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The EmacsConf folks managed to do it.

azangru 4y ago
Were they streaming real-time? I could only find that they are hosting their videos on https://media.emacsconf.org https://media.emacsconf.org (would be interested to know who the host is and how much it costs to host videos in this way).
- capableweb 4y ago
  Hosting videos is trivial, especially for a relatively low-traffic event like this. Getting a dedicated host with unlimited traffic (like what Hetzner offers), you usually get a 1G uplink or better, should be able to host it no problem. Under 100 USD/month should be doable.
  - hwayne 4y ago
    Right now there's 1,400 streamers.
    - capableweb 4y ago
      I assumed parents second question was about hosting videos for download, not hosting live streaming.
    - pxc 4y ago
      Shouldn't something like PeerTube scale nicely for having lots of viewers? Does it still use P2P for live streaming?
capableweb 4y ago
After browsing around the website for EmacsConf, I don't find much information exactly how they did it. What software they used? Where is the infrastructure hosted?
- pxc 4y ago
  There's (undocumented) IaC for the Jitsi-based multistreaming infrastructure used for NixCon's all-virtual 2020 conference here: https://github.com/nixcon/nixcon-video-infra https://github.com/nixcon/nixcon-video-infra I think it was quite a bit of work, but it worked very well. You can see the results here, according to your preference: https://conf.tube/c/nixcon2020/videos?s=1 https://conf.tube/c/nixcon2020/videos?s=1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgknCdxP89RcXpf7xLU7tuWXTOsL1rSHU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgknCdxP89RcXpf7xLU7t... The authors on that GitHub repo might be able to offer some advice or other help to F/OSS communities interested in hosting conferences where presenters can call in using only free software!
- BeetleB 4y ago
  I think this year most of the talks were prerecorded and only the Q&A was live (not sure if the Q&A was video or not). I know in 2020 the talks were live. You can look at the "Behind The Scenes" section to see what they used: https://emacsconf.org/2020/ https://emacsconf.org/2020/
pxc 4y ago
IIRC 2020's all-virtual NixCon was simultaneously streamed to live.nixos.org, YouTube, Twitter, and maybe a PeerTube instance (conf.tube?) from self-hosted infrastructure. The more recent one in Paris might've been only on YouTube, idr. So maybe it doesn't always seem worth it to conference organizers. But it definitely seems at least doable.

Were they streaming real-time? I could only find that they are hosting their videos on https://media.emacsconf.org https://media.emacsconf.org (would be interested to know who the host is and how much it costs to host videos in this way).

capableweb 4y ago
Hosting videos is trivial, especially for a relatively low-traffic event like this. Getting a dedicated host with unlimited traffic (like what Hetzner offers), you usually get a 1G uplink or better, should be able to host it no problem. Under 100 USD/month should be doable.
- hwayne 4y ago
  Right now there's 1,400 streamers.
  - capableweb 4y ago
    I assumed parents second question was about hosting videos for download, not hosting live streaming.
  - pxc 4y ago
    Shouldn't something like PeerTube scale nicely for having lots of viewers? Does it still use P2P for live streaming?

capableweb 4y ago

After browsing around the website for EmacsConf, I don't find much information exactly how they did it. What software they used? Where is the infrastructure hosted?

pxc 4y ago
There's (undocumented) IaC for the Jitsi-based multistreaming infrastructure used for NixCon's all-virtual 2020 conference here: https://github.com/nixcon/nixcon-video-infra https://github.com/nixcon/nixcon-video-infra I think it was quite a bit of work, but it worked very well. You can see the results here, according to your preference: https://conf.tube/c/nixcon2020/videos?s=1 https://conf.tube/c/nixcon2020/videos?s=1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgknCdxP89RcXpf7xLU7tuWXTOsL1rSHU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgknCdxP89RcXpf7xLU7t... The authors on that GitHub repo might be able to offer some advice or other help to F/OSS communities interested in hosting conferences where presenters can call in using only free software!
BeetleB 4y ago
I think this year most of the talks were prerecorded and only the Q&A was live (not sure if the Q&A was video or not). I know in 2020 the talks were live. You can look at the "Behind The Scenes" section to see what they used: https://emacsconf.org/2020/ https://emacsconf.org/2020/

pxc 4y ago

IIRC 2020's all-virtual NixCon was simultaneously streamed to live.nixos.org, YouTube, Twitter, and maybe a PeerTube instance (conf.tube?) from self-hosted infrastructure. The more recent one in Paris might've been only on YouTube, idr. So maybe it doesn't always seem worth it to conference organizers. But it definitely seems at least doable.