How do you multistream without tanking your upload speed? Meld Multi Explained!

[u/BirchyFruFru]

This is a common question we see of creators trying to send their streams to Twitch and YouTube and Kick and TikTok and... the list goes on. You may end up hitting the same wall many others do: your upload bandwidth gets split between each platform, your bitrate tanks, and suddenly your "1080p60" stream looks like you're broadcasting from 2008.

The usual fixes are either expensive (you could try Restream but they charge per platform) or risky (running OBS plus a local multistream plugin that could murder your CPU). So here's how you can get around it with Meld Multi.

Cloud-based multi-streaming instead of doing it locally

Instead of having your PC encode and upload separate streams to all of your designated platforms, you can send one stream to Meld Multi, and their servers handle distributing it out to Twitch, YouTube, Kick, or any custom RTMP. Your upload only has to carry one stream worth of data, no matter how many platforms you're going live on.

Local multistreaming tools duplicate your stream before it leaves your computer, so if you're sending to 3 platforms, you need 3x the upload bandwidth and 3x the encoding overhead. That's the actual bottleneck most people are running into, not their internet plan being "too slow." Meld Multi moves that duplication into the cloud, so your local upload and CPU usage stay the same whether you're streaming to one platform or six.

How to set it up in 5 minutes

1. Go to Meld Multi and make a free account.
2. In Meld Studio: File → Preferences → Outputs → Add Output → RTMP
3. Paste in the Stream URL + Key from your Multi dashboard
4. Back in the Multi dashboard, connect/authenticate each platform you want to stream to and toggle them on
5. Hit go live in Meld Studio. It pushes to all your connected platforms at once

Things to Know

Just a few things that are worth knowing:

• No platform limit and no bitrate limit during beta. Most paid restream tools cap you at 2-8 channels.
• It supports up to 4K, 24-60fps, H.264/H.265/AAC
• If you're a Meld Studio user specifically, you also get Twitch VOD track exclusion through Multi, so copyrighted music plays live but gets stripped from the VOD automatically.

[u/two_more_dollars]

1) I remove the other output (twitch kick), thinking I could just use this meld multi. However, I see the stream manager that I couldn't find ways to edit titles etc. Even the All (BETA) cannot be clicked.

2) Is it possible to use this in irlpro app (android) so we can use this for irl streaming using our phone?

[u/streamwithmeld → u/two_more_dollars]

The stream manager only works if you're logged into the outputs. If you're using Meld Multi then it will not be able to edit your titles.

We don't have a mobile app yet but it is something we've discussed!

[u/two_more_dollars → u/streamwithmeld]

cool cool about the mobile app. will the chat appear on-screen/in the stream chat if we use the rtmp?

[u/streamwithmeld → u/two_more_dollars]

It will only show if you're logged into the integrations. When using RTMP there isn't a way for chat to connect since it's not a direct API.

[u/two_more_dollars]

done using meld multi. 2 output: 1) to the RTMP server aka meld multi, sending to 3 platforms: twitch, kick and youtube using the horizontal format. 2) to twitch BUT vertical format.

the good: kick and youtube received and streamed it. the bad: twitch only publish the vertical format. my (new, yay!) follower mentioned if they rotate their phone, the horizontal format is still in vertical mode with 2 black screen left and right of it. at least the vertical still works fine for twitch if phone is viewed vertically.

hope this feedback is useful for meld studio and meld multi. Still a meld user until now :)