Livepush multistreaming dashboard is a rich featured dashboard offering real-time analytics, multi-chat, cloud recordings, RTMP pulls, webcam streaming, live stream Titles and more, but knowing what feature to access from where is essential to make use of the features effectively.
Let's start examining the Multistream dashboard by its layout;
In essence, Multistream dashboard is divided in to 4 main pieces:
1. Top Right side: Real-time Stream Statistics
2. Right side: Video Preview
3. Right Bottom side: Publish Details & Tools
4. Left side: Stream Configurations
1. Top Right: Real-time stream statistics
This is the place where we show you if Livepush is receiving a live stream and shows live streams stats incl.; Online/Offline, Bitrate, FPS, Key Frames Interval, Video Resolution, Video Codecs and live stream uptime.
Take a look into another example where Livepush is receiving a live video;
2. Right side: Live Video Preview
This is the place where you see the preview of the video when the live stream starts to go live.
Take a look into another example where Livepush is receiving a live video;
3. Right Bottom: Ingest Details & Publish Tools
This is from where you would capture your RTMP ingest server streaming keys. If you take a closer look, you would see this section is sub-divided in to Four (4) sub sections;
1. RTMP Ingests
2. Live Webcam
3. Static Pull URL
4. Health Monitor
RTMP Ingests:
This section shows you the RTMP ingest server address and stream key, which you could use to configure you encoder device to send your stream to Livepush.
This view consists of two main elements;
"Streaming Server" aka: RTMP server address
"Streaming Key" aka: RTMP stream-key
Live Webcam:
This section enables you to go live your webcame and do not require anything else but just a working webcam.
To go live from your webcam all you need to do is to select your webcam device from the device(only if you have multiple webcams installed) or let the dashboard automatically select the default webcam for you.Now you can start streaming by click on the [button] coming on top of your webcam preview and start going live.
Static Pull URL:
This section lets go live from another live stream Pull URL (could be any live stream Pull URL).
A Pull URL is a URL you can use to download or watch the live video on your device or media player.
Suppose your friend is going live to some website or is streaming free movies, you can ask your friend to give you a Pull URL for their live stream(s) and you can copy that URL into your media player or encoder device to see the vide at your end too.
In the same way, Livepush asks you if you want to live stream from a Pull URL instead. All you need is to paste a working Pull URL into the "Static Pull URL" input field and click "Save Pull URL", now in a moment you see the preview for that live video in your dashboard.
Moreover, Pull URL could be very useful for a number of cases, some are listed below;
1. IP Camera RSTP Pull: Publishing a live video via Livepush whose encoder is streaming somewhere else .
2. To multi-stream a live video from your private media server (which do not support multi streaming)
Health Monitor:
This section gives you a fancy graph/chart showing frequency of streaming bytes Livepush server is receiving from your encoder or producer device.
The purpose is to give you complete transparency with the ingestion between your content and Livepush servers, so if you encounter an issue while streaming this graph could come handy for basic diagnosis
4. Left side: Stream Configurations
This is the "main" view where do you keep all your configurations regarding your Multistream and is further categorized into four(4) sub sections.
Publish Destinations
Stream Titles
Stream Recaps
Streaming Reports
1. Publish Destinations
This is the home for your streaming sites/destinations to which you want to publish your live streams at the same time. From here you can add new destinations and manage the already configured destinations the way your like.
Features Highlight
Ability to switch on/off destinations on the fly
Ability to filter out destinations you do need for a particular live stream session, gives you clean and sorted list.
Ability to see live publish statistics for a website or destination
Ability to manage Live stream title for a website or destination
2. Stream Titles
This section will keep your Live Stream Titles which you could attach to a destination when you add or configure destinations. Another magical feature is that you can add, manage and update you live stream titles from this place alone and all of linked destinations will get automatically synced and updated too, fancy right? :).
3. Stream Recaps
This section will keep all your recorded videos from each of the live sessions you have streamed using Livepush. From this place, you can download a recorded live video just after Livepush is finished processing the files.
4. Stream Reports
This section gives you meaningful summarized reports on your previous streaming campaigns with Livepush. The purpose of this section is to give your complete transparency regarding your consumption from time-to-time and overall summary to get better understanding of your live engagements.
Feature Highlights
Total number of times you went live
Total number of hours/mins you streamed
Average number hours/mins you stream per live session
Average stream bitrate per live session
Total bandwidth data transfer to and from Livepush RTMP servers
Complete list of all live sessions, each with attributes; Start-End time, stream duration, bitrate and bandwidth details.
So far, you have acquire more than enough knowledge you need to get started with your Multistream dashboard, knowing the most essential features in the dashboard, along with their minimal usage.
To learn further regarding each feature and detailed usage guide, please check our "Multistream Dashboard Features" documents to get practical examples and detailed knowledge for each of the features.
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