ethercast v1.2.0

Video player to watch streams on Swarm feeds and RTMP server middleware for streaming on Swarm

Watch

1. Install ethercast

npm install --global ethercast

2. Tune in on a stream

ethercast --watch 844b1bef0fcc3700995700465ef09ebea4a44fc23e3c59ffc84aa87f82f74627

Stream

1. Install ethercast

npm install --global ethercast

2. Run a Bee node as light node or above

3. Install ffmpeg

4. Create one or two postage batches for the video and playlist data

swarm-cli stamp buy --depth 20 --amount 2b --immutable --label playlist
swarm-cli stamp buy --depth 20 --amount 2b --label video

5. Run the RTMP middleware

ethercast \
    --rtmp
    --bee        http://localhost:1633
    --stamp      YOUR_VIDEO_STAMP_ID
    --feedStamp  YOUR_PLAYLIST_STAMP_ID
    --ffmpeg     PATH_TO_FFMPEG

6. Stream with OBS

Set target to rtmp://localhost/live