Hi All,

This coming Friday my partner will be interviewing Dr Richard M Stallman, President and founder of the Free Software Foundation.

Getting Dr Stallman to agree to this interview has been...interesting. He insists on only using free software, and not forcing the audience to use non-free software to watch.

He finds a baseline installation of Jitsi Meet an acceptable video conference solution.

The fact that I use vMix is no issue, but we can't use YouTube Live as is our habit. Nor can we use H264.

So, I'm hunting for a streaming solution. Has anyone ever setup to stream using OGG Theora, Daala, VP8 or WebM?

Thanks,
Michael

Nimble is proprietary software

Live555 is open source but it's RTSP only (and I wouldn't be confident if I had to use on short notice)
http://www.live555.com/mediaServer/

Red5 is apache licence. I never got it working. Not even sure it could ingest free codecs...
https://github.com/Red5/red5-server

Open source version of Mist is not accepting such codecs...

???

Tough one...

We're just now thinking about this. We're trying to leverage some experience/acquaintances in various parts of the open source world to find a solution.

We're consulting with some people at CCC in Germany who have deep experience in this area. Also the folks at May First, who were recommended by Dr. Stallman.

We will have Jitsi Meet connected to an audio conference bridge. That provides a live audio-only participation (SIP or telephone) and a live audio stream. We do that routinely.

Given that time is short, we may end up just using vMix to make a local recording and not stream the video at all.

Here's a short update on what we've settled upon using for the discussion with Dr Richard Stallman on May 26th

1. We have NGINX running on a VM along with MOD_RTMP.

2. The virtual webcam in vMix feeds one end of a Jitsi Video Bridge conference. It primarily delivers the program opening sequence.

3. Jitsi Video Bridge will have 5-6 participants connected.

4. OBS Studio captures the JVB monitor, feeding it to the nginx server. It also makes a local recording.

5. Audience who wants to view the stream live will use VLC to connect to the rtmp feed relayed by the nginx server. THE URI (RTMP://BLAH.BLAH) will be on our web site just before the session begins.

6. The Jitsi Video bridge session will also be connected to our usual audio conference, so people can participate via telephone.

It all works reasonably well. The latency incurred by the relay through nginx and mod_rtmp is only a second or two. Much less than the latency typical of using YouTube.

Since the VM is not processing the media, only relaying it, it's CPU load is miniscule.

We had this all ready to go last week, but Dr. Stallman was in a location with poor connectivity. So we rescheduled to this coming Friday when he'll be back at MIT.

Yes, that would be nice. We've not had a chance work out exactly how this would be done. JW Player looks like a possibility, but only the commercial version seems suitable. For a one-time event we're not able to go that route. Dr Stallman insists on OSS licensing for everything we use.

Can you suggest an alternative?



The VM is being handled by one of our team in the UK. I don't think that the nginx/mod_rtmp combination is doing any media processing. If that's true then it will simply relay the stream, which is 720p30 @ 2 mbps.

We only expect about 20-30 live viewers, so it should have adequate bandwidth. It's in a co-location facility in London.

I'll be sending the stream to nginx from my location in Houston. I've noted that 2 mbps is the best I can do without starting to drop frames in OBS. I'm on Comcast business class at 50/10, but I only get a measured 7-8 mbps upload.

JVB is 100% peer-to-peer so it's bandwidth requirements increase with the number of participants in the session.