as if the technology is what makes livestream services difficult anyways lmao
it’s just expensive as shit because it involves a lot of dataA lot of data throughput and buffer just for ingesting and distributing the live streams themselves, technical and business administration to keep things running, moderation to ensure compliance with content laws and data protection regulation, and then there’s still all the other fancy features major platforms offer if you want to compete for users.
Multiple resolution options with server-side rescaling for users with slower connections? Graphics computing power.
Store past broadcasts? Massive amounts of data storage capacity.
Social features? Even more moderation.And we haven’t even touched on the monetary issue of “How do you pay for all that?” and all its attached complexity. You could be running the nicest platform in the world, but without any funding, it won’t run very long.
So it I cut the server-side rescaling, target just the developed countries, skip moderation and don’t store broadcasts, it should be easy? Noted.
The FFmpeg team is pretty based: https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178803129602500
I appreciate they know the value of their work and criticize companies for their ridiculous exploitation and underpayment of open source devs, as well as claiming open source libraries as their own work.
It’s always ffmpeg under the hood
my company in a nutshell.
we made up a shitty name and a shittier AI logo for whats essentially an off the shelf white label appliance we configure a little different.
Does anyone not use ffmpeg at this point?
FFmpeg
For them it’s just “the code”
