Individuals and organizations that have streamed live on the Web have seen this as a terrific marketing opportunity that provides one the capability to engage with fans or consumers straight with on-the-spot responses to concerns that appear in the chat box. On December 4, 2015, Facebook piloted a similar platform for individuals who have actually gone through the social network's verification procedure.
Facebook Live Stream?
Similar to videos that automatically 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 depicting something that is occurring right now instead of a video series that has been recorded in the past. This will enable you to hopefully have time to interact with the banner.
Facebook's intention with this is to give people and companies a new method to market themselves and attract an audience that may desire to view them "in the now.".
The video can be shot from any gadget suitable 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 feature, it did so with the intention of just enabling confirmed pages to utilize it. When this feature catches on, the criteria for using it will possibly be expanded.
If you manage a page on Facebook, it's not extremely difficult to validate it. You can do this by following the actions that the social media network lists in its own knowledge base here. If you are running a business' page, the verification procedure would perhaps go more solidly if you uploaded the papers you used to include.
Why Can't Routine Users ... Use It?
For the time being (a minimum of at the time I wrote this), Facebook is just allowing specific pages to utilize its brand-new feature. This possibly is inspired by the limitations of infrastructure and bandwidth, however it stems more so from the reality that the feature is still in its "alpha" phase. Users who tested live streaming on Facebook have reported numerous bugs that the platform still requires to iron out. Considering that it's still in the advancement stage, it's really possible that live streaming will stay not available to the public for quite some time. The function may not even endure long enough to reach the masses.
Either way, having a live video feed seems to be a thing that could only be helpful to companies, celebrities, and others who have an audience totalling a minimum of numerous thousand to numerous countless people.
Facebook Live Stream
There are a few limitations though and as mentioned, 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 very first visit your Facebook Page, then on top click on "Publishing Tools" (if you do not see the Publishing Tools your page is most likely not opened for Live Streaming yet, contact Facebook to discover whats needed), on the left click "Videos" and after that on the top right click on "Live":.
A popup will appear with the necessary details 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 Secret and OBS will ensure you do not exceed the max bitrate or key-frame interval limit of Facebook:.
Essential: The Server URL and Stream Secret can just be used for a single Live preview/post connection. You must use the exact same URL and secret to sneak peek and post. That is, you can not preview, stop the stream, then resume at a later time. The URL and Key are valid for 7 days. When you preview the video, you have up to 5 hours to go live. If you need more time, produce a new stream crucial closer to the event time.
Now we can set OBS to meet Facebook's maximum Video Resolution and optimal FPS in the Video settings (1280x720 and 30FPS) You can obviously stream at a lower resolution and FPS interval but not higher. And Facebook advises 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 maximum is 4000kbps:.
Have a look at some guides on the best ways to find the finest bitrate if you are unsure exactly what to choose.
Make sure all your other settings (Audio specifically), scene and source configuration are done before you start going live. If you accidentally begin and stop your stream you will require to create a brand-new live video and copy over the brand-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 allow you to preview your stream. At this point you are not survive on Facebook yet but I got an awful echo from the preview and needed to mute my Tab on Chrome to obtain rid of it. I hope Facebook will quickly reveal you some controls to mute the sneak peek. In the meantime just mute your Tab up until that is the case. Firefox and Chrome both must have this choice, not sure about Opera or IE.
You can now enter a Post message, offer the Video a title, include tags as well as tag people prior to going live. And you can also begin the Stream in your Software application and it must appear in the Popup Window:.
After you went into whatever and if your stream is online, the "Go Live" button will be blue as you can see in this example, which suggests you are now ready to go live. Click "Go Live" to do so.
After you are done with your Stream you can click on "End Live Video" to stop being Live on Facebook. The video will be saved 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 publish it on your Facebook Page. Keep in mind, the next time you start a Facebook stream you need to upgrade your Stream Key.
If that's all we can tell about Facebook Live Stream I hope this article was helpful thank you.