Live Show vs Show Chat

Shosho gives you two ways to be “live”:

Live Show

A Live Show is connected to a streaming server. The server receives your video, makes it available to viewers, and then the server or the app publishes the Nostr live event.

Use a Live Show when:

• You want to stream from the Shosho app on your phone (IRL streaming).
• You’re streaming from OBS or another encoder and want Shosho to host the stream too.
• You don’t already have a streaming server of your own.

See Going live from the Shosho app or Going live from OBS.

Show Chat

A Show Chat is for when you already have a stream running somewhere — your own self-hosted SRS, Owncast, or OME server, or a hosted service like Cloudflare Stream, Livepeer, or API.video. You give Shosho the HLS playback URL of your existing stream, and Shosho takes care of the Nostr side: publishing the live event, monitoring the stream’s liveness, and giving you a chat page link to share.

Use Show Chat when:

• You have a streaming setup you’re attached to and just want chat + Nostr presence.
• You stream from a service that exposes an .m3u8 URL but doesn’t know about Nostr.

See Going live with Show Chat.

Quick comparison

Related

• What is a Show?
• Going live from OBS
• Going live with Show Chat