{"id":116277,"date":"2017-03-23T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116277"},"modified":"2017-03-23T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:38:38","slug":"facebook-launches-desktop-live-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/116277-facebook-launches-desktop-live-streaming","title":{"rendered":"Facebook launches desktop live streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s live streaming platform is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2017\/03\/new-ways-to-go-live-now-from-your-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\">now available<\/a><\/strong> on desktop and laptop computers.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Live has been available on mobile devices since\u00a02016, and by implementing Live support for desktops, the company has placed its service as a competitor to streaming platforms such as Twitch and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Users are able to set up their livestream to broadcast on-screen images or video game footage, in addition to their faces, thanks to the service\u2019s picture-in-picture broadcast support.<\/p>\n<p>Adding support for desktop video streaming also allows the service to cater for vlogs or video tutorials, which require a stable camera set-up.<\/p>\n<p>To start broadcasting on Facebook Live, select \u201cLive Video\u201d from the top of your News Feed or Timeline, then follow the prompts to choose your audience and add a description.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/203908-facebook-live-is-now-available-on-desktop.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/203904-pakistan-to-meet-facebook-over-blasphemy-posts.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pakistan to meet Facebook over blasphemy posts<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s live streaming platform is now available on desktop and laptop computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":101568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[199,24157],"class_list":["post-116277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-facebook","tag-live-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}