1 (edited by CAAM 2010-11-18 10:48:22)

Topic: First Strike - Livestream.com Broadcast

For those interested in being part of the Livestream Broadcast, here are the details.

As mentioned in the Updates thread, I'm going to be trying this out and I need some help, specifically other players willing to contribute a Video Stream for the broadcast.

Pros:
- Doesn't affect performance too much (Probably similar to x-fire)
- Entire Broadcast can be recorded and played back on the channel
- Multiple player views
- Youtube Videos can be added easily
- Automated playing of content when not in use

Cons:
- Free version's quality not that great,  but better than nothing
- Ads can get annoying sometimes
- Need to make an account at livestream.com
- There is a limit to the amount of content stored on the server


First of all, you will need to create an account with livestream.com here:

https://secure.livestream.com/myaccount/launchchannel

Next, download and install Procaster which will upload your stream to the network:
http://www.livestream.com/platform/procaster

Finally, PM me your Livestream username so I can add you to the production team.

* Edit: The in-game Procaster window tends to get in the way of some menus. You can minimize it by pressing  CTRL+ALT+N

That's about it. I'll post more once we test this with a couple of streams.  Until then you can see what it will look like:

http://livestre.am/sElZ

Hope you can help. smile

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Re: First Strike - Livestream.com Broadcast

Joined.  I'm not going to PM you my name, I'm sure you can guess it.

I'm going to run a test on the BI Server at 2300GMT (1800EST) tomorrow (Friday) to see how well this works.  Feel free to join.

BlackIntel Game Leader
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Re: First Strike - Livestream.com Broadcast

LOL  Added. Thanks, Gwynzer.  I'll be there.

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Re: First Strike - Livestream.com Broadcast

Haven't had a chance to do anything about this yet. Pretty busy at the moment trying to sort out a house move roll

Will try to get it done tonight and join you on BI. I'll get on XFire tonight so if you give me a nudge and remind me Gwyn.

Bite my shiny metal Tie Fighter!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/TALON_TAW/TwigsSIG.jpg
http://stats.fsmod.com/sig/pilot.JE_Twigs.png

5 (edited by CAAM 2010-11-19 21:30:24)

Re: First Strike - Livestream.com Broadcast

Hey guys, the results were kind of mixed with the Livestreaming test tonight.  After seeing amazing quality earlier in the evening on Gwynzer's feed, things got kinda grainy ingame.  Same for Twigs.  Mine was passable and so was Shadoe's.


My settings for Procaster were:

Video:
Encoder: ON2 vp6
768 px X 432px    -   Lock Ratio checked
16:9   crop source to match checked
--
Target Framerate 25
Target Bitrate: 500  I thought I set it at 480. hmm
Keyframe int. :2


Audio:
Target bitrate: 32
Sampling rate: 22050
Channels: stereo



I'm thinking ping to livestream server might be a problem for our European players.

My broadcast did stop because of low bandwidth tho.  I will have to look into this.

You can check out the recorded results on the channel:

http://www.livestream.com/fsmod_2

Thanks for trying this out guys, if you have the patience to tweak some more please do.

If you broadcast tomorrow I will definitely use your video grainy or not. smile
for all we know things will be the opposite tomorrow anyway.  Hope you'll all give it a try.

Thanks again for the help. I hope we get some good broadcast footage tomorrow!

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Re: First Strike - Livestream.com Broadcast

thanks for posting this up Caam, will adjust settings to match yours tomorrow.

Bite my shiny metal Tie Fighter!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/TALON_TAW/TwigsSIG.jpg
http://stats.fsmod.com/sig/pilot.JE_Twigs.png

Re: First Strike - Livestream.com Broadcast

http://playclaw.com/

Here's something that might be interesting. Don't know if it's live or anything, but oh well.

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