OMT WHEP Gateway – Stream live video to any browser via WebRTC

Hey HN, I built this. The OMT WHEP Gateway is a bootable Linux ISO that auto-discovers Open Media Transport (OMT) video sources on your LAN and transcodes them to WebRTC/WHEP streams playable in any browser — no plugins, no apps. The problem: OMT is an open-source protocol for high-quality video transport over IP (think of it as an open alternative to NDI). It's great on the LAN, but there's no native way to get those streams into a browser. If you want to share a live feed with someone remote, or build a browser-based monitoring wall, you're stuck. What this does: Boot the ISO on any x86_64 box, and it discovers OMT sources via DNS-SD, transcodes to H.264/HEVC/AV1 using hardware encoding (Intel QSV, NVIDIA NVENC, AMD AMF) or CPU-based software encoding if you don't have a GPU. Then it serves WHEP endpoints — anyone with a browser can watch. There's a web UI for channel management, multiview, and real-time stats. It also has one-click Cloudflare Tunnel support — zero port forwarding needed. Share a link and someone on the other side of the world can watch your production feed in their browser with sub-second latency. Use cases I've seen so far:

Corporate events giving remote stakeholders a live browser-based view of keynotes and presentations without dedicated streaming infrastructure Broadcast engineers sharing confidence monitors with remote producers Small production teams replacing expensive hardware monitoring with browser tabs

Technical details:

Built on Pion for the WebRTC/WHEP layer Hardware encoding auto-detected on first boot, falls back to CPU if no GPU is available Web UI for channel management + shareable watch links REST API for integration with automation systems v1.5.14-alpha adds per-viewer stats, WHIP outputs, and system monitoring

The ISO is ~900MB. Flash it to USB with Rufus or Etcher, boot, and a setup wizard walks you through config. There's a 30-day trial. NDI compatibility is also on the roadmap. Happy to answer questions about WHEP, OMT, or low-latency streaming in general. https://sebiulabs.co.uk/#download