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    • girish
      girish Staff last edited by girish

      This is a HOWTO on how to use Owncast with OBS.

      • Install Owncast
      • As a first step, change the streaming key. This is under Configuration -> Server Setup:
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      • In Home, you will find the Streaming URL.
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      • Put the above in OBS. File -> Settings. Then, Stream . Choose Custom and paste the values from above:
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      • In OBS, Start Streaming.

      That's it! You can point your viewers to your owncast instance and they should see whatever you are streaming via OBS.

      As described here, you can embed in another site like so:

      <iframe
        src="https://your.host/embed/video"
        title="Owncast"
        height="350px" width="550px"
        referrerpolicy="origin"
        scrolling="no"
        allowfullscreen>
      </iframe>
      

      There is also a HLS stream - https://your.host/hls/stream.m3u8 (put it straight into VLC or equivalent).

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      • girish
        girish Staff last edited by

        With defaults, I am seeing a roughly 10 second latency. Apparently, this is expected with HLS streaming . See https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues/504 and https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues/28#issuecomment-659690058

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        • scooke
          scooke last edited by

          This is awesome! Thank you for making this available!

          A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

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          • jdaviescoates
            jdaviescoates @scooke last edited by

            @scooke said in Using Owncast with OBS:

            This is awesome!

            It so is!

            Just as a test I'm currently streaming the Summer of Soul over on https://stream.uniteddiversity.coop - was so easy! Amazing! 😄

            I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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            • murgero
              murgero App Dev @girish last edited by

              @girish OwnCast has an option to lower the delay - it's built in 10 seconds is default setting and expected, as you said.

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                LoudLemur @girish last edited by LoudLemur

                @girish

                Thanks for the nice tutorial!

                The example you provide is:

                src="https://your.host/embed/video"
                

                So, if our website is:
                https://ourwebsite.com
                and the Owncast is at: https://owncast.ourwebsite.com

                would we put:

                src="https://owncast.ourwebsite.com/embed/video"
                

                and reach the HLS (HTTP Live Stream) stream on e.g. VLC at:

                http://owncast.ourwebsite.com/hls/stream.m3u8
                

                or

                https://owncast.ourwebsite.com/hls/stream.m3u8
                
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                • girish
                  girish Staff @LoudLemur last edited by

                  @LoudLemur said in Using Owncast with OBS:

                  https://owncast.ourwebsite.com/hls/stream.m3u8

                  Always https.

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                    LoudLemur @girish last edited by

                    @girish Thanks, so I think you should edit the last line in your original post in this thread to reflect this. http -->https

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