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kubsix  
#1 Posted : Sunday, October 23, 2016 6:29:16 PM(UTC)
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I've been unsuccessful in streaming to Facebook Live. Are there any prerequisites with Facebook to get it to receive the stream?

1. Can it stream to a personal page?
2. Does the page need to be "verified"?


I am able to stream to YouTube.


This is the error message I get when starting Facebook Live stream...

FFMPEG.Exited
ffmpeg started on 2016-10-22 at 17:20:31
Report written to "C:\ProgramData\vMix\streaming\streaming 20161022-172031.log"
ffmpeg version 2.8.git Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.8.1 (rev2, Built by MinGW-W64 project)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libx264 --enable-zlib --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree --cpu=i686 --enable-nvenc
libavutil 55. 2.100 / 55. 2.100
libavcodec 57. 3.100 / 57. 3.100
libavformat 57. 2.100 / 57. 2.100
libavdevice 57. 0.100 / 57. 0.100
libavfilter 6. 9.100 / 6. 9.100
libswscale 4. 0.100 / 4. 0.100
libswresample 2. 0.100 / 2. 0.100
libpostproc 54. 0.100 / 54. 0.100
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.1 : stereo
Input #0, dshow, from 'video=vMix Video:audio=vMix Audio':
Duration: N/A, start: 2540.503000, bitrate: 1536 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (UYVY / 0x59565955), uyvy422, 1280x720, 29.97 tbr, 10000k tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1536 kb/s
[tcp @ 04f2c320] TCP Buffer has been set to 3990528 bytes
rtmp://rtmp-api.facebook.com:80/rtmp/1059734810811094?s_l=1&a=AabyHcPOv7-rYGrv: Input/output error
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richardgatarski  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, October 25, 2016 8:35:42 AM(UTC)
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kubsix,

Can you pls describe in more detail how you set up the stream?
There are some differences depending on if you first set up an event in Facebook, or if you use vMix's Facebook "Destination".
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kubsix  
#3 Posted : Tuesday, October 25, 2016 8:50:18 AM(UTC)
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I have tried both ways. The manual RTMP method and using vMix's Facebook Destination.

Things I have learned since the OP.

Installed vMix on a different computer on a different network. Read "at home". I was able to post directly to Facebook without any issues.
The answers to my first two questions are yes it can stream to a personal page and no the page does not need to be verified.


Installed vMix on a different computer on the same network as the first PC and receive the same error message. So that raises new questions:

1. Wonder if the issue is with at the network/server level.
2. Are the any port or prerequisites for the network config?

I need to do some more investigation but any insight would be appreciated.
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richardgatarski  
#4 Posted : Tuesday, October 25, 2016 10:01:10 AM(UTC)
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Seems like a network issue. I believe that in most cases port 1935 is used. Since YouTube works for you it might be something in the Firewall that limits access to Facebook in particular.

Also, note that "the manual RTMP method", ie setting up a post/event in Facebook, implies that the RTMP URL and key is only valid for 24 hours. See www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/get-started/live
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kubsix  
#5 Posted : Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:50:20 AM(UTC)
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Facebook Live utilizes port 80. We were able to get it resolved by changing the PC's restrictions for port 80 put in place by the network's proxy server.
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#6 Posted : Thursday, October 27, 2016 12:16:46 PM(UTC)
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Don't know if Martin specifies port 80 when vMix is setting up Facebooks live stream. For sure when I just tried creating a live event in Facebook, the URL provided used port 80. But Facebooks "get started" (link in my previous post), the example url is for port 443.

In any case, I'm glad you solved it :)
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ichn1  
#7 Posted : Thursday, October 27, 2016 2:59:53 PM(UTC)
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vmix is not streaming to facebook nor youtube, akways with error handshake, we are using now obs to stream from vmix to facebook or youtube, we tried that on more than one pc, dit seams that not only us have this problem.
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#8 Posted : Monday, October 31, 2016 2:38:00 AM(UTC)
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can i customize the video bitrate to 14000 for Facebook? do facebook they allow it?
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