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8chan Broadcasting Service Codexx Root 11/17/2020 (Tue) 09:20:00 Id:3ae7e9 No. 1519
This is the official support thread for https://watch.8ch.moe/ What is this site? A place for anons to stream anything they'd like. You can stream any video you'd like, and users can join chat anonymously. Streams can also be embedded elsewhere for easy sharing. Chat is built around XMPP, so you can connect with any Jabber client. Streams are generic RTMP streams, so you can connect and view them directly. For example, you can watch a stream in VLC instead of on the website. What can't it do? So far, no emotes/images in the chat. This should be available soon. Theme support is poor. The site can have one global theme. User-selectable themes and channel-specific CSS coming soon. The site supports uploading videos and storing clips, but these features are currently disabled. If there's strong interest, I can make it available, but I'd need a way to pay for storage space. Why should I use this? The goal is to provide anons with an easy, convenient way to get a media stream. Other sites actively police uploads to enforce "community guidelines". It can be inconvenient to share some media as a result. The site isn't working well! Leave a reply here describing the problem. If you're having performance issues, I can help diagnose. If the site is being used heavily and begins to struggle, I can download more RAM to make it go faster. I'll be doing some streams myself in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for announcements.
Anonymous 11/21/2020 (Sat) 00:08:19 Id:5acf6d No. 1548
How do you stream?
Anonymous 11/21/2020 (Sat) 00:27:38 Id:7c0bdc No. 1549
>>1548 Create an account, and then a channel. Each account can host multiple channels. Then, visit your channels page and select the channel you want to stream on. It should expand into a network graph. Look for the settings gear on the left. This page will provide a stream link and key. The format is rtmp://watch.8ch.moe/stream/[stream key]. You can drop that into anything that supports streaming media. OBS is the obvious example, but I've been doing my test streams just using FFMPEG. I believe the encoding must be H.264 MP4. It's recommended you set there to be 1 keyframe per second. Once you start streaming, it will automatically go live.
Anonymous 11/23/2020 (Mon) 05:02:10 Id:000000 No. 1551
Streams don't seem to load over any tor connections.
Anonymous 11/24/2020 (Tue) 08:21:16 Id:7c0bdc No. 1555
>>1551 I haven't done any testing with Tor and can't guarantee it will work. There's very little information on sending RTMP streams through Tor. What little I can find implies it is possible, but it might require streams sending at a lower bitrate. Enabling adaptive bitrates might solve this. I'll do some testing in the near future to see if I can identify the problem and get Tor working, but since streaming is high-bandwidth and requires low latency, I can't promise I'll ever get it working 100%.
Acid Board owner 11/24/2020 (Tue) 09:06:55 Id:eda604 No. 1556
>>1551 >>1555 I did a bunch of research into this a while back while considering a censorship-proof, tor-based youtube type site. The max average streaming bandwidth you have over tor is ~300kbps. It can be done, but its gonna be hard.
Anonymous 11/24/2020 (Tue) 13:09:31 Id:000000 No. 1559
>>1555 >>1556 It seems to be working more or less fine now. Probably some stupid tor node bullshit. I recalled watching Mark's election night stream just fine over tor so it was weird it wasn't working.
Anonymous 11/25/2020 (Wed) 09:35:45 Id:c99df7 No. 1567
Can you stream vidya?
Anonymous 11/25/2020 (Wed) 16:49:06 Id:ee3e3f No. 1569
>>1559 Well I'm glad it's working. I still can't guarantee it'll always work, especially not for every stream, but I'm glad it's working sometimes. >>1567 You can stream anything you'd like. OBS works with it out of the box. It's recommended to set it to 1 keyframe every second because this is what the server is optimized for. It works just like any other streaming service. You're welcome to stream anything that doesn't violate US law.
Anonymous 11/26/2020 (Thu) 07:29:33 Id:200d71 No. 1572
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>>1569 How should the settings look exactly I'm still not sure if I'm doing it right. My stream looks a bit better than it did at first with these settings that i got to through some trial and error but i still don't know what I'm doing could be missing something obvious because i haven't really done much streaming. The most annoying thing was the color, in my preview the color looks perfect but in the stream itself the color was slightly off. In the game the red of some outfits looked orange and for anime the colors were a bit more saturated and maybe darker. Not sure if it was actually an issue or my eyes are playing tricks on me or it is the monitor i had the stream on.
