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- Imagine if they just let you specify your own RTMP destination. Crazy thought, I know.by rezonant
- This is fantastic. Not being able to share my gameplay with friends on Discord is one of my biggest gripes.by forestry
- I'd kill for a Bluetooth peripheral workaround. I've a Clicks Power Keyboard that'd be great to use with the PS5.
- Maybe I'm missing something but there seems to be a gap between "figure out the REAL hostname" and "we no longer have to worry about the stream never showing up on YouTube"by mixdup
- Feel like there's a few parts missing that I'm not getting.
The author mentions that the PS5 uses RTMPS to push video up to twitch - but suddenly it just uses plain RTMP?
by jprjr_ - Don't mind me, I'm just sitting here with my HDMI-RX port on rk3588 being happy that is works and I didn't brick the board when doing uboot update to uncurse it.by Muromec
- This is how Lightstream Studio has provided stream overlay for consoles[1]. Some years ago Microsoft added them as an official destination using a better protocol and dropped the need for MITM hackery.
I used to work in this space and Lightstream was always doing interesting things, even if they never seemed to find PMF.
1: https://support.golightstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/38643168...
by barake - Kinda sad that it's 2026 and this data still goes over the internet unencrypted...
RTMP and all the video and audio protocols behind it aren't trivial either - I bet there are hundreds of exploits waiting to be found that any three letter agency sitting on the internet can use to take over your PS5 and all credentials stored within too...