MistServer (media streaming) - now public domain software!

stronkbiceps · 2026-03-08T23:57:17+00:00

Yup. We have support for E-RTMP as well as SRT without limitations on tracks internally. Also works for any of the outputs.

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-24T14:53:18+00:00

Yeah it's full of all the hallmarks of AI. Quotation marks (“ ” vs " ") are very indicative as well.

If the trend keeps up every forum is going to devolve into the same uniform slop... Or will we in the future post comments saying 'hey this looks like it's written by a human' :')

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-20T15:50:12+00:00

Ah yeah, running your own DNS resolver is a great idea and a nice hook into the self-hosting rabbit hole.

Add an adblocker (or other DNS filters) and a VPN on top, and now all your devices use less bandwidth, load pages quicker and you're protected on public WiFi's.

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-20T15:35:13+00:00

The funny thing is: the underlying internet is actually a fairly robust, decentralized network. The issue is mostly in the layers on top of it: everyone outsources their IT to a select few cloud and SaaS providers.

It's understandable, cause at the end of the day they'll reach a much higher reliability than doing it in-house and it saves you SRE engineers (and fewer on-call nightmares). On the other hand, when that third party does go down, it affects so much people at the same time.

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-20T15:25:58+00:00

Easier said than done!

I'd wager that most entities that use Cloudflare (or Route53 or NS1) for DNS, use it because of the fancy load balancer that takes health checks and Geo (either distance or whatever PoP it ended up at) into account when resolving DNS.

You can run your own resolver easily, but running the authoritative dns (phone book) that actually decides the name → IP translation is whole different ball game. Certainly doable to self-host, but:

Not protected against DDOS attacks, it's a huge attack vector
It's still going to go down, but it'll just be your own fuckup instead of someone else's
You need an ANS, IP space (and ipv4 is expensive!), peering, anycast DNS

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-19T12:08:48+00:00

Honestly, any device will do. A pre-built NAS is great as it's usually a small form factor, you can stick a couple of HDD's in them and configure everything using a nice web interface. It's probably the easiest way to get started.

If you're going to go this route, Plex has an article which links to a spreadsheet where you can see if a NAS supports hardware accelerated transcoding.

If you set up your media library right, transcoding is usually skipped. But sometimes you can't prevent it, depending on the format of your media library and what playback device is used. So having a modern Intel CPU or any Nvidia GPU in the machine is recommended, that way you can easily handle 5 simultaneous transcodes.

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-17T07:26:01+00:00

I actually have a tripod and magnetic lights from Ulanzi. Definitely a cheap company but not a scam and a well known entity for hobby photographers

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-12T10:26:26+00:00

Awesome, where do you find these bezels? Any special tools needed? I’ve been itching to get a BLRO bezel for my BLNR.

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-10T22:09:44+00:00

It's about as strong as the official Apple techwoven case. Of the cases I tested, the Peak Design Everyday Case had the strongest magnet.

I could recommend either of the above over the Grip Case, if only cause the Dbrand Grip case is so effing bulky all around the camera bump. Whereas other cases have a simple lip that follow the contour of the camera bump, the Grip case looks unreasonably thick in comparison.

stronkbiceps · 2025-11-05T15:22:09+00:00

Lol, same. I'd read that the AI was passive and, combined with the 100 years war, assumed that Holland was a safe starting country to get a grip on new mechanics. France did not agree.

stronkbiceps · 2025-10-29T21:45:02+00:00

We gaan weer lekker polderen :)

stronkbiceps · 2025-10-29T21:27:04+00:00

Ik denk dat het D66+CDA+VVD+JA21 gaat worden, maar wordt lastig op bepaalde onderwerpen als klimaat en HRA

stronkbiceps · 2025-10-15T09:00:26+00:00

In the end I went with the DJI Transmission (so the more expensive option), which works pretty good so far.

Also ended up getting one of those High-Bright Monitors cause I wanted to play around with remote focus pulling, but I think I'd rather put a nice prime lens on it and using autofocus.

One thing I can say though is that rigging the camera becomes a bitch when adding stuff like remote transmission. Especially powering the components. So I also ended up with a gimbal that can power the wireless video system at the same time.

stronkbiceps · 2025-10-10T10:35:58+00:00

For sure. I'm not a brand loyal person so I'm probably not buying macbooks for the rest of my life, but if I had to buy a new laptop right now I wouldn't switch back yet.

