Does anyone LiveStream their camera on youtube?

When I put the bird feeder livestream on YouTube, raspberry pi SBC's were hard to find and expensive. All my other livestream cameras use a raspberry pi 3B or 3B+ running FFmpeg to do the RTSP to RTMP video conversion before the video is sent to YouTube. FFmpeg will handle everything you want to do with your livestream. OBS uses FFmpeg and adds a nice graphical interface. Other than that, it is the same program. If you are not into Linux command line operations, then OBS on a Linux computer would be a good choice. You will be able to add a weather overlay and other credits or ads. You would take your camera RTSP stream and run it into OBS to be converted to RTMP. In OBS you would enter your YouTube link and stream key.

Here is a link to another livestream camera that I use FFmpeg to encode the video and add the national weather service radio audio to the stream.

OPS Live! 1 - Lincoln, NE Weathercam Livestream

This live camera streams HD video and has a 40X zoom lens. If you like this YouTube live stream, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe and tell your friends...
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TRLcam said:
When I put the bird feeder livestream on YouTube, raspberry pi SBC's were hard to find and expensive. All my other livestream cameras use a raspberry pi 3B or 3B+ running FFmpeg to do the RTSP to RTMP video conversion before the video is sent to YouTube. FFmpeg will handle everything you want to do with your livestream. OBS uses FFmpeg and adds a nice graphical interface. Other than that, it is the same program. If you are not into Linux command line operations, then OBS on a Linux computer would be a good choice. You will be able to add a weather overlay and other credits or ads. You would take your camera RTSP stream and run it into OBS to be converted to RTMP. In OBS you would enter your YouTube link and stream key.
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Yes, I got the best results and reliability using OBS to stream our bluebird cam from Blue Iris. OBS is VERY flexible; I once used it to take YT videos and other live web pages and display as a camera in Blue Iris. For the record, the sometime jerky streams were before I got 1G fiber in Sept. of '22 !

Display YouTube Livestream in Blue Iris

I have several IP cameras set up to livestream to YouTube in remote locations. Each camera location has limited outgoing bandwidth so using Blue Iris directly is not an option. Is there any way to set up Blue Iris to receive the YouTube live stream and display in the user interface? There is...
ipcamtalk.com ipcamtalk.com
 
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nutu said:
Hi
I tried the Synology Nas Broadcast application with several settings but I only got a few days. Now streamed directly from Dahua's ip camera to YouTube, it has worked flawlessly for several days (from 21.3). The second stream of the camera is saved on the Nas server.
The stream is here if anyone wants to take a look at the tawny owl :) Pönttökamera Lohja-Live. Lehtopöllö, tawny owl.

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Nice, I can't stream directly from my Dahua cam anymore....dunno what has happened but it worked fine for a year ago. With Live Broadcast from my Synology NAS it works, but the stream doesn't stay online and stops after a while.
 
Do you have audio selected in the Dahua settings with the stream intended for YouTube? In the beginning with Dahua, I wondered why the stream doesn't show up on YouTube until I noticed that it must always have audio on as well. Just a guess :)
 
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I don't know if this is relevant at all, but I had an Axis camera which managed to stream directly to Youtube for more than a year (it might have been more like two years). I think it somehow managed to keep reconnecting to the same stream on YT, even if I lost power or internet temporarily. Does that makes sense? That was with RTSP, correct?

Now that I have a Hikvision camera on that radio tower, I use OBS, which works, but not nearly as well. Is going back to using Axis equipment a partial answer to get stable streaming to YT?
 
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Do you have audio selected in the Dahua settings with the stream intended for YouTube? In the beginning with Dahua, I wondered why the stream doesn't show up on YouTube until I noticed that it must always have audio on as well. Just a guess :)
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You sir, are a lifesaver! I had my audio on, but the encode mode was on G.711A and changed it to AAC. Now RTMP works again straight from the cam to YT.
 
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TRLcam said:
I have many livestreams running for myself and for customers. Several have been running continuously for over a year with no intervention by me. The only way I have found to do this is to monitor the stream and streaming server constantly by using Linux for the server, FFmpeg for the encoding and python scripting to monitor the stream every few seconds. I check the outgoing bps, ping the camera IP address, ping a known good internet address, monitor the power, CPU temperature and housing temperature continuously . Depending on what goes wrong the system will automatically restart FFmpeg, reboot the router or cycle power to the camera. If it can't correct itself quickly then a "We'll be right back" image is streamed to YouTube Live to preserve the live stream so it won't be dropped by YouTube. Then, the system keeps trying to fix itself. If it can't and there is still an internet connection, the python script sends me a text message. In almost all of the live streams this is all done with a cheap raspberry pi 3. My current project is the figure out the YouTube API. I'm hoping this will give me a better way to monitor and control the stream after it leaves the server.
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Hi TRLcam,

I'm just wondering if you got your head around the Youtube API setup. I've been trying to get scheduling going eg a daily live stream starting at 6am and finishing at 6pm and after trying numerous different methods including ffmpeg and different scripts I can't get it to work reliably. It looks like Youtube's API method is the way but it's a pretty complex set up.
 
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