Hello,
I have a camera that i record/view with BlueIris that i wish to stream to YouTube. Does anybody have an idea to send the stream from BI to Youtube ?
There is an option to send an RTSP stream to Youtube with a Reolink for example: https://reolink.com/stream-ip-camera-to-youtube/
I blocked my ip-camera's access to the the internet. Streaming from BI with 1fps to Youtube could be a nice solution.
BlueIris stream to YouTube ?
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I just found the Webcast tab ! I think i can use that to push video to YouTube.
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IFIRC I answered this one for kayfersmum who wanted to show some BI5 wildlife cameras on Youtube.
Try this thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1889
If you do get it working, please leave details for those that follow !
Try this thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1889
If you do get it working, please leave details for those that follow !
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Wow, I had this working earlier today, but now YouTube can't see the stream anymore.
The Blue Iris log shows "FME connection established" for that camera, which I take to be the Flash Media Encoder, but it stopped making it to YouTube for some reason. I wonder if it could be a firewall issue, but I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it.
I did try disabling the firewall entirely, but that didn't seem to help, so I turned it back on.
FWIW, I can still stream to the same YouTube channel using a webcam on a different PC, so it is not as if YouTube can't accept streams at all.
I'd be grateful for any ideas.
-Mark
The Blue Iris log shows "FME connection established" for that camera, which I take to be the Flash Media Encoder, but it stopped making it to YouTube for some reason. I wonder if it could be a firewall issue, but I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it.
I did try disabling the firewall entirely, but that didn't seem to help, so I turned it back on.
FWIW, I can still stream to the same YouTube channel using a webcam on a different PC, so it is not as if YouTube can't accept streams at all.
I'd be grateful for any ideas.
-Mark
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Hi, the other thread mentioned that you need audio enabled for the camera - even if it doesn't have audio - due to a Youtube bug. If that is still true, and you enable audio on a camera with no audio, I think a newer BI5 audio watchdog change will now keep disabling the camera 
Worth a try as a test though.
Worth a try as a test though.
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Re: BlueIris stream to YouTube ?
Hi Tim,
I'm having trouble describing it within a message that you would want to read, but I was able to create three live streams before it stopped working. The camera I was using does have audio and it was enabled. I could show you the resulting YouTube archives of the live streams.
It was working, but I was seeing some aliasing artifacts on the video, as though there was some resolution mismatch. I then noticed that the archives were at 480p or less, whereas the 4MP camera is more like 1440p. In chasing that, I then noticed that even in UI3, the live video had the same aliasing artifacts that I was seeing in the YouTube archives. Looking at the camera's Video tab, I noticed that the "Size" under "Image Format" was set to a weird and very small resolution. I tried changing it to what I thought it should be, but couldn't get it to stick. Then I found an old thread talking about how that somehow being related to sub-stream (with advice to leave it alone).
Then, on the camera's Webcast tab, I noticed the ellipsis in the Flash Media Live Encoding section. Clicking opened a dialog named, "Encoding options", where I noticed that "Limit bitrate (best for streaming" was checked. Un-checking that box immediately eliminated the aliasing artifacts in UI3, so I thought I had solved the problem, but after clearing that checkbox, I never was able to to make it connect to YouTube again.
I then tried to stream from another camera that I had not tinkered with other than to add the RTMP URL and Stream Key, but that didn't work either. Although I realize now that the audio is disabled on that camera, so maybe that old bug is still causing trouble. Frustrating that there are no tools for troubleshooting this. Blue Iris has so much potential, if only it could be fully understood.
I'm having trouble describing it within a message that you would want to read, but I was able to create three live streams before it stopped working. The camera I was using does have audio and it was enabled. I could show you the resulting YouTube archives of the live streams.
It was working, but I was seeing some aliasing artifacts on the video, as though there was some resolution mismatch. I then noticed that the archives were at 480p or less, whereas the 4MP camera is more like 1440p. In chasing that, I then noticed that even in UI3, the live video had the same aliasing artifacts that I was seeing in the YouTube archives. Looking at the camera's Video tab, I noticed that the "Size" under "Image Format" was set to a weird and very small resolution. I tried changing it to what I thought it should be, but couldn't get it to stick. Then I found an old thread talking about how that somehow being related to sub-stream (with advice to leave it alone).
Then, on the camera's Webcast tab, I noticed the ellipsis in the Flash Media Live Encoding section. Clicking opened a dialog named, "Encoding options", where I noticed that "Limit bitrate (best for streaming" was checked. Un-checking that box immediately eliminated the aliasing artifacts in UI3, so I thought I had solved the problem, but after clearing that checkbox, I never was able to to make it connect to YouTube again.
I then tried to stream from another camera that I had not tinkered with other than to add the RTMP URL and Stream Key, but that didn't work either. Although I realize now that the audio is disabled on that camera, so maybe that old bug is still causing trouble. Frustrating that there are no tools for troubleshooting this. Blue Iris has so much potential, if only it could be fully understood.
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Okay, so I made it work again for a while, but it certainly does seem as if something is not right with Blue Iris. I believe that the reason for the aliasing artifacts is related to Blue Iris somehow confusing which stream to send to the the encoder. I tried disabling the sub-stream in Blue Iris, and that immediately resulted in no stream to YouTube. At one point, I had the live stream showing 1440p. but it still had the artifacts. So then, I disabled the sub-stream in the camera interface, but that also caused killed the live stream. At one point, i lost the audio even in the BI console, so it seems like the audio is somehow influenced by the sub-stream settings. It's cool when it almost works, but there sure are a lot of pitfalls in Blue Iris.
If I knew just exactly what was hurting what, maybe I could configure around it, but it sure does seem like there are a lot of ways to break it. It's relatively easy to make it work with some weird resolution (possibly whatever the sub-stream resolution is), but not so easy to make it work with the mainstream resolution. And even when it seems to be streaming at the native resolution of the camera, the resulting video quality suggests otherwise.
I'm kind of stumped.
If I knew just exactly what was hurting what, maybe I could configure around it, but it sure does seem like there are a lot of ways to break it. It's relatively easy to make it work with some weird resolution (possibly whatever the sub-stream resolution is), but not so easy to make it work with the mainstream resolution. And even when it seems to be streaming at the native resolution of the camera, the resulting video quality suggests otherwise.
I'm kind of stumped.