Submitted 7 months ago by Crazycookie@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.world
How good of an alternative is it to twitch? I’ve seen pretty less discussions about it compared to other fediverse platforms
I’m just learning about owncast, is there any way to login or subscribe to people so I can come back to their streams at a later time?
Afaik it is only compatible with Mastodon and similar software, not Lemmy.
You should be able to follow a video channel on Owncast from Mastodon etc. and get updates that way.
The login with Fedi feature is afaik only to join the chat that is displayed next to the video stream.
Worked great the one time I used it to watch someone
I think the main issue with Owncast is that it is AFAIK single user, otherwise it works very nicely.
OwnCast is wonderful. It’s dead simple to set up and use, and works great with OBS.
I tend to prefer streaming through PeerTube, simply because the platform has more features. But for simplicity, OwnCast can’t be beat!
The Fediverse integration of the chat is definitely better in Owncast as well, but in Peertube you can make it federate via XMPP with a little bit of extra effort, which is also nice.
I like it, I run my own server despite not streaming as much as I used to. Needs more people streaming though.
I personally LOVE Owncast. It's how I've met numerous folks and built a community. I use my own for games and tech, https://stream.ozoned.net . I've even done some testing to see how much overhead it needs, https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/1itGRqF41XeTfrismnsesL , and how many opens streams you can have.
I also use Owncast to livestream my Fireside Fedi episodes, https://stream.firesidefedi.live . I even spoke with Gabe Kangas on the show in the past https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/nyM8V7WzVb1f2GehjAdSTX
I've spoken to numerous folks that flat out tell me it can't work. With THOUSANDS of people you'd probably hit bandwidth limitations, but there's S3 buckets and CDNs. Whether they'll let you push livestreams to those for the long term is yet to be seen.
I'm very biases though as I love Owncast, I love controlling MY platform, and I love Fedi. Also I run the unofficial owncast community.
Haven't heard of this before. Are there any public websites to discover streams? I can't easily find any public websites on mobile that can be used without their app.
Https://directory.owncast.online
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 7 months ago
Why oh why are streaming platforms still using rtmp in 2025 when it was stopped being developed pretty much in 2009? Why oh why don’t they use something like SRT that has packet resending, can negotiate bit rates and adjust and use better codecs than x264 which is awful…