I got all the info I need here to easily set up a camera stream to YouTube from BI. My question is, is there any way to stream a group to YouTube directly from BI like can be done with a single camera?
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Sorry for hijack, I can't answer that, but did you successfully get a camera to stream to YT either directly from BI or a 3rd party software? Last time I tried after they had made rule changes, I believe I had to have X amount of subscribers and some other BS to be able to stream. Is this not the case anymore?
I was streaming a bluebird cam this past spring/summer to YT directly from BI with no issues except YT being so $%& picky about bitrate, etc.
I had Windows Task Scheduler restarting the cam via a BI HTTP command every hour to help keep it alive...most of the time. Not very reliable and I'm not sure it's any fault of BI.
Yep, no problem. I left a few of my family check it out. The only thing is, it's just the one cat house. That's mostly dead as when the cat gets in there, about all you get to see is a head moving now and then. With a group, I would set up that cam, the feeding spot/second house cam, the under the deck cam (where she plays a lot), and the front deck cam where we see her coming and going. It'd be nice, but if it's a no-can-do, then so be it.
BI has a RTSP server function for a year or 2 now. I've tried it with VLC and it works. Maybe I can set up one cam to stream one of my groups to YT, I'll let you know.
Yeah, I get that working in VLC as well. I just don't know how to translate that to getting it into YouTube... Also, FWIW, YouTube requires an RTMP url.
The only way I could get it to work is to send the RTSP stream to a Raspberry pi that transcodes the stream to RTMP and allows you to set the RTMP url and stream key. Here is the ffmpeg script I used: /usr/bin/ffmpeg -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1 -f lavfi -i anullsrc -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp:/username
password/index -tune zerolatency -c:v copy -c:a aac -strict experimental -f flv rtmp:/a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/streamkey
password/index -tune zerolatency -c:v copy -c:a aac -strict experimental -f flv rtmp:/a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/streamkey
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Unfortunately no. I tried just about every variation I can think of from what you show there, but never get anything.
I believe if your account is too new that you need X number of subscribers to get around a time requirement, otherwise you just need to wait for the account to reach the maturation date and you're fine.
Thank you very much @TonyR! Learning, learning, I just had to adjust for settings here. I have no idea whatsoever how many gigs/month this might use, so I'll just test it for a while I guess...
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I believe I had my account since YouTube was in existence but who knows
On the account I'm streaming to, it was Nov of 2020 for me. Different uses, different accounts don't you know...
That's what I thought, but I could be wrong. I was able to stream without issue.
Yep, but... I wanted the 4 cam setup otherwise watching the feed is like watching paint peel or something as, even with 4 cams, not much happens most of the time...
Streaming just one of my sky cams to Youtube through BI cranked my CPU usage up quite a bit, and this was even after dumbing the resolution down.
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You could probably do it using OBS. Maybe take a look at that. A little of a learning curve but if you can do these cams you can get it.
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