If not, simply click on the “Information” tab, on the top. It will probably be on the right tab already, which is Information. On the YouNow account, if you mouse over your profile picture, you’ll be able to go to settings. In this case, we chose YouNow, a well-known live streaming platform. Meaning, which platform you want to go live on.

So, the first thing to do is choose where you want to stream to. This is the information you’ll need to have in hand to connect Man圜am to your chosen platform: The Custom Channel is where you’ll configure your RTMP settings. Go to Man圜am and click on the Broadcast button, you’ll see that you have a choice of Facebook, YouTube or Custom Channel. Therefore, most streaming providers and encoder software developers support RTMP streaming, including Man圜am. Bottom line is, RTMP is an essential part of live streaming. This TCP-based protocol, delivers streams smoothly and with a lot of information by splitting it into chunks. “Adobe’s Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) provides a bidirectional message multiplex service over a reliable stream transport, such as TCP, intended to carry parallel streams of video, audio, and data messages, with associated timing information, between a pair of communicating peers.” – Adobe The acronym stands for Real Time Messaging Protocol and its definition by Adobe is: RTMP is a protocol, created by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe, that provides high-performance transmission of video, audio and data between encoder and server across the internet.

In this article, you’ll find out exactly what RTMP is and, most importantly, how to take advantage of it, while using Man圜am to broadcast to multiple channels. It’s super easy to use this feature on Man圜am and it can expand your live streaming reach. RTMP allows you to stream to many different platforms, so you can find a much bigger audience for your live streams.

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