Peertube

I think you figured most of it out for yourself already, but to address your points, with a bit of info for PeerTube in general:

What is this BTW? Are you capturing the stream from somewhere and redirecting it to your Peertube instance in real-time?

Thankfully, nothing that complicated. As PeerTube is federated, the stream can be watched from any instance that is following theirs. Basically, it's much like how you can see posts and comments on feddit.uk from .world, feddit.org, my own instance lemmy.abnormalbeings.space, etc. Basically, it's the frontend of my instance talking to theirs, and displaying the video as it is being broadcast from there.

The only added functionality is, that I also allow for video redundancy - basically, for new, trending or most-watched videos on several PeerTube instances, my server also downloads them automatically (when allowed, for selected, trustworthy insances) and then also seeds them to anyone watching. This works due to PeerTube videos utilizing the WebTorrent protocol, so that when you watch, you also seed the video to other watchers. (Not applicable much for livestreams, though.)

Example for how that looks to me, as an admin:

Screenshot of redundancy interface

The main reason why I tend to link to my own instance, instead of the original one for things like this, is me using the PeerTube Companion add-on, that automatically redirects me to my home instance, when clicking on any peertube link. That way, I can easily interact with my own home account with videos. But it makes it a bit finicky to test and get links to other instances at times. It usually should not change the content watched in any way, though.

If you wanted to check out the stream on .wtf - it would be here, if it didn't appear on their frontpage: https://peertube.wtf/c/operationpuppet@puppet.zone/videos

EDIT: lol, Lemmy's automatic link formatting gets confused here, because of the /c/ in PeerTube links, I think you have to copy it by hand

Although it has ended already by now (VOD will be up, soon)

And I'd recommend getting that add-on, too! It's really handy for liking and subscribing to stuff from your home instance, without going through too much of a hassle.

OK I found the stream, it does have the same GUID of mVQfdQcDRBZbckpD7YKgxN but searching for that didn’t find it.

Yeah, I am actually unsure myself how exactly GUIDs are handled by PeerTube, I know it's not as simple as being able to just copy and paste them from instance to instance - might be interesting to look into on their github, but at least for now, I am staying out of the coding stuff (am a pretty terrible amateur coder myself 😅).

And I am always happy to share great content on the Fediverse around - and you certainly provide that! Hope in the coming weeks, I stop being the only one from PeerTube in your chat (especially, since I am usually not that talkative there :D )

The individual Fedi-platforms are currently growing (thanks to some small to pretty big blunders from the established tech giants, going from "free frontends aren't working any more" to, you know, promoting actual fascism) - I think it's important to cross-pollinate the ecosystem on top of that, so I won't stop promoting PeerTube stuff on Lemmy any time soon. (And sometimes mastodon, although that will probably never quite be my cup of tea).