Stream Ops

Chat commands for inspecting and tuning your video pipeline from the chat box.

Commands

Enable the plugin in Admin → Plugins, then type these in chat:

Command	What it does
`!broadcaster`	Reports details about the inbound stream you're sending (the encode Owncast is receiving).
`!videoconfig`	Reports the current output / transcoding configuration.
`!latency <n>`	Sets the output latency level to `n`. Lower means viewers see the stream sooner but rebuffer more on flaky networks.

The bot posts each answer back to chat. !latency changes live output settings, so use it deliberately. Anyone who can post in chat can run it.

chat.send: posts the answers.
server.read: reads broadcaster telemetry.
videoconfig.read: reads the current video configuration.
videoconfig.write: the privileged half. Lets !latency change live transcoding settings.