As most people know, a live stream is a semi-realtime video broadcast over the internet.

While this is no different for Motto, the term “live stream” may sometimes be used by Motto to refer to a technical object used by Motto’s APIs. When you create a live-stream in Motto, you are in fact creating a series of low-level objects in a single operation. These objects include:

  • An RTMP/SRT ingest object. This allows you to connect your encoder to Motto’s ingest servers.
  • A workflow object. This defines the processing pipeline that Motto will apply to your stream (e.g. transcoding, recording, etc).
  • A video object. This represents the output of the workflow, and is what viewers will see when they watch your stream.

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