Hi - I’m loving my Pearl Mini. But I have a couple of questions re: workflow when streaming to YouTube (YT). The use is a house of worship, with service wardens responsible for starting and stopping the stream, and sometimes switching camera layouts. (We used to use the Webcaster X2 until YT broke it with their API update. We’ve also gone multiple camera now for pic-in-pic display).
My desired workflow - Non-technical person presses stream on Pearl Mini, device streams to YT, then press stream to stop stream. Next non-technical person comes along a week later and does the same. No need to schedule events in YT, no need to log in to YT to either turn on ‘stop stream’ setting or press ‘end stream’ from YT stream control panel.
Challenges:
- I seem to need to create or schedule an event in order to get a stream key from YT to enter into the Pearl. Once that event is over, the next event has a different stream key and so I’d need to go in and update the Pearl Mini. (We can’t afford £96 per month for remote access). Without this, when the next person presses stream, Pearl Mini appears to be streaming, but to the old key and so it’s now live on YT.
Is it possible to schedule one event in ten years’ time and to keep resusing it perhaps?
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Stopping stream. When stopping the Pearl Mini from streaming, YT keeps waiting for data and keeps the stream alive indefinitely. It is possible, once the stream is live, to log in to YT and open the stream centre and select the auto end setting. In future events YT seems to keep this setting (and I appreciate this bit is a YT question not an Epiphan one) but I’m worried it may revert in future. Assume others have faced similar challenges and so keen to hear what they did.
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1080p - My Pearl Mini channel is set to output 1080p. But YT seems to only go as high at 720p in the stream. Bandwidth, internet speed, system resources etc should not be a problem. I seem to be able to create a new stream key in YT for 1080p but how will the Pearl Mini know/be able to access that? (Given that I don’t want to have to create a new event each week, I just want start-stop functionality)
I appreciate this might not be helped by a million Zoom stream key settings sitting in there as we sometimes stream a Zoom meeting, and that seems to create a new key each time too.
Thanks in advance for any help people can give.