Owncast – An open-source, self-hosted live streaming server

[girish]

Demo: https://watch.owncast.online

Github: https://github.com/owncast/owncast

Documentation: https://owncast.online

[girish]

See also, https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2707/open-streaming-platform-osp and PeerTube's upcoming live stream support.

[A Former User]

I would love to see this. Also definitely waiting for Lives from peertube but it won’t have comments or chat for its first iteration

[imc67]

I can't wait to have this on Cloudron for our 24/7 livestream!

[A Former User]

I tried this out here: https://git.cloudron.io/AtriLahiji/owncast-app

Only issue is I am having troubles accessing the rtmp server it provides to stream (port 1935). Is there something else I would need to do to allow additional ports through for this app @girish?

OBS Logs when connecting

01:26:58.743: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Connecting to RTMP URL rtmp://cast.lahijiapps.dev/live...
01:26:58.754: cast.lahijiapps.dev/live is offline. Try a different server (ECONNREFUSED).
01:26:58.755: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Connection to rtmp://cast.lahijiapps.dev/live failed: -2

Seems like the app logs don't even indicate that there was a connection attempt. My assumption here is the port is blocked. I even tried this when SSH'ed into the server:

sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1935 -j ACCEPT

I guess anyone could pitch in too. I figured @girish would be a good person to ask as it is down to (most likely) a port issue.

[fbartels]

@atrilahiji you need to define the rtmp port in the cloudron manifest. You can use https://docs.cloudron.io/custom-apps/manifest/#tcpports

[A Former User]

@fbartels Wowee I really need to learn to read docs. Thanks for the rescue

I've released v0.20.

Still a lot I'm not proud of. Like putting everything in /app/data. The app writes to its root directory a lot which is why I initially did this

[A Former User]

Reported a bug here: https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues/550

[A Former User]

Pushed a new release. Seems like for similar settings, Peertube performs a lot better in terms of server resources transcoding a 1080p and 480p stream at 6000 Kbps and the fast preset. Owncast seems to spike my server (given its a 9th gen i3) 60ish% load.

[doodlemania2]

@atrilahiji Don't feel bad - I'm working on Papermerge and it does the same darn thing. Really frustrating. Tried going the symlink path but after 50 links, decided to take a step back and rethink. Still no thunk yet But doon.

[robi]

@doodlemania2 wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool that could auto-symlink things that need it?

[doodlemania2]

@robi oooooh that'd be shiny

[SirFiChi]

@girish said in Owncast – An open-source, self-hosted live streaming server:

See also, https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2707/open-streaming-platform-osp and PeerTube's upcoming live stream support.

I tried PeerTube a few month ago and it was very unflexible to me. Eventually I will give it another try.

[imc67]

@atrilahiji I see you’ve started creating an app at https://git.cloudron.io/AtriLahiji/owncast-app I’m really curious what the status is and if it will be on Cloudron AppStore?

[A Former User]

@imc67 I’d say is very usable right now but I didn’t bother cleaning it up much for a proper release or adding tests.

[A Former User]

@imc67 I’m curious about trying it now that I’ve moved my server to a beefy Ryzen CPU. Maybe it will be better now... who knows.

[jdaviescoates]

@atrilahiji said in Owncast – An open-source, self-hosted live streaming server:

I’m curious about trying it now

Did you give it another go?

[A Former User]

@jdaviescoates nope! I will probably get to that today though. My ADD brain will try really hard

[A Former User]

Here's my new package: https://git.atrilahiji.dev/atrilahiji/cloudron-owncast-app

It is still a CPU hog compared to Peertube but they added a lot of new features. Thankfully going from a 4 core to a 16 core processor brought usage to 25% peak for a stream.

[jdaviescoates]

@atrilahiji thanks! Looking forward to this being in the app store!