My test of Vodacom’s 5G network is finished for now, but I thought it would be fun to continue a regular stream in the evenings.
Folks are meeting with friend and family over Zoom and whatnot… Gaming communities like us already have all the perfect tools in place for a digital meetup like Discord and Twitch.
Starting at 18h00 or 19h00 seems like it’s too early and will compete with people’s dinner times. So let’s set a tentative time for 20h00 to 21h00 every night for the rest of the week.
I don’t want to cause a scheduling conflict with whatever else is happening… If there’s a race or a MEWME happening, please let me know? I looked at the calendar, but didn’t see anything specifically scheduled for today.
It also doesn’t have to be just me that’s streaming gameplay. If you feel like having a crack at hosting a stream, please let me know.
Discourse doesn’t really do “original posts” well when threads topics get to a reasonable length, but just in case the OP becomes relevant one day, I thought it would be best to split some details off in a second post…
Next stream: 2020-05-13T18:00:00Z → 2020-05-13T19:00:00Z
I was thinking of doing a blind play-through of Bright Memory. Would anyone else be interested in that, or should I rather continue playing Hellblade? Or if you have another idea, please feel free to suggest it.
As per the suggestions, last night’s stream was a marriage of the nightly meetup and MEWME.
Thanks to everyone who watched the stream and/or joined in for a few rounds of Skibbl.io last night. It was awesome.
I’ve scheduled another stream for tonight. Please let me know if there’s a conflict with something else happening on the forum.
We tested Restream.io last night and even though it doesn’t have a South African ingest server, it seemed to work well enough. I’ve signed up for a Mixer account, and await a streaming key from Microsoft.
Let me know what your opinions are of Twitch vs. YouTube, and whether you experience any trouble viewing the stream(s) on either of the platforms.
Next stream:2020-05-14T18:00:00Z → 2020-05-14T19:00:00Z
I was thinking of doing a blind play-through of Bright Memory. Would anyone else be interested in that, or should I rather continue playing Hellblade? Or if you have another idea, please feel free to suggest it. (Sorry if you already voted in yesterday’s poll. The decision to stream MEWME overtook my original plan.)
You should try dropping your video output in OBS from 1080p to 720p on your next stream - won’t look as crisp, but should reduce the frame drops and artifacts and make the stream more accessible on SA devices with crappy connections. At least until you get transcoding options for your viewers so that we can adjust the resolution we’re able to handle ourselves.
