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Amnon  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, November 12, 2019 12:55:10 AM(UTC)
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I always set up a stream to FB this way. Click the 'Stream' gear, click 'Facebook Settings', then 'create Stream'. I then click again on 'facebook settings' and this time there is a line at the bottom that at its end it has the embed number for that stream. I copy that number to an iframe file, then 'Save and Close', and everything is ready for me to just click 'Stream' when the time comes. Well, yesterday morning it did not do what I expected. After clicking 'Create Stream' I clicked 'facebook setting' again and that line at the bottom was not there, and the botton at the button did not change to "End Stream' but was again saying 'create Stream'. I did it again but no change. After searching on line and finding nothing about it, I tried to stream anyway, and sure enough the live video was on my FB page, so after we strated the show, I went to FB and got the number from looking at the embed code on the page, plugged it into the iframe and on we went.
Nick said that it is probably the FB API that is down, but as of this morning it is still doing the same thing.
It worked fine a week ago.
Any ideas?
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, November 12, 2019 1:01:15 AM(UTC)
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Hi Amnon,

Facebook have changed how their API works just recently, causing the symptoms you have described.
We will have this updated for vMix 23, but in the mean time, if you need that URL in a reliable way I would suggest
creating the stream on Facebook and copying and pasting that way.

Regards,

Martin
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, November 12, 2019 1:23:51 AM(UTC)
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Thanks Martin, feeling better now :-)

I just tried it with the profile of a show that is coming up in an hour, and it does put all the correct info into FB. So I can live with copying the number from the FB page for now.

Thanks again.

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