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Building things on camera: Next.js on Cloudflare Workers, a Sony A7 IV pushed straight into a self-hosted MediaMTX stream server, and whatever breaks along the way. Mostly offline. When the tally light is red, it is happening right now.

What this is

One camera, no edit, no second take.

A working session broadcast as it happens. The code on screen is the code that ships, and when something breaks it stays broken until it is fixed on camera.

There is no pre-recorded segment and no cut. The stream starts when the work starts and ends when it ends, so the length is whatever the problem takes.

Chat is open the whole time. Questions about what is on screen get answered mid-stream; everything else waits for the end.

Schedule

What is coming up.

All times are Europe/Belgrade. A stream that slips gets moved here rather than cancelled.

  1. Live chat on Durable Objects

    Replacing the mock transport on this very page with a real WebSocket room, Hibernation API and all.

    120 min

  2. OpenNext on Cloudflare, the ugly parts

    What the generated worker.js actually does, and where the abstraction leaks.

    90 min

  3. A player from scratch, no video library

    hls.js is the only dependency. Everything else is a state machine and some CSS.

    150 min

Signal chain

From the sensor to your browser.

Five hops, no encoder farm and no origin server of my own. Each card is one link in the chain.

  1. Sony A7 IV

    Clean output, native network streaming from firmware 3.00.

    H.264 · 1080p · 6 Mbps

  2. RTMPS or SRT

    Over USB-tethered Ethernet when it matters, camera WiFi when it does not.

    1s keyframe · AES-128

  3. MediaMTX on a VPS

    Self-hosted ingest, no per-minute streaming bill.

    LL-HLS · ~0.2s part

  4. Direct delivery

    One server, one region. No CDN edge network in front of it.

    stream.lakisha.dev

  5. This player

    hls.js on a same-origin status poll. No iframe, no embed.

    ~4s glass to glass

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