When broadcasting from a phone, think about if you want support for portrait mode if you do, only two of the apps I reviewed had support for that.įor the best free option I can recommend Larix Broadcaster. It costs a few bucks and doesn't have rtmps support, but it worked well and has some neat features around production. My favorite app that I can recommend is Wirecast Go. They either: (1) failed when I entered the URL with an error along the lines of “enter an rtmp URL” or (2) allowed me to enter the URL and then had an infinite spinner with no clear error message, or (3) they had some generic “failed to start stream” error message. If you are using an app with Mux live stream endpoints, check out the docs for live streaming.Ī surprising number of applications have no support for rtmps.
Many apps have hidden costs that you don’t find out about until you start trying to stream.
Price - this goes beyond an upfront cost to download the app.
These are the features and support I looked for: There are many other encoder apps available on your phone. Popular encoder applications for desktops include OBS (open source and free), Wirecast (for professionals and expensive) and Ecamm Live (somewhere in between). In order to stream over RTMP you have to have an application that encodes your video and sends it to the RTMP ingest server. One way (sometimes the only way) to stream to these services is over RTMP. You might recognize RTMP from social services like Twitch, Youtube Live, Facebook Live or Periscope. Back when we were using Flash, RTMP was the most popular and widely used protocol for delivering video to end users HLS has since taken over on the delivery side). RTMP stands for Real-Time Messaging Protocol and it is a de-facto standard for ingesting video and audio over the internet for one-to-many live streaming. Of course, I hope you use these with Mux live streaming, but this guide should help you with anywhere you are doing rtmp streaming. I don’t have any affiliation with these products and this is meant to be a guide to help you find the right one to use for your streaming purposes.
I downloaded and tried all the top apps I could find. This is a guide for going live from an iOS app to rtmp server.