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Owncast Self Hosted Live Streaming

Owncast Self Hosted Live Streaming ozoned • 2 weeks ago • 100%

So I was wondering the bandwidth usage of Owncast and started crunching some numbers. Then I happened to find that [@gabek@social.gabekangas.com](https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek) had already done the work. Article linked, but here's one of the examples: ## Example Scenario[#](https://owncast.online/docs/resources-requirements/#example-scenario) You’ve configured your broadcasting source (such as OBS) to stream to your Owncast instance at **5000kbps**. You have **25 viewers**. **5** of them are on slow or mobile networks, **17** of them have fast, stable internet, and **3** of them have fast internet most of the time but the speed fluctuates. All 25 viewers watched an entire stream that lasts two hours. You have a hosting provider that gives you 4TB of bandwidth per month. ### Offer a high and low quality option[](https://owncast.online/docs/resources-requirements/#offer-a-high-and-low-quality-option) You decide to offer both a high and low quality option, and you set the high quality option to 5000kbps and the low quality option to 1500kbps. **How much bandwidth is used on your server for this stream?** | Bitrate | Duration | Viewers | Total | | ----------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------- | ------------------------- | | 0.000625 Gigabytes per second (5000kbps) | 7200 seconds | 19 | 85 Gigabytes | | 0.0001875 Gigabytes per second (1500kbps) | 7200 seconds | 6 | 8.1 Gigabytes | | | | | **Total**: 93.1 Gigabytes | **How much CPU?** | Quality | CPU Usage | | -------- | ------------------------------------------------- | | 5000kbps | Some (It matches the input) | | 1500kbps | More (CPU needs to be used to compress the video) | **How is the viewer experience?** | Quality | Viewers | Experience | | -------- | ------- | ---------- | | 5000kbps | 20 | Good | | 1500kbps | 5 | Good | **Result**: You’ve provided both a high and low quality option for your viewers so those with a slow network have an option, and those with a fast network that might periodically slow down can dip down into the low quality when needed. Additionally, in this case you saved almost 20G of bandwidth traffic due to offering a lower quality. You’re using more CPU for a much better experience. You would be able to stream 43 times in a month before you hit your bandwidth limit.

Owncast Self Hosted Live Streaming ozoned • 8 months ago • 88%

Freedom, flexibility and fun. Taking back your live streams with Owncast. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sZMEuKI4Lpo

Freedom, flexibility and fun. Taking back your live streams with Owncast by Gabe Kangas Live internet video streaming isn't as complex and scary as it's made out to be. Let's talk about why you might want to run your own self-hosted live video streams using Owncast, and learn about how video streaming works along the way. During the session, we will create a live stream from scratch by installing Owncast, and find out what's needed to successfully offer a quality stream to your viewers, scaling it to a larger audience when needed. What is Owncast, and why would you want to use it to run a self-hosted live video stream? How does live video streaming work? What does it require? We will install and configure Owncast to create a live stream from scratch. Discuss chat, social, interactivity, and viewer engagement features to enable different levels of viewer participation. And we'll go over how to scale your video stream to a larger audience. Link to talk details and author bio: events.canonical.com/event/31/contributions/207/