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Important FAQ
- Administration is secured by password, default is dicaffeine.
- Running stream can be stopped by mouse right-click, keyboard key ESC and q or remotely via web access.
- On Raspberry only fresh and clean installations of Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) with desktop based on Debian Trixie are supported! It's possible that Dicaffeine will not work correctly with other packages.
On ADM/Intel only fresh and clean instalations of Xubuntu (64-bit, 26.04) with desktop are supported! It's possible that Dicaffeine will not work correctly with other packages, just sayin.- The reason for the past two lines is because the Dicaffeine is using sound card/video grabbers/web interface which can be blocked by the other installed applications, also things with Xorg/Wayland transformation are not so easy to work with.
- Any issues can be reported at GitHub Dicaffeine page.
Another FAQ, not so important
- RTMP stream has significant frame drops: use Raspberry 400 or Raspberry 4 with a good cooling - CPU gets overheated very fast and the stream starts to drop frames as hardware encoder slows down. Also if streaming from webcam/usb grabber - YUV video format helps a lot.
- What Raspberry I should use: do not use any older Raspi than 4/5.
Used software, very important
I am very grateful for many great projects I can freely use in the Dicaffeine. Here's the list: