Private streams

A private stream plays only for viewers who enter its access code. Choose Private when you book or start a stream; the code is shown to you once, then — give it to the people you want watching.

On the watch page and embed, a private stream shows its title and an access code box, and nothing else: not whether it is live, not when it started, not whether a recording exists. Once a viewer enters the right code, the page plays the stream as usual and remembers the code for that browser tab.

After several wrong codes from the same place, the page asks the viewer to wait before trying again, so a code cannot be guessed.

If a code has been shared too widely, make a new one from the stream’s page in the console; the old one stops working at once.