Facebook Live Video Streaming
Individuals and organizations that have actually streamed live on the Web have actually seen this as a wonderful marketing chance that uses one the capability to interact with fans or customers straight with on-the-spot actions to questions that show up in the chat box. On December 4, 2015, Facebook piloted a comparable platform for people who have actually gone through the social network's verification procedure.
Facebook Live Video Streaming?
Much like videos that immediately play as you scroll through them on your news feed, live-streamed videos will begin playing as you see them. The only difference is that they will be representing something that is taking place right now instead of a video series that has been recorded in the past. This will enable you to ideally have time to connect with the banner.
Facebook's intention with this is to offer people and companies a new method to market themselves and attract an audience that might wish to view them "in the now.".
The video can be recorded from any gadget compatible with the "Facebook Mentions" app, that includes virtually any smart device or tablet.
Can I Live Stream?
On December Fourth when Facebook piloted its live streaming function, it did so with the objective of only allowing validated pages to use it. As soon as this feature captures on, the requirements for utilizing it will maybe be widened.
If you handle a page on Facebook, it's not very tough to confirm it. You can do this by following the steps that the social media network lists in its own knowledge base here. If you are running a business' page, the confirmation procedure would maybe go more sturdily if you uploaded the papers you used to integrate.
Why Can't Regular Users ... Use It?
For the time being (at least at the time I wrote this), Facebook is only permitting specific pages to use its new function. This perhaps is inspired by the restrictions of infrastructure and bandwidth, but it stems more so from the fact that the feature is still in its "alpha" phase. Users who evaluated live streaming on Facebook have actually reported many bugs that the platform still requires to iron out. Because it's still in the development phase, it's very possible that live streaming will stay unavailable to the public for quite some time. The feature might not even make it through enough time to reach the masses.
Either method, having a live video feed seems to be a thing that could just be beneficial to companies, celebrities, and others who have an audience totalling a minimum of several thousand to hundreds of countless individuals.
Facebook Live Video Streaming
There are a couple of constraints though and as pointed out, you need a Facebook PAGE:.
- Video Resolution: max 720p (1280 x 720 or 720 x 1280), 30 frames per second.
- Key-Frame Interval of 1 every 2 seconds.
- Max bit rate 4000Kbps.
- Rate control: CBR.
- 240 minute (4 hour) maximum length.
- Audio Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz.
- Audio Bitrate: 128 Kbps mono or stereo.
To start a stream you have to first visit your Facebook Page, then on top click "Publishing Tools" (if you do not see the Publishing Tools your page is probably not opened for Live Streaming yet, contact Facebook to find out whats required), on the left click "Videos" and then on the top right click "Live":.
A popup will appear with the needed information for OBS.
In my example screenshot OBS-Studio lets you choose Facebook Live as a Streaming Service, so you just require to copy over the Stream Key and OBS will make sure you do not go beyond limit bitrate or key-frame period limit of Facebook:.
Crucial: The Server URL and Stream Secret can just be utilized for a single Live preview/post connection. You must use the same URL and key to preview and post. That is, you can not sneak peek, stop the stream, and then resume at a later time. The URL and Secret are valid for 7 days. When you preview the video, you have up to 5 hours to go live. If you need more time, develop a new stream key closer to the event time.
Now we can set OBS to meet Facebook's maximum Video Resolution and maximum FPS in the Video settings (1280x720 and 30FPS) You can of course stream at a lower resolution and FPS period but not higher. And Facebook suggests you to stream at an aspect ratio of 16:9:.
Depending upon your Output Resolution and FPS you can set your wanted bitrate, remember the optimum is 4000kbps:.
Check out some guides on how to discover the finest bitrate if you are not exactly sure what to select.
Ensure all your other settings (Audio specifically), scene and source configuration are done before you start going live. If you inadvertently begin and stop your stream you will need to create a new live video and copy over the new stream key.
As quickly as you are ready to start click on the Sneak peek Button in the bottom right of the Facebook "Create live video" popup. The next popup will permit you to sneak peek your stream. At this point you are not live on Facebook yet but I got a terrible echo from the preview and had to mute my Tab on Chrome to get rid of it. I hope Facebook will quickly show you some controls to mute the preview. In the meantime simply silence your Tab up until that holds true. Firefox and Chrome both must have this alternative, not sure about Opera or IE.
You can now enter a Post message, provide the Video a title, add tags as well as tag individuals before going live. And you can likewise start the Stream in your Software application and it must appear in the Popup Window:.
After you entered everything and if your stream is online, the "Go Live" button will be blue as you can see in this example, which indicates you are now ready to go live. Click on "Go Live" to do so.
After you are done with your Stream you can click "End Live Video" to stop being Live on Facebook. The video will be conserved and need to soon appear in your Video Library of your Facebook Page:.
That's about it. You can now stream your material to Facebook and release it on your Facebook Page. Remember, the next time you start a Facebook stream you need to update your Stream Key.
If that's all we can tell about Facebook Live Video Streaming I hope this article was helpful thank you.