Paste an .mpd link and watch the stream play in the browser, to check it before it goes on your site.
No stream to test? Try a sample:
Your stream plays here.
Paste a link to a DASH manifest (.mpd) above and press Play.
Stream your video file as a live stream.
Upload the file to LiveReacting and pick a start time. Our servers broadcast it on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch or any other platform, and to your viewers it looks live.
Stream your video files as a 24/7 live stream.
Put the files in a playlist. Our servers broadcast them on YouTube, Twitch or any other platform without stopping, with your computer off.
Play a game with the people watching your live stream.
Trivia, polls, giveaways and word games run inside the stream. Viewers take part by typing a comment in the live chat on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch or Instagram.
Send one live stream to several platforms at the same time.
YouTube, Twitch, Kick and any other platform that takes an RTMP feed, all from one stream.
Paste a link to the stream
A direct link to the DASH manifest, the file that ends in .mpd.
Press Play
The stream plays here, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored.
Check the playback
Speed and captions are in the player's settings.
MPD troubleshooting
The server hosting the stream must allow cross-origin requests (CORS), or a browser plays it only on the owner's own site.
A stream locked with DRM needs its license server, which only the service's own player has. It will not play here.
A browser blocks an http:// stream on an https:// page. Use the stream's https:// address.
Paste the link to the .mpd file itself, not to the page the video is shown on.
Signed stream links stop working after a while. Copy a fresh one and try again.
Play the sample stream under the field. If it plays and yours does not, the cause is on your stream's side.
MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) delivers video at several quality levels and switches between them smoothly as your connection changes. It runs over plain HTTP, so any web server can serve it.
Check that the link is right and points to a DASH manifest (.mpd). The common causes are above: CORS, DRM, http links and expired links.
Check that the player and your computer are not muted, and that the stream has an audio track.
Your connection, or the server sending the stream, is too slow for the quality. The player steps down to a lower quality when the stream offers one.
DASH changes quality with your connection. On a slow one the player picks a lower quality; the best it can show is what the stream was encoded at.
If the stream carries subtitles, turn them on in the player's settings.
Yes, as a paid feature, $20 a month: write to [email protected] to turn it on. Then press Embed player next to Play and copy the iframe code.
Create a free account and put a recorded video on air as a scheduled live stream, or go live from your browser.
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