Creating a livestream

You can create a livestream by going to the Livestream menu item and clicking + Add new.

This will trigger a four step process:

Type: Decide what type of livestream it should be: go live now, scheduled or 24x7 linear
Metadata: Enter metadata such as title and description
Source: Select stream source or use a remote stream
Settings: Select the approriate settings such as quality or recording

Step 1: Supported types of live events

We support three types of livestreams:

Go-live-now streams - good if you quickly want to go live now for example from a mobile phone
Scheduled livestreams - good for events starting at specific times
24x7 live linear streams - ongoing linear livestreams without start/end

Step 2: Entering metadata

Livestreams have metadata fields similar to videos. During creation you need to specify the title, description and any tags you want to associate your livestream with. Enter metadata

Step 3: Select the source input for the livestream

You have three options to use for the stream source.

Create a new livestream (default)
Use an existing livesource
Enter a remote stream URL

Step 4: Select settings

You have to decide what quality you want to have for the stream. This depends largely on what the quality of the input signal is.

You can also decide if you want to record your livestream. Recording is only available if you do an event of type go-live-now or a scheduled event. 24x7 events are not possible to record since they are too long. Decide settings

More information

For more information about the different use cases you can read our blog entry introducing our livestreaming.