Anonymous 11/26/2020 (Thu) 14:51:53 Id:ee3e3f No. 1580
>>1572 As far as I know, the server isn't doing anything to video streams. I'd compare the preview side-by-side with the stream on the same monitor to verify colors are different. If there's a difference from your source file, the issue is probably with OBS. I'd cap the bitrate at 3500 Kbps, which is what the server' is (supposed to be) capped at, and maybe disable Psycho Visual Tuning in case it's playing with color values. But changing the bitrate and keyframes really shouldn't affect color that much. It sounds a lot more like a difference between two monitors. My secondary monitor is washed out and has terrible color reproduction, but it's not obvious until I compare something on both.
Anonymous 11/27/2020 (Fri) 09:23:26 Id:89390f No. 1582
I surprise how easy it is to set it up.
Anonymous 11/28/2020 (Sat) 08:22:32 Id:187cd6 No. 1584
I went ahead and created a board specifically for listing/shilling your channel, organizing events etc. Please come visit >>>/watch/!
Anonymous 12/04/2020 (Fri) 15:52:43 Id:1128de No. 1617
Is there a way to disable the chat box, I'd like to watch some movies with some anons but we don't want to use the chat box for complete anonymity.
Anonymous 12/04/2020 (Fri) 22:45:54 Id:62ee78 No. 1618
Its be careful with how you do emotes/images, cytube has run into a bit of potential security concerns with whatever ranging file hosts. Maybe whitelist it outright to known legit hosts.
Anonymous 12/04/2020 (Fri) 22:49:03 Id:c7efe0 No. 1619
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>>1617 The chat was disabled by default for me had to tun it on.
Anonymous 12/08/2020 (Tue) 21:41:09 Id:95ab03 No. 1627
The 8chan stream service says 500 internal server error.
Anonymous 12/08/2020 (Tue) 21:45:47 Id:27422f No. 1628
>>1627 I was just about to say the same. I paused the stream and said something on mic in case it was still working for some. According to OBS I'm still streaming. I noticed everyone suddenly left so i refreshed thinking it had to be an error then I got the 500.
Anonymous 12/09/2020 (Wed) 00:00:09 Id:023dd0 No. 1629
>>1627 >>1628 I have rebooted the server and doubled the toaster's power as a precautionary measure. I'll dig through the laws and try to figure out what happened.
Anonymous 12/09/2020 (Wed) 00:10:31 Id:023dd0 No. 1630
>>1627 >>1628 >>1629 The software relies on Redis, and it ran out of memory. I've allocated more RAM to the VPS and rebooted. Should be fine for another couple months at least. Since the site has a decent following, I'll look into building my own hardware for it. This will allow higher bitrates and adaptive streaming, among other features.
Anonymous 12/09/2020 (Wed) 12:24:51 Id:000000 No. 1631
I don't know if it's possible to delist sites of your own accord from search engines but I'd consider doing it if possible. The DMCA sniffers corporations have are getting increasingly advanced and now scan livestreams in real time on (((twitch))) for any (((copyrighted))) music and take instantly submit takedown requests when they detect anything. At some point you could see them even submitting auto takedowns over copyrighted images and shit.
Anonymous 12/09/2020 (Wed) 16:06:38 Id:45ff1b No. 1633
The "forgot password" page only send me to 500 error page when I finished input my email address
Anonymous 12/09/2020 (Wed) 17:37:13 Id:45ff1b No. 1634
>>1633 And no email send to the address
Anonymous 12/11/2020 (Fri) 10:30:32 Id:7c0bdc No. 1637
>>1633 Forgot to reconfigure that after the last install. Give me a bit to map it to an SMTP server. >>1631 I can add a robots.txt that asks scrapers to not visit. Scrapers can choose to visit anyways. I'll go ahead and do so. And possibly add user agent detection so their bots need to deliberately fake being a user.
