How to have an interactive broadcast where 2-3 people are publishing in one stream and rest all are viewers

[Deepinder Singh]

I read it on a blog on your site that we can do this where multiple people can broadcast to viewers in the same stream. How to do that? as when i connect another publisher on same stream it says stream id already in use.

[Mahmut As1m Onat]

Hi Deepinder,

You can do it so by changing RTMP endpoints. You can have those three people stream and change the RTMP point to whatever stream you want to show. Please let me know if this would work for your problem.

Best,
Asim

On Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 6:50:16 PM UTC+3, Deepinder Singh wrote:

I read it on a blog on your site that we can do this where multiple people can broadcast to viewers in the same stream. How to do that? as when i connect another publisher on same stream it says stream id already in use.

[Mahmut As1m Onat]

Hi Deepinder,

You can also change the stream source among the publisher using this request:
https://antmedia.io/rest/#/BroadcastRestService/updateBroadcast

You can do what is done here that way.
https://github.com/ant-media/Ant-Media-Server/wiki/External-Stream-Sources


Best,
Asim
On Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 6:50:16 PM UTC+3, Deepinder Singh wrote:

I read it on a blog on your site that we can do this where multiple people can broadcast to viewers in the same stream. How to do that? as when i connect another publisher on same stream it says stream id already in use.

[Deepinder Singh]

I wanted to do this with webrtc and those publishers should be able to interact with each other, can i do this with conference room? Where 2-3 people with publish while all others will just play? Is there any downside of this approach?

[Mahmut As1m Onat]

Hi Deepinder,

Yes, that approach should work. The downside is that the viewers need to request three streams at once. Instead of that maybe you can create a conference among three publishers and create another stream that takes the feed from three of them and streams it to the viewers? Just to give an idea about what I'm talking about, think about streaming the screen share of the conference room, that way three of the streamers will be seen. Of course, there should be a better solution to merge those streams but I think implementing such a thing could result in a better performance albeit being more difficult to implement.

Best,
Asim

On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 4:48:19 PM UTC+3, Deepinder Singh wrote:

I wanted to do this with webrtc and those publishers should be able to interact with each other, can i do this with conference room? Where 2-3 people with publish while all others will just play? Is there any downside of this approach?