How can i do Facebook Live (page) using FFMPEG

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Catch: Doing live stream on Facebook with FMMPEG.

In past it was easy i did many times as facebook was using rtmp. But now facebook is using RTMPS so i am getting different errors i have tried 100 commands. I have a image test.png and a audio file test.m4a (its a podcast) and facebook stream key is 1234. ( i have tried 100 types of commands so cant post here and cant post errors aswell.) so please can someone help me to go live on my facebook page with image+m4a file. i prefer centos but i will manage ubuntu if you prefer. Regards..

Solved: See my answer might help someone.

Answer 1

SOLVED Hope it will be useful for someone.

I was trying with all possible results from google and stackoverflow. nothing worked. Then i did my own way and it worked after 2 hour. i will stream video out.mp4 from my server on Facebook.

1. Install FFMPEG4 ( older version has issue with rtmps )
2. ffmpeg -re -y -i out.mp4 -c:a copy -ac 1 -ar 44100 -b:a 96k -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -tune zerolatency -f flv -maxrate 2000k -preset veryfast "rtmps://live-api-s.facebook.com:443/rtmp/key"

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You can stream on as many platforms as you want.

PS. if you want to stream image+audio replace our.mp4. but i used ffmpeg to make video from m4a file ( it will stream without lag) & buffer)

Answer 2

If you are on CentOS or Redhat, you may find it difficult to intall ffmpeg. Or your installation can miss some of the libraries/protocols required by ffmpeg to be able to do FB live. For this purpose, running docker image would be a great idea:

1. Install docker and pull ffmpeg docker image
2. Run docker ffmpeg image with necessary arguments

For Installing docker, run following commands:

1. remove older version of docker if installed

   sudo yum remove docker docker-client docker-client-latest docker-common docker-latest docker-latest-logrotate docker-logrotate docker-engine

2. install docker yum repository

   sudo yum install -y yum-utils sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

3. install docker and start/enable docker service

   sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
   sudo systemctl start docker
   sudo systemctl enable docker

Reference: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/

1. To run ffmpeg for FB live, run following command:

   docker run -v $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) jrottenberg/ffmpeg -re -y -i [VIDEO_FILE] -c:a copy -ac 1 -ar 44100 -b:a 96k -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -tune zerolatency -f flv -maxrate 2000k -preset veryfast "rtmps://live-api-s.facebook.com:443/rtmp/[KEY]"

replace [VIDEO_FILE] with the file you want to stream live to fb and [KEY] with the stream key from facebook. Reference: https://hub.docker.com/r/jrottenberg/ffmpeg/

Please note that you need to visit facebook live page ( https://www.facebook.com/live/producer/ ) before you can run the above command.

Answer 3

Thanks Mate for your answer. even you are late anyway i did something similar.

I have already figured it by using DOCKER. using Restreamer: https://datarhei.github.io/restreamer/ It work on both centos & Ubuntu

Aslo i tried it manually it was very difficult to install and setup but i did that and will not recommended.