Live Streaming & Premieres
Ingest URL
Also called: stream URL, RTMP URL, server URL
An encoder needs two pieces of information: where to send the feed, and which channel it belongs to. The ingest URL is the where, normally an RTMP or RTMPS address such as rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2. The stream key is the which. YouTube publishes a primary and a backup ingest URL, and a second encoder pointed at the backup can keep a broadcast alive when the primary path drops. Treat the URL as public and the stream key as a password, because anyone holding the key can broadcast to your channel.