PealCast works with
OBS Studio.
Already using OBS — or want a free way to go live? Point OBS at PealCast, hit Start Streaming, and turn the online crowd into named people you can actually follow up.
OBS is all you need
Go live for free — no gear to buy. OBS Studio runs on any computer you already have, so there’s no capture hardware or streaming appliance to purchase to go live with PealCast.
Stream straight to PealCast
PealCast is your streaming home. Point OBS at your PealCast RTMP server and stream key, and your service streams directly to a clean, distraction-free watch page.
Now every viewer is a name
The moment someone watches on PealCast, they connect with a verified mobile number — and every Monday your team gets the Shepherd’s Report of who to welcome and who to check on.
Stream from OBS to PealCast in 3 steps
Copy your PealCast stream key
In PealCast, open your channel and copy its SRT (preferred) or RTMP Server URL and Stream Key. (You get these the moment you start free.)
Point OBS at PealCast
In OBS, open Settings → Stream, set Service to “Custom…”, then paste your PealCast Server URL into Server and your Stream Key into Stream Key. Click OK.
Dial in the settings below, then Start Streaming
Match the exact OBS settings below (H.264, CBR, 2-second keyframes), hit Start Streaming, and your service goes live on PealCast — every viewer captured for follow-up, automatically.
Want it to start itself?
Free pluginOBS can put your countdown up at 9:45, switch to the camera at 10:00 and stop the stream afterwards — without anyone pressing anything — using one free plugin. We walk through installing it, building the macros and choosing which scenes to automate.
Automatic streaming with OBSReady to move off the computer? See the five encoders we recommend — or if you already stream through BoxCast, Resi or Restream, add PealCast as a destination there instead (BoxCast guide).
The exact OBS settings
Open Settings in OBS and match these — grouped by the panel each one lives in. These are the recommended settings for a smooth, reliable stream.
Settings → Stream
- Service
- “Custom…”
- Server (SRT — recommended)
- Your PealCast SRT address (srt://…). It already contains your stream ID and passphrase, so paste the whole thing here.
- Stream Key (SRT)
- Leave blank — for SRT the credentials travel in the address above.
- Server (RTMPS — the alternative)
- Your PealCast RTMPS address (rtmps://live.pealcast.io/live/). Every channel has both; use this if you prefer RTMP.
- Stream Key (RTMPS)
- Your PealCast stream key — copy it from the RTMPS tab. It is a different value from the SRT passphrase.
- SRT latency (reliability)
- On the SRT URL, add latency=60000000 — that is 60 seconds, in microseconds, which is what OBS expects. A big buffer rides out packet loss and congestion so the stream never freezes, and we are not low-latency, so the delay costs you nothing. ⚠️ Do NOT enter 90 seconds: SRT carries this value in a 16-bit millisecond field, so anything above 65,535 ms silently wraps around — we measured latency=90000000 landing as 24.5 seconds of real protection, less than asking for 60.
Settings → Advanced → Network (reliability — highly recommended)
- Automatically Reconnect
- Enabled
- Retry Delay
- 1 s — the lowest, so it reconnects instantly
- Maximum Retries
- The highest value available (effectively unlimited) — a brief blip should never end your service
Settings → Output · Output Mode: “Advanced” → Streaming tab
- Video Encoder
- x264 (software), or hardware: NVIDIA NVENC H.264 / Apple VT H.264 — never HEVC/H.265
- Rate Control
- CBR
- Bitrate
- 4500–6000 Kbps (6000 for high-motion worship, 4500 for talking head or slides)
- Keyframe Interval
- 2 (seconds)
- Preset (x264)
- veryfast
- Profile
- high
- B-frames
- Leave OBS’s default (2) — no change needed. Turning B-frames off only helps low-latency streaming, which we don’t use, and costs picture quality at the same bitrate.
Settings → Video
- Base (Canvas) Resolution
- 1920×1080
- Output (Scaled) Resolution
- 1920×1080 — send full HD; we make the smaller versions for slower connections automatically
- Common FPS Value
- 30
Settings → Audio
- Sample Rate
- 48 kHz
- Audio Bitrate (Output → Audio → Track 1)
- 160
Want the plain settings list (for a hardware encoder or another app)? See the universal stream setup guide, or the setup guides for Blackmagic, Magewell and AJA.
Go live from OBS — and finally know who watched.
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