How To Connect Camera To Laptop For Facebook Live

Troubleshooting Guide

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#1 The outset popular-upwardly closes later on I select where I desire to get live to

When you click the go live button, your browser will normally brandish a pop-upwards. You'll be able to choose where y'all want the live video to be posted to. Once you've done this, this window should close and another pop-upward should appear. Hither you'll be able to craft your post, get the stream primal and run across your preview. Notwithstanding some browser's cake this second pop upward. If this happens to yous, bank check your browser settings to allow popular-ups from this site (iag.me). Check this commodity out to find out how to let pop ups for your browser.

#2 I become a "Cannot connect to server" or a blank preview

Something is blocking your connection between OBS Studio and Facebook Live. It's likely that your Internet service provider is blocking your connection. If this is happening to you, could you let me know in the comments below along with the proper noun of your Isp? I'grand interested to know. This is happening rarely, but it is happening to some people. If this is the case, I highly recommend that you lot endeavour connecting on a different cyberspace connexion (such as at a friend's house or at your local coffee store). If it works there and then you know it's your internet connection. If information technology is your internet connection and so check you don't take any firewalls that could exist blocking the connexion. Also restart your router to see if that solves it. If it doesn't then try and call your ISP and ask them to unblock Facebook Live. They'll probably play a trick on you off, only continue trying. Please let me know how y'all get on in the comments below!

#three In that location is a big delay in my stream

This is a more than difficult issue to solve. In that location is e'er going to be a filibuster (maybe upwardly to effectually 5-x seconds) but some people accept complained of a much longer delay. Firstly make sure you check your upload speed using a service like Speedtest.cyberspace. It's not your download speed that makes a departure, it's the upload speed - since you lot are uploading the video to Facebook in effect. You should have an upload speed of at least 3Mbps, although 4Mbps and college is preferable. Yous can use Facebook Live if you have a slower speed, but you may have bug. Also, the speed of your calculator is important. Older and less powerful computers volition take their fourth dimension encoding the video. Keep an eye on the CPU usage in the lesser

Also, the speed of your computer is of import. Older and less powerful computers will have their time encoding the video. Go along an centre on the CPU usage in the lesser right-hand corner of the OBS Studio window. If it'due south really high (above 90%) then your computer may be struggling.

In OBS Settings you lot can alter the encoding preset to "ultra fast" or "super fast". You can find this in Settings->Output.

Encoding Speed in OBS Studio
This will mean your reckoner's processor volition exist used a little less.

#4 I utilise a Mac, and I'm not able to stream the audio from other apps such equally Skype in OBS to Facebook Alive

Macs handle desktop sound a fiddling differently to Windows. On the Windows version of OBS Studio, the audio from Skype volition automatically exist captured as desktop audio in OBS Studio. On a Mac you lot need to route the sound from some other app to OBS Studio.

This requires a third political party app. Wirecast has this functionality built in (a driver that records desktop audio), just with OBS Studio you'll need a bit of extra aid.

In that location are a number of options...

Soundflower - An extension that allows other apps (like Skype) to route audio to other apps. There were some bug with Soundflower not being compatible with later versions of OSX but the developer has made some updates.
JackAudio - Not tried this, only looks like a good alternative besides.
Loopback - Is a premium Mac app, which is highly recommended past a friend of mine. It costs $99, just apparently, information technology's worth information technology!
Sound Siphon - Similar to Loopback but cheaper.This was recommended past Leslie Samuel. I've not tried information technology myself, just it looks good!

When you install one of these, you tin can then route the sound output from Skype into OBS Studio and information technology should only work. Information technology'south a pain that you have to jump through a few hoops here, but it'south simply the way Macs piece of work.

#v My webcam appears black!

If your webcam preview just appears black in OBS Studio, you may need to adjust the resolution by changing information technology to custom. Right-click the webcam source and click properties to change the resolution.

#6 Audio and Video are out of sync

At that place are a number of factors that can bear on a filibuster between audio and video. The starting time thing to ensure is that you lot shut every bit many background apps as possible. Close downwards as many apps as yous tin, check for any bandwidth draining apps such as Google Drive, Dropbox etc. Y'all could also run into what else is running in the groundwork and shut down any other apps.

The 2nd thing is to check your upload speed. Use something like speedtest.net. If you lot accept at least 3Mbps or 4Mbps upload speed you should exist fine. Ideally use a wired connectedness as opposed to a wireless one.

The 3rd thing is to turn up the encoding preset. Go to settings and and then output, and put the encoding preset up to max.

If none of that solves your upshot, your computer may just be struggling with streaming the video. Alive streaming takes a lot of processing power. Although OBS Studio as amazing - particularly for a free app, it'south non quite as efficient every bit the likes of Wirecast. Then, you may need to give it some help and manually fix the "sync starting time".
To do this, click on the cog by the mixer on the main screen, and then suit the sync outset of your audio. There is no platonic setting here, unfortunately, and so you lot'll take to play around until you get a setting that works for you:

audio-sync