A Not-tech-savvy guide to Livestreaming on Facebook

I've got some bluegrass musician friends (who shall remain nameless) that I've seen struggle some with streaming to Facebook. I've managed it several times without problems (at least not that I know about), so this video shows my process at time of recording (so 10/14/24).

Tech info: I'm working with a 2021 Acer laptop, 11th gen i7, 2.30GHz with 16g RAM, running Windows 11. The camera is a Canon T7, through the EOS Pro, aisizon wireless lavalire mic

Firefox browser, OBS, Facebook.

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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:48 What we're working with
2:03 OBS - Streaming software
5:45 Facebook streaming dashboard (from an event)
7:17 Connecting OBS to Facebook stream, and OBS settings
10:58 I should'a just scrolled down on the left menu panel.
15:23 It's (a)live! metrics
18:18 The mirror dimension!
19:28 I struggle to stream Minecraft. This part is optional.