Dacast is a professional streaming platform that allows you to host, monetize and broadcast your content with an end-to-end live streaming solution. It's not a live streaming studio in the classic sense (like StreamYard, Restream, etc.), but only a solution for live streaming, video hosting and monetization.

These are actually the main benefits you get by choosing Dacast over complete studio like solutions, including the open-source OBS. Dacast has many integration with other live streaming tools - studios, encoders, video capture apps, etc.

This article is a step-by-step guide on Dacast live streaming to multiple platforms with minimal costs, including your own website hosted one, and other social platforms. It also presents a way to make sure you don't run into any live streaming issues, especially those related to Internet connectivity.

Internet is what makes or breaks a successful live broadcast, no matter what live streaming software you're using, be it Dacast, OBS or another one. That's why you should definitely think this through.

Having an extra Internet source while live streaming helps, but you have to think how long it takes for you and/or your streaming device (camera, computer, mobile device) to switch between the 2 connections. It's usually a minimum of 10-20 seconds - and that's an optimistic estimate.

That's why you need to use all available Internet connections at once instead of keeping them as a backup and switching between them. That is called Internet bonding (a.k.a. channel bonding, link aggregation, etc.). Speedify is the only app that can combine multiple internet sources into one bonded super-connection for more stable and secure live streaming, video calling, online gaming and web browsing.

There are several use cases here - we will approach the 3 most common ones.

Live Streaming a Recorded Video or Your Screen (for Games) with Dacast to Multiple Platforms from a Computer

You'll need:

• the recorded video
• a Dacast account
• the OBS Studio software for Mac or PC
• a Switchboard Live account
• a Speedify account - for stable Internet connection. 

Live Streaming Video with Dacast  to Multiple Platforms from a Computer

You'll need:

• a camera - dedicated (like a GoPro, for example), the computer webcam or your smartphone's camera (via Camo)
• a Dacast account
• the OBS Studio software for Mac or PC
• a Switchboard Live account
• Speedify account - for stable Internet connection. 

Live Streaming Video with Dacast  to Multiple Platforms from a Smartphone / Tablet

You'll need:

• your mobile device (smartphone, tablet)
• a Dacast account
• the Larix Broadcaster app on your mobile device
• a Switchboard Live account
• Speedify account - for stable Internet connection. 

For all the above setups, the idea with Speedify is to use two or more connections together at once, in order to hit your target bitrate and avoid flaky Internet problems while simulcasting with Dacast.

Additional accessories - such as an external battery pack, dedicated microphones, extra lighting, etc. - may be required especially if you're doing IRL streaming.

1.  CONNECT ALL AVAILABLE INTERNET SOURCES TO YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE

Use one or multiple of the following on the computer you'll be live streaming using Dacast and OBS Studio from:

• wired Ethernet connection
• external USB 5G / 4G LTE cellular adapter
• Wi-Fi network / additional USB Wi-Fi adapters
• tethered smartphone

If you're live streaming using a mobile device with Larix, the easiest way is to carry two cellular phones. One can be your streaming device running Larix and the other one would just be used for its cellular data - you would create a Wi-Fi hotspot to connect the streaming device to it. That way you would combine cellular data with Wi-Fi from the second phone on the streaming device.