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Video Tutorial: How to Live Stream with OBS Studio

  This video tutorial How to Live Stream with OBS Studio will explain step-by-step how to start live streaming on a Dacast live channel using the classic OBS Studio broadcasting software with integrated encoding features. For a faster and easier setup, we recommend using the Dacast custom version of OBS Studio, available for free in your […]

Video Guide: How to Start Live Streaming Using Dacast – OBS Studio

VIDEO TUTORIAL  This video will explain step-by-step how to start live streaming on a Dacast live channel using the Dacast version of OBS Studio broadcasting software with integrated encoding features.   WRITTEN TUTORIAL  Spanish version available here. In this tutorial, we will explain step-by-step how to start live streaming on a Dacast live channel using […]

How to Test Your M3U8 Online Player Link

The M3U8 link allows you to deliver your live and VOD streaming to Roku TV, Apple TV, or any private web TV channel and mobile app. Using the M3U8 file as its manifest, M3U8 file links contain plain text that specifies the locations of media files, either through absolute URLs or relative paths. In this […]

Type of channels Dacast Offers

We have several types of live streaming Dacast channels in order to meet every Broadcaster’s needs. All of our live channels (except Standard Passthrough) are transcoding channels (meaning they come with Adaptive streaming ABR).  Standard Passthrough The default live stream channels we have are called Standard Passthrough channels, ready-to-broadcast format channels where the source is […]