Rebroadcast to Twitch, YouTube and Kick

How rebroadcasting works

Normally, streaming to two platforms means your computer encodes and uploads two streams. With rebroadcasting you send one stream to Xive, and Xive’s servers forward a copy to each destination you have turned on.

• Less upload. A 6 Mbps stream sent to Xive and Twitch yourself needs 12 Mbps of upload. Rebroadcast through Xive, it needs 6, however many platforms it goes to.
• Less load on your PC. One encode, one upload, on the same machine that runs your game.
• Nothing extra to run. No second OBS output, no plugin, no paid restreaming service.

Set up your Xive stream first if you haven’t: Set up your stream on Xive.

What your plan allows

On the free plan you can keep several platforms set up and switch which one is on. See plans and pricing.

Step 1: Open Rebroadcast

Go to Creator Studio → Rebroadcast (thexive.com/live-dashboard/rebroadcast). Nothing changes in OBS: you keep streaming to Xive exactly as you do now, and each destination that is on gets a copy.

Step 2a: Twitch and Kick, the one-click way

1. 1

   Under Connect an account, choose Connect Twitch or Connect Kick and approve Xive on that site.

2. 2

   Xive fetches your stream key and adds the destination for you. There is no key to copy. It is added turned off, so linking an account never starts streaming anywhere by surprise.

3. 3

   Turn the destination On.

A connected Twitch or Kick account also keeps your title and category in sync: set them once on Xive and they follow you there. If the card says Reconnect needed, press Reconnect and approve again.

Step 2b: Any other platform, by stream key

Choose Add a destination, pick the platform to fill in its server, then paste the stream key from that platform:

Xive checks that the server answers when you add it, so a typo shows up straight away. Your key is stored encrypted and never shown again, only its last 4 characters. If you regenerate it on the other platform, remove the destination and add it again with the new key.

Step 3: Go live as normal

Turn on the destinations you want, then press Start Streaming in OBS. When Xive goes live, every destination that is on goes live too, and they stop when you stop. Destinations stay set up for every future broadcast until you turn them off or remove them, so this is a one-time setup.

• Turn destinations on before you go live. Destinations you add start working the next time you go live from this account.
• Titles. Twitch and Kick follow your Xive title and category when connected. Every other platform keeps whatever title it had last, so update it there.
• Quality. Each platform gets the same stream you send Xive, so use settings every platform accepts. The ones in the setup guide do: H.264, CBR, 2-second keyframes, AAC audio, and no AMD hardware encoder.

Things to avoid

• Don’t also stream to the same platform from OBS. If Twitch is on in Xive, remove Twitch from any OBS output, or you will send it two streams.
• Don’t send Xive through a “Multiple RTMP outputs” plugin. Stream to Xive from OBS’s main Settings → Stream and let Xive do the rest.
• Check each platform’s own rules. Some partner and affiliate agreements have terms about streaming to more than one platform at a time. Those are between you and that platform.

Troubleshooting