Select the streaming channel to which you have to do the player customization.
On the right side of the Player Settings, you can adjust the color of the control bar and the player button.
Then after adjusting the color theme, you can preview your color changes.
And if you want to save the previewed color changes, then click on the “Save”.
Likewise, you can also change the player Warning Message.
After changing the warning messages, you can click the “Save” button.
Then preview the changes you have made in your channel player.
The next time while previewing your live streams on the Livebox dashboard or even on your websites, you can see the updated color theme and the warning message on the player.
A User in the Livebox TV can be created in either way- the user itself can register through the Livebox TV signup portal or the admin can also manually create a user by giving the user’s credentials.
To manually create your user,
Go to “Users” from the navigation menu.
In “User” click the “Add User” option.
Enter your username, Email, set password, and phone number.
Then give “Submit”.
If the user registers using the signup portal, then the user gets added to your user’s list from where you can subscribe the user to your Livebox TV.
This is how the mail looks. The mail provides you a link to your interface along with your log in details. Click on the link so to enter your access page.
Adaptive bitrate streaming (Transcoding) is available only in the higher-end versions of Livebox.
Keep your streaming channels ready i.e., output channel and input channel.
Now under Manage Channels, go to Transcoding.
A Transcoding page opens up and you can select your “Input” channel by clicking the drop-down menu given in the “Select Channel” option.
In Output Channels, select the channel where the video has to be transcoded. Then give turn on near transcoding.
Once you give the turn on, new options for transcoding shows up, where you can set the “Preset”. And then click “Save”.
Note: Livebox will generate both Transcode Output URL and Transcode Embed Code.
After clicking save, give “Service Restart” to get your changes applied.
Then go to Livebox Playout software and click “Add File” to browse video source from your PC and to add video source in your Schedule Playlist.
Your video source is added. So, now click “Play” to play your video in Playout Preview.
You can preview your source and also enable and adjust the audio of your video source.
Now go to Livebox streaming server.
Then go to Channel Dashboard under Manage Channels from the navigation menu.
In Channel Dashboard click Streaming URL to copy the streaming RTMP URL of your “Input Channel”.
Then go to Livbox Encoder. Select your playout device in Video Device and Audio Device, and then enter the copied RTMP URL in the URL tab.
Click “Preview” if you want to preview your live stream and then give “Start”.
Now go to the Livebox Dashboard where you can check the transcoding quality of your output channel near the bottom right corner.
To check RTMP stats of your streaming channel go to the Viewers Report.
In RTMP stats it shows audio and video bitrate of both output and input channels.
And when you embed the output channel streams on your website, you can copy the Transcode Embed URL to publish the live stream on your website.
Note: Through the Transcode Embed URL, you can publish the streaming content along with the transcode video quality.
You are successful in Transcoding with Livebox Playout and Encoder. Now you can start live streaming across your streaming platforms/social media destinations.
The Client Portal Access option can be used to permit the users permission to use Restream the Livebox server contents and to access the Livebox Video Conferencing app through the Client Portal login.
So, to create the Client Portal role and user for both restreaming & video Conferencing app, follow the below steps.
Go to Users& Roles from the navigation menu.
Go to ‘Add Role’ in User& Roles.
Then click the ‘Create Role Now’ button.
A dialog box Add Role opens, where you can enter a role name.
Select Restream or Video Conferencing option under ClientPortal.
If you select Video Conferencing role, a few more options appear where you can select any of them based on your preference.
Note:
Dedicated Conference– If you select this option, then the user can create video conferencing rooms within the limits you allocate.
Shared– This option gives permission to make use of the video conferencing rooms created by the master admin. The user cannot create their own video conferencing rooms.
Unshared– This one works the same as the Shared option but the only difference is, the user can make use only the available video conferencing rooms i.e, the video conferencing rooms not used by any other sub-users.
Then click the ‘Save’ button and the Client Portal Access role for Restream & Video Conferencing will be created successfully.
Now you have to continue this process by adding users to the role you have created.
So, go to Add User and click the “Create User Now” button.
A dialog box Add User opens, where you can enter the Username and Password and then select the role you have created.
After selecting the Client Portal role you have created, you’ll be provided a few more options. they are:
Channels- You can select you streaming channels for the Restream Access.
Push Destination Count- Push Destination count is the number of destination that the user gets the access to Live stream.
Hide Embed Code- If you want to hide the embed code of the allowed streaming channel to your user, you can check the Hide Embed Code box.
Video Conference Limit- The number of conferences that the user is allowed to create while using the app.
Total Limit- The total number of video conferences limit allotted to your server.
Then finally click the ‘Create’ button.
And now you can send the link to the Client Portal (e.g, yourserverdomain.com/clientportal) along with the login credentials to your user.
Adaptive bitrate streaming (Transcoding) is available only in the higher-end versions of Livebox.
To conduct transcoding using Wirecast,
Keep your streaming channels ready i.e., output channel and input channel.
Now under Manage Channels, go to Transcoding.
