Live Stream - Overview

Livestream Overview

There a variety of reasons you might want to add a Livestream to you MV PRO 3 website.

You may want to feature a regular livestream - a regular worship service, for example - as a way for newcomers to get a sense of what it’s like to worship at your church and for parishioners who are unable to physically attend to still participate. Also, featuring a livestream on your website allows you to provide supplemental material and content such as a bulletin, an online visitor card, and/or a donate button. Other examples of regular livestreams possibilities might include formation programs, concert/music performances (assuming your have broadcasting rights to the music), or speaker series.

You may want to feature an occasional livestream - a funeral or other service that has interest for people that are unable to attend, or other special meetings, speakers, or events. 

To include a livestream on your website, the livestream feed must come from either a platform that integrates with MV PRO 3, such as Facebook, or a platform that creates a share link (YouTube or Vimeo), or an embed code (such as Boxcast). How an embedded livestream displays and behaves is constrained by what is provided from the livestream platform. 

You can use any or all of these types of livestream feeds on your site. Some sites take a hybrid approach and use a Facebook Live feed for a worship livestream, but the ability to access older services from an embedded YouTube playlist. You may find that Facebook works for synchronous viewing of a livestream, but after the livestream has ended and been saved as a video, that it will no longer embed on your site because Facebook perceives music copyright issues. 

The Membership Vision team can work with you to understand your current livestream setup and how to best include your livestream feed on your site.