OBS Studio 33(github.com)
431 points by pentagrama | 155 comments
GitHub release notes for OBS Studio 33.0.0, covering a CEF update, plugin loading overhaul, snapping improvements, bug fixes, and developer API changes.
#streaming on Hacker News
38 stories tagged streaming, newest first.
Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier(tvfandomlounge.com)
353 points by robtherobber | 358 comments
A TV Fandom Lounge article on Disney+ and Hulu raising subscription prices days after updating terms to allow ads on all tiers, including Premium, alongside weak Nielsen ratings.
What I self-host(viceconsole.fyi)
607 points by BrunoBernardino | 385 comments
Personal blog post describing which services the author self-hosts, which they don't, and why, motivated partly by leaving streaming services.
The Revolution of Vertical Drama Is Happening Behind the Camera(medium.com)
4 points by lbostral | 0 comments
A Medium essay by Ludovic Bostral arguing that the real change in vertical (short-form mobile) drama lies in production and industry structure behind the camera.
Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl(theguardian.com)
44 points by beardyw | 44 comments
Guardian article on people returning to CDs, DVDs and vinyl to escape streaming algorithms, protect data, support artists and keep control of their choices.
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream(yashgarg.dev)
271 points by ibobev | 87 comments
A personal blog post by Yash Garg about intercepting the PlayStation 5's RTMP broadcast stream as a roundabout way to do screen sharing.
Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders(streaminglearningcenter.com)
25 points by dabinat | 7 comments
A Streaming Learning Center article by Jan Ozer on optimizing x264 encoder settings and building per-title encoding ladders.
Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits(arstechnica.com)
105 points by Brajeshwar | 120 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Disney+ and Hulu are raising subscription prices by up to 13 percent after Disney's streaming profits doubled.
Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions(consumerrights.wiki)
436 points by DeepLogin | 284 comments
Consumer Rights Wiki article on Disney+'s January 2025 subscriber agreement change allowing ads in all tiers, including ad-free plans.
Fox to buy Roku(wsj.com)
348 points by thm | 412 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that Fox plans to acquire streaming company Roku; the page shown is a bot-verification captcha.
The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)(av2.aomedia.org)
331 points by ksec | 143 comments
Landing page for the AV2 video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media, the successor to AV1 offering improved compression efficiency.
Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch(ntik.me)
531 points by nicktikhonov | 152 comments
Blog post by Nick Tikhonov describing how he built a voice agent with ~400ms end-to-end latency using streaming STT, LLM, and TTS with turn detection.
Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube(cordcuttersnews.com)
606 points by walterbell | 315 comments
Cord Cutters News article reporting that the sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 is now available to watch free on YouTube.
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros(about.netflix.com)
1670 points by meetpateltech | 1285 comments
Netflix press release announcing its acquisition of Warner Bros; the captured page shows a CloudFront 403 error instead.
The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle(fxrant.blogspot.com)
331 points by tosh | 144 comments
Blog post by VFX artist Todd Vaziri on FXRant about problems with the 4K version of "Mad Men" released on HBO Max.
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles(daiz.moe)
331 points by Daiz | 109 comments
Blog post arguing that Crunchyroll has degraded the quality of its on-screen text subtitle translations since the Fall 2025 anime season.
Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?(animebythenumbers.substack.com)
387 points by zdw | 276 comments
Substack article from Anime By The Numbers examining a change in how Crunchyroll releases new anime that has degraded subtitle quality after layoffs.
Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources(github.com)
357 points by indigodaddy | 255 comments
GitHub repository for Nuclear, an open-source Electron desktop music player that streams music from free sources like YouTube.
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support(git.ffmpeg.org)
826 points by Sean-Der | 186 comments
FFmpeg git commit adding a WHIP muxer to libavformat, enabling WebRTC-based subsecond latency streaming.
Progressive JSON(overreacted.io)
532 points by kacesensitive | 215 comments
Dan Abramov's overreacted blog post explaining the idea of progressively streaming JSON, analogous to progressive JPEGs, and how React Server Components use it.
TV Garden(tv.garden)
729 points by vkdelta | 118 comments
TV Garden is a web app for streaming free live TV channels from around the world, browsable by country.
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System(jellyfin.org)
396 points by doener | 237 comments
Homepage of Jellyfin, a volunteer-built free software media server for streaming your own media to any device.
Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?(tedium.co)
616 points by shortformblog | 459 comments
Tedium article examining why Warner Bros. Discovery is uploading full-length old movies for free on YouTube.
Introducing S2(s2.dev)
347 points by brancz | 184 comments
Launch blog post introducing S2, the Stream Store, a serverless cloud storage primitive for streaming data built around durable logs.
Ending production of Chromecast(blog.google)
509 points by sibellavia | 495 comments
Google Keyword blog post looking back at 11 years of Chromecast history as Google ends its production and shifts to Google TV Streamer.
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"(arstechnica.com)
470 points by nickthegreek | 243 comments
Ars Technica article on Sony shutting down Funimation and erasing digital copies bundled with DVDs that were promised to be available forever, as it merges into Crunchyroll.
Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly(torrentfreak.com)
360 points by notamy | 698 comments
TorrentFreak article on a Netflix SEC filing stating that online piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly.
Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel(wsj.com)
352 points by hhs | 567 comments
Wall Street Journal article about Americans spending billions on subscriptions such as streaming services that they forget to cancel.
Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024(techcrunch.com)
336 points by mfiguiere | 257 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Pixar will undergo layoffs in 2024 as Disney pushes toward streaming profitability.
Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29(theverge.com)
319 points by alexzeitler | 224 comments
The Verge news article reporting that Amazon Prime Video will begin showing ads on January 29th, 2024, unless subscribers pay an extra monthly fee.
Kafka is dead, long live Kafka(warpstream.com)
328 points by richieartoul | 228 comments
WarpStream blog post by Richard Artoul introducing WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming platform built directly on object storage.
Watch TV from the 90s and earlier(my90stv.com)
568 points by thunderbong | 240 comments
My90sTV is a website that simulates watching television from the 1990s and earlier, playing old shows and commercials in a retro TV interface.
Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal(businessinsider.com)
596 points by isaacfrond | 270 comments
Business Insider premium article on how Disney, Netflix, and other streamers are opposing the FTC's proposed 'click to cancel' subscription rule.
HBO Max new Captcha system(twitter.com)
619 points by Signez | 283 comments
A tweet sharing a TikTok video of HBO Max's new account-protection captcha puzzle, captioned as hilarious.
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers(bleepingcomputer.com)
542 points by jacooper | 1050 comments
BleepingComputer news article reporting that YouTube is testing blocking video playback for users who run ad blockers unless they disable them.
Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing(bloomberg.com)
696 points by FabHK | 862 comments
Bloomberg article reporting Netflix lost about 1 million users in Spain after restricting password sharing in the first quarter.
YouTube, the jewel of the internet(ft.com)
412 points by gumby | 422 comments
Financial Times opinion article titled "YouTube, the jewel of the internet," shown behind a subscription paywall.
Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years(nytimes.com)
324 points by jbegley | 313 comments
New York Times article on Netflix ending its DVD-by-mail service after 25 years; the capture shows a Facebook 'Temporarily Blocked' page instead.