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Before you begin your first live stream, there are a few settings that need to be made. In short, you’ll need a live source (streaming server) to ingest your stream, a live channel which is the destination where the stream will be published, and a live event scheduled on that channel.
Live source
A live source is the streaming server’s output that is sent to the player. You can send you encoder’s contribution feed to a streaming server and the application will send the output to the video player via a content delivery network (CDN). You can set up multiple live sources based on how many concurrent streams you anticipate, the locations from which you stream and the type of encoding you want to apply to your stream. Please see this topic for more information about setting up and configuring live sources.
Live channel
The live channel is a persistent, custom URL where your live stream will be published. If you remember television, there are channels and each channel has scheduled programs. In order to broadcast a program, you need a channel to run it on. If for example, you are streaming city council meetings, then you would want to create a live channel for the city council and use that channel for every city council meeting. Please see this topic for more information about setting up and configuring live channels.
Live event
Continuing with the TV analogy, the live event is the program on the channel. When you schedule a live event, you first pick your channel and then you set the time and date. You can assign metadata to the meeting (e.g. title, description, organization), and you can also assign a live source most appropriate for this particular live event. Please see this topic for more information about setting up and configuring live events.
