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Restream: Stream live to many social platforms at once
- KeepFlying 6y agoI'm sure there are use cases for this, but I see two issues I'd be worried about when using it. First of all, any exclusivity requirements on any platform. Something like this must get you in trouble with the TOS of any of these sites. Second, the culture of streaming on each platform is unique. Not to mention the form factor and expected behavior of any chats on each system. Or even things as simple as vertical vs horizontal video formats. Sure there are areas where this doesn't matter, there always are, but it shouldn't be ignored when trying to spread your reach.
- kevmo314 6y agoThe culture aspect is big, splitting a viewership base across multiple platforms makes it hard to do things like community building, on screen chat, etc fluidly. These are especially prudent for small streamers, much more important than being on every platform at once. Quality over quantity. I could see this being useful for brands though, where a live stream is pure marketing maybe.
- RocketSyntax 6y agoso then it's just for people starting out. not a nonstarter
- radley 6y agoI got the impression that Restream is mostly used for talks / podcasts. I know of DJs who use the service to hit YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and maybe Mixcloud all at the same time. In that case, they're not trying to grow a platform-based audience (like gamers). They're simply trying to reach their existing audience through the available channels. I don't think anyone is taking exclusivity seriously, except maybe well-paid gamers. It's too early to act like Apple. Maybe once live streaming matures...?
- jchw 6y agoTwitch definitely cracked down on Restream usage among partners at some point in the past, because I used to watch some streams on YT and that stopped happening suddenly, with some of them citing their Twitch contracts.
- uberswe 6y agoBefore you get partnered on Twitch. So before you average 100 viewers it won't really matter. So restream is good if you are starting out and want to try different platforms. It may be that you find a following on a different platform than what you thought you would. Interacting with chats from 3 different platforms might be weird/hard though.
- ehayes 6y agoAny open source or DIY alternatives to this?
- Cameron_D 6y agonginx-rtmp can take a source and forward to multiple outputs. Fairly more advanced is BBC's Brave which is more of an API-driven live video editor that can push to multiple outputs.
- uncoder0 6y agoIt's essentially nginx-rtmp as a service with an SLA (maybe?)
- simcop2387 6y agoan sla and a nicer management ui for handling keys and possibly reencoding for different services
- judge2020 6y agoUnfortunately it hasn't been updated for RTMPS (rtmp over tls), which is required/heavily encouraged for FaceBook Live.
- simplecto 6y agoYou can work around this limitation using stunnel. Just search for rtmps and stunnel. Quite a few helpful results. There is even a docker container that makes this pretty simple.
- judge2020 6y agoFrom quick googling: https://github.com/praveen001/go-rtmp-web-server https://github.com/praveen001/go-rtmp-web-server https://github.com/gwuhaolin/livego https://github.com/gwuhaolin/livego https://gitlab.com/valeth/javelin https://gitlab.com/valeth/javelin
- RocketSyntax 6y agowe used to play around with this idea. a tagline we liked was: "stream once, go nuts!" dunno why but it still makes me laugh
- dayjah 6y agoContext: ex-early-twitch engineer. The economics on this are confusing to me; if they’re hosting a “repeater”, they’re paying for bandwidth in/out, and that’s expensive. If the streaming software is sending to multiple locations; the stability will be low (assuming folks become outbound b/w limited from their home conn). Am I missing something obvious here? At twitch we needed a heck of a lot of interconnecting with various providers to make our service viable. Edit: https://restream.io/blog/restream-series-a-funding/ https://restream.io/blog/restream-series-a-funding/ - goes someway toward answering my q.
- radley 6y agoHuh? They're not streaming to thousands of viewers - they're just forwarding to a few services. That's nothing.
- dayjah 6y agoOh, right! I was obvi missing something simple. You’re right, my b: they only relay to a few services so it’s keep their costs low. I guess I’m just so conditioned to think about video going direct to consumer that I missed that. Sorry for the noise :)
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- rak 6y agoAre there any services like this that do the job of a streaming pc too?
- JacobLinney 6y agoI'm curious what you mean by this, like a service that would handle the encoding? (Disclaimer: I have no idea what the point of a streaming PC is)
- corobo 6y agoOnly ones I know of are aimed at mobile streamers eg https://www.obs-server.com/obs-server/ https://www.obs-server.com/obs-server/ However you can run obs and stream from pretty much any of the cloud gaming services that provide a full system eg shadow.tech, paperspace
- nicky0 6y agohttps://www.superstreamsystem.com/ https://www.superstreamsystem.com/ might be what you are looking for, you can set up scenes and overlays etc
- tylermenezes 6y agoA few other commenters seem to be confused about the purpose, so here's what we use Restream for: easily switching streaming destinations without reconfiguring our encoders (eg we use Twitch for informal student facing content, LinkedIn + FB + Periscope for content we want to be seen by professionals). Honestly I was also initially skeptical of its utility but it turned out to be pretty worthwhile.
- Svperstar 6y agoI use this to stream to YouTube and Twitch at the same time. It works well.
- MentallyRetired 6y agoThis has been around for years. It's a solid service. With Mixer's FTL it added normal amounts of delay, so that kind of sucked, but no need to worry about that now, I guess.
- nikolay 6y agoWell, Streamlabs has that plus more and a lower price... plus a mobile app.
- dbbk 6y agoWhy does the site not tell you... what platforms it streams to? Am I missing something?