Enabling RTMP OUT

What is RTMP OUT?

RTMP OUT is the composed stream of video that you can provide to third party streaming service providers like Youtube Live, Facebook Live etc.

Note: We also offer Live streaming in Metered Video. If you want you can use Metered Video Live Streaming Service or use your third party streaming service provider with Metered RTMP OUT to stream your meeting.

Enabling RTMP OUT

1. Enable Recordings through Dashboard.

Two dashboards

Screenshots below show the new dashboard. If you use the classic dashboard, pick the Classic dashboard tab — your choice is remembered on every page. You can switch at any time: Old dashboard in the header takes you back to the classic dashboard, and dashboard.metered.ca/v2 opens the new one. What changed in the new dashboard →

New dashboard

1. Go to Video API & SDK → Rooms and click Create room, or

2. To change a room you already have, open its ⋮ menu in the Rooms list and click Edit (or open the room and click Edit). Changes apply from the room's next meeting session.

Edit in the room's menu

In the Streaming output section, switch on Push to external RTMP destination and enter the RTMP OUT URL — the full ingest URL including the stream key, which you get from the third party streaming provider of your choice. Then click Create room (or Update room if you are editing).

Note: If you enable RTMP OUT, composition will automatically be enabled.

Enable RTMP OUT in a room

Classic dashboard

1. You can go to dashboard then click on the Create Room button or

2. Click on the Rooms button and click on the room name to go to room summary page, there you can click the edit room button to edit the room.

edit room page

On the Edit Room page you can see the Enable RTMP OUT button enable it and provide a RTMP OUT URL, you will get the RTMP OUT url from the third party streaming provider of your choice. For demonstration purposes we have used Youtube Live.

Note: If you enable RTMP OUT composition will automatically be enabled.

Enable recording in a room

Managing Recordings through the Dashboard.

New dashboard

You can view, download and delete the recordings from the Metered Dashboard.

Go to Video API & SDK → Cloud Recordings to see a list of your recordings in the table.

Recordings Table

To see a recording, click Preview. A panel opens with a preview player, the recording's details (room, meeting session, participant, start and end time), a Download button, a Delete button, and the other recordings from the same meeting.

Recording preview panel

Classic dashboard

You can view, download and delete the recordings from the Metered Dashboard.

Once you are logged in to Metered, go to Cloud Recording you can see a list of your recordings in the table. Recordings Table To view details about the recording click on the view button.

The view button will take you to the Recordings Page there you can see the details about the recording, you can also download the recording and see a 5 min preview of the recording

Recording Page

2. Enabling Recording through Rest API.

You can enable recording through rest api by setting the recording:true flag when creating a room.

You can also set recording in an existing room by sending a PUT request through the api and setting the recording flag true / false

To learn more about APIs, visit the API documentation here.

Managing Recordings through the APIs.

We have the following APIs:

1. Get All recordings: Get all recordings associated with your account.
2. Get All recordings for a specific room.
3. Get All recordings for a meeting session.
4. Get All recordings for a participant session.
5. Download a recording.
6. delete a recording

For more details on APIs, visit the API documentation here.