OBS-studio-webrtc vs hls-server

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OBS-studio-webrtc		hls-server
	Project
5	Mentions	1
573	Stars	241
1.7%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.6
30 days ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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OBS-studio-webrtc

Posts with mentions or reviews of OBS-studio-webrtc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-20.

What is WHIP? Intro to WebRTC Streaming Part 1
2 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2023

For those of you who are overwhelmed with the official IETF document, WHIP (sometimes known as WISH) is an open standard that you can use right now for your WebRTC based ingestion. You can use it today with open source software such as GStreamer or OBS (fork) as a way to publish your content with WebRTC.
Using NDI in your Real Time Live Streaming Production Workflow
1 project | dev.to | 7 Nov 2022

Download the OBS WebRTC publisher
Looking for self hosted screen sharing/streaming solution
19 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Sep 2022

There are a few other WebRTC based solutions. There's a fork of OBS that allows streaming out using WebRTC. I think that only supports millicast.com, which I believe is not open source. There are a few other servers that handle WebRTC, but I don't know if any are WebRTC.
OBS->OBSNinja->OBS without virtual webcam
2 projects | /r/OBSNinja | 22 Feb 2021

What you'd want is for OBS to output the WebRTC stream itself, rather than going through the webcam interface for this. This is not natively available, but there is a project that claims to do this: https://github.com/CoSMoSoftware/OBS-studio-webrtc
Project Lightspeed A self-contained, sub-second, open source, livestream server
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2021

Related: a fork of OBS Studio with WebRTC support
https://github.com/CoSMoSoftware/OBS-studio-webrtc

hls-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of hls-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-19.

Looking for self hosted screen sharing/streaming solution
19 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Sep 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OBS-studio-webrtc and hls-server you can also consider the following projects:

obs-gstreamer - GStreamer OBS Studio plugin

hls-restream - Restream live content as HLS using ffmpeg in docker. Also with NVIDIA GPU hardware acceleration.

obsninja - VDO.Ninja is a powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.

tgrgbox-ansible - Ansible version of tgrgbox

srt - Secure, Reliable, Transport

OvenPlayer - OvenPlayer is JavaScript-based LLHLS and WebRTC Player for OvenMediaEngine.

nginx-rtmp-module

server - screen sharing for developers https://screego.net/

Project-Lightspeed - A self contained OBS -> FTL -> WebRTC live streaming server. Comprised of 3 parts once configured anyone can achieve sub-second OBS to the browser livestreaming

rtmp-hls-server - a docker file to create a streaming server that supports RTMP, HLS and DASH content based on nginx and nginx-rtmp-module.

nginx-rtmp-module - NGINX-based Media Streaming Server

go-transcode - On-demand transcoding origin server for live inputs and static files in Go using ffmpeg. Also with NVIDIA GPU hardware acceleration.