The bitrate is the amount of data you send to your Owncast server when you stream. If you have the bandwidth and encoding power both on your broadcasting computer and your Owncast server to stream at 1080p, 60 fps, great! If not, try one of the other settings above to optimize your video quality and stability. Streaming at a higher resolution like 1080p requires a higher bitrate, and a higher frame rate takes more encoding power. Full HD resolution is typically 1080p, 60 frames per second (fps). Resolution refers to the size of a video on a screen, and frame rate refers to how many frames per second are displayed. But you should keep in mind the highest quality you’ll be offering your viewers, as stated above. The following are some suggested settings for a high quality stream you can set in your broadcasting software. If you find yourself trying to squeeze better performance out of Owncast then try setting your broadcasting software to a lower quality as well as lowering the quality in your Owncast instance. Just because you want to offer a certain quality doesn’t mean your server can support it. That means if your Owncast server can only handle you should not configure your broadcasting software to send The more conversion work you ask Owncast to do the more resources it will use on your server, making it even harder to offer the best qualities to your viewers.Įvery server, environment, network speed and processing capacity is different. You will want to configure your broadcasting software to match the highest quality you can offer your viewers. How you configure your broadcasting software matters If your software doesn’t have a place to specify a streaming key you can simply append it to your RTMP location, for example: rtmp://yourserver/live/abc123. The default stream key is abc123 but you should change this immediately after setting up Owncast. In this case you would specify rtmp://yourserver/live as the RTMP destination, specifying your streaming key where it asks for it. Most broadcasting software will have a way to specify a “custom” location as a RTMP endpoint.
If you’re finding yourself running into issues, we’d love to help troubleshoot. So if you’re using something specific we’d love to hear what software you’re using and the results.
However, we haven’t tested with everything. RTMP is what all the major live streaming services use, so if you’re currently using one of those it’s likely that you can point your existing software at your Owncast instance instead. In general Owncast is compatible with any software that uses RTMP to broadcast to a remote server.
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