Yeah, I know discord can do that, but for whatever reason I cannot get it to overlay on my gaming PC on F1 2019. I works fine in PUBG.
Putting it on the streaming PC might just work…
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A different kind of stream… I will be shaving this lovely beard, after a whole year of growth, for charity, LIVE on Instagram! Tune in on Sunday 3pm!
And a link to make donations:
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Now live!!!
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I have a very simple setup. One PC to play and stream on. Currently I’m testing the performance of my Lenovo Legion Y540: Intel i5-9300H (CPU appears to be a bottleneck), GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 16GB RAM, NVMe SSD.
The 1660 Ti and 144Hz screen is the main reason I’m playing on the laptop rather than my desktop. In hindsight I should have paid extra for the i7 CPU, but I honestly didn’t see myself using this laptop to stream on and didn’t want unnecessary drain on the battery because I used to travel a lot.
The laptop’s built-in webcam is a potato, so I’ve plugged in an old Microsoft Lifecam 5000 HD I had lying around.
The only specialised piece of equipment—which I got when I had designs on doing more podcast recording—is a Samson C03U microphone. I was picking up some noise from the in-line microphone on my headphones (even though they are great quality headphones), so I fetched out the Samson.
I’ve also found that each streaming setup has its downsides. What has your experience been?
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Not much of a streamer, prefer recording. I wanted to get a pedal camera going with the simracing videos I occasionally record. So i decided to go down the rabbit hole. OBS + webcam + 1080p. Webcam was trash, both of them. And then I found out about IP Camera software for smartphones and software to turn your SLR camera into a webcam. Problems there include video sync’ing problems. Video of the pedal camera was always more than 500ms out of sync with game capture. OBS can only delay game capture by a max of 500ms. So there’s still a sync issue. Almost there but not there. I was also dropping frames, during capture and recording/encoding, when choosing the settings i actually wanted. Best tidbit i found was OBS NDI. What a game changer. Essentially, stream your game session from OBS on your gaming PC, to OBS on the secondary PC, which does the actual recording/encoding/streaming. This worked flawlessly, with stupid high encode settings. But that introduced another problem of: now i need to get up off my butt, and walk to the other room, hit the OBS record button, come back, and start gaming. Not to mention, I didn’t want to sign up for post production editing. This is a hobby, after all. This led me to UP Deck, which lets you control the streaming/recording 2nd PC via your iPad/iPhone. Which also forced me to get the SLR Camera as Webcam software working better. Since, I can’t use the phone for camera then. But I’m missing hardware to keep the Camera powered, not to mention a mini HDMI cable, that might reduce the lag.
It was definitely a fun rabbit-hole. But i’m tired of having my head in the dirt, while my ass is up in the air. Till ORMS opens properly, I’m benching this distraction of a project.
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Mentioned to @Entity on his stream a short while ago that I spent a bunch of time today revisiting my old GrizzledGeek Twitch channel. It’s where my fascination with this streaming thing started, and it’s changed a lot in the 4 years since those early tests. (I’m hugely impressed - and a little embarrassed - that there’s a handful of my original 4 and 5 minute tests still stored on the channel
).
With much better connections and the added bonus of the local Cool Ideas and Hyperlayer ingest relays, I’m now toying with the idea of possibly using both Twitch and the Mixer channel at the same time. Both as individual channels and, after @SIGSTART’s results with the newer version of Restream, for occasional multistreams to both channels.
Not 100% sure yet which way to go with things, but my thinking at the moment is along the lines of, initially at least, 2 streams on Mixer, 2 on Twitch and a multistream each week. And partly as an ongoing experiment, and partly because I’m a completely indecisive fool, I think I’m going to do variety stuff on one, and more focused niche stuff on the other. Again at least initially just to see if there’s a significant difference in the two approaches. I want to try to keep the “Grizzled Geek’s Pillow Fort” branding and identity as similar as possible on both platforms and use a single set of social media channels for both.
At the moment though, I’m going to have to spend a lot more time with the Twitch channel manager and all the tools and extensions there now, create an OBS profile with overlays to match, and set up a decent Twitch chat bot. (Any suggestions for that @Entity? What do you use for your Bot 2.0?
