When using nanoStream Cloud and H5Live Player for Ultra-Low-Latency Live Streaming, you may want to connect your own Live Encoder / Broadcaster software. This is a very easy-to-use workflow.
OBS, or Open Broadcaster Software, is a free open-source live encoder software for Windows, MacOS and Linux platforms.
How to setup the live stream broadcast to nanoStream Cloud with OBS
- For a full description to setup and use OBS, click here. / also check our videos
- Open Settings, Stream
- Select Custom Streaming Server
- Copy the bintu RTMP Ingest URL to the URL field and the RTMP Stream Name to the Stream Key field
- Click on Output
- Select Output Mode: Advanced
- Select Encoder: x264
- Select Rate Control: CBR
- Select Bitrate: between 500 kBits/s – 800 kbits/s – 2000 kBits/s
(or any other bitrate, dependent on your upstream bandwidth and quality) - You might also want to adjust the video size: “Video/Output Resolution”, we recommend using either 640×480 (Standard) or 1280×720 (HD)
- Select Keyframe Interval: 2 seconds
- Select Profile: Baseline (Main and High would also work)
- Select Tune: Zerolatency
- Select X264 Options and enter “b-pyramid=0”
