Facebook Live

This will try to push a local stream to Facebook Live using port 80. Below are the steps on how to push a stream to Facebook:

  1. Log in to your Facebook account

  2. Select a stream to push to Facebook. Note that a list active streams will be listed under the selections

  3. Enter a description for the stream to be pushed

  4. Choose where to publish the live stream. You have several options where to publish the stream:

    • User Timeline: publishes the stream to the user’s timeline

    • Page: publishes the stream to the selected page you manage

    • Event: publishes the stream to the selected event you manage

    • Group: publishes the stream to the selected group you manage

      Notes:

      • If you have multiple pages, events or groups, a list of pages, events or groups will display under the selected category
      • You can only select one page, event and group
      • You can only publish on the pages, events, groups you manage

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  5. Select the privacy setting for the stream

    See Facebook’s privacy settings here.

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  6. Click Send Stream to Facebook Video to publish the stream

    Note: In this example, a stream named testStream will be pushed in Group A page which will be seen by Public.

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  7. Check the page where the stream is pushed

YouTube Live

This will try to push a local stream to YouTube Live Stream using Events. Below are the steps on how to push a stream to YouTube:

Note: The pushed stream can only use the RTMP

Pre-requisite:

  • Enabled Live Streaming in YouTube account

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  1. Log in to your Google+ account if not yet logged in

  2. Select a stream to push to YouTube. Note that a list active streams will be listed under the selections

  3. Enter a Title and Description for the stream to be pushed

  4. Select the privacy setting for the stream

    • Public - videos and playlists can be seen by and shared with anyone
    • Private  - videos and playlists can only be seen by you and the users you choose
    • Unlisted -  videos and playlists can be seen and shared by anyone with the link

    See YouTube’s privacy settings here.

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  5. Choose the stream format of the stream

    Note: The video format should be the same or lesser than the stream format or else the stream published will fail to play

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  6. Click Send Stream to YouTube to publish the stream

    Note: In this example, a stream named testStream will be pushed to YouTube which will be viewed by Publicly.

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  7. Check your YouTube channel where the stream is pushed

Notes:

  • You can unlink your Facebook or Google+ account in Profile Page
  • Unlinking account in the UI will not remove the EMS Web UI entry in the user’s Facebook account. Go to Facebook’s Settings > Apps page to modify