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Re:Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams by mp85 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @10:57AM (#29450171)
Hello rexreed, thanks for the good tips, any idea is always well accepted.
Re:Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams by rexreed on Sunday December 05, 2021 @10:59AM (#29450190)
You got it! I'm always looking for an alternative to Zoom for webinars and webcasting. I usually stream from Zoom to another source where we can have thousands of attendees without having them all join the Zoom session. For MiroTalk to be a good alternative, it needs to support arbitrary RTMPS streaming. Also making sure that our presenters won't have ports blocked is a big issue.

I wish there was a better alternative to YouTube / Vimeo Live for big streaming though, but that might be a much harder thing to do given bandwidth constraints.

Re:Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams by maccolgan on Sunday December 05, 2021 @04:19PM (#29453381)
You can always use owncast in place of YT or Vimeo Live, with a S3-like service it's highly scalable.
Re:Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams by rexreed on Monday December 06, 2021 @10:54AM (#29461236)
Got me looking into it! Do you use OBS or a different RTMP streamer or just Owncast directly? I'm looking for more audience engagement in the form of polls, Q&A support as well as visual overlays such as bottom thirds, frames, etc.
Re:Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams by maccolgan on Monday December 06, 2021 @05:25PM (#29466500)
I use it alongside OBS and ffmpeg for automated streams, works well.