Live streaming

[fbartels]

Support for live streams has been merged a few days ago. Once there is a release with it peertube, would be a lot more interesting for me.

Edit: link to pr https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/pull/3250

[girish]

I went looking for more info and found that https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/pull/3250 is the PR that implemented this.

[fbartels]

@girish oh sorry. I meant to include the link.

[rmdes]

@fbartels can't wait to try this out too, will perhaps finally motivate me to work on my own video learning video channel !

[robi]

what's it like?

easier than YT streaming?

[fbartels]

@robi Looking at https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5180488/98519952-be0b6a00-2271-11eb-98c7-145ba83fa9a2.png this seems comparable to how its done on Youtube.

[rmdes]

Similar indeed to the experience on Facebook, Youtube or even Restream.io

[robi]

@fbartels Hmm, so how does one access that live private URL:port from the outside?

[fbartels]

@robi the screenshot was provided by the author of the pr and likely shows a local development environment. For a production deployment it would need to listen on a public interface (not sure if you can proxy rtmp streams in nginx on port 443).

[jimcavoli]

@fbartels perhaps if using the RTMPT variant, but of course streaming is generally RTMP/RTMPS as shown in the PR, not RTMPT. So yeah, probably needs an extra port, but that's a pretty trivial thing to do Cloudron-wise on the box. No real benefit to the added wrapping layer of RTMPT, unless you really need it for firewall traversal, but I see little point to adding that overhead, even optionally, to the packaged app. There's already plenty of apps that present an extra related service on another port, so the simpler solution will probably be best.

[marcusquinn]

Any clue if this would enable "webinars" to be streamed and keep the recordings for people to view later?

Or that what Big Blue Button is going to be for?

[fbartels]

@marcusquinn generally yes, you could stream a webinar in such a way (have done this in the past with youtube). The thing you have to be aware of is that there is a delay involved (incoming buffer on the platform and then another buffer at the client). So it's not really suited if you want to react on realtime feedback/questions.