Live internet video streaming isn't as complex and scary as it's made out to be. Let's talk about why you might want to run your own self-hosted live video streams using Owncast, and learn about how video streaming works along the way.

During the session, we will create a live stream from scratch by installing Owncast, and find out what's needed to successfully offer a quality stream to your viewers, scaling it to a larger audience when needed.

What is Owncast, and why would you want to use it to run a self-hosted live video stream?
How does live video streaming work? What does it require?
We will install and configure Owncast to create a live stream from scratch.
Discuss chat, social, interactivity, and viewer engagement features to enable different levels of viewer participation.
And we'll go over how to scale your video stream to a larger audience.

Link to talk details and author bio: events.canonical.com/event/31/contributions/207/

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[–] ozoned 2 points 6 months ago

Happy t help! If you have any questions feel free to post here or check my profile to email, microblog, matrix, or DM me here. :-D