Preparing for a race weekend

Last Updated: April 09

Checking the Live Stream Score of the track

  1. Use the https://portal.myraces.live/livestreaming-score/ page to check the live stream score of the track you will be streaming from and know what to expect in terms of latency and stream quality.

  2. Adjust your streaming settings accordingly…

If the track is known to have poor coverage, consider using a lower resolution, FPS, and bitrate:

  • 480p

  • 30fps

  • 1500kbps bitrate

If the track has good coverage, use these recommended settings:

  • 720p

  • 30fps

  • 2500kbps bitrate

If the track has excellent coverage, you can either keep the settings above or try using higher settings:

  • 720p

  • 60fps (increased FPS)

  • 3500kbps bitrate

Or:

  • 1080p

  • 60fps (increased FPS)

  • 4500kbps bitrate

Warning

By default, we restream to external destinations at a resolution of 720p so if you want us to restream at 1080p, you need to update your stream event settings as well. Refer to Streaming at 1080p and/or 60fps? for instructions on how to update your stream event settings to stream at 1080p.

Scheduling your streams for a race weekend

If a race weekend is coming up, you can and should schedule your stream events ahead of time to save time during the race weekend.

It is recommended to schedule one stream event per day and to set the start time to an hour before the first session or before going to the grid, and the stop time 30 minutes after the last session of the day.

  • For example, if you have the following race schedule:

    • Practice sessions all day on Friday (8AM to 5PM)

    • One endurance race on Saturday (9AM to 4PM)

    • One endurance race on Sunday (8AM to 3PM)

  • You should create 3 streams with the following start and stop times:

Stream Name

Start Time

Stop Time

Friday Practice

7AM

5:30PM

Saturday Race

8AM

4:30PM

Sunday Race

7AM

3:30PM

To see all your upcoming streams, go to the “Streams” page and click on the “Upcoming Streams” tab. You can change the stream’s scheduled start and stop times at any time before stream event goes live. Click on an event to expand it and see the details and possible actions.

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Upcoming Streams List

Note

Make sure to schedule your stream events with the timezone of the race track location in mind. The timezone used during the stream creation is displayed next to the start and stop time fields and is based on the timezone of the device you are using to create the stream event.

Note

With a free account, you can create up to 3 upcoming stream events. If you have more than 3 sessions to stream, you can either upgrade to a premium/pro account or create your stream events as you go (the day before each event).

Note

The same source camera cannot be used in two simultaneous stream events, and each event using the same camera needs to be scheduled at least 5 minutes apart.

Restreaming to your own YouTube Channel

For each stream event scheduled on the MyRaces.Live platform, make sure to schedule a corresponding stream event on your YouTube channel.

See: Restreaming to your own YouTube account.

Restreaming to other destinations (Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, etc.)

With the premium subscription, you can restream to other platforms as well: Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, or a Custom RTMP/RTMPS.

The pro subscription allows you to restream up to 3 custom destinations at the same time.

Follow the steps described here to restream to other platforms and set up multiple destinations for your stream event: Restreaming to Twitch, Facebook, or Instagram.

Streaming for more than 12 hours?

Since YouTube limits archiving live streams to 12-hour segments, if you are restreaming to your own YouTube channel, you will need to manually manage the stream cutoff before the 12-hour mark to ensure your video is successfully archived.

For full instructions on handling long endurance races on your own YouTube channel, refer to 6. How to handle > 12hours of streaming on your own YouTube channel?.

Streaming at 1080p and/or 60fps?

When streaming at 1080p and/or 60fps, make sure to update the settings of your stream event:

  1. In the Stream Event Creation/Update form, click on the “Camera” tab, then click on “Advanced Settings”.

  2. Update the “Resolution” and “FPS” fields to match your streaming equipment settings.

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Advanced Settings - Resolution and FPS

Streaming with H265?

If your streaming equipment is using H265 encoding, make sure to update the settings of your stream event:

  1. In the Stream Event Creation/Update form, click on the “Camera” tab, then click on “Advanced Settings”.

  2. Update the “Camera Video Codec” field to “H265/HEVC”.

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Advanced Settings - Camera Video Codec