Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to stream live video, privately?

Commercial services: * Mux.com * Vimeo Pro

Open source: https://github.com/cannonbeach/ott-packager

If self-hosting, ensure you're using a CDN, serving video from a web server to an audience will eat bandwidth and compute in no time.

If you're open to self hosting I would look into bigbluebutton. It's a open source web conference service, easy to install, realtime chat with presentation, screen share and external media support. Clients run completely in browser so no extra software needed there

Matrix just got video streams, but i don't know if it is usable in that way. nginx has an rtmp module for selfmade streaming. A rtmp endpoint takes the media from your pc and saves it to disk and another part of nginx takes it and makes it available over http hls/dash. Of course you could use rtmp itself for streaming, so that it acts as an bouncer.

OBS Ninja: https://vdo.ninja/v5/