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live event - encoder choice
Hi Can someone explain for me why I need an encoder (and what it's needed for) and which to choose - when creating a Live Event in Stream - but not necessary when creating a Live Event in Teams?...
- Teams is your encoder when using Teams to create the live event. Stream doens't have a built in encoder so you have to use one. Here are some supported known working ones you can choose from. I use OBS, but there are others as well. Takes some practice but it's not too difficult once you get the URL format right to stream to.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/live-encoder-setup
Keep in mind, when using external encoder currently, only internal users can join it. Teams is currently the only option that allows anonymous users to join your Live Event.
Also I did a demo of this on the Euro Teams Usergroup in July if you want to see how that gets input (and some other goodies)https://youtu.be/a8YXPWy1dL0 demo starts at 45:36 mark.
Do we know any encoder which can allow to pass the traffic from Proxy (basically Proxy aware Encoder)