Welcome to Livepeer.com's first video tutorial. In the following video clips, you'll learn how to create an account on livepeer.com, create your first stream object, install and setup OBS, stream into Livepeer.com, and watch your Livepeer.com-transcoded video. We'll be following our 

. It is recommended you have that open as you go through the video clips below.

The videos below show our previous Dashboard. The steps should be roughly the same, but you'll see something different if you follow along. We're currently working on updating this! 

Step 1: Create an account on Livepeer.com


Step 2: Verify your Livepeer.com account


Step 5: Stream into Livepeer.com using OBS


Select RTMP ingest and playback URL pair on livepeer.com stream page:

Thanks for watching our streaming video tutorial! We'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out to us at 

 with thoughts, suggestions, and any questions you might have.


Our lives, from meaningful life events like birthdays, weddings, and baby showers, to work meetings, 

, have moved online this year. With change comes an opportunity to innovate - and that’s what we have done collectively as a world society amidst a global pandemic.

At Livepeer, we understand the increasing importance of capturing these meaningful moments, both for individuals and for companies riding this wave of digital innovation. We are therefore proud to announce the release of Livepeer.com stream recording, a feature much requested and anticipated.

This recording feature provides all Livepeer.com API and dashboard users with a .m3u8 and an MP4 link to an adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) recording of their completed livestream. Playback is delivered via Livepeer.com's CDN by default.

To take advantage of this newly released feature, check out the guide below. The first section is for Livepeer.com users who create streams using the Livepeer.com Dashboard directly. The second section is for those who use the Livepeer.com API.

Please note: If you are using recording and OBS, be sure to change your keyframe interval to 2.

Using the Livepeer.com Dashboard to record streams

If you’re using the Livepeer.com Dashboard to 

, enabling recording is as simple as checking the 

 toggle in your individual stream page. The URL for your individual stream page should look something like this:

https://livepeer.com/dashboard/streams/12345678-ab40-429d-a714-0e0fd4ab0abc.

 toggle is located immediately below the 

 section. You can also change the settings by using the "Actions" button at the top of the page. When 

 is switched on, future streaming sessions will be recorded and stored by Livepeer.com. The session recording playback URL will be available about 5 minutes after the live stream ends and will appear in the session table at the bottom of the stream page.

Using the Livepeer.com API to record streams

If you do not have a Livepeer.com account or an API key follow step 1 in this 

Before learning how to make a simple API request to turn recording on for streaming, we need to understand the Livepeer.com API 

 object is a single live streaming session.

 object shows the configuration and metadata totals of all its 

 means that new sessions are not recorded

 means that the session is actively being recorded or was recorded.

 means that the session is not being recorded or was not recorded.

To create a new recording-enabled stream:

, and details about which video profiles or renditions you’d like to transcode your stream into. See step 3 in this 

Sample response of stream with recording turned on:

To enable recording for existing streams:

 value is inherited by all future child-session 

To check if recording is enabled on an existing stream:

 object. A common use case is to request all recorded sessions with the same 

. For example, a user generated content (UGC) video platform may create a 

 object for each UGC live streamer and then want to show an archive of all recorded livestream sessions for each live streamer.

The playback URL for a livestream session recording will not be available until approximately 5 minutes after the livestream has ended.

Once the recording is ready, the session 

 parameter will return the .m3u8 recording playback URL. Additionally, the session 

 will return an .mp4 recording playback URL. 

The recording playback URL will look something like this: 

https://region-cdn.livepeer.com/recordings/<id-of-stream-session>/index.m3u8

. View the live stream with any HLS video player.

For more detailed information on stream recording or to ask any questions, share your thoughts, or make any kind of suggestion, feel free to get in touch at 

Livepeer.com's New Stream Recording & MP4 Download Features

After struggling for years to find ways to turn their work into repeatable income on video streaming platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch, creators are finally building the tools they need to own their audiences, and their wallets. Javier Gutierrez at 

 is one of them; as a classically trained musician missing his craft during COVID-19, he saw an opportunity to connect those seeking a good show with musicians from all over in the world.

“Classical musicians’ income basically comes from concerts, maybe some teaching, but they don't have many extra ways of monetizing their work,” Guttierrez says, “We wanted to give them a way to make money off the thing they love most, performing for an audience, without relying on agents and concert houses who decide who gets to play where, and how much they’re getting paid.”

Guttierez decided to build ClassicsPark.live as a livestream performance space, for musicians and those who love classical music to connect. Through the site, musicians would be able to stream concerts to audiences and charge for the performance, giving them a new source of income just as the pandemic had taken away their traditional ones. And to orchestrate this new offering, Guttierez and his team chose to build on Livepeer.

“I recall just Googling around so many video transcoding options. I tried a few, contacted many. And I just couldn't find the right option. They were either extremely expensive, or the quality was bad. And then I remember finding Livepeer.”

Guttierez connected with the customer success team at Livepeer, which helped him through the onboarding process. “I had already tried to make it work with YouTube, so I had some experience working in OBS. There was a slight difference between YouTube and Livepeer’s encoding specifications I messed up on, but after trading emails with the team, my CTO was able to have a basic setup working in under five minutes. It was impressive how simple it was.”


Without Livepeer, Guttierez says the team would have been priced out of building ClassicsPark.live, and would instead have had to stick with one-on-one music lessons as its main product. “Every other transcoding platform we tried had extremely high costs. It didn’t work for the type of business we were looking to build. What are we going to say, ‘Hey, come host a concert with us, we’ll give you less than half the revenue!’? And for many of the other options we looked at, the streaming quality wasn’t great, either.”

But it wasn’t just pricing that put Livepeer over the top. “The personal touch you gave to us was so valuable. I could sense the vibe of just being there if there was anything we needed. I had some really horrible experiences calling other transcoding providers, because I'm not a technical person myself. And I was quite impressed with the human factor at Livepeer.”

Now gearing up for ClassicsPark.live’s GA launch in June, Guttierez says Livepeer is still running smoothly. “It's a huge step toward peace of mind. To have a video streaming solution I can rely on, and know it will work. And, if sometimes something doesn't work, I know the Livepeer team is here as well.”

To learn more about how Livepeer can help you and your business, get in touch at 

Video Tutorial : Stream into Livepeer for the First Time

Step 1: Create an account on Livepeer.com

Step 2: Verify your Livepeer.com account

Step 3: Create your first stream

Step 4: Install and setup OBS

Step 5: Stream into Livepeer.com using OBS

Step 6: Watch your transcoded video

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