Setting Up
Your First Protected Stream
3 min
Walk through starting your first protected live stream: preflight checks, buffer filling, going live, and monitoring the stream health.
Key Points
✓Run preflight checks to verify OBS connection and relay availability
✓Start streaming in OBS — chunks begin uploading to the relay
✓The relay buffers segments until capacity is reached, then goes live
✓Monitor buffer fill percentage and connection quality in real time
Details
The buffer must reach its configured capacity before the relay starts the FFmpeg output process. This initial fill time depends on your chunk duration and buffer size settings.