Pxy
Infrastructure
streaming proxy server
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How HN took it
4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, lightweight way to go from browser to RTMP
From 2 comments
Awesome to see this on the front page! I’ve been chatting with the OP for a few days and this is based on a Node.js PoC I wrote for a blog post on the state of broadcasting live…
mmcclure on HNCool project! I've done similar things with Kurento acting as a WebRTC peer to proxy WebRTC --> RTMP before but this is a lot more lightweight. One thing I'd love to see at some…
iameli on HN
Good name
From 1 comment
When we first started replacing our Erlang router for Heroku Private Spaces with a go-based one, the name of the POC was ‘pxy’. Very big fan of the name. Yours seems fun too. <3
amerine on HN
Objections
Uses FFmpeg via shell, limiting stream monitoring and separate audio/video input
From 1 comment
I see you are invoking Ffmpeg via the shell. I also tried steaming to Youtube from Go and had to resort to the same solution. It's a shame there isn't a usable library for…
alufers on HN
Browser MediaRecorder video quality varies across browsers
From 1 comment
Awesome to see this on the front page! I’ve been chatting with the OP for a few days and this is based on a Node.js PoC I wrote for a blog post on the state of broadcasting live…
mmcclure on HN
Requests
Support SRT listener mode
From 1 comment
OP, could you support SRT? Listener mode would be really interesting.
ParadisoShlee on HN
Reverse direction: RTMP to websockets
From 1 comment
I think the inverse of this (RTMP to Websockets) would be more interesting.
Linkd on HN
Questions
What video sources send websocket streams to this proxy
From 1 comment
What kind of video sources provide output via websockets to be proxied to RTMP? OBS and other streaming video tools usually support RTMP themselves and browsers only support…
difosfor on HN
Can it serve a Raspberry Pi camera
From 1 comment
Can this be used as a web front end for say a raspberry pi camera ?
taf2 on HN
Alternatives named
RTSPtoWSMP4f and RTSPtoWebRTC
From 1 comment
In the same genre of Go video streaming adapter servers. Here are a couple neat projects which stream from RTSP (as used by eg security cameras) to either fragmented .mp4 files…
scottlamb on HN
Kurento
From 1 comment
Cool project! I've done similar things with Kurento acting as a WebRTC peer to proxy WebRTC --> RTMP before but this is a lot more lightweight. One thing I'd love to see at some…
iameli on HN
Axis media-stream-player-js
From 1 comment
A similar thing is used by Axis security cameras but with RTSP. The frontend bits are open source here: https://github.com/AxisCommunications/media-stream-player-js
SahAssar on HN