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Everything you need to go live, in plain language. New to IRL streaming? Start at the top and work down.

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Quick start

Every screen in the app, in the order you meet it: signing in, adding a destination, the camera screen, settings, bonding a second phone, going live, and ending a stream. The guides below go deeper on one thing at a time.

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Getting started

What is IRL streaming

IRL streaming explained in plain English: what it is, what people stream, and how one phone can do it all, no backpack required.

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Connection

What is bonding

A plain-English look at connection bonding, and why it keeps your IRL stream rock solid on the move.

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Protocols

What is RTMP

The classic way to go live on Twitch and YouTube, explained in plain English, and why it struggles out in the real world.

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Protocols

What is SRT

The modern protocol built to keep your stream alive over shaky mobile data, explained without the jargon.

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Protocols

What is SRTLA

SRT with a safety net. Combine several connections into one stream so a single dead spot never takes you offline.

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Protocols

What is SSTL

The transport we wrote ourselves. What a bonding transport actually has to do, and why owning both ends of it lets it react faster.

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Protocols

RTMP vs SRT vs SRTLA

Three streaming protocols, one plain-English comparison, and why IRL streaming needs bonding, not just SRTLA.

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Quality settings

What is bitrate

What bitrate means, why higher is not always better, and the right numbers for streaming over mobile data.

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Quality settings

What is latency

What stream latency is, why low latency makes chat feel live, and the tradeoff to balance on mobile.

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Quality settings

H.264 vs H.265

What a codec does, and whether to pick H.264 or H.265 for a cleaner IRL stream on less data.

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Quality settings

Resolution & frame rate

720p or 1080p, 30 or 60 fps: what these settings do and the safe defaults for mobile IRL streaming.

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Connection

Data usage

Roughly how much mobile data an IRL stream uses per hour, what drives it, and how to use less.

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Connection

3G, 4G & 5G

When to reach for 3G, 4G, or 5G on a stream: stability, everyday speed, and getting through the crowd.

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Ways to stream

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