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?
@deadsuperhero 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.
And I know for a fact it is possible to stream to an Owncast server using this option with OBS as I've done so myself a few times now, haven't had any issues with it really, but the docs do mention it could make the livestream impossible to watch.
@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.
@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.
@deadsuperhero 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.
@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 @deadsuperhero 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?
@ShredderFeeder@deadsuperhero As far as Owncast goes, while you might publicly see a lot of individuals looking to be seen with it, the most successful use of the software are organizations privately treating it like any other infrastructure. Those who have an existing need to livestream something, so they install a livestreaming server for their conference, or training, or broadcast of some sort. It’s less novelty, and more solving a problem they have, just like an email server or web server would be. But these use cases are rarely public.
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