

Once there, the YouTube Studio interface will open, from which it will be possible to retrieve the Live Stream URL and the Private Key to be used within the FFmpeg script that you will find on GitHub. Basically, in order to activate a live streaming the user needs to create a personal (or corporate) channel and then access the Live Streaming panel located in the menu at the top right of the channel screen. YouTube natively supports live streaming / broadcast from its YouTube Studio interface: f or more information on how to use this feature, we recommend taking a look at the official YouTube Creator Academy guide.


The latest version of this script can be found on GitHub here. This script is designed for the broadcast of an event or a pre-registered movie where the video and audio sources are included into a single mp4 file: Once the broadcast is sent to the channel - using FFmpeg or other similar tool - it will be possible to share the broadcast on your Twitter account: additionally, if the channel is set to "Public", it will also be made available within the Periscope community. Once registered (with Twitter, Facebook, Google or a mobile phone number) and access, the user will have the opportunity to access the Producer tool, which allows you to create one or more "channels" on which to transmit their contents: each channel will have a unique private key (mandatory), which can be used to send the content to be streamed, and a name (optional) to help distinguish it from the others. Periscope is a free video streaming application born as a personal project of the developers Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein and subsequently purchased by Twitter in 2015: initially available only on the iOS platform, it was subsequently also released in the Web and Android version, thus obtaining full compatibility with all desktop and mobile devices. To achieve this we have prepared some useful bash scripts (.sh) which you can download directly from this GitHub project - or cut/paste from this article (see below).īefore going into the scripts, it might be useful to spend a couple minutes to understand how these online streaming services actually work. In this post we will talk about how to use this very useful and versatile tool to send a video and / or audio feed to an online streaming service such as Periscope and YouTube. If you have come across this article, it is likely that you already know FFmpeg, one of the most famous software suites for Linux and Windows to record, convert and play audio and video.
