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i usually use a seperate vmix machine for streaming and two if i stream to two different platforms. this way i have full control over the stream and can sent seperate messages out in banner or overlay. if one fails it does not influence the other.

but in general i support the idea to be able to control seperate instances independantly. also on the outputs like streams. just imagine you would have to restart vmix if one of the inputs fails...

so +1 on this one.
stefan

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Love this since FB Live can only stream for 4 hours, and most of my streams last much longer. I usually just FB live a popular class only that will last under 4 hours while I stream the entire event to my own server.

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I gathered some available alternative solutions

1. Run another instance of vMix (to do it on the same machine you have to tick "Show Advanced Settings", and then "Enable Multiple Instances" under Options). Enable "Recording / External / Output" as NDI outputs on the first instance, and feed them to the second one where you can do with it whatever you want like streaming to another destination or make another recording.
2. Instead of running another instance of vMix, run OBS with this plugin https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi/releases and feed it with vMix's Output via NDI like above.
3. Run bare ffmpeg through command line. If you aren't familiar with ffmpeg's command line interface, you can get the exact line vMix uses from logs in C:\ProgramData\vMix\streaming (where C: is your OS drive ;)). Mine for streaming in 1080p and 6Mbps to YouTube looks like this:

Keep in mind that even though you may want the second/third etc. stream to be in the exact same resolution and bitrate as the other(s), it will be required to encode it once again, so your resource usage may double or triple.
If anybody would like to see an easy to use app to dynamically deploy multiple streams or recordings from vMix and other programs, let me know, I'm considering writing such.

Hope somebody finds this helpful,
Chris

For those who seek an alternative until this is implemented: restream.io now has the option to re encode your stream.

Say you want to send a full HD livestream to youtube at 4 mbps. A 2 mbps 720p livestream to Facebook and a low res one to another site.

You would send the 4mbps stream to restream, where it encodes the other streams for you, and you can individually start and stop each one of them. This costs money, but it frees your pc from encoding tasks and uses less bandwidth compared to doing it all in vmix.

We now use it, and it works really well.

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