[everforward]

Assuming you have the skills, you can, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had buffering issues on the client side.

You'd also have to re-implement access controls and probably integrate a not-terrible video player. There might be open source software that does that, but nothing springs to my mind.

I've got the skills to do it, and $300/month seems high, but not unreasonable. That $300 a month frees me from doing updates, having to wake up at 3am because the site is down, having to transcode my own videos for lower-bandwidth clients, etc. It's probably roughly on par with paying someone else to do all of that stuff.

[lesuorac]

I guess it all depends on how nice you want things to look but hls.js [1] & rtsp-simple-server [2] are pretty easy to integrate.

Works well enough for me as a slingbox alternative but I'm also not running it as a business.

[1]: https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/ [2]: https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server