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, I would love for you to make sure that
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we do create new content. 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. We do not want you to miss
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just about every single day. So what are some ways that you might
be thinking about using custom RTMP for your live videos? We would love to know
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