Streaming

This page covers setting up where your stream goes, how good it looks, and how to start and stop it — plus what KERYX does automatically when a connection drops mid-service.

#Choosing a video engine

Settings → General → Video engine

Changing this setting only takes effect once both streaming and recording are fully stopped — you can't switch engines mid-service.

With the OBS engine, a dropped stream connection reconnects on its own; if the engine itself stops, KERYX restarts it after a short wait. A missing camera or mixer doesn't stop the service either way — slides and whatever inputs do exist keep recording and streaming.

#Setting up a destination

Settings → Streaming → Destination

#Facebook Live

In Facebook's Live Producer (or the Live tool on your church Page), look for the streaming setup screen — it gives you a Server URL and a Stream key. Copy both into KERYX's Server URL and Stream key fields. Facebook's default ingest address looks like rtmps://live-api-s.facebook.com:443/rtmp/.

#YouTube

In YouTube Studio, go to Go Live and open the stream key page. Copy the Stream URL and Stream key shown there into the matching fields in KERYX.

#Custom RTMP

Choose Custom RTMP and enter whatever Server URL and Stream key your provider gives you — this covers any RTMP(S)-compatible destination that isn't Facebook or YouTube.

#Quality settings

Settings → Streaming → Quality

#Advanced

Settings → Streaming → Advanced

If the stream's audio and video look out of sync, nudge Audio delay up or down in small steps and recheck — a positive value delays the audio, a negative value delays it less relative to video. See Audio & camera for gain and level settings, which live on a separate settings pane.

#Starting and stopping

The stream and the recording are independent, manual controls. Nothing starts either one for you, so start each with its own button.

• Click Start Stream to begin pushing to your configured destination. The button turns into Stop Stream while live.
• Click Start Preview first if you want to check the camera framing before going live — this runs the camera and composited output without actually streaming. If you skip it, the preview starts automatically the moment you click Start Stream.
• Click Stop Stream to end the broadcast. This does not stop the recording if one is running — they're controlled separately.

#Status indicators

Next to the stream controls, a status chip shows the current state:

On the Stream Preview panel itself, a pulsing red outline and a LIVE badge appear whenever you're on air (streaming, recording, or both) — the badge reads REC instead of LIVE when you're recording only, not streaming.

#What happens when the connection drops

If your internet connection to the streaming platform drops mid-service, KERYX doesn't give up immediately — it retries automatically, showing Reconnecting in the status chip, and backs off between attempts so it isn't hammering a connection that isn't coming back right away. It keeps trying until you click Stop Stream yourself. Recording, if it's running, is unaffected by a streaming disconnect — it's a completely separate leg and is never auto-restarted if it fails for its own reasons.

#Graphics on the stream

Stream layout (the row of buttons below the Stream Preview panel) controls what appears composited into the outgoing video, separate from what the projector in the room shows:

This lets you put lyrics or a lower third on the stream while the room's projector keeps showing whatever the operator has on the main output.

#Related pages

• Audio & camera — mixer, camera, and gain setup
• Recording — local recording settings, separate from streaming
• Presenting — running slides and scenes during the live service
• Publishing — sending a trimmed sermon to YouTube and the podcast feed after the service