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Overview

This tutorial provides detailed high-level information for you to get started developing with Livepeer Catalyst.

It includes steps required to:

  • Set up Catalyst,

  • Send a livestream into the Livepeer network for transcoding, and

  • Play back the livestream inside your application

Note: For the purposes of this guide, we'll be livestreaming using the Rinkeby test network a kind of sandbox environment for testing your livestreams.

  • If you are livestreaming in a production setting make sure to set the network to arbitrum-one-mainnet.
  • To Learn more about supported networks, including Arbitrum mainnet and Arbitrum Rinkeby, in our Installation Guide.

Pre-requisites​

Install Catalyst​

This includes:

  • A Livepeer broadcaster DMS node, and

  • The full-featured MistServer toolkit.

    You can use the toolkit to stream on the Livepeer network, or your own on-chain or off-chain transcoding capacity.

Start Catalyst and Add Funds​

To stream into the Livepeer network:

  1. Start Catalyst

  2. Provide funds so that you are able to pay orchestrators for their services.

Note: You only need to add funds if you are streaming into the network (i.e., running in onchain mode).

Safely Store Your Private Key​

If this is your first time starting Catalyst:

  • You will be required to specify a directory where your private key will be stored:

For example:

  ~/.lpData/catalyst

Note: It is imperative that you securely store this keystore file. Losing a the keystore file will cause you to lose access to your funds.

Launch the Catalyst Dashboard and Start Your First Stream​

Once your DMS is running:

  1. Launch the Catalyst Dashboard , and

  2. Start your first stream