StreamKaro - A multi platform live streaming app

Motive

To make a service that enables user to use the browser and live stream to any other platform, for example YouTube. Basically a live Streaming app, that can both stream the users screen/camera in the browser (e.g. Google Meet) and also stream it to another platform (e.g. YouTube).

The basic function requirements

• Let the user sign up and login
• Let the user create a live stream
• In the live stream page, the user can see themselves and a bunch of overlays. They can add and remove themselves from the canvas, and the same thing for the overlays
• There should be a go live button that when the user clicks, the stream starts streaming what's on the canvas to YouTube
• This would require for you to write a service that takes video feed from the end user, merges it with the overlays on the canvas and then streams it to YouTube

Backend Service 1

• Simple backend that lets users sign up and sign in (users table)
• Lets users create a live stream (live streams table)
• Lets users add overlays/themselves to the live stream (overlays table)

Backend service 2

• This service takes the input stream and the current set of overlays and converts this to an RTMP stream that needs to be forwarded to YouTube
• Frameworks you can use to achieve this includes ffmpeg or gstreamer.
• Read about how you can convert websocket/WebRTC video streams to rtmp

Steps to build the project

1. Take the video and the overlays, and sent it to the server using WebRTC.

2. Then the server decodes it using ffmpeg/ gstreamer.

3. Then the server converts the stream to RTMP so that YouTube understands it.

4. Then the server sends the stream to YouTube.