What's good family, trying to finally get started with streaming my gaming. I've been procrastinating on this for a minute mainly because I don't know where to begin. I'm open to all suggestions for real.
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What's All The Equipment I Need To Get Started Streaming?
The most popular software I've seen is:
Open Broadcaster Software | OBS
OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
obsproject.com This is an example of how to set it up:
How to setup OBS Studio for streaming: best settings (Tutorial)
In this tutorial we’ll tell you about OBS settings and features, which are you need to know to perform your live streams. This streaming guide is about general OBS settings. We also recommend you read tutorials with specific instructions for your live streaming video platform: Twitch YouTube...
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OBS or Streamlabs (which is owned by OBS). I prefer Streamlabs. It's all preference tho.
mic, headphones, elgato capture card (do your research), webcam. that's the basics to get started.
there's plenty of youtube videos on it though that will walk you through step by step.
The most popular software I've seen is:
Open Broadcaster Software | OBS
OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
This is an example of how to set it up:
How to setup OBS Studio for streaming: best settings (Tutorial)
In this tutorial we’ll tell you about OBS settings and features, which are you need to know to perform your live streams. This streaming guide is about general OBS settings. We also recommend you read tutorials with specific instructions for your live streaming video platform: Twitch YouTube...projectobs.com
Much appreciation family!
Imma get started on researching all this today. Hopefully I'm up and running by the end of the month.
How do you like stream labs? I'm using stream yard and I don't like how transparencies on transitions doesn't work.
i really like it. in the future, i may look into how to add in other people. that's why I couldn't buzz you in the broadcast last night. We wasn't set up for it.
style-wise, i think it's more robust and better production value tho.
I'ma check it out. I like that it can also show the comments on the screen and super chats.
If you have an Nvidia card (starting with the 20 series and higher) the new NVENC codec that it comes with pretty much blows away streaming off the CPU
I need to upgrade my computer because my computer slows to a crawl when streaming.
This is an excellent question! I used to live stream on YouTube via PlayStation back in 2019 for a while. The only streaming products I had was a PlayStation 4, and an active YouTube account. However, if you're looking to be a professional live streamer, I would recommend getting a microphone, a video camera, and a decent setup. Streaming is more of a learn as you go type deal. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you are able to gain everything you need.
Oh wow, def gonna have to look into this.
Yeah... I'm realizing now this is another hurdle I'm gonna have to get over. My current laptop is old slow and janky at this point. This gonna be an expensive project (sigh)
Same here, I was just using the PlayStation 4 and uploading directly to Twitch/YouTube but that's nowhere near good enough if I'm really trying to get this popping. Appreciate the words brother, def gonna see this through! Ready to show myself spanking dudes in fighting games 😂
also check your streaming settings. i'm currently running of x264. it's not as good as nividia, but you can change the settings to lessen the load during streaming. well, in streamlabs you can.
also a good idea if you're low on RAM to reboot your cpu before your stream to give it a fresh start.
Look at it like a business. Look at what the revenue potential is, how you can manifest that revenue, and then see if the capital expenditure is worth it.
Facts. When that list of how much the top 10 Twitch streamers make came out I was befuddled. You couldn't convince me beforehand without proof that there was that much revenue in game streaming.
OBS is probably the best software to use for streaming. I knew nothing about it and was able to get it set up back when I was doing Twitch with my friend. We didn't do it very long but it was fun. You can make overlays and everything.
They are getting bank! Also look at what the bottom 99 are generating and see if there is a lane in there for you too. Have your analysis pegged to falling in the middle of the 99%. Let’s say middle of the 99% is $8k/month ask yourself if it’s viable and sustainable for you.
With the millions of gamers tapping into what's been streamed, there is no way you wouldn't expect enough money to be made from video games streaming. Even running other streaming services that's not related to gaming, as long as you have viewers and subscribers, you will be making cool money easily.