Strimpack
Infrastructure
self-hosted streaming
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
6 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful self-hosted streaming infrastructure ideas and shared resources
From 3 comments
Wow, this is incredibly useful. I'd love to include an option for a self-hosted stream. I looked into setting up a streaming service as well, but decided to just release it with…
j4pe on HNThanks for the kind words! I’m interested in helping smooth out the edges and making it easier to use, so let me know how I can be helpful. Email in profile.
reid on HNIf folks would like to serve their own live streaming video, I worked on this Docker image for my church which provides a few HLS streams from an incoming RTMP stream:…
reid on HN
Objections
Commenters doubt self-hosted video delivery is practical due to bandwidth and CDN costs
From 3 comments
I feel like that with a geographically broad area you're not going to want to host this yourself and MUCH rather use someone's services for VOD/live streaming. Doing CDN and…
BLanen on HNHuge price difference fixed bandwidth cost vs. CDN.
hackcasual on HNThat's still pretty high if we're just considering raw transit costs. The highest rate I would be comfortable paying for a CDN would be $0.015/GB ($0.03/GB in Asia), that's still…
kyledrake on HN
Project only covers chat, subs and forum; live streaming is external
From 1 comment
Ohh haha. I thought this was a replacement for twitch or similar, but it's just the chat/subs/forum, the most important part, the live streaming, is not part of this project.
KaoruAoiShiho on HN
Requests
One-click deployment
From 2 comments
I would say if you really wanted to make this easier for streamers to use you could use helm to package up a kubernetes configuration (a bit of work) and then put it into…
michaelgreen on HNI agree, one-click deploy would be the next step. Hadn't seen helm, I was debating between k8s and rancher. If possible I'd like to avoid an opinionated hosting service like…
j4pe on HN
Questions
Does the site load third-party domains or scripts
From 1 comment
Really cool but I have a question: Does the site ask users to connect to any third-party domains or run javascript from third parties? If so, what information do they get about…
bo1024 on HN
Is bandwidth cost for self-hosted streaming high
From 1 comment
I understood the objective to be for each streamer to run their own site where only one person or group does the streaming and people just watch and interact. I think keeping the…
mcny on HN
Alternatives named
Streamlink
From 1 comment
There exist open source clients which can play Twitch livestreams, so I’m not sure how much effort is being concentrated there anymore: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
tylerhou on HN
Ant Media and Red5 Pro
From 1 comment
https://antmedia.io/ and https://www.red5pro.com/ have open source RMTP + WebRTC servers, as well as hosted solutions. Both are compatible with (versions of)…
btown on HN
Terraform live-infrastructure repos
From 1 comment
Not quite point-and-click, but at my church, we just type "terraform apply" every week to set up a live streaming system using:…
reid on HN