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JillP

New Member
Help - I have been doing Facebook Live for several months now and I need to Prerecord a video and then play it on the date that I nomally go live. Can OBS do this. I have reviewed all of the You Tube videos and it shows you how to use a video in your live show but not how to actually do the mock facebook live show that would be specifically recorded for. I do apologize - I do not have a log file at this time. I am trying to decide if this is the software/app that I need.

Thank you for your assistance in advance.
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
Depends on what you are asking
If you are saying you don't want to live stream, instead ask Facebook to play/stream a video at a set time, yes that is something that Facebook can do. You can use OBS to compile/compose/create the video, or use anything/something else.... it depends on what you are trying to accomplish as to which tool makes most sense

Then upload video to Facebook to your library (make it Private). Then follow Facebook instructions for streaming it at a specific time (becomes Public, or something like that).
There are options to auto start OBS from a scheduled task, and perform certain actions... but there all kinds of potential for issues that complicate matters if you already have the video created that you wanted streamed. To me, seems like over complicating matters to get OBS involved for streaming at a scheduled time, when Facebook (YouTube, and others) have native mechanisms to handle your request. And the benefit of not having to worry about video upload/Internet connection at the time of streaming.
But lots of ways to handle this... it depends. Hopefully this helps give you another way to approach solving your problem
 

Tangential

Member
You could record the video with OBS; set up a scheduled broadcast in Facebook and leave a scheduled task to use ffmpeg to do the stream. That would probably be the simplest way with the least moving parts. If you use a persistent FB stream key, it would also be easy to test.
 
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