Teams Live Event custom streaming/recording (RTMP) setup

Microsoft Teams live events are extensions of Teams meetings, enabling users to broadcast video and meeting content to a large online audience.

You can use Pexip as an external RTMP encoder for your Teams live events, which means that you can stream video, audio and presentation content from your videoconferencing meeting room systems directly into the event.

Note that, as an alternative, a VTC can participate directly in the live event — see Pexip CVI Service with Microsoft Teams live events for more information.

See these Microsoft articles for more information about the administrative requirements for Microsoft Teams live events:

Setup summary

These steps summarize the process to schedule a live event and add an RTMP stream via the Pexip app:

  1. Schedule a Teams meeting and change the meeting type to a live event. Note that the person (Teams user) scheduling the live event needs to have an E1 license.
  2. Set the event permissions to People and groups or Org-wide, and select Teams Encoder as the production method.
  3. Join the event from a Teams installable client and copy the Server Ingest URL and Stream key or name fields from the Meeting options panel (More > Settings > Meeting options) — these form the basis of the streaming participant URL.

  4. Use the Pexip app to schedule/start a live event for your Pexip VMR (or create an ad hoc stream from within the conference).

    • In the Server or stream URL field paste the Server Ingest URL field from Teams.
    • In Stream name or key you must enter the Stream key or name field from Teams.
  5. In Teams, you can now select Send live, and then Start when ready.

Detailed setup instructions

These steps explain in more detail how to schedule a live event and add an RTMP stream:

  1. Schedule a Teams meeting:

    1. From the meeting drop-down menu, change the meeting type to a live event. The person (Teams user) scheduling the live event needs to have an E1 license.

    2. Enter the meeting title and other attributes as normal and then select Next.
    3. Set the event permissions to People and groups or Org-wide. You cannot use an external encoder if the permissions are Public.
    4. Select Team Encoder as the production method for the live event and then select Schedule.

  2. Invite attendees as normal.

  3. Join the event as a Producer from the Teams installable app — it has to be the installable client, you cannot use the web browser.

    The RTMP feed selection screen appears.

  4. Open the Meeting options panel (More > Settings > Meeting options).
  5. Copy the Server Ingest URL and Stream key or name fields — these form the basis of the streaming participant URL.

  6. Use the Pexip app to set up the custom RTMP streaming and start the event within Pexip:

    1. In the Server or stream URL field paste the Server Ingest URL URL from Teams.

    2. In Stream name or key you must enter the Stream key or name field from Teams.

      See Using a custom RTMP stream/recording integration in the Pexip app for more information.

    3. Start the event within Pexip. For scheduled events you can either select Start now or you can wait until the scheduled start time.
    4. The queue preview on Teams should show the meeting. There may be a delay of several seconds due to buffering.
  7. In Teams, you can now select Send live, and then Start when ready.