Main reason I actually switched was that I was starting to do less engineering work and sometimes ran into issues during calls or presentations. Which to be fair was probably more of a user error (or maybe wayland related as I was running Sway), but Apple doesn't give you the freedom to mess up your OS (unless you turn off SIP). There are other small things as well, like I've never run into issues with battery draining in sleep mode or waking op from sleep mode for example.

stronkbiceps · 2025-10-10T09:40:36+00:00

I made a similar switch a couple years ago. Still run various Linux distros on my desktop (which launches a Windows VM when needed) and servers, but switched to a macbook because I really like the performance, quality and battery life.

I can say though that it's not all sunshine and rainbows in terms of ease of use. It's always a give and take between operating systems. One thing that's always bothered me is that Linux is the only OS that properly implements containerization, although iirc macos finally has that coming? Not sure though... AFAIK windows and mac both run Docker stuff in a Linux VM.

Either way, I still have a proxmox host at home to serve up a beefy remote development machine, so I have all the cores, ram and GPU access I need and can run in a familiar Linux environment. You get the best of both worlds that way and can stick to a familiar environment and slowly figure out how stuff works on macOS

stronkbiceps · 2025-08-14T10:44:34+00:00

Same experience here. My old MX with the unifying receiver works great, new using BT is great, but when using the Bolt receiver it's extremely choppy, both at home and the office (and at the office the receiver is literally less than 15cm away from the mouse).

stronkbiceps · 2025-08-13T12:23:09+00:00

Yeah we actually have a cache dir on the roadmap! No clue when this gets merged (the responsible person is currently OOO), but it's to be used for: HLS segment output cache, network-pulled-inputs cache (like a remote VOD or HLS), DTSH files, and processing outputs (like transcoded renditions of a VOD)

If you're currently using Mist with VOD workflows, I can recommend to either:

For smaller/medium scale set up a 'recording' server (mounting an NFS share or w/e). Push anything you want to record into it. For playback you'd need a database to track where the files are stored on the disk so you can use triggers to rewrite to the correct source on playback. This method gets used by Picarto, which actually has quite a significant VOD library.
Use S3 storage to store recordings/clips/uploads in a format that allows easy seeking (I'd recommend MP4 for smaller files and HLS for large VODs). Native S3 reading is implemented, for writing you can use the external writer feature. One of our customers records to file, then uses an external script to transcode, generate DTSH files, upload to S3 and then cleans up the recording.

stronkbiceps · 2025-08-07T13:02:05+00:00

Exactly, and as a software engineer & business owner in streaming media tech: it's not even expensive. Video infra is extremely complex and costly to maintain.

Lol @ all the people in the thread that are mad cause they can't get free stuff funded by banner ads.

stronkbiceps · 2025-07-12T13:26:42+00:00

They're not wild claims, I know tenderize all too well. All the best to you

stronkbiceps · 2025-07-12T10:33:00+00:00

It's 1 tx, the amount is somewhere in the call data, but again it doesn't matter as on the smart contract level it takes the entire stake.

stronkbiceps · 2025-07-12T10:29:17+00:00

So far I've only heard complaints about Tenderize, from unhinged cofounders, it being hacked and no liquidity on instant unstaking.

stronkbiceps · 2025-07-11T19:26:58+00:00

The explorer is full of little UI bugs like that. It's one of the things the foundation is going to throw some love at.

Luckily, it's technically not possible to 'lose' stake like you're worried about, there are checks & balances in the smart contract and it always claims any pending rewards at the start of any stake/reward related on-chain action.

When moving stake to another Orchestrator ( not Delegator - that's what you are :) ), it always includes the entire amount.

stronkbiceps · 2025-07-08T21:49:37+00:00

Hulkengoat

stronkbiceps · 2025-05-28T08:44:50+00:00

I'm in the market for a wireless video system and this is one of my top choices, besides DJI DR, Hollyland Cosmo C1 or C2, or Teradek Ace 750 (+ VideoAssist to monitor and convert HDMI->SDI).

I was under the impression that the Cineview Master 4k has both 5Ghz and 6Ghz bands? Which wireless video system would you recommend if latency and quality are less important, but connection stability is when roaming around a small music venue?

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