Publive

Live HLS video streams hosted on Public Portals. PubLive is under heavy development, streaming will be much more easier in some weeks for non-tech users.

Explore streams: https://scp.techandsupply.ca

How to start stream

Download & extract the latest binaries from releases
Register a PubLive account and scheule a new stream.
Open command prompt and start the uploader with this command: "C:\\path\to\stream_hls.exe" --record_folder "C:\\path\to\record_here"
Enter the generated stream token from https://scp.techandsupply.ca/studio
Setup OBS (below) and start recording into the 'record_here' folder!

How to finish the stream

Click Stop recording in OBS
Wait for every segment uploaded
Close stream_hls.exe
Open https://scp.techandsupply.ca/studio and Finish the stream (after this, it will be seekable)

Setup OBS:

Download & config OBS

TL;DR: use the settings what you see below

Currently, there is a bug in OBS, so you can't record more than 14 chunks into m3u8 (tested on Win10 only). It is recommended to try it out on your system, maybe you can record more than 16 chunks (please write your experience in a comment. But while the issue is not fixed, we need to use the custom ffmpeg output:
- Output mode: Advanced
- Type: Custom output (FFmpeg)
  
  Without FFmpeg, the recording may be stuck after 14 or 33 chunks
- File path: .../Publive/record_here
  
  This is important, the python script will search for new files in 'record_here'
- Container format: hls
  
  It records small .ts chunks, compatible with HTTP Live Streaming
- Muxer settings: hls_time=10
  
  10 seconds chunks are acceptable - too large cause more delay, too small causes upload congestion.
- Video Encoder Settings: preset=veryfast
  
  Saves the CPU. Available presets: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo
  
  Try out some, but be careful: if you see this warning, viewers will experience buffering
- Under Settings -> Advanced -> Recording, change the Filename Formatting to live - that's enough (and important!)

Restream m3u8 from Youtube/Twitch

You can restream any public Youtube/Twitch stream to PubLive without any transcoding or screen recording. The stream_downloader.py will download live stream on-demand, so you can re-upload it to PubLive with stream_hls.py.

Usage:

cd C:\\path\to\PubLive

Start downloader:

stream_downloader.exe --url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5araSvvLI

Start uploader:

"C:\\path\to\stream_hls.exe" --record_folder "C:\\path\to\team_restream_0"

Other tricks, notes

Export HLS to mp4

After the stream, you can easily convert the .ts chunks into one mp4 file:

ffmpeg -i "http://host/folder/input.m3u8" -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy output.mp4

Optional: setup you own playlist server

Running a you-own PubLive portal needs PHP and MySQL. On Windows, I recommend wamp.net. The root directory of the website needs to be the server folder.
Copy server/config_default.php to server/config.php and change the settings.
Import publive.sql into MySQL.

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