Post #970741
2026-04-05 12:58 UTC
Owncast already mentioned, and while it’s good, it doesn’t achieve real-time streaming like discord does. It’s more of a twitch replacement for streamers with an actual audience thanks to it’s ActivityPub support (in that people on stuff like mastodon can “subscribe” to the server).
MatrixRTC is still new and while it’s already being used to provide voice channels in clients like element, cinny and commet, as of now none of them can stream gameplay with audio.
For this I’m currently using Broadcast-box. Self-hostable, but the dev also provides a public instance.
It uses WHIP to stream over WebRTC (OBS is compatible) to achieve less than half second latency. More than fast enough to feel like “real-time” if in a voice-chat with friends. And you can push the video quality past what any platform like youtube, twitch or discord will allow.
Replies (2)
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@emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2026-04-05 13:23
Sweet! Thanks for the recommendations!
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@jay@mbin.zerojay.com 2026-04-05 16:22
Owncast seems to do just fine for real-time streaming here...?