Moblin - IRL Streaming

A free iOS app for IRL streaming. Mainly targeting Twitch, but can stream to YouTube, Kick, Facebook and OBS Studio as well (and probably more).

Discord: https://discord.gg/nt3UwHqbMM

Github: https://github.com/eerimoq/moblin

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PDpxEaGh

Features

Main app

• Stream using RTMP, RTMPS, SRT or SRTLA to any platform that supports them.
• H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC video codecs.
• Up to 4K resolution and 60 FPS.
• SRTLA.
  • Can use one cellular, one WiFi and multiple Ethernet connections simultaneously. Often called bonding.
  • Upload statistics per active connection.
• Twitch integration.
  • Number of viewers.
  • Chat.
  • Announcements.
  • /me styling.
• Kick integration.
  • Number of viewers.
  • Chat.
• YouTube integration.
  • Chat.
• AfreecaTv integration.
  • Scuffed chat.
• Basic scenes.
  • Image widget. Show an image on stream.
  • Text widget.
  • Any text.
  • Current local time.
  • Current speed.
  • Current altitude.
  • Distance. Reset manually.
  • Debug information.
  • Browser widget. Show a web page on stream.
• Back or front camera.
  • Front camera mirrored on screen for natural experience.
• Back, front, top, bottom or external mic.
  • Automatically changes to external mic when connected.
• Video stabilization.
• Zoom.
  • Pinch-to-zoom.
  • Configurable presets.
• Back camera lens selection.
• Record to disk (MP4-file).
  • Configurable bitrate, video codec and key frame interval.
• RTMP server/ingest as video source.
  • Optionally fixed FPS.
• SRT(LA) server/ingest as video source.
• Localization. Supports many languages, for example English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Chinese (Simplified) and Swedish.
• Tap screen for manual focus.
  • Return to auto focus with long press.
• Stream connection status and uptime.
• OBS WebSocket (remote control)
  • See current scene, streaming state and recoring state.
  • Change scene.
  • Start and stop the stream.
  • Snapshot.
  • Audio levels.
  • Set audio sync.
• Make phone screen black by pressing a button.
• Supports UVC (USB-C) cameras on iPad.
• Basic support for Mac.
• Video effects.
  • Grayscale.
  • Movie. Paint top and bottom of 16:9 video black to look like 2.35:1.
  • Seipa.
  • Noise reduction.
  • Random. A single effect that applies a random effect.
  • Triple. Show center of image three times. Experimental.
• Chat styling.
  • Optional text to speech (TTS).
  • Optionally subscribers only.
  • Many voices.
  • Detect language per message.
  • Colors, background, border and bold.
  • Twitch, Kick, BTTV, FFZ and 7TV emotes.
  • Optionally animated emotes.
  • Optionally remove old messages.
  • Width and height.
  • Optional message timestamp.
• Color spaces (for devices that supports them).
  • sRGB.
  • P3 D65.
  • Apple Log.
• Bundled and custom 3D LUT effects.
  • Especially useful when using Apple Log.
• Battery indicator.
  • Charging icon.
  • Optionally with percentage.
• Web browser.
  • Only visible to the streamer.
• Game controllers for remote control.
  • Zoom in and out.
  • Change scene.
  • Torch.
  • Mute.
  • ...
• Cosmetics.
  • Select Moblin icon to show in app and on home screen.
  • Optionally purchase additional Moblin icons to support developers.
• Configure stream resolution, FPS, video codec, bitrate and more.
• Configurable bitrate presets.
• Adaptive bitrate for SRT(LA).
• Optionally remote control the streamer's Moblin app over the network.
  • Shows basic status information.
  • Change scene.
  • Change mic.
  • Change bitrate.
  • Change zoom.
  • Show logs.
• Torch.
• Mute audio.
• Deep link settings (moblin://).
  • Including a deep link creator for service providers.
• Landscape.
  • Both 0 and 180 degrees orientation. Video always with gravity down (never upside down).
• Portrait.
  • UI in portrait, but video in landscape. To be improved.
• Background streaming.
  • With audio.
  • Video will be a freezed frame as video cannot be captured in background.
• Simple poll.
  • Chat types 1, 2 or 3.
• Chat bot.
  • Turn chat text to speech on an off.
  • Fix OBS.

