Question / Help Streaming to a personal website

[The Last Frontier]

Hi

A friend suggested to me that OBS might be a solution to our streaming issues but he was not sure on embedding the stream.

We have our own website and wanted to know if it's possible to embed the stream into the website or do we have to go through a 3rd party video site like YouTube to stream though as I know like YouTube for example wants us to jump through 20 hoops in order to embed their live streams so Hoping to avoid this if we can.

So can we stream over OBS directly to our website and if so what tools or set ups do we need other then OBS studio?

Thanks
Dave

 

[Tomasz Góral]

You need rtmp server, e.g. nginx-rtmp.

 

[The Last Frontier]

You need rtmp server, e.g. nginx-rtmp.

Hi

OK Being all new to this just going to ask as never did anything like this before.

Are either of these free and do most hosting packages for website support these or would these typically fall into a more options needed type hosting that would go above and beyond just your normal standard run of the mill hosting package?

Anything to consider regarding storage space? bandwidth is unmetered so .......

Thanks
Dave

 

[Tomasz Góral]

Yes, running your own streaming server requires knowledge.
YT makes it easy to start and control transmissions to the maximum, you do not have to worry about anything.
If you run your own streaming service, it would be good to know about programming if you're talking about nginx-rtmp, because it must be compiled, each server has limited bandwidth, that is, a certain number of people will be using a single server.
For example, PPV uses 5 to 50 servers based on nginx-rtmp. I wrote the appropriate transmission management software myself.

 

[The Last Frontier]

OK this sounds like I would be way in over my head as my level of programming knowledge is barely enough for a little CSS and PHP edit on top of general HTML.

Would there be any suggestions you might have for some website like youtube or facebook live that offer free streaming that make it simple for a non programmer to simply embed a live feed free like on youtube?

Facebooks been censoring the heck out of us so no good and YouTube just wants us to jump through too many hoops to have the embed feature available to us so trying to find a good simple solution to run a live stream on our website for about 1.5 hours each evening occasionally 2.5 but mostly about 1.5 hours each night. Just need some live video host that is hopefully free and offers us the option to embed the stream without having all the hassle of youtube or the censorship of Facebook.