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Curated collection of Livepeer example applications and integrations

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Introduction

Learn how to create an API key and start adding live and on-demand video to your app or website!

Quickstart

Practical step-by-step guides to help you achieve a specific goal. These guides are designed to help you get started with a specific task or feature.

Learn how to upload and play back an asset

Upload an asset

Play an asset

Learn how to listen to asset events using Studio webhooks.

Listen to asset events

Learn how to upload and play back an encrypted video asset

Upload encrypted assets

Learn how to retrieve thumbnails for a video asset

Get an asset thumbnail

Create a livestream

Learn how to use a media player with Livepeer

Play a livestream

Learn how to stream into Livepeer Studio with OBS

Livestream via OBS

In-browser broadcasting

Learn how to optimize latency for your Livepeer Studio workflow.

Optimize latency

Learn how to monitor stream metrics on Livepeer

Monitor stream health

Learn how to listen to stream events using Studio webhooks

Listen to stream events

Set up a multistream

Learn how to create clips from your livestream

Clip a livestream

Learn how to retrieve thumbnails for a live stream

Get a livestream thumbnail

Learn how to add access control to a content with React, using webhooks

Control access using webhooks

Learn how to add access control to a content with Livepeer UI Kit, using JWTs

Control access using JWTs

Learn how to set up a webhook using Node.js and Ngrok to receive notifications from Livepeer.

Set up and listen for webhooks

Transcode with Storj

Transcode with W3S

Learn how to check out viewer engagement on Livepeer

Engagement via API

Learn how to visualize your engagement metrics with Grafana

Engagement via Grafana

Learn how to analyze Livepeer video engagement metrics with Timeplus

Engagement via Timeplus

Explore best practices for managing multiple environments in Livepeer Studio

Managing Projects

Learn how to Build a decentralized video application with FVM and Livepeer

Youtube clone with FVM

Learn how to token gate videos using Livepeer and Lit: A step-by-step tutorial

Token gate videos with Lit

Bridge LPT to Arbitrum

Migrate stake to Arbitrum

Yield Calculation on Explorer

Get started

Learn how to install go-livepeer and become an orchestrator

Install Go Livepeer

Connect to Arbitrum

Reward Calls

Set Session Limits

Set Pricing

Benchmark Transcoding

Assess concurrent stream

Monitor Metrics

Vote on proposals

Dual Mine

Connect to Transcoders

Migrate to Arbitrum

Migrate Stake from Contract

Gateway Introspection

Troubleshoot

This guide will walk you through the Livepeer Gateway installation and setup. Steps to install for Ubuntu Linux, Docker, and Windows are provided. Choose the environment you want, follow install instructions, then continue to the configuration section.

Overview

Docker Install

Linux Install

Windows Install

To better control your encoding profiles it is recommended to use a json file to specify the resolution and bitrate for your encoding ladder.

Configure Transcoding Options

The following steps will walk you through adding funds to the newly created ETH account. This includes funding the ETH account on Ethereum Mainnet, bridging the funds to Arbritrum's L2 Network, and finally using the Livepeer CLI to allocate the proper deposit and reserve amounts.

Fund The Livepeer Gateway

Publish Content

Playback Content

What is Livepeer AI?

Audio-to-Text

Image-to-Image

Image-to-Video

Segment-Anything-2

Text-to-Image

Text-to-Speech

Upscale

Get Started

Configuring AI Models

Download AI Models

Start your AI Orchestrator

Attach Remote AI Workers

Perform Benchmarking

On-chain Setup

Building on Livepeer AI

AI Gateways

Showcase

Explore developer SDKs for interacting with the Livepeer AI API.

AI SDKs

Learn how to run your first AI inference job using the Livepeer AI Go SDK.

Learn how to run your first AI inference job using the Livepeer AI JS SDK.

JavaScript

Learn how to run your first AI inference job using the Livepeer AI Python SDK.

Python

Audio To Text

Text To Image

Apply image transformations to a provided image.

Image To Image

Image To Video

Segment Anything 2

Upscale an image by increasing its resolution.

Generate a text-to-speech audio file based on the provided text input and speaker description.

Text To Speech

API Support Matrix

Bandwidth Requirements

CLI Reference

GPU Support

Hardware Requirements

Prometheus Metrics

Addresses of deployed contracts of the Livepeer protocol on various networks.

Contract Addresses

Awesome Livepeer

Explore developer SDKs, pre-built UI components, and tools for interacting with the Livepeer Studio API.

Learn how to create your first stream using the Livepeer Javascript SDK.

Learn how to create your first stream using the Livepeer Go SDK.

Learn how to create your first stream using the Livepeer Python SDK.

Getting Started

The `Player.Root` component is the React Context wrapper for the Player.

Root

The `Container` component is the container element for the Player. It wraps all other elements and acts as an aspect ratio container by default.

Container

The `Video` component renders the actual video content and manages various aspects of media playback.

Video

The `ErrorIndicator` component is a visual representation of error states in media playback based on error types.

Error

The `LoadingIndicator` component is a visual indicator of the loading state of the media.

Loading

The `Portal` component allows projection of content into different parts of the DOM.

Portal

The `Poster` component displays a visual placeholder for media content prior to playback.

Poster

The `Broadcast.Root` component is the React Context wrapper for Broadcast.

The `Container` component is the container element for Broadcast. It wraps all other elements and acts as an aspect ratio container by default.

The `Video` component is a container for previewing broadcast video content.

The `EnabledTrigger` and `EnabledIndicator` components provide gateways with interactive controls and visual cues to manage the "enabled" state of the broadcast.

Enable

The `ErrorIndicator` component is a visual representation of error states in broadcast based on error types.

A comprehensive example showcasing the integration of various `@livepeer/react/player` components to create a full-featured player interface with controls and settings.

Player

A comprehensive example showcasing the integration of various `@livepeer/react/broadcast` components to create a full-featured broadcast interface with controls, settings, and device selection.

Broadcast

Migration guide for the 4.0.0 release of Livepeer React.

Migration Guide for 4+

Authentication

The Assets API is used to create, retrieve, update, delete assets object from pipeline.

Upload asset via URL

Retrieve an asset

Update an asset

Delete an asset

Retrieve assets

The Livestream API is used to create, retrieve, update, delete stream object from pipeline.

Retrieve a livestream

Update a livestream

Terminates a livestream

Add a multistream target

Remove a multistream target

Delete a livestream

Retrieve all livestreams

Create a clip

Retrieve clips of a livestream

The Generate API is used to run generative AI models.

The Multistream target API is used to create, retrieve, update, delete multi-stream targets object from pipeline.

Create a multistream

Retrieve a multistream

Update a multistream

Delete a multistream

Retrieve all multistreams

The Sessions API is used to retrieve sessions object from pipeline.

Retrieve a session

Retrieve all sessions

Retrieve recorded sessions

Retrieve clips of a session

The Access control API is used to create, retrieve, update, delete signing keys object from pipeline.

Example	Description
React Native Example App	Example application which demonstrates how to use Livepeer React to create a React Native YouTube clone.
Justcast.it	Web app that provides code for adding “1-click starting a livestream” so that you can create a stream using the Livepeer API.
EVM Token-Gated Livestream	Example application which demonstrates how to create and tokengate a livestream using Livepeer on EVM compatible chains.
Decentralized storage playback	Example application which demonstrates how to play back a video from decentralized storage such as IPFS and Arweave using Livepeer.

Getting Started

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Example Applications