Streaming hardware should be cheap, fixable, and yours.

The market for IRL streaming gear is split between two extremes. On one end, there are commercial appliances that cost a thousand dollars and lock you into a vendor's cloud. On the other end, there are homemade OBS rigs tied together with scripts and an RTMP relay you pay for monthly. Neither is what an IRL streamer actually wants.

What we want is the appliance: one cable to the camera, one to the power bank, one to the network. A web UI that comes up immediately. A start button. A bonded SRTLA stream that has more than one way out when a modem stalls. We want it to cost less than a camera. We want to fix it ourselves when it breaks. We want updates with a rollback path. We want the project to outlive its founder.

IRLEncoder exists because that combination has not existed before. BELABOX got close and proved it was possible. LiveU and TVU got close on the appliance side and priced it so most streamers cannot touch it. A sharp stream that doesn't drain the battery, scene switching, recording while you stream, updates that can roll back, and Pocket 3 control from the same screen are the parts of an appliance experience that did not exist together in DIY form. So we built them.

We are not selling boards. We are not selling a cloud. We are not building a SaaS. The image is free to download. You buy the hardware from whoever you want. You point it at any relay you like. You own the whole stack.

If something breaks, the logs are useful. The web UI tells you which modem dropped. Updates have a way back. The configuration is in plain text files you can read and edit. There is no telemetry phoning home, no analytics bundle, no remote killswitch.

Pick a supported board. Flash an image. Stream.