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

  5. Select the privacy setting for the stream

    See Facebook’s privacy settings here.

  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.

  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

  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.

  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

  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.

  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