Kickflip
Infrastructure
live video streaming sdk
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
4 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool idea that could be a holy grail for live streaming
From 1 comment
Very cool. This could be the holygrail for live streaming. Unfortunately Qik was retired. Good job.
seshakiran on HN
Hardware encoding approach is clever
From 1 comment
Very cool! I've recently open sourced a good portion of my game broadcasting SDK, which now has a few people using it for purely making camera apps to stream to RTMP services.…
jgh on HN
Objections
Transcoding on device is costly in CPU and bandwidth
From 2 comments
Transcoding on the client instead of in the cloud increases the amount of CPU and upstream bandwidth needed, and both are in short supply on phones. To put this in perspective,…
lucasgonze on HNCan you be more specific by "in hardware"? I'll buy that there's some trick analogous to shaders on the desktop. But I'd want to know the specifics to be able to evaluate that.…
lucasgonze on HN
Single stream offers no real advantage over cloud transcoding
From 1 comment
If you only offer a single stream, your claims of being better than cloud-based transcoders have no meaning. You don't transcode, they do. You push a single stream, which any…
lucasgonze on HN
Pricing is hidden behind sign-in
From 1 comment
requires me to sign in before viewing the pricing ??
angryasian on HN
Requests
RTMP support
From 2 comments
Thanks man! I really appreciate it. All of our streams are HLS rather than RTMP, although we do have RTMP support working in the SDKs, we don't plan on making that a priority…
Mizza on HNIs the SDK going to allow a way to bypass all of the Kickflip infrastructure to allow the core streaming library to be used on your own maintained infrastructure? On the product…
Akkuma on HN
Option to use own infrastructure instead of Kickflip backend
From 2 comments
Is the SDK going to allow a way to bypass all of the Kickflip infrastructure to allow the core streaming library to be used on your own maintained infrastructure? On the product…
Akkuma on HNThat's good to hear. Is the plumbing the "cost" of using the open source sdk, which in turn technically requires you pay for the service, or is there a way to remove all of the…
Akkuma on HN
Questions
Latency of CDN live stream
From 1 comment
Can you share your experience of the typical delay for CDNed live stream? 5 sec? 10 sec?
ldarcyftw on HN
Hardware requirements for iOS and Android
From 1 comment
Nice work! What are the min hardware requirements for iOS & Android devices?
yarri on HN
Cost of streaming to large audiences
From 1 comment
Can you share the costs of streaming to 100Ks clients?
oDot on HN
Alternatives named
Bambuser
From 1 comment
We found that Bambuser had a delay of around ~60s - ours is 10-20s, depending on the buffer size. It can be brought down to 5-10 by shortening the chunk size, but that increases…
Mizza on HN
Qik
From 1 comment
Very cool. This could be the holygrail for live streaming. Unfortunately Qik was retired. Good job.
seshakiran on HN
Wirecast
From 1 comment
Transcoding on the client instead of in the cloud increases the amount of CPU and upstream bandwidth needed, and both are in short supply on phones. To put this in perspective,…
lucasgonze on HN
VideoCore
From 1 comment
Hey https://github.com/jamesghurley/VideoCore looks great, wish I knew about it earlier.
srean on HN