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Owncast is a free and open source live video and chat server for your events. Stream your entertainment, education, tv station, performances, games, communities, conferences, or whatever you have to share with an audience without big tech.

Note: Microblogging services aren't a great place to provide support. Please file support requests at our issue tracker so they don't get overlooked! https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues

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If you've ever wanted to contribute to an open source project, but thought "I'm not technical" or "I don't program" but have experience with design Owncast would love to have you involved!

We're planning for future features and would love to have a designer involved early.

People say "Owncast needs polish", so maybe you can help make a real difference!

Read more: https://owncast.online/designer-wanted/

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I’m hearing murmurs of YouTube blocking browsers that support ad blockers.

You know where you don’t have to worry about such things? Host your videos on a instance and use for your live video streaming needs.

But of course you already knew that.

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With new features on the horizon Owncast is looking for a UX designer!

We’re still young in our design goals and would love the experience of a dedicated designer to inform both the process and the pixels around building a cohesive product that people love to use.

Please share with the designers in your network!

https://owncast.online/designer-wanted/

/cc @Curator

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You might think after reading this post "Hasn't Owncast been saying this for years?" Yes. And we still haven't given up!

As new, very cool, features start to get planned, the Owncast project is on the hunt for a user experience designer to help us turn them into reality.

Do you want to have a say in how new features, that will get into people's hands, work and look? Now is the time to get involved, early on, so you can have influence on them.

Reach out and say hi!

https://owncast.online/designer-wanted/

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It's a long time in the making. A new release of is available.

https://owncast.online/releases/owncast-0.1.0/

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Are you familiar with @radiofreefedi, the fantastic community radio for the Fediverse? All the awesome music and audio content created by those across the Fediverse is now simulcasted in video as another way to enjoy it.

https://party.radiofreefedi.net/

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Today marks four years of ! Can you believe it? For fun, let's take a short look back at what that looked like.

https://gabekangas.com/blog/2024/05/today-marks-four-years-of-owncast/

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Our friends at @radiofreefedi are throwing a New Years Day party, and you can be part of it!

They’re lining up 24hrs of live streamers. Music, technology, performance, art, you name it.

If you want to be involved, or learn more about this event, drop by the RFF blog.

https://blog.radiofreefedi.net/new-years-day-2024-global-24-hour-stream-party

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Because Owncast is built on open standards, any video player that supports streaming video can natively play an Owncast stream.

This includes many options specifically built for televisions, so you can browse and watch Owncast servers on the big screen.

Visit the TV page with some tips on browsing and watching Owncast live streams on AppleTV, Roku, Chromecast, Kodi, Smart TVs, Android TV and more.

https://owncast.online/docs/watching-on-tvs

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Owncast will be at Summit in Riga, Latvia November 3-5!

Gabe, the project maintainer, will be giving a talk about self-hosting live video streams and how Owncast might be able to help you do that on the 4th, at noon.

Plan on saying hi to Gabe, because he has cool pins (and stickers, of course) to give you.

https://events.canonical.com/event/31/contributions/207/

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Thanks to a suggestion from @roadriverrail we're seeing if there's any interest in a periodic Owncast community email. The idea is to feature streamers, share tips, highlight releases, and try to reach out a bit more.

If you think this should exist, feel free to throw your email into the hat. If nobody is interested, that's cool too! Like always, we only want to create things people actually want.

https://owncast.online/newsletter/

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Coming up in v0.1.0 is an additional way for you to create custom action buttons for your interface. You could always point to remote resources as actions, but now you can just author them from scratch in HTML!

One fewer step required for you to build your own custom UI for tip jars, leader boards, 3rd party integrations or whatever you can think of. It's your server, go nuts.

Looking to get this in your hands in May.

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If you have an iPhone, iPad, or an AppleTV, check out Owncasts. A little application for discovering and watching Owncast-powered live streams.

Wish you could be notified when your favorite streamer goes live? This app is an easy way to make that happen.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/owncasts/id6451178968?platform=iphone

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The Owncast project runs a demo server at https://watch.owncast.online. This server runs a series of short promos and informational video clips for projects and initiatives, and we'd love to use this space for yours as well.

If you have some open source software, a fediverse-related project, or creative-commons licensed content and have a short video clip for sharing, we'd be happy to add it to the rotation. Reach out!

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Have you had a chance to listen to the @linuxlads episode about ? Gabe sat down with the lads last month and had a fantastic discussion, discussing Owncast in depth. https://linuxlads.com/episodes/98/

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How easy is it to get running?

https://owncast.online/quickstart

There are a few methods, pick the best for you. Here's an example, using the installation script. No npm, no pip, no Ruby gems. Just get up and running, so you can start streaming.

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Little known fact: Before Owncast had a web-based admin, a terminal-based dashboard was built, but never shipped.

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It’s time! If you’re not familiar, Hacktoberfest is the annual event that encourages people to contribute to Open Source software throughout the month of October.

If you’ve ever been thinking of finding a way to contribute to Owncast, this month is a great time. Documentation, code, designs, social, blog posts and more are all a great way to take part in the project.

https://owncast.online/hacktoberfest/

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Last month @gabek spoke to the attendees of @ubuntu Summit in Riga, Latvia, about Owncast and how live video streaming works.

I can’t promise it’s the most entertaining thing you’ll watch all day, but if you’re into , or even streaming video in general, you might get something from it.

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/sZMEuKI4Lpo?si=IJxyN86dRvimg4Je

owncast, to guitar
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Looking to improve your guitar skills, or are just curious? Tune in to the weekly Simply live lessons! https://live.simplyguitar.com

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"I don't think it's something that's going to take over the streaming space, and I don't think that's the intention of it either. The whole goal is just to provide something cool where you control your content".

Yes. He gets it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58ep8o3WEZo

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If you're in the area, and able, think about adopting Ringo, the 13-year-old star tortoise. Otherwise, he could use some donations to support him in having a good life!

Drop by his live stream and say hi. He doesn't move much, but that makes the payoff even sweeter when he is up and about.

https://ringo.apesshelter.org.uk/

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Owncast offers a small number of free, hosted servers for those that could make use of them. This is both to help out those who otherwise wouldn't be able to try out independent live streaming, and to get the project in front of more people.

If you or somebody you know is interested in the Owncast donated server program, read more:

https://owncast.online/donated/

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Owncast v0.1.3 is released with a small collection of fixes and improvements.

Hope all is well!

https://owncast.online/releases/owncast-0.1.3/

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Who wants some bug fixes and quality of life improvements?

v0.1.1 is now available. A huge thank you to everyone who was involved!

https://owncast.online/releases/owncast-0.1.1/

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