Did you know that you can stream your Milesight camera to the likes of Twitch and YouTube with free software?
Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS, is a free, open-source software that can take a variety of input sources and stream them live to Twitch and YouTube. It is available on most platforms and can be downloaded here: https://obsproject.com/download
In this blog, I will use the Real Time Streaming Protocol, or RTSP, and broadcast a Milesight camera on Twitch.tv
Step 1
Log into your Milesight camera. This could be a DHCP-assigned address or the fallback IP address of 192.168.5.190. From the main page, click Configuration.
Navigate to Basic Setting -> Network -> RTSP. Here you will see that the port used for streaming is 554 (this is important soon).
Step 3
Open OBS and under the Sources tab, add a Media Source.
Step 4
Give the source a friendly name, I've used Milesight Camera Test.
Step 5
Uncheck Local File if this is selected. Under Input, type in rtsp://username:password@IP-address-of-camera:554 where:
username - default Milesight camera username
password - password you set up on the Milesight
IP-address-of-camera - IP address of the Milesight camera (192.168.5.190 in my case)
Step 6
At this stage you're ready to go with streaming. In my case, I set up OBS with my Twitch account during installation so all I have to do is click the Start Streaming button at the bottom right of the page.
