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Is anyone embedding livestreams?

If so, can you share your experience and how you are doing it?

J V

I am using Jitsi. Use the Fluent frame on a page and some css to remove the sidebars.

Zach T

Can you use Fluent's chat at the same time?

J V

Don't think so, but it has its own chat. It is not a webinar tool. More like zoom.

Zach T

The chat embeds? I was researching self-hosting options earlier, including Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton. I want to avoid using Zoom Webinar (which I dislike). Can you share a screenshot of what the UI looks like inside of FC?

J V

J V

Zach TΒ You can take it to full screen as well.

Zach T

J VΒ That looks pretty good. What's the resolution of the display in the screenshot? Are you self-hosting or using 8x8?

J V

Zach TΒ Simply using the plugin with standard settings. Good enough for now.

Kevin Watson

I don't use web conferencing platforms for live streaming. I have not done this yet on fCommunity, but I do this often for my clients with ReStream/StreamYard and then Vimeo embed and use Chatroll for chat. Chatroll allows for SSO with the plugin, but I need to test to see if I need the members to be WP users or just fCommunity users.

Zach T

Kevin WatsonΒ Thanks for the insight, Kevin. Chatroll's plan is too expensive for the number of viewers I would have.

Shahjahan JewelΒ It would be great if there were a way to host a live video stream in a Space chat so users could interact.

Parm Saggu

Kevin WatsonΒ Vimeo updated their plans and I'm NOT liking it. They increased their prices and made the plans considerably worse. Looking for alternative Video Hosting Platforms

Nghiapt88

There are a few ways and I have used them myself:

1, The simplest is to create a livestream on youtube and insert its code. Done, you have livestream on site.

2, Embed Zoom Live using Zoom connection Plugin. However, the connection seems quite bad and not very smooth.

3, Try creating your own livestream vps with Owncast. This method is quite expensive and requires a lot of technical knowledge. If you want, you can try it.

Good luck for you!

Zach T

Phùng Trọng Nghĩa HTa's Phung. I had looked at Owncast (and OvenMediaEngine) earlier. I can handle self-hosting and server management if needed.

I have tested several solutions I currently own, and they seem to work well. It's the chat component that I want to solve. Have you used Owncast? Would the chat embed with the video?

Nghiapt88

Zach TΒ 
yes, i have embedded owncast on my website. it is quite simple no coding required.

Nghiapt88

Zach T

Phùng Trọng Nghĩa Great, thank you, I will give this a go.

Charlotte

We just purchased a Zenstream license to test this out (currently avail on Appsumo as LTD). It also allows embedded 'streams' of pre-recorded video.

Zach T

Charlotte D,Β I bought it earlier this week and tested it yesterday. It's a good deal, but I am not sure I am happy with the chat solution.

Charlotte

Zach TΒ Good to know on both fronts - thanks for sharing.

Wondering aloud: if we're live streaming into a fluent community, would we still need the chat part of Zenstream? Wouldn't FC handle the comments?

Zach T

Charlotte D,Β It will handle comments in the message, but I was hoping to use native chat. (Hence my message earlier in this thread to Shahjahan JewelΒ ).

Cointacter

Approach wpstream and tell them to integrate. I made them integrate with buddyboss, they will do it here for sure too just need more members to approach them to ask for this.

Kurt von Ahnen

There are a few tools I have used. The setup to Zoom is bothersome - but once set... works awesome. I have also used whereby.com and jitsi. Jitsi seems to have progressed well over the last couple of years.

Parm Saggu

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