The Restream Space network is a cluster of multi-purpose RTMP and WebRTC servers distributed across the globe. By default, the network consists of presence in five datacenters in San Jose, Newark, Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. Additional locations can be added temporarily if an event requires.
The cluster accepts RTMP and WebRTC streams at any location and those streams are automatically distributed to all the nodes in the cluster. If you're putting on an event, a runner in Japan can stream to Tokyo, your host in California can view the stream from a server in San Jose, and your restreamer in Germany can capture both and push the produced stream to Twitch or Youtube from the Frankfurt server.
All of this is done without re-encoding the video on our servers, keeping quality as high as possible. Without re-encoding, latency is also kept to a minimum. Most streams will have less than two seconds of latency from any server in the cluster.
Getting a stream into a video server is one thing, getting it out is another. The Restream Space offers a simple, light web player that receives WebRTC streams from the server cluster. This setup is far lighter than Twitch or Discord, does not require outdated technology like Flash, and works on Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, or OBS's BrowserSources.
We're not concerned about ads, metrics, social features, or cheating to create an artificially smooth-appearing experience. We just want to deliver the video, and do it with the lightest, fastest software possible.
We believe an event is its runners, not fancy graphics or slick overlays. However, high quality production can enhance an event.
The Restream Space will take your overlay graphics, themes, and aesthetics and turn it into an automated system to generate overlays and apply them over our video captures, all from a simple hosting control panel that's a series of text fields and drop-downs. No dragging and dropping, no resizing, no having to fight with OBS bounding boxes and torturing text to fit in frames.
Your game and runner names will auto-resize to fit their fields, you can configure layouts with three clicks, all of your overlay's text elements will update instantly, at the same time, without having to stage changes in OBS studio mode; it's all in a simple HTML5 and Javascript web page.
Not sure something will look right? You can generate on-the-fly previews of the entire stream in your own browser, using the exact same code that the live capture uses.
Want to have box arts on your setup screens? Want runners to be able to share profile photos to place on the overlay next to their name? Do you need a special extra text field or ten on your overlay? The system is flexible; only what you want to configure will appear in the hosting panel.
Don't want to even fill out text boxes? By providing your schedule to The Restream Space ahead of time, your hosting control panel will be pre-loaded with your run settings on event day. Select the next run from a dropdown menu and click go, and you're done. If something's wrong or something changed, you can still edit the information before you push it live.
Our preview system is so flexible and robust, a runner can use it as well to see what their stream will look like an hour, a day, or a week before the event.
Have your runner go live and visit a self-service setup page that gives them the details they need, then shows them how their stream will look on event day. Your runners will be able to focus on their run without having to worry that something is wrong in the overlay, capture, or information.
Completely reconfiguring OBS to talk to our servers may be a lot to ask. We offer custom build portable OBS builds that come pre-configured to turn server selection and stream key configuration into a pair of drop-down boxes. These packages also come pre-configured with scenes with easy boxes the runner can fill with captures however they like; then use the self-service preview functionality to see how it'll all look.
If a runner can't use our custom OBS build, that's okay too. A couple of settings are all that need to be changed to get them rolling.
The Restream Space is a small team (a solo project, with some help, really), but when we're available we're more than willing to help with your event. We'll join your Discord and remain available to assist with questions and concerns. If you're a small event and don't have the staff to cover, we may even step in and help there too; time and resources permitting.
Whatever you need, feel free to ask.