How Do I YouTube Live Stream a Pre-Recorded Video?

[theactorsroom]

Hi everyone!

From this tutorial, I could get as far as live streaming my desktop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lplTXIE_Po. How do I live stream a video I have saved on my computer? Is it possible to live stream the internal audio from it, too?

Thank you!

 

[TryHD]

use ffmpeg and not obs for that.

ffmpeg -re -i file.flv -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f flv rtmp://$server/$streamkey

 

[theactorsroom]

Total noob...how do I use it? I downloaded it and got a folder with a bunch of files, but can't even figure out how to get the program to run.

 

[TryHD]

that is a command line utility, open a shell in the ffmpeg folder edit that command to your needs

ffmpeg -re -i file.flv -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f flv rtmp://$server/$streamkey

and press enter and it will start to stream your video.