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Glossary

Short definitions of what you’ll run into in the dashboard and in the documentation.

Terms

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Bitrate — How much data per second your feed sends, in kbps. More bitrate is more quality and more demanding on your coverage. Every plan has a cap; broadcasting right at the cap is asking for trouble. See Plan limits.

Bonding — Spreading the feed across several connections at once (several SIMs, or a SIM plus wifi) so that one of them dropping doesn’t take your stream down. It’s what BELABOX and Moblin do with SRTLA.

BRB — The “be right back” scene. In automatic scene switching it’s the one we put up when the bitrate collapses, so your viewers don’t sit through a broken picture.

Control widget — A public link that opens the control panel for an OBS without signing in: scenes, starting and stopping the stream, audio. You share it with your moderator and revoke it whenever you want. See Links that give access without signing in.

Ingest — The point a feed is delivered to. Your platform (Twitch, Kick, YouTube) gives you its ingest URL and its own key so you can send it the stream; at Enhanced IRL what you copy from the dashboard is the publish URL.

Overlay — A layer that sits on top of your video: Starting soon, No signal, Thanks for watching, BRB. You can use ours or point it at your own URL. See Scenes and overlays.

Playback URL — The address your feed is consumed from, for instance by your Cloud OBS. You copy it with Playback. Treat it as private: whoever has it watches your stream. See Playback URL.

Publish URL — The address you broadcast to. You copy it from the dashboard with the Publish button; you don’t type it out. It changes if you change region or protocol. See Publish URL.

Region — The zone your feed is picked up in. Pick the one closest to where you broadcast. Changing region changes the publish URL. See Regions.

RTMP — The old faithful protocol. Every encoder speaks it, but it takes coverage potholes badly. On RTMP the publish URL and the playback URL are the same one.

RTT — The round-trip time of your feed, in milliseconds. When it shoots up, the stream judders even if the bitrate looks fine; automatic scene switching keeps an eye on it.

Scene — An OBS composition: camera, overlays, audio. Automatic scene switching needs them to exist with the exact name you set in the dashboard.

SRT — A protocol built for bad networks: it fixes losses and takes cuts better than RTMP. It needs a streamid. See Choosing a protocol.

SRTLA — SRT with bonding: it spreads the feed across several connections. It’s what Moblin and BELABOX use to broadcast from the street with several SIMs. Playback for an SRTLA key goes over SRT.

Platform stream key (optional) — The resource you subscribe to so you have somewhere to broadcast. The publish URL and the playback URL come out of it. It can be rotated and it has its own bitrate cap. See What a stream key is.

Streamid — The part of the SRT and SRTLA URL that says who you are and what you want to do: publish: to broadcast and read: to watch. If it’s mistyped, the encoder won’t connect.

Where to go next

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