![]() When you go live from your laptop using, say, OBS, a few seconds later your stream output appears on your Restream page so you can see it is arriving OK, and Restream immediately sends it on to your chosen services. I enter the title and a descriptions for our weekly broadcasts, and it puts them on YouTube, Facebook and so on without me having to go to those platforms individually. ![]() You can now update the titles and descriptions of your channels all at once. Or if the channel or channels you want to broadcast to aren’t listed, like Zoom, you can just add a “Custom RTMP” channel, which is where you enter the RTMP server address and stream key manually. ![]() To start with, you add channels you want to broadcast to directly (it has 30 built in including Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Periscope, Mixcloud Live etc). That way, even if you broadcast to 10 platforms, you are only actually having to send one signal out to one platform – Restream – in order to achieve that.Īll of the control and configuration of Restream is done via a web app – when you sign up, you get a Restream page from which you can control how it works. Restream has servers all over the world, whose job it is to take your incoming signal, and re-broadcast (or “restream”) it to the platforms you choose. This means your livestream is sent to Restream, not to any individual service. What Restream does when you sign up is issue you with a new RTMP address and stream key, which you use to broadcast to, instead of using a RTMP address and stream key from Twitch, YouTube, Mixcloud Live or wherever. With these, you can send your signal to the right place, and tell the service that it’s your broadcast. The RTMP address is just like a website address, and the stream key is like your user name and password, just combined in one. Just like using a password to login to your email, a server address and stream key are what you need when you want to go live on and platform. If you’ve spent any time dabbling in livestreaming, you’ll have come across the concept of an RTMP address and stream key. Restream’s greatest strength is its utter reliability – it has failed us only once in 5 years. The solution is to use a service that takes your single output and “re-broadcasts” it to the platforms of your choice – and by far and away the leading service in this sector is a web app called Restream, which is the one we use. Read this next: 10 Lessons I’ve Learned From DJ Livestreaming On The Road We certainly didn’t have the bandwidth for anything fancy (in fact, we only just had enough bandwidth to go live at all). Learn to livestream with Digital DJ Tips: Livestreaming Made Easy courseĪnd while modern internet speeds can easily provide enough up bandwidth to broadcast to several platforms at once, that is by no means a given, even for cable or “home” internet, never mind for mobile.įor instance, we broadcast a DJ set on YouTube, Mixcloud Live and Twitch from the top of a very high mountain a while back – using a very flakey 3G phone connection. If you want smooth livestreams, you really don’t want to be asking your computer to broadcast to more than one platform at once. ![]() ![]() Livestreaming is processor intensive, and the more services you ask your computer to deal with, the more processor intensive it gets. While the first two options are certainly possible, they have their drawbacks. How do DJs do that? Do they have a very powerful livestreaming computer and very fast up speed on their internet? Or go live to one on their phone, and one on a laptop? Or is there a service that helps them? For instance, you may want to go live on Twitch, but also on Mixcloud Live and YouTube. If you’ve dabbled in DJ livestreaming, you’ll at some point have wondered how to get your stream live to more than one service at once. ![]()
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