PeerTube Instance Support Thread

[xliiv]

Hi
I started to playing around with the Hardlimit PeerTube Live stream. I was able to setup the live, although after a few seconds of playing the live in private browser window the video stops with the following error

Error The video failed to play, will try to fast forward. 

Is it something known? I did something similar on the other peertube instance and there it works.
Any hint?

[cobito]

@xliiv This is the first time I've heard about this issue. Does it only happen in an incognito window? Does it work in a regular window? What browser are you using?

On my end, I've tried playing live streams in an incognito window quite a few times and have never had any problems.

[xliiv]

@cobito thank you for your quick response

1. both in incognito (as annonymous) and regular window (as logged in user)
2. brave-origin (but i think i also checked it on firefox, anyway i'll do it tomorrow for sure)

[cobito]

@xliiv Okay, no one has reported that specific issue to us. In the past, we've seen connectivity problems when streaming live from certain providers (Germany and Italy), but that was resolved.

Let us know how it goes with Firefox.

[xliiv]

@cobito same broken effect on firefox

does anyone else stream from linux/wayland?

1, my streaming setup is Steam window on linux/wayland - this gets the error (also I've checked streaming some editor window with closed Steam and also broken).
2, i'll also checked other machine, streaming editor window on linux/xorg and it works.

Also between (1) & (2) also OS is differrent.

[pos_yo]

@xliiv I've streamed quite a bit from Wayland using OBS, always on Fedora or a derivative (Nobara). When live streaming to Peertube from Linux with a Wayland desktop, I ALWAYS recommend the OBS version from Flathub. It's an official build maintained by the developer themselves, and the main plugins are also available on Flathub and are easy to install.

Another important thing is to always choose the h264 codec and avoid using codecs like AV1 or h265, as Peertube does not support any of them.

[xliiv]

@pos_yo @cobito
I can confirm it works with the following changes

1. obs from flatpak (instead from the distribution)
2. use software h.264 (instead of nvenc h.264)

You can change (2)
settings > output > Streaming > video encoder

Thank you for you help and support

UPDATE:
(1) is options, it also works with the distribution version of OBS.

[Ransil]

Hi!
For about a couple of days now, the chat on my streaming channel hasn't been working, and I don't see the option to enable it.

[cobito]

@Ransil Hi. It should be fixed by now.

[Ransil]

@cobito Hi! It happened again ^^U

Thanks!!

[cobito]

Hi @Ransil, it should be working again now.