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Whether you are setting up Ogh for the first time or running into an unexpected issue mid-stream, this page covers the questions users ask most often. Browse by category or use your browser’s find feature to jump straight to what you need.

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Getting started

No. Open Settings → Destinations, add a manual RTMP destination, and you can stream to any RTMP or RTMPS server without signing in to any account. Manual RTMP is fully self-contained and requires no provider authentication at all.
No. Manual RTMP is fully local and has no dependency on Google Play Services. YouTube authorization uses the PKCE flow inside your system browser — not Google Sign-In — so it works on devices without Play Services. Twitch uses the Device Authorization flow, which also requires no Play Services.
Ogh’s Preview screen only becomes available once at least one destination exists in Settings. This prevents you from preparing a stream that has nowhere to go. Add a manual RTMP server or connect YouTube or Twitch under Settings → Destinations to unlock Preview.

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Streaming

Yes. Enable both destinations in Settings. Ogh encodes your stream once and sends the same encoded output to all enabled destinations simultaneously — there is no quality penalty for adding more destinations.
Yes. Tap Screen, Camera, or Flip Camera while your session is running. Ogh reuses the same encoder and RTMP connections — switching sources does not disconnect or reconnect any outputs.
Ogh continues streaming to all remaining destinations. The session only enters an error state after every configured output has disconnected or failed. A single destination going down does not end your stream to other destinations.
No. Resolution, frame rate, and bitrate are locked after you tap Go Live because changing these parameters requires restarting the encoder and would interrupt all outputs. Configure your quality settings in Settings → Stream before starting.

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Privacy & security

Directly from your Android device to the destinations you enable in Settings. Ogh does not operate a media relay, recording server, or any kind of intermediary. Your stream never touches an Ogh server.
Yes. Manual stream keys and OAuth tokens are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a non-exportable key held in the Android Keystore. They are never stored in plaintext, never written to logs, and never sent to Ogh. See the Security & Privacy page for full details.
No. Ogh has no analytics service, no telemetry pipeline, no advertising system, and no account server. The app operates entirely on your device.
No. OAuth client IDs for native (public) clients are public identifiers — they are expected to be recoverable from any APK and do not grant access on their own. They are not secrets. Actual secrets — user tokens, stream keys, and signing keys — are never embedded in the APK.

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Troubleshooting

Work through this checklist:
  1. Confirm at least one destination is enabled (toggle is on in Settings → Destinations).
  2. If using manual RTMP, verify your URL starts with rtmp:// or rtmps:// and contains no trailing spaces.
  3. Check that your stream key has no leading or trailing spaces.
  4. Confirm your internet connection is active and can reach the destination server.
System Audio capture requires Android 10 (API 29) or newer. On Android 7 through 9, the MediaProjection API does not support playback audio capture, so Ogh uses microphone audio only. If your device runs Android 10 or later and the option is still missing, check that you have granted the MediaProjection consent when prompted.
Make sure a capable browser app is installed on your device and can reach accounts.google.com. If the authorization page opens but the flow does not complete, try tapping Disconnect under Settings → Platforms → YouTube and then Connect again to restart from a clean state.
Twitch device codes have a short validity window. Tap Connect again under Settings → Platforms → Twitch to restart the Device Authorization flow and receive a fresh code. Have the verification page ready at https://www.twitch.tv/activate before you start.