Hi folks,
First post here, been playing around with Vmix on and off for a bit and went for it this month for streaming church services. Previously we used Wirecast Play with Youtube and we've now switched to Sunday Streams with Vmix and simultaneous streaming to Youtube as well.

The issue I'm having is that our Youtube stream is now hit or miss with quality. Whereas we streamed to Youtube with Wirecast Play at 720p30/2.5Mbps and we saw 720p available on Youtube, we are now streaming at 720p30/1.5Mbps with Vmix along with 360p/500Mbps, however, Youtube typically only sees the 360p feed. Sometimes it gets the 720p feed, but I haven't been able to determine how to ensure it gets the 720p feed only.

Of the two selections in the stream settings, one is Sunday Streams' multibitrate rtmp stream and the other is Youtube's rtmp stream. The 3rd is not used.

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff Klein, DMC-E
Head Volunteer Sound Geek
Faith Baptist Church
Glen Burnie, Maryland
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Hi Guillaume,
Yes, that is what we initially did with Wirecast Play / Youtube Live, which didn't have/need a multistream option. We just put in the Youtube Live steam info and used the recommended Youtube setting preset (720p30/~2.5Mbps) and it did as you say.

With Vmix, we are now sending to SundayStreams' multibitrate stream with the Custom RTMP setting, so we select two bit rate settings in the Streaming Quality setup window under configuration 1 (of whatever those 1, 2 and 3 buttons under Profile are called). Config 2 we also have set to the same stream settings as we did in Wirecast Play for simultaneous streaming to Youtube Live with the Youtube preset.

Here's the issue...the Streaming Quality settings window appears to affect both presets in the Profile. I thought that we could set the multiple bitrates for the SundayStreams setting under the config 1 button and the single 720p bitrate for Youtube under the config 2 button, but when I switched back to the SundayStreams config, it now was only set to 720p as well (i.e. when I unchecked 360p for Youtube, it was unselected for everything in the Profile).

So, we reselected the dual bitrate settings so SundayStreams would get both qualities, but for some reason Youtube varies whether it will grab the 360p feed or the 720p feed.

Any idea how I can set it up for 2 bitrates to SundayStreams and one to Youtube Live?

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Tom,
Because the Stream Quality Settings are the same for all 3 streaming destinations in that case as well and no matter if I send 2 separate bitrate streams or a single multi-bitrate stream to Sunday Streams, I have to have both of the bitrate quality selections set in Stream Quality Settings, and Youtube seems to only lock on the 360p lower quality stream and ignores the 720p stream.

Does that make sense? Hopefully I'm explaining this correctly. If I could just force Youtube to ignore the 360p stream and lock into the 720p stream, that would do the trick I would think.

Thanks,
Jeff

Would the CPU load be the same with 2 instances running for each bit rate than one instance with multiple bit rates?


Thanks,
Jeff

I was testing use of 2 instances a while ago.

I definitely had additional CPU load when linking two instances of vMix using NDI.
if you are currently well within your hardware's capabilities, you will *probably* not get into trouble adding the second instance.

Hi Tom,
Well now, perhaps (hopefully) *I* am the one who is dense here...

Are you saying that the #1, #2 and #3 bit rate settings on the Stream Quality settings coincide with the 3 buttons at the top of the Stream Settings window?? I.e. As I have Sunday Streams configured under Stream Setting 1 and Youtube under Stream Setting 2, that would explain why I get 720p to Sunday Streams and 360p to Youtube?

If so, that's my problem...although I'm not sure why when I unchecked the 360p quality setting, Youtube still got a stream, unless it defaulted to the stream settings of #1?

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Tom,
Will do.

Am I correct, though, that the 3 bitrate settings coincide with the 3 available stream "button" selections in the Stream Quality Window, i.e. the 1st bitrate setting is for the Button 1 stream, the 2nd for Button 2, and the 3rd Button 3?

If so, then that's why Youtube was getting 360p: I used the 2nd "button" for the Youtube url, and the (corresponding?) 2nd bitrate quality setting was 360p.

Thanks,
Jeff

Okay! So, it seems that what I have to do to make this work then is set up the following:

Button 1 = Sunday Stream's multi-bitrate url/key
Bitrate setting 1 = 720p
Button 2 = Sunday Stream's multi-bitrate url/key
Bitrate setting 2 = 360p
Button 3 = Youtube's standard url/key
Bitrate setting 3 = 720p

I've got the same question in to Sunday Streams, so we'll see :)

Thanks,
Jeff

Well, that seems to have been the trick, folks.
I set up 3 streams in the profile and matched the bitrate 1,2,3 entries to the stream 1,2,3 entry buttons and both Youtube and Sunday Streams are getting 720p and the phone apps that would get 360p are also working.
The only tricky part was, for the Sunday Streams feed, I used their standard stream url for the 720p and their multibitrate stream for the 360p stream, as when I tried to use the multi-bitrate stream for both, Vmix assumed I had duplicated one and "helped me out" by removing it. I suspect it wouldn't matter which URL I used for which resolution, just that they were different.

Thanks to everyone for helping me work through this while I still have my hair ;)

Jeff