OBS Streaming – Multi Stream Appliance – On AWS

Stream from OBS to Facebook, Google, Twitch simultaneously

• Run on a free server on AWS using Nginx
• Did I mention it’s free?
• Only basic skills required

Overview of what’s ahead

If you ever wanted to stream to multiple platforms like Facebook, Twitch and YouTube at the same time and you wanted to do that for the lowest possible cost – like say free – then you are in the right place…. read on.

Live stream to YouTube Live, Facebook Live , Twitch, IBM Cloud Video/Ustream, Instagram Live Video, Vimeo Live/Livestream, Periscope, IRIS/Bambuser, YouNow, Meridix, Streamspot, DaCast, Tikilive

While clearly it is quite normal for a person new to AWS and the tools used in this tutorial to take a good bit of time to get things running.

Consider however that a person that has what are essentially basic guide following skills and some previous basic knowledge of the tools used can get an RTMP server up and running on AWS in about 10-15 minutes. 

While vMix is not specifically covered in this tutorial, with just a few steps one can leverage this same appliance in any tool that handles streaming to the platforms mentioned above.

A not so well known fact is that rtmp streaming is essentially a routing story versus an encoding story. So this reality translates into the fact that you don’t need that much of a server to run RTMP across the net!

In this article I will go through step by step on how to get up and running.

We will cover the following:

• How to setup an account on Amazon AWS
• How to install Putty (a ssh terminal client)
• How to install WinSCP (used for file transfers and edits)
• How to install the needed Nginx software and configure an RTMP server
• Install stunnel which is needed to stream to Facebook with RTMPS
• Setup OBS for streaming to the RTMP server
• Finally, stream to Facebook and YouTube as test case

Click on the article link below for all the details on getting multi-streaming going.