Re:Owncast is a self-hosted live video and web chat server
by throwaway81523 on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:09PM
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Can someone explain what makes this different from Jitsi, Nextcloud Chat, and other stuff of that sort? I get that this is a useful software category but it would be good to have a guide to what is what.
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Re:Owncast is a self-hosted live video and web chat server
by sbarre on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:52PM
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I think the goal here is to have an out of the box "self-hosted Twitch" experience.
Spin up their Docker container, connect it to a storage provider, and you're good to go.
Jitsi and Nextcloud are video conferencing solutions if I'm not mistaken, this is livestreaming.. A bit of a different model, where only the broadcaster is sending out video, and everyone else is just watching and maybe using the (text-based) chat room.
Re:Owncast is a self-hosted live video and web chat server
by remram on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:51PM
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Having a comparison of video chat platforms makes sense (Zoom, Jitsi, Nextcloud Chat), having a comparison of live-streaming platforms makes sense (Twitch, PeerTube, OwnCast). However those are really completely different.