Facebook live stream won't end

[Kevin_Stanton]

I’m using Wowza Streaming Engine to simulcast to my website and Facebook. OBS Encoder. Latest version for all software. Everything works great, except when I stop streaming in OBS, the Facebook Live video won’t end - it says it’s paused. I found a post in this forum that says you can end it manually through Facebook Publishing Tools, but it would be nice if the Facebook stream would just end automatically when I stop broadcasting: https://www.wowza.com/community/questions/43078/trouble-stopping-facebook-live-stream.html

Is there a setting in Streaming Engine Manager or Stream Targets I’m missing?

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

Hey @Kevin Stanton, that’s odd. How long does it continue to show that it’s paused? Per our documentation:

After the Facebook stream target initiates a live video post, the video post in Facebook is labeled LIVE. If the live source stream is disconnected, Facebook puts the video post into a “waiting” state. If the live stream is reconnected quickly, the video post resumes after a short recovery period.

However, if it takes more than a few minutes for the live source stream to reconnect, Facebook will automatically “close” the live video post and start converting it to an on-demand video file.

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

Do you have anything from the logs that may be helpful for debugging? Thank you.

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-debug-push-publishing#debugLog

[Kevin_Stanton]

Thanks for this. It may have said “waiting”. I wasn’t aware that it waits a few minutes before ending the stream so it’s possible that I did not wait long enough. I will try again and check my logs and get back to you. Thanks!

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

Ok no problem. Let us know if it stays in “waiting” stage.

[Kevin_Stanton]

Okay, it looks like the stream does end after a few minutes and does not stay in Waiting mode. Thank you for your help

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

Oh great, you are welcome @Kevin Stanton! A Wowza engineer let me know of a setting you may want to take a peek at. If you have it checked, it could result in behavior such as FB expecting the stream to continue and it will not result in a VOD when stream ends. So, you should be aware of it and know it is mostly meant for 24/7 IP camera streams. It’s best to have this unchecked for your scenario.

You can find it here: