How to Stream a PTZ Camera Directly to YouTube Live Without OBS

00:00 - Introduction and camera overview
Hi, my name's Ray. I'm the manager at CCTV Camera World. Are you looking for an outdoor PTZ camera that can stream directly to YouTube without needing an encoder or a capture card or OBS in between? Well, I have the right product for you. This is the LiveCam PTZ that's part of the Avalonix Premium Series that we carry here at CCTV Camera World. It is an outdoor rated PoE or power over Ethernet, pan tilt zoom camera or PTZ camera. It can move left and right, up and down, and zoom in and out, up to 16x optical zoom. It also has 330 feet of night vision. And because it's PoE, means power over Ethernet, you have to run just one Ethernet cable to power it. In this case, this camera requires a PoE power splitter to use its 12 volt to power it and the data cable to get the data from it. But this camera can be mounted on a wall or on a ceiling. It comes with a wall mount. The ceiling mount is optional. In this video, I'll show you how to set up this camera, how to connect it to YouTube Live, and you can follow the same steps to connect it to your favorite RTMP server, whether it be from Facebook Live, Twitch, or Kick. So before I go into how to set up the camera, I'm going to show you how to stream it to YouTube Live. Here I have the camera on my benchtop connected to all the devices that are necessary. I'll focus more on this in the later part of this video, but I've got the camera set up, powered on, and I have it streaming on not only my DVR on a monitor that HDMI connected to it, I also have it on my laptop. I could also be viewing it on my phone. So you can view this camera four different ways, your phone, your laptop, your DVR. or on YouTube Live. So not only is a live streaming camera, it is a security camera that's outdoor rated, but it streams to YouTube Live without needing an encoder in between. So let me go on my laptop, show you how easy it is to connect this to YouTube Live in a few simple steps.

01:56 - Adding the camera to SmartPSS
So here I'm on my computer. I'm gonna show you how to go from camera to this, where you can see your YouTube stream on YouTube Live. So let me get started and show you how to do it from the beginning. Open up SmartPSS that you download from CCTV Camera World, go to Devices, and then hit add. Put in a name for the camera under the device name. I'm gonna type in LIVECAMPTZ. You can call it anything you want. Under add mode, change it to serial number and put in the serial number for your device. I'm gonna put in my serial number and then put in your username and password. You can find this information on the camera box or you can always e-mail us and ask us for that. When you enter this in, it may or may not connect automatically, if it doesn't, press the operation button and hit manual log and hit OK. Once you get an online status, you're ready to rock and roll.

02:45 - Opening the camera web interface
All you have to do is on the operation section here, you'll see this globe icon. That's what you want to click. It's going to open up a web browser window for you to be able to manage this camera. If you don't see it, double click here to make sure that this is not maximized. I'm covering up a web window and go in and log into the camera using the admin username and password. What this is letting me do is SmartPSS is creating a tunnel for me to go from the SmartPSS Windows software through a web browser over the internet from anywhere and log in to the web service of the camera. The web service is this web interface of the camera. It's an administration interface that lets you change settings on this camera or any of the Avalonix Premium Series cameras we carry here at CCTV Camera World.

03:31 - Entering the YouTube RTMP settings
I want to go into settings and make sure I go to network and access platform and then RTMP. This is where I need to put in my YouTube stream key and the URL. You want to do enable to make sure it's checked. Stream type is mainstream, address type is custom, and in the custom address, put in your stream key. I went to my YouTube account and I basically, this is where I would find the stream key information. So I have to press this to copy the stream key and put it here in a notepad window. And then this is the stream URL that YouTube usually uses to push RTMP. You can also find it in here under stream settings. And if you scroll down, you'll see it right here. You can hit copy and paste it, and this is what it will look like. Now what you want to do is combine them both together and make sure you have this forward slash after live too. And then hit that. So you should have a forward slash after the number two in Live 2, and then the stream key, copy the whole thing. What I'm gonna do is

04:40 - Starting and stopping the YouTube stream
end my stream, show you that it ended here on YouTube Live. It might take a minute or a few seconds, I'm not sure. And it ended here. Now I go back. I'm going to replace my stream key, hit enable, hit save. It asks me, are you sure you want to enable this? Yes I am, I'm sure. And then I go back to my live streaming on YouTube and my stream key is back. My video stream is back on YouTube Live from the LIVECAMPTZ.

05:09 - Checking network, video, and audio settings
Few things you want to make sure. If for some reason it didn't work as seamlessly for you, make sure you go to P2P in network and it says online status and it's enabled. If you don't see the online status, that means you have a network disconnect that is not letting the camera reach out to YouTube and send the video stream. Two more things. You have to go to camera conditions or camera video. Make sure your video settings are as such. It should be H.264, do not use H.264H or B or H.265. Should be mainstream H.264, 1080p, 2K or 4K, on which camera you purchase. And this is what it looks like for a 1080p camera. And the Substream should look like this on the right hand side. Substream is the stream you view on your phone. It's not turned into YouTube, but it should look like this. The other thing is you need audio enabled. If you don't enable it, YouTube will not like your stream. Make sure you enable it even if the camera does not have a microphone. And make sure the audio in type is line in. For this particular LiveCam PTZ, it does not have a built-in mic. It has a line in mic. You can always add an outdoor microphone if you want it. I'm not using one, but you need this empty audio stream for YouTube to like your camera. Once that's all done and you have a good network connection, your stream will keep on running.

