Video Streaming Services for Golang — PKC Blog Hub

• Go lang is an update to date recent uptrend programming platform
• Since video assets are much in demand we can either create our custom video streaming server or we can checkout different services that are applicable for video streaming Development/Updates
• The services are generic overviews that can be used under the Go platforms

Video Streaming Services in Research and its technical features

1. Twilio Video Streaming

• Twilio Video is based on WebRTC protocol to connect browser-based webcam and microphone to engage under the application.
• Uses Nodejs SDK for video streaming in test environment
• Use of Video API which is a javascript API generally based on room-based video
  services
• Since it's based on JS we can make easily integrate it under React / Vue JS
• Video can be recorded which will Recording API and can be downloaded under our
  own server instance
• Pricing: $0.004 per video stream per minute, and recording $0.004 per video
  stream per minute
• Demo Deployment: ​Link ​(Under Nginx Server and Node Js Environment )

2. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC3. Mux

4. Api.video

• Video Streaming available on Go Library for backend streaming
• Need Mux service token and keys
• Works on RTMP and video files both
• Have to connect to webRTC for browser webcam and microphone
• Pricing: Live Streaming costs $0.0013/min for the video
• Ref: ​https://mux.com/

5. Open Source project ​livego

• Uses own protocols and tech stack for all video Hosting, Transcoding and
  Streaming
• Provided with SDKs with Go Lang library
• Can be integrated with both webcam and videos
• Developers Sandbox and production env
• The pricing model is on usage basic: ​https://api.video/pricing/
• Under development open source project under GO lang: https://github.com/gwuhaolin/livego
• Support for Downstream playback only for playback protocols
• Free but have to engineer into the code for the suitable use case
• Supported, and the playback address is as follows:

Backdrop
Necessary to connect a webcam tool to connect it to the backend. Also, it's necessary to store videos under our own server environment

WebRTC is an open technology specification for enabling real-time communication (RTC) across browsers and mobile applications via simple APIs.

It uses peering techniques for real-time data exchange between connected peers and provides low latency media streaming required for human-to-human interaction and requires SSL for allowing a webcam and microphone under webRTC.

Originally published at https://prajwol-kc.com.np on March 3, 2022.