A Transcoding page opens up and you can select your input channel by clicking the drop-down menu given in the “Select Channel” option.
In Output Channels, select the channel where the video has to be transcoded. Then give turn on near transcoding.
Once you give the turn on, new options for transcoding shows up, where you can set the Preset. And then click “Save”.
Note: Livebox will generate both Transcode Output URL and Transcode Embed Code.
After clicking save, give Service Restart to get your changes applied.
Go to Livebox and create your channel.
Now go to the Wirecast main window, and click the icon to add your source.
Many options to add your source appears.
To capture and add your USB webcam source, you can click the option Video Capture and to stream live your local files, click the “Add Media File” option and select your local files.
Your source is added. As you wanted to live stream, click the push icon to move your source to Live Broadcast Area.
After pushing your source to live broadcast area, click “Output” located at the top left side.
Under output’s pulled-down menu, click “Output Settings”.
A “Select an Output Destination” dialog box opens, where choose your destination as RTMP Server and click “OK”, and a new output setting tab opens.
Now go to Manage Channels from Livebox navigation menu and copy the streaming RTMP URL.
Then paste the RTMP Streaming URL in the Address box and enter the stream key in Stream bar and give “OK”.
Now click the stream icon from the top left side to start streaming.
To check your live stream go to Livebox Channel Dashboard and click play to preview your live stream.
To check RTMP stats of your streaming channel go to the Viewers Report.
In RTMP stats it shows audio and video bitrate of both output and input channels.
And when you embed the output channel streams on your website, you can copy the Transcode Embed URL to publish the live stream on your website.
Note: Through the Transcode Embed URL, you can publish the streaming content along with the transcode video quality.
You are successful in your Transcoding streaming by using Wirecast! Happy to help!
Latency means delay, that is, the actual time lag that exists during the transmission of streaming content to the viewer’s screen. The latency range widely experienced commonly is between 30-60 seconds.
Latency occurs due to various reasons, like,
Poor encoding efficiency
Wide audience spectrum
Different geographical locations
Local network problems
Low bandwidth
Traffic load
Device/server compatibility
So to achieve immediacy in live streams besides all the above latency reasons, Liveboxhas come up with a solution for every use case.
“A low latency settings added on Livebox to deliver consistent viewing experience to the end-user.”
Go to Streaming Server settings.
Scroll down and turn on Low Latency setting and then click ‘Save’.
Then go to the ‘Channel Dashboard’ and check the preview player.
There will be an option given on the player to switch from the default player to a low latency player.
You can also get the Low Latency Embed Code on clicking the ‘Embed Code’ button.
Note: Each streaming channel on Livebox has unique auto-generated embed codes. And these codes can be used to embed the player on your blogs/websites.
You have successfully turned on the low latency setting on your Livebox server.
There are primarily two different ways to do adaptive bitrate streaming. One method is called Transcoding and the other method is using Multi bitrate streaming aka MBR. Transcoding is recommended in most cases since it is hassle-free and the conversion to multiple bitrates happens at the server end on the fly as you stream. Also, it can be turned on with a click of a button for any channel. If your Livebox does not have transcoding enabled, contact the Livebox team to upgrade to a box with transcoding, Also, Check out our other articles about the transcoding to learn more about transcoding.
As for Multi bitrate streaming, it has to be manually streamed in multiple qualities from the encoder, be it a hardware or software encoder. Some encoders support streaming in multiple qualities and some encoders don’t. For some software encoders, you may need to open multiple instances of the encoder on your PC. As for hardware encoders, MBR can be used only if the hardware encoder supports MBR.
In this article, we’re going to see how to achieve MBR using the encoder provided for download along with your Livebox server.
Go to Manage Channels from the navigation menu. Under manage channels select Multi-Bitrate.
On Multi-Bitrate page, select your channel and turn on multi-bitrate.
Once you turn on Multi-Bitrate, new preset options will appear. You can set the required resolution and click the “Save” button.
Note: You also have options to edit or set your required preset.
Once you click save, RTMP URLs for your resolution gets listed below. Make a note of the required RTMP links and click “Save”.
With each URL of definite qualities (resolutions), the player will adjust video quality to that of viewers bandwidth.
*The first given URL is the RTMP URL of your channel. The remaining URLs are RTMP URLs with resolutions.
Note: The RTMP URL should be used to initiate the live streaming on your server channel. And the other RTMP URLs of resolutions can be used to deliver the same streaming content in different resolutions.
After clicking save, give Service Restart to get your changes applied.
Now on your preferred encoders, add a source either from your camera device or any video files.
Then copy-paste the RTMP URL and other streaming URLs of resolutions on your encoder stream settings.
(The highlighted part of the streaming URL is the Stream key)
To view your live MBR streaming status with the definite video quality, go the Livebox Dashboard and check on the player for your resolutions.
Then go to Viewers Report to check the RTMP stats of your streaming channel. It shows audio and video bitrate of your channel.
You have successfully did Multi-bitrate streaming.
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