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Add Livestream to Your Roku Channel

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Note: When Roku server is ingesting your content feed (every 24h) and your livestream is not active, it will be rejected by the Roku server.

We provide a workaround (custom RTMP solution) as an additional service, if you are interested, contact us about our RTMP server.

  1. Log into your OTTfeed account https://my.ottfeed.com.
  2. Add new content by clicking the “Add new content” button.
  3. Select “Live” from the content type dropdown.
  4. On the live detail page, enter all the required metadata. In the “Video URL” text field, make sure you enter your livestream HLS URL (external player URL), this URL should contain .m3u8 extension, something like this:
    https://playlist.ottfeed.com/live/master.m3u8?channel=GCUGbgJZalE6XOuIzJVV
    Note: If you are using our RTMP server, we will provide the video URL.
    Suggestion: For your Livestream title and thumbnail, we suggest adding the date and time, for example:
    – Livestream every Sunday at 3:00 p.m. EST (for recurring livestreams)
    – Tune in to our Livestream this Sunday at 3:00 p.m. EST
  5. Once you enter all your metadata, toggle the switch to published.
  6. Go back to the Homepage and click on “Manage categories.”
  7. On the Categories page, add your live content to one of your categories by title or tag.
  8. Go back to the Homepage and click the “Publish Feed” button.
  9. Your Livestream will show on your Roku Direct Publisher channel in about 24h, so don’t forget to plan ahead.

Note: Roku Direct Publisher channel that is published to the Roku store will ingest content automatically every 24 hours.

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