I’m writing a brief guide for how to set up OBS to livestream with #Owncast and #PeerTube. What questions do y’all have? What do you want to know about?
Best I can see, Owncast is great for a single-user instance and has chat built-in, whereas PeerTube requires some setup on the Admin’s part, but you can be on a server with other people that aren’t just live streaming.
@ShredderFeeder I’m not much of a philosopher, but I would guess that most people are lonely and want some level of connection and validation, or maybe they just feel like it’s a good way to meet new people.
@ShredderFeeder I think you have it exactly backwards. I think a core motivation for a lot of people is not to elevate themselves above everyone else on a platform…but instead, a desire to connect, and laugh, and experience things together.
But in order to do that, you have to put yourself out there.
I think it’s less “people want to see me” and more “I want to do something fun with other people online, but in order to do that, I need to be seen.”
Also, while Tiktok is not necessarily my cup of tea personally, it’s a legitimate tool for discovery, from music to books to cooking techniques to political organizing. Short-form video is a medium of a newer generation, and Tiktok just happened to be a place to use it extremely effectively. I hope we get something similar in the Fediverse, as an alternative.
@ShredderFeeder After @Sean Tilley and his charitable answer to you, I have a less charitable one: what is the intrinsic difference between livestreaming as you see it and making a fool of yourself in someone else's public conversation on Mastodon by spewing some half-baked opinion that says more about you than the subject you're talking about?
@torsten_torsten Hey Torsten, can you explain what you mean by this? Chatrooms are one feature that both Owncast and PeerTube support that allows people to comment on an active stream.
@Sean Tilley I admit my english is not the best. I think I want to know how peertube and owncast differ in the way people interact with each other. e.g. can 'fans' easily like or comment? Do they need an account? What ways of interaction are possible?
how do you determine the best quality to stream to the server? How to make sure it's as good as possible but won't get interrupted by small networking jitter.
Might be more technical and less guide worthy, but video passthrough feels like forbidden fruit in Owncast that to me has enormous benefit of greatly improving performance on server by getting rid of re-encoding, so the question is - how important the re-encoding is from perspective of a viewer, in what cases you'd recommend video passthrough?
@Frisk I take it that you mean you want to use hardware to encode it, but avoid doing encoding a second time over the stream.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find much on the subject, beyond a couple of forum posts. It seems that video passthrough in this configuration is not currently possible with tools like OBS Studio? It seems that, for the stream to exist and get parsed by the server, encoding is a must.
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥷☣️
Als Antwort auf Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
Als Antwort auf Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥷☣️ • • •@Blort Yep, planning on going into that!
Best I can see, Owncast is great for a single-user instance and has chat built-in, whereas PeerTube requires some setup on the Admin’s part, but you can be on a server with other people that aren’t just live streaming.
Torsten mag das.
ShredderFeeder
Als Antwort auf Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
Als Antwort auf ShredderFeeder • • •@ShredderFeeder I’m not much of a philosopher, but I would guess that most people are lonely and want some level of connection and validation, or maybe they just feel like it’s a good way to meet new people.
Maybe it’s just fun.
mögen das
Hypolite Petovan und Torsten mögen das.
ShredderFeeder
Als Antwort auf Sean Tilley • • •I think that the belief that "people want to see me" is narcissism of the first order. Of course then again, so is almost all social media.
It's an outlet...but if it were to disappear tomorrow I think the world would be a better place, after a brief adjustment period that is. :)
TikTok going away would be the best first step I can think of. Now let's kill facebook next.
Sean Tilley
Als Antwort auf ShredderFeeder • • •@ShredderFeeder I think you have it exactly backwards. I think a core motivation for a lot of people is not to elevate themselves above everyone else on a platform…but instead, a desire to connect, and laugh, and experience things together.
But in order to do that, you have to put yourself out there.
I think it’s less “people want to see me” and more “I want to do something fun with other people online, but in order to do that, I need to be seen.”
Also, while Tiktok is not necessarily my cup of tea personally, it’s a legitimate tool for discovery, from music to books to cooking techniques to political organizing. Short-form video is a medium of a newer generation, and Tiktok just happened to be a place to use it extremely effectively. I hope we get something similar in the Fediverse, as an alternative.
mögen das
Hypolite Petovan und Torsten mögen das.
Hypolite Petovan
Als Antwort auf ShredderFeeder • • •Torsten mag das.
Torsten
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Sean Tilley und DeeAnn Little mögen das.
Sean Tilley
Als Antwort auf Torsten • • •Torsten mag das.
Torsten
Als Antwort auf Sean Tilley • •DeeAnn Little mag das.
cos
Als Antwort auf Sean Tilley • • •Torsten mag das.
Frisk
Als Antwort auf Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley mag das.
Sean Tilley
Als Antwort auf Frisk • • •@Frisk I take it that you mean you want to use hardware to encode it, but avoid doing encoding a second time over the stream.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find much on the subject, beyond a couple of forum posts. It seems that video passthrough in this configuration is not currently possible with tools like OBS Studio? It seems that, for the stream to exist and get parsed by the server, encoding is a must.