The Indie Streamer's Handbook
A community guide for streaming with free software.
Practical, no-nonsense documentation for getting started, fixing problems, and improving your setup with FOSS tools.
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- Fix something outdated or unclear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.
Status
This handbook is still in an early stub phase. The structure is in place, but many topic pages still need tested, detailed content.
Reverse Proxy
Publishing self-hosted streaming services behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS and clean routing
Self-Hosting Basics
Core concepts and baseline requirements for self-hosting streaming services
OBS Studio
Setting up and using OBS Studio for live streaming and recording on Linux