Apple Watch companion app

• Stream preview.
• Show audio level.
• Show bitrate.
• Show iPhone/iPad thermal state.
• Chat.
  • Limited to 20 messages.
• Control.
  • Go live.
  • Record.
  • Mute.
  • Skip current TTS message.
• Watch face complication.

Ideas/plan

• Show two cameras at the same time.
• Audio filters. For example volume limiter.
  • An adjustable gain would be nice, then limiter (to keep audio from clipping), and a noise gate would be my top 3 requested audio filters when you have the time. I think that would be the same order in terms of complexity to implement as well.
• Add Twitch/Kick Icons next to chat messages depending on which platform the message came from.
• Lookup Twitch channel id from channel name. Possibly login to Twitch.

Import settings using moblin:// (custom URL)

Examples

New stream

An example creating a new stream is

moblin://?{"streams":[{"name":"BELABOX%20UK","url":"srtla://uk.srt.belabox.net:5000?streamid=9812098rh9hf8942hid","video":{"codec":"H.265/HEVC"},"obs":{"webSocketUrl":"ws://123.22.32.112:5465","webSocketPassword":"foobar"}}]}

where the URL decoded pretty printed JSON blob is

{
  "streams": [
    {
      "name": "BELABOX UK",
      "url": "srtla://uk.srt.belabox.net:5000?streamid=9812098rh9hf8942hid",
      "video": {
        "codec": "H.265/HEVC"
      },
      "obs": {
        "webSocketUrl": "ws://123.22.32.112:5465",
        "webSocketPassword": "foobar"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Quick button settings

An example with only two quick buttons enabled is

moblin://?{"quickButtons":{"twoColumns":false,"showName":true,"enableScroll":true,"disableAllButtons":true,"buttons":[{"type":"Mute","enabled":true},{"type":"Draw","enabled":true}]}}

where the URL decoded pretty printed JSON blob is

{
  "quickButtons": {
    "twoColumns": false,
    "showName": true,
    "enableScroll": true,
    "disableAllButtons": true,
    "buttons": [
      {
        "type": "Mute",
        "enabled": true
      },
      {
        "type": "Draw",
        "enabled": true
      }
    ]
  }
}

Specification

Format: moblin://?<URL encoded JSON blob>

The MoblinSettingsUrl class in MoblinSettingsUrl.swift defines the JSON blob format. Class members are JSON object keys. Members with ? after the type are optional. Some types are defined in Settings.swift.

Similar software

• https://irlpro.app/
• Twitch app.
• https://softvelum.com/larix/ios/

Development environment setup

Roughly the steps to setup Moblin's developement environment.

1. Install Xcode with iOS and MacOS simulators on your Mac.

2. Open a terminal.

3. Clone Moblin.

   git clone https://github.com/eerimoq/moblin.git

4. Enter Moblins repository.

   cd moblin

5. Create an empty configuration file.

   touch Config.xcconfig

6. Open the Moblin project in Xcode. Wait for the dependencies to load.

   open Moblin.xcodeproj

7. Press Command + B to build Moblin.

8. Click on the code signing error and add your account. No Apple developer account is needed.

9. Change the Bundle Identifier to anything you want (i.e. com.whoami.Moblin).

10. Remove In-App Purchase and Access Wi-Fi Information by clicking their trash cans.

11. Build again. Hopefully successfully.

12. Enable developer mode in your iPhone/iPad.

13. Select you iPhone/iPad as Run Destination in Xcode (at the top in the middle).

14. Build and run by pressing Command + R.

15. Done!