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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Can you keep us updated on progress
please.<br>
<br>
I thought that youtube required 5k subscribers to a channel before
they would consider broadcasting as you are doing<br>
<br>
Will be most happy if I have this wrong, because this could be a V
useful service...<br>
<br>
-mark<br>
<br>
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On 2/12/2015 11:56 a.m., Stephen Irons wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It took 30 minutes to <br>
<ul>
<li>read the youtube help on live streaming</li>
<li>create a stream event on youtube<br>
</li>
<li>download and install OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) on my
PC</li>
<li>configure OBS to capture video and audio and send it to
youtube</li>
<li>watch the event using a different web browser (but on the
same PC)</li>
</ul>
<p>Have to do some Real Work now, but it looks promising,
provided that I can satisfy myself that:</p>
<ul>
<li>the event can be relatively private (invitation only, or
at not advertised and unlisted)</li>
<li>the event can be completely free of adverts; I suspect
this will be a pay-for privilege</li>
</ul>
<p>Other factors<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>3 hours at 1.5 MBits/sec is 2 Gbytes. Allowing for 25%
streaming overhead gives 2.5 GBytes. Have to get a data
addon: 2 degrees charges 50c per MB for casual data usage
(for a total of $1200!), but offer a 3 GB data addon for
$50, or about 1.7c / MB<br>
</li>
<li>you standard USB data modem advertises 21 Mbits per sec,
which should be enough to carry 2--2.5 Mbits per sec for the
media stream</li>
</ul>
<p>OBS knows how to stream to other broadcasting services, so
now I have a few other alternative to investigate:</p>
<ul>
<li>Twitch (apparently popular with gamers: rather than
playing, you can watch others play)</li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://hitbox.tv">hitbox.tv</a></li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://beam.pro">beam.pro</a></li>
<li>DailyMotion</li>
<li>Livecoding.tv<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you for the pointer to broadcast services: I thought
there must be some available, but was obviously searching for
the wrong thing.</p>
<p>Stephen<br>
</p>
<p><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 December 2015 at 23:30, Spencer
Travers <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div dir="ltr">Have you looked at YouTube live streaming?
I'm not sure about being able to restrict it to just your
family viewing, but it would take care of a lot of the
back end for you.
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<div>Spencer</div>
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<div class="h5">On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:25 PM,
Stephen Irons <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>We have a family celebration coming up in
January, and want to be able to provide a live
audio and video stream from the event for
people who cannot be there.<br>
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I have the following available:<br>
<ul>
<li>Video camera with microphone input,
microphone, and AV capture device that are
compatible with V4L2</li>
<li>Laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 desktop<br>
</li>
<li>Mobile data modem</li>
<li>Low-spec VPS (2 core, 4G RAM, 1 Gbps
network connection, 5 TB bandwidth per
month) running Ubuntu 10.04 server<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The plan would be for the laptop to capture
the audio and video which will send it to the
server. Absent family and friends can then
connect to the server, preferably using a web
browser, to watch the proceedings. There will
probably be 4 or 5 families watching from
around the world.<br>
</p>
<p>Some rationale:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>I prefer the video camera, microphone and
capture device to a web cam because it
should give more control over the picture
and sound quality.</li>
<li>I prefer the video camera, microphone and
capture device to an IP cam because I don't
want to spend the money.</li>
<li>I don't want all of the guests connecting
directly to the laptop, as all their traffic
goes via the mobile data modem -- I suspect
costs will mount up quickly, though I should
estimate what it will cost.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Now, VLC can capture the video and stream it
to another instance of VLC using a few
different protocols. I have not had success
with the audio yet, but it might just need to
swear at it a bit more.</p>
<p>Motion and ZoneMinder might be appropriate,
but ZoneMinder does not support audio.</p>
Can anyone offer any advice, before I spend days
playing with things: what software to use, what
to avoid, what have I not thought of, will my
low-spec VPS be adequate to server 5 streams,
any other thoughts?</div>
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