Jetstream is live-streaming for the people. It doesn't sign you up, gather your data, ask for money, or drive engagement metrics. It just works, direct from the browser, with no setup required.
The video and audio is streamed using WebRTC to a Janus server that relays the stream to the viewers.
You can use the public jetstream instance at jetstream.club, or self-host it on your own server.
Usage should be self-explanatory: click the button and send the stream URL to your friends.
Clone this git repo on to your server:
$ git clone https://github.com/jes/jetstream
The HTML part is a static site, so you just need to expose this directory over HTTP.
Install Janus. Make sure you allow connections to it in your firewall.
Jetstream abuses the videoroom plugin in Janus. Perhaps one day it'll use a custom plugin, but it's not obvious that that would be better.
Some clients refuse to stream the webcam over an unencrypted link, so you'll want to use Let's Encrypt to get a certificate. Make sure you configure Janus to use the certificate as well.
server {
listen 80;
server_name jetstream.club www.jetstream.club;
location / {
rewrite ^(.*) https://jetstream.club$1 permanent;
}
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/jetstream.club/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/jetstream.club/privkey.pem;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1;
ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
server_name jetstream.club www.jetstream.club;
root /home/jes/jetstream;
index index.html;
}
There are a number of things that could stand to be improved:
- we'd want a way to find out how many viewers the stream has, and show this to both the publisher and the subscribers (may require a custom Janus plugin)
- when the publisher goes away and comes back (e.g. reloaded the browser), it would be handy if they were still publishing to the same room id
- when the publisher goes away and doesn't come back, it would be handy if the subscriber didn't refresh the page every few seconds forever
- what happens if the stream is really-high resolution? do we need to explicitly scale it down?
- better user experience on mobile, for both publishers and subscribers
- switch audio/video source mid-stream
- more detailed installation instructions (particularly regarding install and setup of Janus)
- make sure that malicious users can't publish to somebody else's room id
- let the publisher temporarily disable audio or video mid-stream
- shorter room ids (maybe short alpha-numeric strings like YouTube videos, maybe base58 of room id number would work?)
- let the subscribers view in full-screen
- let the subscribers know when the publisher has disappeared, instead of just freezing
Jetstream is a project by James Stanley. You can email me at james@incoherency.co.uk or contact me on Ricochet at ricochet:it2j3z6t6ksumpzd.