How To Set Up Stream Delay On Twitch

Twitch is pop for video game live streaming, simply can also host other kinds of streams, i.e. "in real life" streams have become pop in the contempo years.

Set your IP camera with webcam.io and ship the your alive stream to Twitch, embed information technology into your website or but use the customs features on Twitch to share it.

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1.) Get the camera stream URL

The video stream URL is unremarkably visible in your camera settings in streaming/video/h.264/RTSP sections. If you cannot discover it there, a short google search of yous camera model/vendor and 'RTSP' or 'video stream' should help.

H.264 encoding is recommended. MJPEG, MxPEG (Mobotix) likewise work if transcoding is activated in step 3 later.

The URL needs to be accessible from our servers and this probably requires setup of port forwarding and dynamic dns (or a static IP) on your side.

two.) Set upward Twitch

click on the contour icon in the upper right, go to Settings then Channel and Videos

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copy the Primary Stream cardinal from there for afterwards

this is optional:

enable Disconnect Protection (recommended)
Latency Normal should be ok
And on the lesser of the page Raids -> Cake all raids is recommended, and so no random users are sent to your aqueduct on twitch

3.) Gear up upwardly webcam.io

Create a webcam entry in webcam.io of type Live stream:

Make full in the URL from footstep one into the Input section. Twitch requires an H.264 encoded video stream for input.

Depending on your camera stream, y'all might need to actuate the Transcode options. For H.264 transcoding can stay turned off (default).

Then enter the Stream key URL in Output section, in this instance:

            rtmp://live-fra02.twitch.tv/app/THE-TWITCH-STREAMKEY-FROM-STEP-two

(We employ Frankfurt, Federal republic of germany ingest server here (likewise see ingest servers), as our datacenter is located virtually there. Nosotros fetch from your photographic camera then send to twitch, so the delay on this connectedness leg is kept low.)

4.) Start streaming

By saving the webcam entry (webcam.io), streaming will kickoff within the next 30-60 seconds. The stream condition text is shown in the status box in your webcam.io dashboard.

To the stream in Twitch, go to the Creator Dashboard in the profile menu in upper right.

The Stream Health box shows the bitrate coming in and the Twitch Inspector is very helpful to bear witness connect/disconnect times and more.

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You stream should exist broadcasting to the public now! \o/

(Go to profile menu -> channel for the public link to your aqueduct)

5.) Embed into your website

Embedding the twitch thespian is washed by inserting a HTML snippet using your channel proper noun. Hither is an example:

            <div id="twitch-embed"></div> <script src="https://embed.twitch.tv/embed/v1.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">   new Twitch.Embed("twitch-embed", {     width: 854,     height: 480,     channel: "CHANNEL-NAME-Hither",     layout: "video",     theme: "dark"   }); </script>

See Embedding Twitch for more details.

Troubleshooting

Please contact u.s.a. if you lot need help with a non starting stream or finding the video stream URL of your camera. Likewise see FAQ.

To employ a 2d stream, you need another Twitch business relationship, using the the other Stream Key and Channelname in some other Alive stream entry in webcam.io

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