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How can i do Facebook Live (page) using FFMPEG – CentOS

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Catch: Doing live stream on Facebook with FMMPEG.

In past it was easy i did many times as facebook was using rtmp.
But now facebook is using RTMPS so i am getting different errors i have tried 100 commands.
I have a image test.png and a audio file test.m4a (its a podcast) and facebook stream key is 1234.
( i have tried 100 types of commands so cant post here and cant post errors aswell.)
so please can someone help me to go live on my facebook page with image+m4a file.
i prefer centos but i will manage ubuntu if you prefer.
Regards..

Solved : See my answer might help someone.

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    SOLVED Hope it will be useful for someone.

    I was trying with all possible results from google and stackoverflow. nothing worked. Then i did my own way and it worked after 2 hour. i will stream video out.mp4 from my server on Facebook.

    1. Install FFMPEG4 ( older version has issue with rtmps )
    2. ffmpeg -re -y -i out.mp4 -c:a copy -ac 1 -ar 44100 -b:a 96k -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -tune zerolatency -f flv -maxrate 2000k -preset veryfast "rtmps://live-api-s.facebook.com:443/rtmp/key"

    You can stream on as many platforms as you want.

    PS. if you want to stream image+audio replace our.mp4 . but i used ffmpeg to make video from m4a file ( it will stream without lag) & buffer)


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    If you are on CentOS or Redhat, you may find it difficult to intall ffmpeg. Or your installation can miss some of the libraries/protocols required by ffmpeg to be able to do FB live. For this purpose, running docker image would be a great idea:

    1. Install docker and pull ffmpeg docker image
    2. Run docker ffmpeg image with necessary arguments

    For Installing docker, run following commands:

    1. remove older version of docker if installed

      sudo yum remove docker docker-client docker-client-latest docker-common docker-latest docker-latest-logrotate docker-logrotate docker-engine

    2. install docker yum repository

      sudo yum install -y yum-utils
      sudo yum-config-manager –add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

    3. install docker and start/enable docker service

      sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
      sudo systemctl start docker
      sudo systemctl enable docker

    Reference : https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/

    1. To run ffmpeg for FB live, run following command:

      docker run -v $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) jrottenberg/ffmpeg -re -y -i [VIDEO_FILE] -c:a copy -ac 1 -ar 44100 -b:a 96k -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -tune zerolatency -f flv -maxrate 2000k -preset veryfast "rtmps://live-api-s.facebook.com:443/rtmp/[KEY]"

    replace [VIDEO_FILE] with the file you want to stream live to fb and [KEY] with the stream key from facebook. Reference : https://hub.docker.com/r/jrottenberg/ffmpeg/

    Please note that you need to visit facebook live page (https://www.facebook.com/live/producer/) before you can run the above command.

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    Thanks Mate for your answer. even you are late anyway i did something similar.

    I have already figured it by using DOCKER.
    using Restreamer : https://datarhei.github.io/restreamer/
    It work on both centos & Ubuntu

    Aslo i tried it manually it was very difficult to install and setup but i did that and will not recommended.

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