Is it that difficult to set up streaming?

[NeilJenkins]

Hi folks

My Zoom account is linked to my FB and YT pages, however I find the way to set up a scheduled livestream difficult to understand. Sure, there are the links you can use in the Zoom panel to stream (via the three dots), but if you want to schedule a stream, that's where it gets confusing, at least to me.

That's because on the Webinar In-Session Settings tab for webinars, you can choose between 'Use Zoom web settings' or 'Customize settings below'.  I try to set up the latter - but you can only do it once, so I do it for FB.  That means I can't set up the stream to YT.   Plus the 'Connect video source' indicator on FB remains off. Obviously if there is no stream at that time then it might do that - but I have no way of knowing if the stream will work or not.

Or am I misinterpreting the whole thing?  Is it that I can simply rely on the Zoom web settings - because the 'in-session settings' means that's for the drop down choices within Zoom?

If you could set me straight on this, that would be great - as it's not clear to me how to set up a scheduled stream so followers on FB / YT can mark their interest in advance.

[Ray_Harwood]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @NeilJenkins.

Some apps have “Zoom integration” built in, and Zoom’s Live Stream Menu has some direct direct screws to these integrations.

Facebook: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0064210 

YouTube: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0062284 

Virtually all live stream platforms have a way to manually make the connection. If you learn this approach, you’ll always have it to fall back on if something doesn’t work properly.

See this document for details on Custom RTMP: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0064210 

The Zoom Marketplace has a Live Stream app which can make your life easier or harder; some love it, some hate it:

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0060769 

The bottom line is you have to get 3 special text strings from your destination to enter into Zoom. The integration approach does this “on the fly”; the other two methods require advance planning.