This guide focuses on setting up live streaming through Kaltura Live. Streaming should be one part of a larger video production plan. Consult with your campus video production staff, event planning staff, and network staff before undertaking a streaming video production of a live event.

Advantages of Kaltura Live stream:

• Available to all UWS institutions under existing contract.

• Privacy: Kaltura doesn’t use or sell user data.

Disadvantages of Kaltura Live stream:

• Single source only; video mixing or switching must be done upstream through other hardware or software.

• Streams the same bitrate (level of quality) for all users. It doesn’t scale up or down depending on user bandwidth.

• Setup requires precise detail. See the Live Encoding Best Practices Guide for advice.

For an overview of basic setup and testing for Kaltura live streaming, read the Getting Started with Kaltura Live guide.

Requirements

See Live Encoding Best Practices Guide (Kaltura) for a technical overview Kaltura Live requirements and setup.

Encoding guidelines, from the Kaltura Live Stream Requirements Guide: 

• Video codec: H.264, main profile

• Video frames per second (FPS): based on your capture device capabilities. Recommended values are 25 and 30

• Key frame interval: 2 seconds

• Audio Codec: AAC or MP3 (AAC recommended)

• Audio Sample Rate: 44100 or higher

• Audio Bitrate: 96Kbps and up

• Strict CBR encoding recommended for optimum Adaptive bit-rate performance

System requirements for broadcasting hardware, from Live Encoding Best Practices Guide: 

Recommended :

• Quad Core CPU

• 4GB RAM

• 2Mbit/sec upload bandwidth

• Dedicated video card, 512MB VRAM

• Windows Vista / Windows 7 or Mac OS X 10.5 or higher (v20.0.89)

Optimal (for HD Streaming)

• Quad Core i7-2600 series CPU or better

• 8GB RAM

• 5Mbit/sec or better upload bandwidth

• Dedicated video card, 512MB VRAM

• Windows Vista / Windows 7 or Mac OS X 10.6 or higher

KMC Setup

Setting up a Kaltura Live streaming event requires a campus Kaltura administrator to access the Kaltura Management Console (KMC > Create > Create Live Stream). See the Create a Live Stream entry in the KMC guide for more information. 

Additional Documentation

Live Encoding Best Practices Guide (Kaltura) https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/live-encoding-best-practices-guide 

Kaltura Live (Kaltura)  https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/kaltura-live 

Kaltura Live Streaming Overview (Kaltura) https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/kaltura-live-streaming-overview---kmc-ng 

Getting Started with Kaltura Live (Kaltura) https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/getting-started-with-kaltura-live 

Kaltura Live Stream Requirements Guide (Kaltura) https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/kaltura-live-stream-requirements-guide---kmc-ng 

Kaltura Management Console - Live Dashboard Overview (Kaltura) https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/kaltura-management-console---live-dashboard-overview 

Kaltura Live Streaming FAQ (Kaltura) https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/kaltura-live-streaming-faq