Live Streaming Basics

Before diving into how SparqFest supports live streaming for your festival, it's useful to know some basic information about live streaming. If you are an experienced live streamer, you can skip this article. Running a live stream works almost exactly the same as broadcasting a live television show. The key difference is that the “program” feed goes...

Platform Options for Your Live Stream

Before you create a live stream, you must first select a streaming platform. SparqFest's role is to serve as promoter and gatekeeper to the live stream. An example configuration might look like this: Live stream tool: OBS Live stream platform: Twitch Promotional page: SparqFest Viewing page: Twitch  Before you can fully configure SparqFest for a liv...

Configuring a Live Stream

Live streams are one of the three classes of events supported by SparqFest. To begin the process of setting up a live stream, go to “Programming” > “Live Streams”. When you visit this section, you see a list of currently configured live streams for the selected edition of the festival. To create a live stream, click the "+ create" button. This ac...

Configuration of Live Streaming Tools

In the article on Configuring a Live Stream , we covered how you set up a live stream inside the SparqFest platform. That, however, is only half the equation. The other half is pointing your live streaming source to your streaming platform so viewers can watch it. The details differ from tool-to-tool, but the basics are the same. You take the RTMP U...

Geo Blocking

There are a number of places in the Staff Portal as well as the Creator Portal where content owners and festival staff can control access to online content based on a visitor's physical location. For creators, they can control online access to their projects in the Geo Blocking section under Film Extras. Festival staff can configure geographic restr...