How to setup Live Streaming for Your Church
Start Here
These are the instructions from our guru at Glen Waverley
Uniting Church. They are reproduced here almost verbatim, but the
key reference is the link quoted (
https://webcam.io/support/howto-embed-youtube-live/). Try
that first, and see how you go, before exploring these
instructions further. John Hurst.
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The embedded video we have at gwuc.org.au/live is a tricky thing
to keep working, but I think these instructions are probably
correct: https://webcam.io/support/howto-embed-youtube-live/
- it’s essentially some hacking on the embed script that YouTube
normally uses, and it’s broken twice in the last 12 months and
I’ve had to alter the embed to fix it. Importantly, it doesn’t
work for ‘unlisted’ or ‘private’ streams.
You could also just give people a link to the YouTube Channel
itself (definitely the most reliable) - when you have a live
stream running it will be featured on the homepage of the
channel. If you want that to be easy to remember you could just
redirect off something with your normal domain, eg. setup a
redirect from https://gwuc.org.au/youtube to
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiWX-WVai6wcQ9pLxon1Geg then
nobody has to type the complicated YouTube link.
Hope that helps, please let me know if you get stuck.
