more time lost transcoding. I love low latency streaming where people are connected to community. Not just blasting one-way video.
If you want more control over your video quality/capture it's nice to not have to use your browser. Trade off is its way harder to setup.
Context here is just self-hosting my own site for friends to stream to friends (instead of whatever we squeeze out of Discord).
The WebRTC work sounds awesome, would like to try it out.
You can try it out at https://b.siobud.com to see if you like it first. It if fits your needs then go for the self host :) I run my instance on Hetzner
I want to add more features to it, but I have been focused on OBS mostly lately. If you have any ideas/needs that would make it work for you and your friends I would love to hear! Join the discord and would love to chat.
What I want to do next is make a 're-broadcast feature'. So friends can stream to it + hang out. When they are ready they hit a button and then goes to Twitch/YouTube etc...
https://github.com/phkahler/obs-studio/tree/eq8
I should rebase that...
BTW they do not want it upstream for whatever reasons. I'm not complaining, I get it. But some of us like this built-in so I'm keeping it around.
I wish their website had a getting started guide for this purpose but I haven't found one.
I use OBS all the time in the opposite direction, using the Virtual Cam plugin to serve video and content to a Zoom share. I have kinda draft of a walkthrough of my setup, with some explaination of like, the hierarchy of things and terms in the UI and how it all mixes together, that I haven't published but if there is a dearth of good basic setup docs for stuff it might light a fire under my ass to actually publish what I have and add some stuff for recording.