hi this video is about how to improve
the quality of your live stream on
YouTube do you sometimes lose your
internet connection while live streaming
on YouTube do you get blurry footage or
experience delays when going live on
YouTube you want the experience to go
smoothly for yourself as well as for
your viewers therefore you need to test
for any glitches that may happen before
you tap the go live button on your phone
in this video I discuss the speed
requirements for live streaming how to
test the upload and download speeds and
provide several ways to improve the
quality of your live stream on YouTube hi
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autopilot at the end of the video I'll
share my experience of what happened
when I lost my internet connection while
live-streaming from my iPhone if your
internet connection drops while watching
a regular video YouTube will lower the
quality so you'll still be able to watch
the video with live stream videos it
depends on the quality of your own
internet connection so what are the speed
requirements to live stream on YouTube
your download speed is usually higher
than your upload speed so even if your
download speed is high it's not going to
make much difference when you're live
streaming
how is speed measured for a video one of
the biggest ones is the bitrate in which
a video camera records bit rates are
defined at megabytes per second or Mbps
one megabyte per second equals a
thousand kilobytes per second here's how
to test your internet speed
go to speedtest.net click go it's now
showing the download speed the download
speed is 56.92
megabytes per second now it's showing
my upload speed
the load speed is 65.01
megabytes per second so I'm good to
go in a nutshell the higher the bit rate
of a video the higher the quality of the
video if you're shooting at 1080p the
resolution is usually 1920 by 1080 the
video bitrate range should be 3 to 6
megabytes per second or three thousand to
six thousand kilobytes per second if
you're shooting in 720p
the
resolution is usually 1280 by 720 the
video bitrate range should be 1.5
to 4 megabytes per second or 1500 to
4,000 kilobytes per second most live
streams are pushed out at 720p so you
need a bare minimum of at least 1.5
megabytes per second live
videos require a consistent internet
connection and a consistent bitrate and
quality your internet speed should match
those requirements if you're creating a
live event from your desktop you can
choose the quality of your stream make
sure you test before you start your live
stream if you're doing hangouts on the
air you can adjust the bandwidth usage
tap this icon it says video trouble
disable HD it says you can adjust your
video quality to limit your bandwidth
usage check the system requirements for
hangouts so operating systems you've got Mac OS
Windows Chrome or a Ubuntu - you need to
use Google Chrome Internet Explorer or
Safari when you make the video calls
need a broadband connection to the
Internet
USB web camera quad-core
processor how much bandwidth do you need
it says hangouts changes how much
bandwidth is used based upon your network
minimum bandwidth required is outbound
300 kilobytes per second inbound 300
kilobytes per second the ideal
bandwidth for 2 person video calls
outbound is 3.2 megabytes per second
inbound 2.6 megabytes per second we have
group calls the ideal bandwidth is
outbound 3.2 megabytes per second
inbound or five participants 3.2
megabytes per second inbound with 10
plus participants 4 megabytes per second
I'd like to share a case study with you
when I lost my internet connection I was
ready to go live from a mobile phone when I
lost the Wi-Fi connection in my home
office I switched using the personal
hotspot on my phone and tested the speed
using speedtest.net the upload speed
only showed 0.36 megabytes per second I
tested a live stream on my phone by
setting the privacy settings to unlisted
the amazing thing is the live stream
still worked I didn't want to take the
risk of having a bad connection or
losing the connection while going live
to people all over the world instead I
used the cellular connection from my
iphone during the live stream I
continuously received pop-up messages
saying I had a bad connection or poor
connection I asked the participants if they
could hear and see me during the
livestream the answer was a resounding
YES
so what's lesson here you can live
stream from your mobile phone even if
you have a poor or bad connection but to
be on the safe side use the fastest
upload speed that you can get here are
some important tips to improve the
quality of your live streams on youtube
if you temporarily lose your internet
connection while live-streaming on
YouTube
wait a few seconds because you might
reconnect you'll then be able to
continue with your original live stream
do a dry run by selecting "unlisted" from
your privacy settings if you lose the
Wi-Fi connection in your home or office
like I did use the cellular data
connection from your mobile phone if you
experience any delays while broadcasting
pause after you're finished talking so
you give the attendees time to respond
remove any devices that are consuming
bandwidth so you don't experience any
interruptions if you're live streaming
from your computer reboot your computer
before you go live let me ask you a
question have you ever experienced any
lost connections while going live on
YouTube please share your experience in
the comments below I'd love to read them
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