FURTHERMORE, YESTERDAY A LIVE STREAM ENDED AND THEN A FUTURE SCHEDULED STREAM STARTED ON ITS OWN????? HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCED THIS?
I actually use that feature. There are the scheduled streams, and then there's one that persists. I have the DVR turned on, and when I stop sending it data, it times out, makes a video from that, and makes a new stream, ready to go. Start sending it data again, and that new stream becomes live.
I used to use the scheduled streams, but I ended up deleting them. The persistent one is pretty much exactly what I need for what I do. You can't have YT automatically promote that one, but I don't need to. My audience already knows. Your mileage may vary.
Also, I have never had OBS logged into my YT account. I've only used the stream key. Same key after the persistent stream times out and resets.
Some people have called that a security problem, because if someone gets your key, they can stream to your account. That's true, but the key is practically unguessable except by brute-force machine (same as password cracking, except it's a REALLY STRONG password) - pretty much the only way someone's going to get it is to already have access to it and copy/paste - and if you do have that problem, there's a button on YT's dashboard to generate another one. Now the old one doesn't work anymore, and you can paste the new one into OBS and keep going yourself.
