## Hello Steemians!

Yesterday I've decided to setup Dlive so that I could stream. I'm thinking about drawing, playing some music and sharing my thoughts and ideas while drawing.

## The unknown
After fiddling with it for hours and hours with no end in sight I wasn't able to get it to work. I did not realize that *I missed that single and most important step* which made me frustrated and I just had to quit in shame and call it a night.

I followed the guide from: @dlive at [this link](https://steemit.com/dlive/@dlive/announcing-dlive-beta) but unfortunately my logic at the time was keeping me from success. Not to mention that I've tried twitch, youtube and even mixer and all those streams worked normally. It only added to my frustration.

Today I decided to make a post about my **Dlive failures and ask for help** but while I was typing that, I typed and asked myself this one question:
*#1 Do I post about my stream and then run OBS or #2 do I try and run OBS and then post about my stream?*

As I've tried option #2 yesterday and having no clue why I did only that, I decided to try and pick the #1 option instead and to my surprise not even 5 minutes had passed and it worked! :)

### That single and most important step
**when in doubt - question everything!**
That most important thing to remember if you want to stream is this:
**Note: only after you've posted about your stream you may actually start streaming.**

So this is your guide for next time:
1. on your Dlive page fill out all the information needed (also add SERVER URL, STREAM NAME/KEY USERNAME and PASSWORD to your OBS) as is in the announcement post from @dlive, then click NEXT
2. add or edit the post and (here it is - the one step I was missing!!!) POST it.
3. now you will see your thumbnail image and START / END options, press START and only then you can activate OBS. It may take a minute or two as the connection needs to be established, but it works.

And there you go. You're streaming. :)


That little step kept me from success yesterday and I felt like a fool. Oh well...

## My settings - but I bet you got these covered
Anyways, these are my settings for streaming (minus the key and password):
/go-live/info page
https://i.imgur.com/O5Q84Rn.jpg

my OBS settings
https://i.imgur.com/lxwc8HG.jpg
As you can see, I have enabled "use authentication" option and filled the missing information with the info provided at dlive / go-live / info page.

https://i.imgur.com/OivEhj2.jpg
I have also reduced the bit rate down to 1000 as I think that for my stream it's enough. I might push it back up to 1500 or 2000 later.

My lovely OBS error from yesterday
https://i.imgur.com/O7pHaOf.jpg
The thing that got me so frustrated.

I hope that I've helped someone with this post. I would be so happy if I was able to find that info yesterday but I wasn't able to. That made me create this post with hopes that someone is looking for answers and this will be it.

If you have any questions about how to stream on dlive let me know. I would be happy to help.


TLDR;
Only after you've posted about your stream you may actually start streaming.

Have fun and keep steemin!
@zneeke