There are different encoders available, if you check YouTubes streaming help link, you will see lot of YouTube reccomended options. Here you need an encoder, so the encoder acts as a middle software to encode the live stream as per YouTubes’s streaming format and then feed it to Youtube. But RSTP is not directly supported by YouTube and Youtube uses a protocol called RTMP(Real-Time Messaging Protocol). If the live feed not working, you have some issues locally and first need to troubleshoot it. You can now provide your rstp link and you should now see your live cam feed here. Open your VLC player, click on Media and click on Open Network stream.

The easily available rstp player is a VLC player. So now we need to test this rstp link but you need an rstp player for this. You can see this from your camera settings. The one I used ‘live.sdp’ is a standard string for Honeywell cameras. So a typical rstp link with camera username, password, IP looks as below : you look at the above link, after port 554 you can see a string ‘live.sdp’. The port might be different on various cameras but you can get it from your cameras network settings. So, the camera uses a remote streaming protocol called RSTP which listens on port 554. You can access your camera from a HTTP webpage for live viewing but that’s not enough for our streaming job. Lets start with the camera, you need to set up the camera on your local network.

You can download it from raspberry pi official downloads. So flash the raspberry pi sd card with latest Linux rasbian buster image. I am using a raspberry pi 4 for this, need an IP camera and also require a Youtube channel to go live. So lets see, how we can do this with a raspberry Pi. It also attracts a good traffic to your channel.

It’s now been a hobby for many to live stream a camera footage (for eg : watching their pets or watching a bird’s nest etc ) to Youtube, Facebook etc, so that anyone can see it from anywhere in the world.

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