What is Catalyst?
Catalyst is Live’s open-source, decentralized media server. It’s built from the same software stack that backs the Live Studio hosted platform.
Self-hosted Catalyst is in Alpha, but we’re excited for the first group of hackers to start working on it!
Current capabilities:
Boots up a full-stack Live experience with a single command, either locally or on a hosted server.
Capable of transcoding on Live mainnet.
Facilitates easy development of various components of the Live stack.
Allows for development of applications against the Live Studio API locally that can then transfer to the hosted version at live.studio when you’re ready to go to production.
Bundles a fully-local offchain go-live broadcaster and orchestrator, so that you may test transcoding with no external dependencies.
Current limitations:
No usage or billing data.
No GPU transcoding support. We recommend using very low-bitrate test files, especially if running the box using Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows. The built-in profiles for livestream transcoding use a single 240p low-quality rendition.
It is currently required to run the node as a Docker image. A single-binary fully-static build is in the works.
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