Stream Dashboard - altodd/multistreamer GitHub Wiki

The stream dashboard is your default view - from here, you have tabs to update every part of your stream, including adding and removing accounts, and creating webhooks by clicking the appropriate tabs.

On the dashboard, you can:

View a preview of the stream
Start/Stop the stream
Start/Stop custom ffmpeg pullers (if setup)
Generic Title/Description - you can set a title/description, and use the 'Copy' button to auto-fill fields.
Setup stream details for each account on the stream.
Setup per-account transcoding, if needed

It's important to scroll through and check each and every account's metadata settings. Fields with a * are required.

Each account type has an entry in the wiki with details on every piece of metdata:

Transcoding

Every account, regardless of type, has an FFMPEG Args box, where you can specify arguments for transcoding. Basically, when you start streaming, Multistreamer will call ffmpeg with the following arguments:

ffmpeg -i rtmp://internal-multistreamer/key (ffmpeg args) -f flv rtmp://outgoing-service/video

The default ffmpeg args value is -c:v copy -c:a copy, meaning the audio and video get copied as-is. Here's some example ffmpeg args:

Resize video, leave audio alone:

-c:v libx264 -x264opts keyint=60 -preset veryfast -b:v 900k -vf scale=960:540 -c:a copy

Copy video, re-encode audio:

-c:v copy -c:a aac -b:a 96k

Resize video, re-encode audio

-c:v libx264 -x264opts keyint=60 -preset veryfast -b:v 1800k -vf scale=1280:720 -c:a aac -b:a 96k

You can do interesting things with transcoding, like apply per-stream watermarks, overlay text, and so on. It's fairly CPU intensive though, check with the server owner before you try transcoding.