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Alex Vanston
Alex Vanston

Reputation: 66

How to keep streaming if initial client loses connection?

I'm working on an app that streams out multiple presenters via the Agora Live Streaming protocol. Everything works great so long as the person who started the live stream stays connected, however if they lose internet, the stream stops, even if other presenters are still online.

Is there a way to tell the live stream to keep going until "stop live streaming" is called (or all presenters are offline)? My code can handle updating the transcoding config (e.g. video layout) when they go offline.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 303

Answers (2)

Alex Vanston
Alex Vanston

Reputation: 66

After multiple discussions with Agora Support, it appears the answer is no, if only using the web SDK, however they are introducing a new server side feature to make this possible.

It's currently in beta, so you'll have to ask Agora Support to enable it for your account, but once you've done so you can create and update an RTMP converter via their server side API instead of relying on the client SDK to manage the stream: https://docs-preprod.agora.io/en/Interactive%20Broadcast/streaming_restful

Upvotes: 1

Ekaansh Arora
Ekaansh Arora

Reputation: 1314

I'm assuming you're using startLiveStreaming method using the Agora Web SDK. You can attach event listeners on all hosts to listen for primary host's online status, in case the primary host (the host that calls the start method) goes offline - a secondary host can call the start (and transcode) method.

You can also use Agora RTM to signal this status.

Upvotes: 0

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