FFMPEG to Youtube Live

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After a lot of trial and error the solution below works pretty much perfectly. To make sure it runs 24/7 wrap it inside a service of some description.

This is with an up to date version of FFMPEG to include -stream_loop -1.
The background is an mp4 file.
http://localhost:3888 = an audio stream.

ffmpeg -stream_loop -1 -i $MYPATH/background/$background \
-i http://localhost:3888 -filter:a "volume=$volume" \
-r 24 -g 48 -pix_fmt yuv420p -x264-params keyint=48:min-keyint=48:scenecut=-1 \
-s $size -b:v $bitrate -b:a 128k -ar 44100 -acodec aac \
-vcodec libx264 -preset superfast -bufsize 960k -crf 28 -threads 2 \
-f flv rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/$key

Config File:

# Config File
background=out.mp4
size=1280x720
bitrate=1500k
key=----KEY----
volume=0.5