SESean-Der·Sep 2, 2024Submission
Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency
283 points · Open discussionGlimesh
broadcast-box
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Glimesh / broadcast-box
broadcast-box
A broadcast, in a box.
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2.3KGitHub stars
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
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6 sourcesShow HN: Broadcast Box. Self-hosted sub-second H264/AV1 broadcasting
3 points · Open discussionShow HN: Self Hosted Twitch Alternative. Publish via OBS or Web
5 points · Open discussionI wrote this to solve a few things I cared about.
* I want to show people that native WebRTC players can be a thing. I hope this encourages hangouts/discord/$x to implement WHIP and WHEP it would let people do so much more
* I wanted to make low latency sharing easier. I saw the need for this working on adding WebRTC to OBS and Broadcast Box[0]
* I wanted to show devs what a great ecosystem exists for WebRTC. Lots of great implementations in different languages.
* Was a bit of a ‘frustration project’. I saw a company claiming only their proprietary protocol can do latency this low. So I thought ‘screw you I will make an open source version!’
[0] https://github.com/glimesh/broadcast-box
In Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust> [1] https://github.com/Glimesh/broadcast-box
This is really interesting! Any latency benchmarks comparing it to gstreamer UDP, P2P primarily?
In Show HN: Bring phone calls into the browser (SIP-to-WebRTC)Really exciting times for WebRTC in general right now!
If you are new to WebRTC and want to learn more about the protocol check out [0] (would love peoples feedback). It is used in lots of unexpected places like streaming (added to OBS)[1] and Embedded [2].
I am especially excited with new implementations popping up like [3] and [4].
[0] http://webrtcforthecurious.com
[1] https://github.com/Glimesh/broadcast-box
[2] https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer
[3] https://github.com/algesten/str0m
[4] https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc
In Show HN: Bring phone calls into the browser (SIP-to-WebRTC)