Configuring live streaming

If you have a high number of users that need to attend a meeting without two-way interaction, you can live stream the conference to YouTube. Users can access the meeting using a YouTube URL. Most of the live stream requirements are on the YouTube account that belongs to the user who moderates the meeting. In the context of YouTube live streaming, consider the Sametime Meeting server as an “encoder” for YouTube. There is no requirement to install additional software.

Before you begin

Prerequisites for livestream:

  • You must have a meeting recorder. For more information, refer to Configuring autoscaling for recorder.
  • To use the live stream feature, you must have meeting recordings enabled on the Sametime Meeting server.
  • Only meeting moderators can start the live stream. Meeting moderators are indicated with a small star on their participant tile.

YouTube requirements for live streaming

  • The person who moderates the meeting must have a YouTube publishing enabled account. It can take up to 24 hours for YouTube to enable this feature on an account. Users should plan accordingly.
  • Your YouTube channel must be verified. See YouTube Studio help for the details.
  • You require a YouTube Studio tool to create a live stream and obtain a streaming key. The stream name or key and YouTube Live URL are necessary for the Sametime meetings.

Disabling live stream:

  • Disabling live stream is a server-wide setting; there is no user-based policy available to disable the feature.
  • The live stream is disabled if you do not have a Sametime meeting recorder.

About this task

This page describes the requirements for live streaming, as well as the steps to disable the feature.

If you need meeting recordings enabled and live stream disabled, follow this procedure:

Note: All commands provided require running as ROOT or SUDO access. If not running as root user, preface all commands with ‘sudo'.

Procedure for Docker-based Sametime servers

  1. Place the .env file in edit mode.
  2. Modify the value of REACT_APP_LIVE_STREAMING_ENABLED to false. 
    REACT_APP_LIVE_STREAMING_ENABLED=false
  3. Save the .env file.
  4. Restart the Sametime Meeting server using the instructions in the topic Starting and stopping Meeting servers.

Procedure for Kubernetes-based Sametime servers

  1. Place the values.yaml file in edit mode.
  2. Modify the value of enableLiveStreaming to false. 
    enableLiveStreaming: false
  3. Update the deployment. 
    helm upgrade deployment helm/. 
  4. Restart the Sametime Meeting server using the instructions in the topic Starting and stopping Meeting servers.