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Oct 29, 2018
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I have been streaming multiple live streams of my IP cameras over the past 5 to 10 years... Usually around 12-13 streams, all weather cameras covering California.

However, it appears as of around Jan 13th, 2026, youtube is now seeming to limit the number of streams they will allow me to do.

Anyone else facing this?

Do we know the limit?

Any new suggested work arounds, or other sites to push a weather cam stream?

This is really putting a wrench in my site.

Thank you.
 
I suppose you could create more Google accounts.

Can you live streaming program accept any RTSP stream? You could technically use Blue Iris to join every 4 cameras into one "group" stream and live stream that. It would be rather CPU intensive though to do at high resolution and frame rate. Also a bit of a learning curve since the RTSP server capabilities are not very well documented in its help file but I wrote up some notes about how it was working 5 years ago here:

5.3.1 - July 16, 2020 Your Blue Iris web server now is also an RTSP server.

5.3.1 - July 16, 2020 Your Blue Iris web server now is also an RTSP server. This opens up even more interconnectivity options between Blue Iris and other systems (home automation, video players, etc.) Use the URI /{cam-short-name} or /{group-name}. Authentication is completed via Digest...
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bp2008 said:
I suppose you could create more Google accounts.

Can you live streaming program accept any RTSP stream? You could technically use Blue Iris to join every 4 cameras into one "group" stream and live stream that. It would be rather CPU intensive though to do at high resolution and frame rate.
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Good tips!
Yes, I think segmented accounts would be a great start, I'm going to see if all accounts can do 10 streams or if new accounts only get one, etc.
Youtube is trying to really crack down on spammers, which there are a LOT of them on youtube unfortunately.
I'm trying to offer some good weather cams with good content.

I am not running blue iris yet, but yes, bringing 4 cams into a quad could work, or even a 'slideshow' of multiple cams, etc.

Good ideas! Thank you! Keep 'em coming!
 
Since you mentioned a "slideshow", Blue Iris can automatically cycle between the cameras in a group so you could have the image just change periodically. However it has been a bit buggy in my experience. Works best if all the cameras are the same aspect ratio.
 
Also you can have Blue Iris group as many cameras as you want into one stream; it doesn't have to be 4. It can be anywhere from 2 to 128. Other software may be able to do this too actually. Probably ffmpeg could for example, but I'm not sure how well it would handle things like a temporary connection loss to one of the cameras.
 
Thought RTMP was for streaming...or RTMPS for encrypted streaming...

Encrypt your stream using RTMPS - YouTube Help

You can stream to YouTube Live with RTMPS, a secure extension to the popular RTMP streaming video protocol. It is RTMP over a Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL) connection and provides encryption. Ge
support.google.com support.google.com

 
David L said:
Thought RTMP was for streaming...or RTMPS for encrypted streaming...
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It is......Blue Iris accepts an incoming an RTSP video stream from a local camera and converts it to RTMP for YouTube and others. :cool:
 
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