Father of two, husband, gamer, lover of free software, and willing teacher.
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Not sure I follow actually. DO mean have like a comments system underneath the video? Not sure how that’d work when folks go online and offline constantly.
Gabe, Owncast dev, is working on clips and highlights of streams, so maybe he could have comments there if that’s what you’re referring to?
Their design was more mobile type wherr you don’t minimize windows, you just switch between them or between spaces. I’ve used Gnome forever, including the rough times on Gnome 3.0, and I’ve always used a system tray as well. Never liked leaving clutter everywhere and imo it goes against the minimal design. But thankfully easily extendible.
It DOES Federate. It’s not on by default, but it’s super easy to do in the Owncast admin panel.
I have it enabled so when I go live it announces to my Fediverse followers, think Mastodon, that I’ve gone live.
Example:
It was in the description of the video, but it’s a Hetzner VPS with 3 cores, 4GB of ram, 80GB disk, 20TB bandwidth.
I’m just spreading the word.
Have you used it? Have you looked at the docs? You can use a S3 bucket to handle distribution, though I’ve never done it. Nor am I going to theorize what will or won’t work.
People didn’t think the Fediverse wouldn’t work yet here we are.
As for any number of video software, I’d love to know. I enjoy tech. Owncast works seamlessly with the Fediverse and OBS. I get to control my platform and it’s what I know so I use it. If there is better out there, I don’t know what I don’t know.
And lastly I personally enjoy the small internet. And I’m assuming folks here do as well, hence why we’re all here. Plenty of other platforms that work better.
Do you have millions of viewers? With beefy enough hardware I’d assume you could, but not even the biggest streamers on Twitch stream to millions of viewers at a time. But that’s just gaming. I know that Owncast is leveraged by all kinds of folks for different purposes. Some churches use it to broadcast to their congregation, some weddings have done it, funerals, radios, local public access channels, etc.
I personally have a VPS on Hetzner, not sure about others. Obviously hosting is the thing. But I run a VPS for like $8/month, again on Hetzner, and I’ve done small live streams to about 15 people without much issue.
Owncast is a free and open source self hosted live streaming platform. Basically think of Twitch or YouTube Livestreams on your own hardware.
Thanks for posting. Just signed up to the list. I have my own GoToSocial, but I’d still love to check out Mozilla’s Mastodon.
This is literally the self-hosted community. I’m talking about self-hosted livestreaming platform. If you want to call it a blog + video, ok sure. Everything is basically a rehash of everything else. Just trying to share some self-hosted information. And I’m not the dev of Owncast or anything, just someone trying to make others aware of self-hosting software.
I’m not understanding what you’re stating. Me streaming a video game isn’t blogging. If you mean that there isn’t a list of folks all streaming, well there’s https://directory.owncast.com to find folks. If you mean only you can stream to it, well that’s not true as you can set up multiple stream keys and allow others to stream to it as well. So I’m really not understanding what you’re stating.
Nope. Full self hosted livestreaming. I personally use it to stream games. I started a communit at !owncast/lemmy.world and I’ve listed a few different streams. Some folks game, classic movies, music, etc. It’s your own self hosted Twitch or YT streaming, etc.
You CAN use OBS! I’ve started an Owncast community at [email protected] if you’d like to check it out. If you’re used to streaming to YT or Twitch or anything else, OBS is 100% the same, you just pointed it to your Owncast server. Obviously setting up the server is more work, but GabeK has made installation and configuration as easy as possible. It’s pretty awesome imo.
Awesome! TY! Who couldn’t use more lettuce eating lettuce in their life?
Now all we need is some fruit cannibalism and we’ll have a well rounded meal! :-D
Brilliant! Thank you so much for the recommendation! :-)
And already I’ve learned about referencing communities in Lemmy, thank you Mr. Lemmy bot, whoever you are.
And thank you to folks for helping me realize that I don’t have a clue how to create a post. URL OR Picture. Not both. :-D
This blog actually prompted me to set up a lemmy community [email protected] and I shared the blog there and just saw your post as well. :-D
I <3 the #fediverse and #owncast is such an amazing piece of it. Let’s take back the internet!
But you have a space in there. I don’t know how spaces are handled in fstab. You’ll either need to quote it or at least escape the space:
UUID=D4C0A66EC0A65710 ‘/media/lucky/New Volume’ ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000 0 0
OR
UUID=D4C0A66EC0A65710 /media/lucky/New\ Volume ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000 0 0
The space is absolutely an issue in fstab as it’s thinking “Volume” is the filesystem type and ntfs goes into your options, etc.
You’ve made a directory path literally called
/media/lucky/New Volume
?
That REALLY doesn’t seem like a good idea considering that *'s are wildcards for anything, and Linux isn’t really fond of spaces.
The error basically tells you that you have an error on line 18, which I’m assuming is this line you’re stating and that it’s ignored that line so that it can still go on and mount other things.
Most likely you’d want something like:
mkdir /media/lucky/NewVol
and then your fstab would be:
UUID=D4C0A66EC0A65710 /media/lucky/NewVol ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000 0 0
Also do you have a lib or something for linux to handle NTFS file system types? I haven’t run Windows in 17 years now, so I don’t have a clue if Linux can natively handle NTFS.
You can also run:
# lsblk
or
# blkid
to get the storage information and verify the storage UUID is correct.
I stream on Owncast and really enjoy it. One of the easiest installations I’ve ever had with software. And despite what lots of folks think you don’t need a million dollars to stream to groups of folks.
Full disclosure I run the [email protected] community and actively promote it on Matrix if anyone is interested or need help. :-D