Streaming Live is a plan feature
Please reach out to your assigned Account Manager or our Support Team to subscribe and set up the feature on your account
Creating a live stream on Dailymotion is simple and shouldn’t take longer than a minute.
Create a live stream
Follow the steps below to create a live stream:
- From your Dailymotion Studio, go in Media > Live streams
- Click on the New live stream button
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Enter your live stream’s basic information (title, category, language...) and click on Next to access the encoder information
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Paste the following information into your encoder:
- For RTMP streams: copy/paste the Stream URL and Stream Key
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For SRT streams(required to use SSAI): copy/paste the SRT URL
- Click on Configure live stream
Your live stream is now created on your Dailymotion Studio! We would however recommend to finish configuring your live stream and define the settings you want via the live dashboard.
You can now set up your encoder and make sure you comply with Dailymotion's Dailymotion's encoding guidelines.
Configure your live stream
The live stream section enables you to manage all of your streams in one place and configure each of them easily.
- From your Dailymotion Studio, go to Media > Live streams
- Click on the live stream you want to configure
- Edit as needed through the different tabs of the live dashboard
- Click on Save
Explore the live dashboard
Your live dashboard is divided into 4 tabs:
Control panel
The control panel gives you access to the following options:
- Visibility of the live stream
- Player settings (number of viewers, DVR)
- Manual ad breaks
- Stream URL
- Stream Key
- SRT URL (used for SSAI)
Learn more about your live stream Control panel
Settings
The settings tab gives you access to the following information:
- Title
- Description
- Language
- Category
- Geoblocking
- Tags
- Privacy
- Auto recording
- Is your content created for kids?
- Restrict access to sensitive content
- Thumbnail
Learn more about your live stream Settings
Recordings
The recording section allows you to manually trigger recordings of your live streams and access in the clip list the recordings once they are complete.
Schedule
The schedule section enables you to schedule when your live stream will go on air.
Learn more about how to Schedule a live stream
Ad settings
The ad settings section allows you to configure your SSAI settings to dynamically insert ads into your live stream.
Learn more about SSAI