Hacker News Reader

Comment by est31 | Hacker News Reader

Hosting live video in a scalable way is a much harder challenge than just showing it once somewhere. But it would have been cool to have a summary video of one day/night cycle, travelling around the world, maybe at 10x-100x acceleration. A one-time video also probably creates less legal issues as you can review and cull the footage (IANAL).

View on HN

Can't you just put it on Twitch/YouTube?

Hmm yeah good point. Thought that you'd need to have at least $n many subscribers to be able to live stream on youtube but seems they've lifted the restriction since.

There is a limit 12 hours for verified youtube account. 1 hour for non-verified. Perhaps twitch.

There's always options like https://joinpeertube.org/ or https://webtorrent.io/

Last time I checked, peertube doesn't do livestreaming. Has that changed? Based on the name, can I assume that webtorrent also does not?

"But it would have been cool to have a summary video of one day/night cycle, travelling around the world, maybe at 10x-100x acceleration."?

How does livestreaming works through torrent? What about latency?

> Hosting live video in a scalable way is a much harder challenge than

Totally. It requires figuring out and setting up arcane software such as Darwin Streaming Server, or Nimble Streamer, something like Quicktime Broadcaster, and Apache2, and also requires massive hardware resources, like a server for broadcasting, a server for shooting, and a webserver... that could be anywhere from one to two entire machines. That the WWW works at all is somewhat of a miracle. What webdevs do is more like brain surgery than anything else. ><

Reply on news.ycombinator.com