Would this support streaming? What about multiple outputs?
A bunch of gamers have issues live streaming to youtube and twitch. Each requires special (different) encoding parameters for streaming, and youtube needs each resolution streamed separately. This, along with separate streams for twitch and youtube murders most people's bandwidth not to mention a home computer's encoding capacity.
Most of the time they end up choosing only one site and a specific resolution and miss out on a large portion of their fan base. (People have a wide range of quality preferences/bandwidth requirements, in addition to being on different sites.)
Someone should use this to build a super easy multi-output streaming transcoder for youtube / twitch.tv / etc.
> ...have issues live streaming to youtube and twitch. Each requires special (different) encoding parameters for streaming, and youtube needs each resolution streamed separately. This, along with separate streams for twitch and youtube...
This isn't a sales pitch so much as an offer to chat about it and see if we could help turn a service we provide into a product that meets this need.
For years we've provided this as a "private label" service to major media companies that need to provide one single broadcast quality live stream and have it delivered to thousands or hundreds of thousands of end users on Windows and OSX (RTMP), Android (RTSP), and iOS (HLS), in bitrates ranging from 300 kbps to 6 megabits, while also pushing the full array of bitrates to YouTube, Hulu, etc.
The problem is that this is not cheap. Pulling it off with low latency and across a full array of formats and protocols tends to require dedicated hardware (depends on the source material, talking heads easier than sports, for example). But our approach does cost significantly less than trying to use AWS instances, and if the community of broadcasters or viewers was large enough, it might make sense for us to open up this private label service to individuals.
Feel free to ping me if someone wants to talk about it.
A bunch of gamers have issues live streaming to youtube and twitch. Each requires special (different) encoding parameters for streaming, and youtube needs each resolution streamed separately. This, along with separate streams for twitch and youtube murders most people's bandwidth not to mention a home computer's encoding capacity.
Most of the time they end up choosing only one site and a specific resolution and miss out on a large portion of their fan base. (People have a wide range of quality preferences/bandwidth requirements, in addition to being on different sites.)
Someone should use this to build a super easy multi-output streaming transcoder for youtube / twitch.tv / etc.