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42 sats \ 10 replies \ @siggy47 29 Dec 2024 \ on: Stacker Saloon
To @DarthCoin or other stackers familiar with zap.stream, I'm poking around and want to start using it. Some basic questions:
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Can you both upload videos and stream? How do you do this?
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Any hints for best performance? I can watch on my laptop, but can't seem to access the site on my graphene pixel.
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opinions on its potential?
- zap.stream is both for streaming and uploading. for streaming is like 5sat/min. For uploading videos, idk, didn't try it yet. I think is also a paid service because is using other CDNs like nostr.build (that now is full paid service).
- Depend also the stream bandwidth, VPN. Try with different browsers on mobile. Firefox should be the most compatible.
- it have potential as alternative to YT, but is just starting.
There are also other CDN alternatives like:
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Thanks for the info. Do you need to turn off a vpn for mobile?
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Not really. I use it with VPN and worked fine.
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Are you basically using it to watch videos, or are you streaming too? I would like to eventually start using my server for uploading videos to a (nostr based?) uncensorable platform for backup and to keep them available for others.
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I would like to eventually start using my server for uploading videos
You mean to have your own CDN ? If you have a good bandwidth and a fix public IP (or some kind of DynDNS service), then yes, you can use it.
I use to have it like that with my own NAS, but only for private stuff, not public.
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Yes, I remember we talked about it. I still have my old synology NAS hooked up.
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Yes that is enough and can work really nice as a personal CDN.
But you have to link it to a subdomain and open a SSL port on your router, fw to your NAS machine.
Then just create the file service folder for all your media and use it directly from there, using the direct links.
If you do not have a fix public IP, you can use the Synology DynDNS service, with their domain.
Can be used also a direct IP, without domain, but you would need a fix one.
You maybe be able to use a cloudflare CDN with your nas, you need to configure a reverse proxy.
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I feel like the whole nostr thing still has me confused. Let's say you host a relay just for your use, and post notes with embedded videos hosted on your server. If your server goes down, will everything be lost? Other relays will start picking up your notes, but won't upload the videos, correct?
You can watch zap.stream on amethyst in their live section
I use OBS with zap.stream to play songs from my wavlake catalogue and it works fine.
Zap.stream is cool, I heard about some other guys trying to be the youtube competitor, flare.pub is barely being maintained last I checked.
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