The Indie Streamer's Handbook
A community guide for streaming with free software.
A community guide for streaming with free software.
Built by and for independent streamers: practical, no-nonsense documentation for getting started, fixing problems, and improving your setup with FOSS tools.
Modeled after the Arch Wiki in spirit: thorough, direct, and community-maintained.
Help Build This Handbook
This handbook grows through small, practical contributions from the community. You do not need to write a perfect long-form guide to help.
- Fix something outdated or unclear
- Add a missing command, caveat, or distro-specific note
- Start a stub page for a topic that should exist
Edit any page directly on Codeberg, or drop a tip in the Matrix channel and a maintainer can commit it with attribution.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for writing guidelines and front matter details.
Nginx Reverse Proxy
Publishing self-hosted streaming services behind Nginx with HTTPS
OBS Studio
Setting up and using OBS Studio for live streaming and recording on Linux
OwnCast
Self-hosting your own live streaming server with OwnCast