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Post by Leppy101 on May 21, 2015 22:57:45 GMT -5
Heyo all,
I'm kinda stuck on what I should do for making videos. As you all or some know, I has YouTube! Who doesn't. My problem is, I start something, I get it going pretty good or I like to think I do, and then I just kinda stop. I don't want to do that anymore. So, I am wondering on what you would like to see on my YouTube channel. I got (currently) Half-Life, Minecraft, The Forest, Payday 2, Oblivion, and some very unpleasant videos of my face bringing "updates" about my channel.
Now for Twitch,
I don't really know how well my 1st stream went. I'm going to assume it wasn't good nor bad but more "ok". When I ended the stream I noticed my computer was still on and that I was on the home page, and since Blade kindly hosts our streams..I was watching the stream as I was creating it..thus..leading the broken footage and laggy experience. Terribly sorry! My bad!
Also, because I am very computer-illiterate at times (Greenfire32 will most likely say that is an understatement) I will not stream on the PC for I do not know how to run or understand the program OBS. So I will be doing streams on the XboxONE. And since there's hardly any (good) games for the ONE, options on that will be very limited.
Well, let me know what you guys/gals think! Thank 'ye kindly!
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Post by Greenfire32 on May 22, 2015 0:26:45 GMT -5
THE hardest part about streaming is figuring out your bit-rate (especially in your case because of your internet connection), but it's really not that hard at all. I'll use my own internet as an example:
My speeds are about 20mbs down and 5mbs up. That's NOT megaBYTES, that's megaBITS. HUGE difference. That 20 megaBITS translates to roughly 2.5 megaBYTES of download speed (divide your bits by 8 to get your bytes).
So basically my internet speeds are 2.5MBs download and .6MBs upload.
And I'll throw another curve ball at you here: there's no such thing as different internet speeds. The internet moves at the same speed for everyone, so when we talk about internet "speeds," what we're really talking about is how much bandwidth we have.
Think of it like a freeway. The more lanes there are, the more cars can travel on it. If the freeway is only 2 lanes across, only 2 lanes of traffic can exist. But if the freeway were four lanes across, then there could be 4 lanes of traffic. All the cars are moving at the same speed, but the 4 lane freeway means more cars get to their destinations than the 2 lane freeway.
This is what we mean by internet speeds. My 2.5 download per second doesn't mean my internet is faster than yours, it means I can move more data than you. This is super important when it comes to streaming.
Every device you have connected to your internet uses one lane of your freeway. You already experienced it when you left your computer on and streamed with the X1. So when you stream, you need to free up those lanes so that the stream can use more.
When it comes to setting your bitrate on OBS, you need to keep all of this in mind. How many devices do you need on the net when you're streaming? If it's just your computer or just your X1, then use half your upload speed as your bitrate. Again, my upload is roughly 5mbs so I divide that by 2 to get 2.5 (which in OBS would translate to 2500). Now I have a couple of devices that are always online so I adjust for that and round down to just 2000 as my half, but then I take it a step further and lower the bitrate even more to 1000. The reason for that is because internet speeds are not reliable. They fluctuate. And lowering my bitrate to that level means that when MY internet takes a dive, the stream is more or less UNAFFECTED. This means NO dropped frames, NO visual artifacts, and NO stream-dying.
So the quick and dirty:
- Streaming is all about your UPLOAD, not your DOWNLOAD speed. Take YOUR upload speed, divide it by 2 and make it a "thousands" number (2.5 becomes 2500, 4.1 becomes 4100 etc etc), adjust for "inflation" so you know what to tell OBS.
- Do NOT watch your own stream while streaming. You will not only harm the stream, but you'll increase the chances of frying your CPU. Seriously. Don't do that. Popout the twitch chat so you can follow along, but don't watch the stream while you stream.
- Link your twitch account to OBS and push "start streaming." It's literally that easy!
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