Online Livestreaming Sessions
Overview:
This article details the process of creating a live stream room where users can engage through chats, Q/A, and polls. The Livestream room accommodates an unlimited number of participants and offers two distinct views.
Moderator View/ Speaker view
Participant View
If Livestream is selected, a text field appears to paste the embed/iframe code for the player that the organizer wishes to use.
Additionally, if Livestream is selected, another toggle option becomes available: "Green Room".
If the Green Room option is turned on, this means that a Chime room will be created which only moderators and speakers can join. Moderators will have moderator privileges in that room, and speaker in the Livestream room.
In the Green Room, there are only
Moderator view
Speaker view
Greenroom view: The moderators and speakers can interact with one another using video and mic functionality. They can see the Livestream simultaneously. Whatever conversation is going on in the chime room between the speaker and the moderator, won't be heard by the participant. The participant can only see the live stream which is going on.
Embedding Options:
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Multi Speakers | | Possible if streaming through OBS | Possible if streaming through OBS |
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Recording |
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Moderation |
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Pre-recording upload |
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Live Polls (Real time & Pre-session) |
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Upload Content Files |
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Web & Mobile App |
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Share direct session link |
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Session visibility |
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Encoding & Production Studio | External studio Stream with OBS | Internal studio Stream via OBS | External studio Stream via OBS | Stream via OBS | External studio Stream via OBS | External studio Stream via OBS |
Sponsored Sessions |
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Featured Sessions |
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Maximum Booking Limit |
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Paid Sessions |
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Customise Session rooms |
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Live Q&A |
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Online Session Analytics |
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Price | Free | |||||
How to set up the live stream using Vimeo and OBS
In your Vimeo premium account, click on the Live Events option present on the left menu bar and then select Create Live event.
Enter all the details asked (Event name, time, date etc) on the pop-up and then click on Next.
As soon as you click on next, you will get a screen from where you can copy the event embed code.
Click on Next and you will get an option to copy the Stream Key under Connect(RTMP) tab.
You have to copy this stream key to the OBS → Settings → Stream → Stream Key
Now you can Go Live on Vimeo and Start Streaming on OBS using the Start Stream button.
In OBS you can use Windows Capture and Display Capture to capture your window screen.
How to arrange your Youtube embed code so that the stream launches in “autoplay”:
Within your embed code, you should turn on the following two parameters:
mute=1 This is necessary on Chrome to enable autoplay.
autoplay=1 This is the actual autoplay parameter.
Example code:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PqH28A0U9Rc?rel=0&modestbranding=1& mute=1&showinfo=0&controls=1&autoplay=1" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>