Anonymous 12/15/2020 (Tue) 22:09:37 Id:e86373 No. 1709
I don't know how easy it would be to implement but i think a theater mode like twitch has would be nice.
Anonymous 12/16/2020 (Wed) 02:45:42 Id:b1472f No. 1710
>>1519 Is the software behind watch.8chan.moe open source? Willing to contribute and interested in running my own instance.
Anonymous 12/16/2020 (Wed) 03:23:36 Id:055ea0 No. 1711
>>1710 Yes. I didn't write it but am working on my own contributions to push upstream. You can find their website here: https://openstreamingplatform.com/ (https://archive.is/8uiHv) And their github is here: https://gitlab.com/Deamos/flask-nginx-rtmp-manager Unfortunately, their developer chat is in (((Discord))), so be aware they might expect you to communicate through that. >>1709 This might be possible to add via the theme manager. >>1633 >>1634 >>1637 Still haven't configured SMTP; my apologies. Webring took up most of my time this week. I'll work on improving this service soon.
Anonymous 12/16/2020 (Wed) 11:34:02 Id:b1472f No. 1719
>>1711 Awesome, thanks.
Anonymous 12/22/2020 (Tue) 19:41:14 Id:27422f No. 1779
Its been brought up by some viewers a couple times that they'd like quality options since they have poo internet and can't always stream source. I think 2 options should probably do it. Source quality and 480p.
Anonymous 12/23/2020 (Wed) 18:41:43 Id:d690ec No. 1786
>>1779 I've enabled Adaptive Streaming, so it should now try to provide multiple streams. Let me know if it's not working, or if the toaster explodes from the stress.
Anonymous 12/24/2020 (Thu) 03:35:57 Id:287d07 No. 1799
>>1779 >>1786 Adaptive streaming has been disabled once again. The server has enough horsepower for about 2 streams and that's it. 3 pushes it to 100% CPU. I need hardware with a dedicated GPU or a much beefier CPU. I'll see if I can tweak it to only generate one alternative bitrate per stream, which might keep things manageable.
Anonymous 12/29/2020 (Tue) 23:54:37 Id:ad646d No. 1829
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500 Internal Server error during UT stream.
Anonymous 12/30/2020 (Wed) 03:46:26 Id:b3a3b9 No. 1832
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>>1799 Twitch does some major dangling transcoding at streamers with partnering, affiliates, and other sketchy garbage they hide. Maybe just a live viewer count # trigger would be acceptable.
Anonymous 01/01/2021 (Fri) 22:06:45 Id:27422f No. 1849
Clicking the "my channels" leads to a 500 internal server error been like this since the whole site died a couple days ago and haven't been able to get to my settings to grab my stream key since i changed my settings in OBS for twitch and when i tried to switch back the settings for streaming here they had reset.
Anonymous 01/01/2021 (Fri) 23:36:51 Id:9902a1 No. 1850
>>1849 This sometimes happens when the chat module fails. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It was working when I brought the server up, but sometimes it just fails. I'll try kicking it once the Uncommon Time stream is over for the night.
Anonymous 01/02/2021 (Sat) 11:24:40 Id:9902a1 No. 1851
>>1849 >>1850 The chat daemon has been slapped and should behave now. At least, I can access my channel list again. If you continue to have problems, let me know.
Anonymous 01/16/2021 (Sat) 22:37:16 Id:fefe0f No. 1889
Is there a way to link 8ch streams to cytube?
Anonymous 01/17/2021 (Sun) 12:26:59 Id:9c2494 No. 1891
>>1889 Yes. From a channel's page, find the "Share" option (can be in different places depending on if chat is enabled or not) and there should be an iFrame Embed option. Copy that. On Cytube, there is an "Embed iFrame" option next to the Embed Media button. Paste the HTML you copied earlier and it should embed. There are some issues with scrollbars. You can fix these with CSS by disabling overflow. Might also be able to reduce the size of the embedded object a little by playing with the width and height parameters. It seems like Cytube expects a particular size and the streaming platform defaults to one slightly too large.
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