Livestream

Diagnose: We do not have a feature to livestream audio only, but it is being planned. Visit our feature request page for updates. https://livepeer.canny.io/feature-requests Workaround: Add ?video=false to the end of the playback URL. Ex. https://livepeercdn.com/hls/playbackId/index.m3u8?video=false

Diagnose: This is supported but has not been thoroughly tested. Workaround: When creating a stream, add the following to the profile:

{
  "name": "1080p",
  "bitrate": 5000000,
  "fps": 30,
  "width": 1920,
  "height": 1080
}

Diagnose: At the moment, we do not offer closed captioning features. Workaround: This has been added to the feature request https://livepeer.canny.io/feature-requests/p/adding-subtitles-to-your-video-assets

Diagnose: You can suspend the stream Workaround: Use either the API or SDK to suspend the stream. https://docs.livepeer.org/reference/api#update-a-stream or https://docs.livepeer.org/reference/livepeer-js/stream/useUpdateStream#suspend

Diagnose: Yes, it is under the sourceBytes in the stream object. Workaround: https://docs.livepeer.org/reference/api#retrieve-a-stream

Diagnose: Short form videos need to use the MP4 playback as default Workaround: Get the MP4 playback from the asset object and set it as the source. If you use the HLS instead for short form videos, this will affect the playback experience for users drastically.

Diagnose: If you’re using livepeer.studio you can force a region. Workaround: Replace the rtmp://rtmp.livepeer.com/live/streamkey with the region you want to force the broadcast to. Ex. rtmp://sin-rtmp.livepeer.com/live/streamkey, contact us for a list of regions available.

Diagnose: When creating a stream, set the profile object of the stream empty. Workaround: profile:[]

Diagnose: You can use latency inject to increase the latency for a stream as a trade-off to reduce buffering. Workaround: You add the query to the end of the playback URL in the amount of seconds you want to increase the latency. Ex. &latency=10&buffer=10

Diagnose: You can add a query to the end of the playback url. Workaround: ?video=640x360,1m&pswait&trackcount=9