anonstream/STREAMING.md

Tor

Install tor and include these lines in your torrc:

HiddenServiceDir $PROJECT_ROOT/hidden_service
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:5051

but replace $PROJECT_ROOT with the folder you cloned the git repo into.

Then reload tor. If everything went well, the directory will have been created and your onion address will be in $PROJECT_ROOT/hidden_service/hostname.

OBS Studio

Install OBS Studio. If the autoconfiguration wizard prompts you to choose a third-party service, ignore it since we're not gonna be doing that.

Click Settings and set these:

• Advanced
  • Recording
    • Filename Formatting: stream
• Video
  • Output (Scaled) Resolution: 960x540 or lower
• Output
  • Output Mode: Advanced
  • Recording:

    Type	Custom Output (FFmpeg)
    FFmpeg Output Type	Output to File
    File path or URL	same as config.toml: segments/directory (but should be an absolute path)
    Container Format	hls
    Muxer Settings (if any)	hls_init_time=0 hls_time=2 hls_list_size=120 hls_flags=delete_segments hls_segment_type=fmp4
    Video bitrate	420 Kbps or lower
    Keyframe interval (frames)	30 (same as the framerate, or exactly half)
    Video Encoder	libx264, or an H.264 hardware encoder (e.g. h264_nvenc for Nvidia, see here)
    Audio Bitrate	96 Kbps
    Audio Encoder	aac

Then click OK.

That's it. To start streaming click Start Recording.

Because of the muxer settings we used, segments older than four minutes will be constantly deleted. When you stop streaming, the last four minutes worth of segments will remain the segments directory. You can delete them if you want. When you're not streaming you can delete everything in the segments directory and it'll be fine.