I worked in this space on the CDN non-pirate side and it's basically the same thing but everyone (including the major ones you know) distribute all of their content like that over various cdns and they're all essentially pitted cost/error-rate/latency wise against one another to the bottom. If you're interested in some of the tools used that essentially re-compiles, allows you to interject interstitial ads based... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

It is, but OwnCast and OpenStreamingPlatform are probably closer to what Twitch does. Source: 12 months ago

Check out Open Streaming Platform. This should cover what you are looking for. Source: over 1 year ago

You can find more information on the Open Streaming Platform at https://openstreamingplatform.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

Then one other way would be to set up OwnCast or OpenStreamingPlatform (basically self-hosted Twitch) and figure out some way to get your keyboard and mouse inputs to the server. Source: almost 3 years ago

If you ever do this again, have a couple layers of "D'oh!" proofing. Record locally if you can. If you can't then set up something like Open Streaming Platform. So that you stream to it, it records on it's server, and also redirects the stream to youtube. OSP can do all this out of the box and it's very good at it. Source: about 3 years ago