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Quick Start Guide

This guide serves as a quick start for setting up the relay and streaming to Twitch and YouTube. For more detailed information, visit the full documentation page.

1. Configure Streams

Twitch

Open your Twitch dashboard and click on 'Stream Manager' to configure your stream details.

YouTube

Open your YouTube dashboard and click on 'Go Live' to configure your stream details.

2. Relay PC Setup

  1. git clone git@github.com:JacobSanford/docker-rtmp-multistream.git
  2. cd docker-rtmp-multistream
  3. Edit the env/relay.env file:
  4. Add your Twitch and YouTube keys.
  5. Configure stream quality settings as needed. For more information, see the specific documentation for Twitch and Youtube, as well as Quality Considerations.
  6. Execute ./start.sh

The relay is now ready to receive video from your streaming software. To shut down the service, use CTRL-C.

3. Gaming PC Setup

a. When Using OBS Studio

Stream Settings

  • Service: Custom
  • Server: rtmp://192.168.2.22:1935/relay
  • Where 192.168.2.22 corresponds to the relay PC's actual IP address.
  • Stream Key: Enter an identifer for your stream. This key is only used to identify your stream on the relay server. For example, myStream. It is unrelated to and should not match your Twitch or YouTube stream keys.
  • Use Authentication: Unchecked.

Output Settings

  • Output Mode: Advanced
  • Encoder: If you have a modern NVidia card, use NVIDIA NVENC H.264. Otherwise, use CPU encoding with x264.
  • Rate Control: CBR
  • Bitrate: 20000. Set the bitrate to as large as a value as possible allowed by your network/bandwidth. See below!
  • Keyframe Interval: 2

Start Streaming!

Open OBS Studio and click Start Streaming. The relay will automatically forward your stream to Twitch and YouTube.