Interested to hear thoughts from the collective. This plan could quickly land up being a complete failure, but I think it still could be an interesting experiment.
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I always worry I would spread myself too thin if I stream to multiple platforms (not like my 1 viewer can actually watch on multiple platforms at once, or can you @Wyvern?).
I currently only stream to YT but this is more to share with the MEW crew some of the races. I have all the hardware set up to do more streaming, but I just cannot commit to a schedule, which would be the next big hurdle. I also need some really inspiring motion graphics and titles / logos. All of which takes time to set up…
I guess with this attitude I wont be the “Next Big Thing” any time soon 
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I open up both - twitch and youtube to support the people properly, aka add my 1 viewership to each platform but since im normally in the channel talking kak I dont always watch
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Nah, I reckon it’s easy. Just do what I’m going to do…
/play loud irritating air horn parp sound effect/
Keep grinding fam. Hit that Follow button my dudes! Like and Subscribe! Can I get some Hype! Hype! Hype! in the chat?!! Team wipe! Waahoo!! GGs! Where my Fortniter bois at?! Catch me on all my socials y’all! Peace! Ya boi Gee is out!
/play loud irritating air horn parp sound effect/
You’ll be “Now Trending on YouTube” in no time.
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Needs more edgy memes
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Shout out to the awesomeness that is my man DPC!!! Go check out his epic channel right now! If you ain’t following him you #notwinning!
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There a few you can choose from with different features, some in the cloud, some local etc.
I use Streamlabs Chatbot local as it has the better song request functionally that i could find. I know there are others that use ‘Media share’ something but I’m not sure of it.
Streamlabs also have a cloud version of their bot so you won’t need to run any software locally. I would like to use it, but again, the song request thing I’m not sure about.
Streamelements also has a cloud based bot if you use them
Another popular one is NightBot
I actually see now that night bot seems to have an updated song request config, so I must maybe have a second look at it.
But yeah, That’s all I know, but if you google there are always endless options of streaming. It’s quite the rabbithole.
@oltman Something I’ve seen is if people try and be and stream something that they are not then it slowly eats at them and eventually they stop. So you just do what you want to do and don’t worry about what other people say.
Then regarding the schedule and graphics etc. as Mr Labeouf would say, Just do it If you keep trying to get everything perfect and set up then it will be forever before you do anything. Start with no graphics/overlays/panels and stream whenever you get a chance just to get started, you will eventually find what works for you and what doesn’t. I can’t count how many things I’ve tried and just thrown out because they didn’t work. Some of them I thought would be brilliant, but actually just bombed
Do what you want to do, when you want to do it and fine tune it along the way. You can get standard overlays on youtube or google to get started or buy a pack from somewhere to get a head start. I used Movegraph.com to get some basics. I’m actually still using a transition from them. I found them minimal and quite cheap compared to some of the crazy expensive stuff out there. Stuff like this:
This is a total animated Overlay and panel pack for $14! I just doesn’t have a transition.
Then you get bundles that you can choose any combination of sets categorised by colour for $27
and that’s everything you need to get started and they look slick
Wow! What a wall! Typing got away from me
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I watch quite a few people at the same time having multiple windows open is a pain some times but i found this site https://multistre.am You can link quite a few streams at once and you can see the chat as well. Have a try its quite handy
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That’s a fantastic block of info Entity, and way more than I expected - thank you, you legend you!
I did (long ago) play around with the Streamlabs Chatbot, and my current set of alerts on the Mixer channel are being done through Streamlabs, so I think I’m going to head into the Streamlabs rabbithole to see if I can transfer the existing alerts over to use on Twitch somehow, and then start to look at what I can do with their Chatbot.
Thanks again!
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Thats awesome info! Really much obliged! How do I sticky this post? 
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You could test the bookmark function. I’ve never used it.
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I have tried for many years. I can’t get obs to work properly and I don’t have money to 2 pc it with a capture card. I’m just going to give up on any form of capture of streaming.
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What does your obs do that it doesn’t work?
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