I am curious and looking for ideas or recommendations on how to accomplish live streaming to a self hosted server from anywhere.
I know the appeal to live streaming is live reactions from a community, like twitch or Facebook or whatever. But what I’d like is private live streaming to friends and family, automatically saving this footage to my own server for historical reasons. Quality and bandwidth isn’t limited to some subscription.
It’s maybe a niche thing to self host, but if any of you have ideas on how this could be done, or recommendations on solutions that already exist, I’d be very appreciative.
I have a owncast container setup, I’ve used it a few times. It combines a customizable webpage with the stream, kinda-sorta like a twitch page. Hook obs to it and you’re off. Took me a couple hours to get everything set.
My only complaint is that the stream will fall behind - not sure if obs or oc is to blame. Perhaps my nas being underpowered, though I was testing/watching with ‘source’ so it shouldn’t be transcoding. After an hour or two I can, watching my own stream, see it’s fallen back by like a minute. If I remember right it continues linearly, so more time = more discrepancy.
It’s nice though, so I haven’t bothered to try other solutions. I should re-test and see if it’s been fixed…