RTMP? What the heck is it? So if you're new to livestreaming,
or even if you've been streaming for awhile,
it's highly possible that you've heard of this concept called custom RTMP.
You maybe know that it's a way that you can actually do some really great things
and stream just about anywhere, but still, what is RTMP?
Maybe even you've been inside of a streaming software like ours here at
StreamYard, and you see RTMP as an option for where you can stream.
And again, what is this custom RTMP thing? Well,
today let's break it down.
Hey, Mel, here. So in this video, I'm actually going to define what RTMP is.
I'm going to give you some examples about when you might want to use it.
And I'm also going to show you how you can actually use StreamYard and broadcast
to a custom RTMP destination. And of course,
as always a couple things to err,
on caution when using RTMP destination. So now, as always,
before we get started,
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Now let's start at the beginning. What does RTMP stand for?
It stands for Real Time Messaging Protocol.
Now we're not going to get too technical in this video,
but it is good to know enough to be dangerous.
So really what this is is it's a way to transmit audio,
video and data from one creating source to an output source.
So a very easiest, easy,
obvious example would be StreamYard is transmitting data, audio,
and video to platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitch,
and Twitter.
Now StreamYard actually makes this extremely easy where we don't even really
need to worry about RTMP. However,
there may be some situations where you want to actually stream your information
and your audio and your video to a platform that's not already integrated with
StreamYard.
So those platforms I mentioned before are actually integrated with StreamYard.
It makes it super easy. Again, we don't have to worry about any of it.
But if you wanted to create a broadcast and stream it to, for example,
Vimeo or even Microsoft teams, for example,
there are live events inside Microsoft teams.
These are not currently integrated with StreamYard or even many other platforms.
You can use custom RTMP and still use an application like StreamYard to create
your show or your event or your interview,
and still be able to output it to these other places. Now, as I mentioned,
StreamYard makes it extremely easy to create live broadcasts to the common
social media platforms.
But let's talk about a couple of examples of where you may want to actually
create a broadcast and stream it somewhere else.
So let's say you want to conduct a webinar.
So you want to be able to share your screen, present some slides,
maybe even do some demonstrations. You want to be on screen as well.
So you may actually want to have displayed on a web page.
Now you can use an application like Vimeo,
which will allow you to embed that live broadcast inside Vimeo to a
webpage that might be gated with a password or people need to register for your
webinar,
where you're going to send them a custom link to access this information.
Meaning the webinar. Now you can use the application StreamYard,
which is incredible easy for screen-sharing, displaying yourself,
toggling back and forth to conduct a webinar.
You would use RTMP to stream it to Vimeo.
And then you would use the embed code that Vimeo provides to,
to put onto your website for your webinar to be displayed. Now,
another example could be that you're hosting a live event inside of your
business or your company using Microsoft teams.
Microsoft teams will also allow you to use a StreamYard,
to create an amazing production that would then be displayed inside of your
Microsoft teams event because you're using the RTMP function.
So another example that's becoming very popular is Amazon live.
You can use StreamYard and the RTMP function to actually produce your show,
produce your live stream that is going to be displayed on Amazon live. Okay.
You might be wondering at this point, Mel,
why wouldn't I just use those applications to create the broadcast
inside of those applications natively.
While StreamYard has some features that you might
want to consider, that you might want to use,
that will help you create an amazing broadcast. For example,
you can bring people into the video production as interviews.
You can actually have a whole panel discussion.
You can change and toggle the views of how those people in your panel look.
You can share your screen.
You can play videos inside of the stream, natively from your computer,
or you can even pre upload them into StreamYard for ease. Now,
there are other features and functions that you might want to be using from
StreamYard to create an amazing experience,
which is the whole reason why you may want to say, "Hey,
I want to create this really great show inside StreamYard,
but I want to stream it to this outside destination".
Now we've got a really great blog article that goes into a lot more technical
detail about RTMP, what it is about stream keys and all the things.
So if you want to read more about those aspects,
I would highly recommend you check it out.
We'll make sure we have a link to that in the description. Now,
next I want to show you how to actually use the RTMP function with StreamYard.
Okay, here we are inside of your StreamYard dashboard.
Now we're going to go to our destinations and we're going to be adding a
new destination.
Now you're going to notice we have our integrated options already in here,
but we also have the custom RTMP option.
That's what we want to select for this type of broadcast.
Now you're going to see here that you're going to need a bit of information from
your output platform.
So you need your RTMP server URL and your stream key.
So that might be actually the harder part for you to find inside of whatever
platform it is,
but always advise your help or service provider to find out this
information.
So all you're going to be doing is simply copying and pasting this information
into these particular fields.
Now you want to nickname your stream,
your custom RTMP destination as well,
so that it's easy to locate it. So we're simply going to say,
add RTMP server and voila.
And you're going to notice that when you go to create a broadcast,
you're now going to see your new custom RTMP destination as
an option. Now, one of the really great things about StreamYard,
as well is the multi streaming features.
You can actually select your custom RTMP destination as well as
another destination,
whether it be another custom RTMP destination or one of your integrated pages,
like a Facebook business page. And when you do that,
it's going to ask you to add your title and your description,
and you can customize for each destination. When you're ready,
you simply just click create broadcast,
and it's going to open up our streaming studio inside of
StreamYard,
where you're then going to follow all the other prompts to enter that broadcast
studio.
Add yourself to the stream and just like any other broadcast you're going to
just simply click go live to start your live broadcast. And as you can see here,
it's going to push to the Facebook business page I selected as well as our
custom RTMP destination. And as you can see,
you get to use all of the great features inside of the StreamYard studio to
create an amazing broadcast. Pretty cool, right?
So you can use StreamYard and the RTMP as a destination,
and it's super easy to use. As you just saw. Now,
there is something I want you to consider when you're thinking about using a
custom RTMP destination.
So you actually will not be able to see the chat or the comments on that
platform that you're streaming to inside of the StreamYard studio.
So if you're a StreamYard user,
you already know that one of the best features of StreamYard is that even if
you're multi streaming across multiple platforms,
you can see all of those comments from those integrated platforms,
right inside the studio. You can also display those comments,
which I love to do to increase engagement. However,
when you are streaming to a custom RTMP destination,
such as Vimeo or Microsoft teams event,
and people are commenting inside that platform, you won't be able to see them.
So you're going to need to have that platform open in another web browser or
perhaps on your phone. Now,
another note to consider is that if you are multi streaming to a Vimeo event,
for example, and YouTube at the same time,
and you're planning to display comments from those YouTube commenters,
keep in mind that you will not be able to provide the same experience for the
people watching over and chatting on Vimeo.
So maybe consider a strategy when you're planning a multi stream where you're
going to have an integrated social media platform and an RTMP. Well,
there you have it. Now, you know what RTMP is, you know,
enough to be dangerous, right?
And of course you have some reasons why you might want to consider using RTMP
and now you see how easy it is to actually create an amazing stream with RTMP
and StreamYard together. So as always, don't forget to subscribe to our channel.
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