Configure output options

You can use the output options to stream live video to a server, save your broadcast to a file, or both.

  1. From the Panel Options menu on the right side of the Encoding Options tabbed panel, select Output.

  2. Configure any of the following options:

    Stream To Flash Media Server
    When selected, enables streaming to the specified servers when encoding starts.

    FMS URL
    Specifies the fully qualified URL, or RTMP string, of the primary Flash Media Server computer. The URL must begin with rtmp:// or rtmpt:// and include your server domain name and the streaming application to use. You can optionally include a specific application instance and port number. For example:

    rtmp://fms.myserver.com:80/live/livestream

    Here, fms.myserver.com is the Flash Media Server computer host name, 80 is the port number to connect to (optional), live is the name of an application on the host (required), and livestream is the instance of the application to connect to (optional).

    For more information on RTMP strings, see the Flash Media Server documentation.

    Backup URL
    Specifies the fully qualified URL of a backup server and application (optional). If you specify a backup server, Flash Media Live Encoder streams to both servers.

    Stream
    Specifies a name for the video stream. If you are encoding multiple-bit rate streams, you can either separate each unique stream name with a semicolon (;) or use parameters to create stream names. For more information on using parameters, see Use parameters in filenames and stream names.

    If you do not use parameters for naming, be sure that the number of unique stream names you provide, separated by a semicolon, match the number of streams being encoded.

    Note: If you use both semicolons and parameters in stream names, parameters will not be applied. The characters that represent parameters are treated as literal characters in the stream name.

    Auto Adjust
    When required by network limitations, Flash Media Live Encoder automatically adjusts the quality of video by either degrading video quality or dropping frames. For more information, see Automatically adjust video quality

    Save To File
    When selected, saves the output to a file. Click Browse to specify a different filename and folder. You can use parameters in filenames. For more information, see Use parameters in filenames and stream names.

    You can limit the size or duration of output files to chunk large encoding sessions into multiple files. For more information, see Save files in chunks.

    The following table shows to which file format media is saved, depending on the codecs that are used:

    Codec

    Nellymoser

    mp3

    AAC/HE-AAC

    Video only

    H.264

    N/A

    F4V

    F4V

    F4V

    VP6

    FLV

    FLV

    N/A

    FLV

    Audio only

    FLV

    FLV

    F4V

    N/A
    Note: If you use a filename that exists in the selected folder, Flash Media Live Encoder renames the existing file so that the newly saved file does not overwrite it. For example, if sample.flv exists, Flash Media Live Encoder renames it sample.0.flv and saves your new file as sample.flv. If both sample.flv and sample.0.flv exist, sample.flv is renamed sample.1.flv, and so on. If the wrong filename extension is used, Flash Media Live Encoder changes it to the correct filename extension.