By Luís Daniel Rijo in Video News — Apr 17, 2019

Streaming: Facebook moves live videos completely to RTMPS

Facebook today announced that all live video uploads will be required to use RTMPS (RTMP over a TLS/SSL connection) by May 1, 2019. Publishers need to shift from RTMP (insecure) to RTMPS (RTMP over a TLS/SSL connection).

Facebook says integrations using RTMP will not continue to work after the deadline. Only integrations using RTMPS for live videos will continue to work, as they provide a greater level of security for the video content.

RTMP vs RTMPS

RTMP means Real-Time Messaging Protocol. RTMP works on top of and uses TCP port number 1935 by default, while RTMPS goes over a TLS/SSL connection, which means the connection is encrypted.

Here how to migrate to RTMPS:

Ensure that librtmp was compiled with OpenSSL or one of the supported alternatives.
Once the call to the Facebook Graph API is done to create your live_video object, developers can use either the stream_url or secure_stream_url fields which will both contain the secure RTMPS URL.

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