06:16 - Understanding YouTube Live delay
And I'll show you two points as I bring this section to an end. If I actually go to Home, Live View, and drag in my camera, I'm just going to show you that there is delay on any live streaming camera. So now what I'm going to do is, on my camera, I'm going to go in front of it and give it a thumbs up. So I'm on my laptop, you see on SmartPSS, immediately saw me do a thumbs up, but it hasn't appeared yet on the YouTube stream. There's a few seconds delay, and it's variable based on your upstream connection, your data rate, your resolution of the camera, et cetera. Could be 10 seconds, could be 15 seconds, depends on YouTube as well, but I'm waiting for that thumbs up to come up here. My stream is moving, I know for sure, and here I go. My thumbs up came in there. And what this is meant to show you is that there's transcoding going on. The camera's sending video over the internet to YouTube. YouTube has to transcode it and display it, and that's why that delay happens.

07:20 - Controlling the PTZ while streaming
Secondly, there are no PTZ controls on a YouTube stream. I have my YouTube stream pulled up here. Notice there's no way for me to control a pan-tilt-zoom camera. If you wanted to set controls for your pan-tilt-zoom, you would click on the PTZ section here in SmartPSS. and you would move it left or right. And you could program this as a tour for your camera if you wanted to. We have a separate video guide that shows you how to do that. And you could set coordinates for x, y, and the z, which is the zoom axis as well. So notice as I did that, it showed up on my YouTube stream after a few seconds. And hopefully this gives you a good idea of what to expect from the live cam PTZ camera that we have at CCC Camera World, which is part of our Avalonixs Premium series.

08:09 - Camera wiring and bench setup
Now let me jump back onto my testing bench and show you how to put this camera together. I will show you the connections that you need. So here I have the camera tested on my bench. I'm using the styrofoam that it came with. This is a good way for you to also bench test the camera so you don't drop it. I have it inserted through the top foam and I have a cable coming out and connected to What is the PoE injector?

08:34 - How the included PoE injector works
The PoE injector is what powers the camera. My PoE injector has two connections on it, a data, which plugs into the RJ-45 connection on the camera, and the power, which powers the 12-volt connection. As soon as I connect it, you see the camera boot up. It does an automatic boot up. This one ethernet cable is all you need to go all the way back to the PoE injector. So what I'm going to show you here is I can power my PTZ up to 150 feet away from this PoE injector. I'm throwing away this small cable, and I'm putting in my 150-foot cable. And on this particular PoE injector, the power plus data is on the left-hand side. I'm going to connect it right in there. And as soon as I did, the PTZ booted up. I don't have a data connection yet, I'm going to take another cable, which is my green cable, And I'm going to put it into what's called the data in on this particular one and plug it back into my switch. If you're following along, you'll be plugging this into your router so the PTZ can talk back to the internet. The other side of this PoE injector plugs into your 1TAN. So basically, you have this PoE injector sitting by your router or switch indoors. You power it. You connect one cable going to your router. The other longer cable all the way back to your camera.

09:56 - Wall and ceiling mounting options
At the camera, you would use the wall mount. The wall mount is pretty large. You could actually stuff all of this inside and protect it from the elements. Optional junction boxes are available if you'd like to enclose this pigtail more tightly in a junction box. But this should suffice. And we also have the ceiling mount. And that's pretty much it for setup. All you have to do is just run that one Cat5e PoE cable. So that's the beauty of power over ethernet. all you need to do is run one CAT5E or CAT6 cable, depending on which you prefer. Now, as far as mounting goes, let me show you a little bit of how everything gets connected together. It'll be a very brief overview. So when you're connecting this camera to a wall mount, this pigtail will get threaded through right in here, and you will eventually then attach the wall mount to the top here. And there are screws that come inside the Ziploc bag that let you lock the wall mount on the top notch here on the camera. Please do not hold the pan-tilt zoom camera with its cable like that. You will break the cable harness that's going inside. Always hold it from the notch on the top. If you're doing a ceiling mount installation, It has a collar, which affixes to this notch on the top. You thread your cable through here all the way, and make sure you're using a soffit or a junction box up above to enclose everything. And this collar mount can only go in one way, so you just have to kind of play with it to get it seated right, make sure the bolts are all the way unfastened. and not obstructing the tunnel inside the column. And once it's sitting securely, use an Allen key or a screwdriver to fasten this together so that it's secure and does not fall out. And that's pretty much how you use the ceiling mount. I'll give you a widescreen view of what it looks like. Here we go. And then you

12:16 - Protecting connections from weather
Make sure, protect these cables from the elements. The Achilles heel of any PoE camera is its cable. You don't want to leave it out there for UV exposure or the water exposure to destroy the cables on there and the connectors. You may be wondering what these other connections are for. The red, the green and yellow is actually for audio. We have videos on how to do a two-wire setup for a microphone. And this is alarm, NPTZ. You do not need these. All you need is basically Here, the 12 volt connection that I showed and the RJ-45 for data.

12:53 - Final product overview
Hopefully you found this video useful in learning about the LIVECAMPTZ, which is a live streaming pan-tilt-zoom camera for streaming directly to YouTube or other RTMP platforms. Make sure you check it out at CCTV Camera World. The S-K-U is L-I-V-E-C-A-M PTZ. If you have any questions, contact us at cctvcameraworld.com. Thanks for watching. If you're watching on YouTube, don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe!