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Once I click into this screen, I choose the stream
source via the drop-down list shown on the upper
left, which currently reads “Facebook Outputs.” This
is the Stream Link source shown on the extreme
right in Figure 2.
I add destinations by clicking the Add Destination
button shown below the three Facebook outputs. As
you can see, I’ve configured the three accounts so
that the Streaming Media account gets the full source
quality, while the other two only get 360p. You access
these configuration options by clicking the checkbox
on the right of each preset, which also gives you ac-
cess to controls for uploading and applying a water-
mark to the video, which is useful when distributing
your video to third-party sites.
As you can see, you can create groups of destination
sites, which would simplify group
operation. For example, you might
want to configure sites by time
zone so you can enable and disable them as a group. During the
event, this is the screen you’ll use
to switch the source from the sessions to the interviews, using the
drop-down list on the lower left
(currently showing “Interviews”).
6. Start streaming and monitoring. You start the live stream via
the slider on the right of each destination, either individually or as a
group. Once the stream is live, you
can click the Info button on each
destination to open an info screen
with session details like the number of viewers, outbound bandwidth, and the like. You can also
access Facebook Insights, which
provides the details shown in
Figure 7 (on the next page).
Or, you can click the icon for
each service as shown on Figure 6,
and open the viewing page for the
service. Figure 8 (on the next page)
shows the Facebook page for the
project, and by using the template
and workflow, all the text shown
will be consistent from service to
service.
Note that Figure 7 is the page
your viewers will see, not the live-streaming control page you can
access when streaming directly
via Facebook Live or other accounts. Currently, there is no centralized access to inputs from all
sites that you’re broadcasting to,
or even access to the broadcast
page of some services.
For example, with Facebook Live,
you can’t get to the live-streaming
control screen unless you originate
the stream from Facebook Live or
some other products like Wowza
Figure 5.
Creating the template for Streaming Media East
Figure 6.
Choosing and configuring destinations
