OpenPlayer Youtube LiveStream

YouTube livestream radio from icecast based system on your own dedicated server or VPS.

Minimal requirements

I suggest you to use at least VPS with:

• 2 CPU (cores) 2GHz (the more the better)
• 8GB RAM (the more the better)
• 50GB disk space (should be fine)

System I have tested this out: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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Installing AzuraCast (docker)

The easiest way to run your own radio on the dedicated server is to install AzuraCast.

mkdir -p /var/azuracast
cd /var/azuracast

then

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/master/docker.sh > docker.sh
chmod a+x docker.sh
./docker.sh install

you can also add Let's Encrypt SSL certificate

./docker.sh letsencrypt-create mydomain.example.com

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Install FFMPEG

You can use basic ffmpeg 3.x

First run update

sudo apt update

then install the application

sudo apt install ffmpeg

To install ffmpeg 4.x you can use snap

sudo snap install ffmpeg

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Start your stream

Go to your youtube account and set the new live stream

Get your scripts from this repository and configure

livestream.sh

# set the quality of your stream here
VBR="1500k"
FPS="24"
QUAL="superfast"

# youtube livestream settings
YOUTUBE_URL="rtmp://x.rtmp.youtube.com/live2"
KEY="KEY_OF_YOUR_STREAM"

You should be able to get your stream key from the active live stream on your Youtube Studio.

Just click on the eye icon to reveal it

...next

# point the script to your cover gif file
VIDEO_SOURCE="/PATH_TO/livestream_cover.gif"
# enter here the URL to your icecast MP3 stream
AUDIO_SOURCE="URL_OF_YOUR_MP3_STREAM"

...set font and the source of song titles

# set the font which will be used by ffmpeg
FONT="/PATH_TO/overpass-regular.ttf"
# set the path to song.txt file containing current song data
NP_SONG="/PATH_TO/song.txt"

Additional information concerning ffmpeg part of script (on the bottom of the file)

Here you can define the font size

fontsize=42

Here you can define font color, opacity and the text position

 fontcolor=white@0.8: x=50: y=th

song.sh

# define json from which you will take the current song title
SONG_TITLE=$(curl -s 'https://YOUR_AZURACAST_URL/api/nowplaying_static/NAME_OF_YOUR_RADIO.json' | jshon -e "now_playing" -e "song" -e "title")

song.txt

Upload the file onto your server. It should be empty and writable.

DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME OF THE FILE - song.txt - LEAVE IT AS IS

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Additional files included

Overpass font - overpass-regular.ttf

Youtube stream cover you can use - livestream_cover.gif