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I've recently started streaming the past month and have come to really enjoy it. I've seen in various threads that other members do it as well and thought that it might be beneficial to have a central thread to discuss it and perhaps promote our streams.

If you'd like you can check mine out, I stream on Twitch at http://www.twitch.tv/trainwreckjp/new. I'd welcome any and all thoughts and opinions.

Edit: As suggested I'm adding additional streamers to the OP

ThinJ - http://www.twitch.tv/thinj825/new

This is a very good stream! I encourage people to watch.

Did someone say streamers?

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I endorse Trainwreck's stream, would view again, A+.

Watching him live now, and followed.

I stream on occasion. Never had many viewers though. 99% of the time when I do stream it will be Starcraft 2.

Should be more often soon though, with the release of Heart of the Swarm coming on the 12th

I'll add a link either in here or just to my sig or something later.

Train has a very good stream indeed. Added you both on Twitch

Train - if there are many more Goodjers streaming, maybe add their links in your post?

Well, I just got raided by LethalFrag, a well known streamer in the community and my follower count just doubled immediately. Have to admit it's nice to be noticed by the big boys.

It definitely got the blood pressure up to see 200 people suddenly show up in my stream, but in a good way.

That's cool!

Feel free to check out this thread as well, which is more focused on video content as a whole. I don't think anyone live-streams on there at the moment, but I know there has been interest.

Trainwreck wrote:

Well, I just got raided by LethalFrag, a well known streamer in the community and my follower count just doubled immediately. Have to admit it's nice to be noticed by the big boys.

It definitely got the blood pressure up to see 200 people suddenly show up in my stream, but in a good way.

'Grats on the getting raided.

Nice work. Keep up the good content, and keep having fun!

Trainwreck wrote:

Well, I just got raided by LethalFrag

Nice! LethalFrag seems a really cool guy and has quite a professional attitude towards his Twitch channel, which is why he is the only streamer for whom I am a subscriber.

Trainwreck wrote:

Have to admit it's nice to be noticed by the big boys.

One thing that I really like about Twitch is the sense of community, not only displayed by streamers raiding each other, but the sense of community among some of the viewers too. That's why I signed up for Turbo when it was made available, as I do watch a decent amount of Twitch content throughout each week.

ccesarano wrote:

Feel free to check out this thread as well, which is more focused on video content as a whole. I don't think anyone live-streams on there at the moment, but I know there has been interest.

I have been and there are some nice videos. I thought about making videos a while ago but decided the technical and time barrier was too high for me so I decided to stream instead. Also the live interaction part of streaming I really enjoy, which I couldn't get with videos.

MeatMan wrote:

One thing that I really like about Twitch is the sense of community, not only displayed by streamers raiding each other, but the sense of community among some of the viewers too. That's why I signed up for Turbo when it was made available, as I do watch a decent amount of Twitch content throughout each week.

Indeed, I've already started to notice a core group of viewers who I talk with constantly. It really feels like in some fashion we are just hanging out together. Once you get away from the SCII and LOL streams, the sense of community in many of the chat rooms is quite large.

When you raid someone, have them say something so they'll know your raiding them, Train!

Trainwreck CHOO CHOO!

I'm interested in getting into streaming more when my ISP can finally give me better upload speeds in a few months but I'm always interested in checking out more until then. I'll give you channel a look Trainwreck!

Also, sorry for the cross-post plug but if anyone missed it, I am live streaming a single session playthrough of Amnesia as a delayed stretch goal for a charity event. I'm also launching a YouTube show that day.

ZaneRockfist wrote:

When you raid someone, have them say something so they'll know your raiding them, Train!

I assume that the existence of your post suggests that Trainwreck didn't do this. So yeah, to reiterate, if you get your viewers to raid someone's channel, you should give them a phrase to say (copy/paste) when they execute the raid. That way the streamer being raided knows that he/she is being raided, and whose channel the raiders came from.

Trainwreck CHOO CHOO!

Trainwreck CHOO CHOO! would be a good raid phrase, indeed.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

I'm interested in getting into streaming more when my ISP can finally give me better upload speeds in a few months but I'm always interested in checking out more until then. I'll give you channel a look Trainwreck!

Also, sorry for the cross-post plug but if anyone missed it, I am live streaming a single session playthrough of Amnesia as a delayed stretch goal for a charity event. I'm also launching a YouTube show that day.

Stop on by anytime, PA. You are always welcome. Also let me know leading up to the charity event so I can promote it to my viewers. Probably the day of would be best, my memory these days isn't the best. Could be the lack of sleep.

MeatMan wrote:
ZaneRockfist wrote:

When you raid someone, have them say something so they'll know your raiding them, Train!

I assume that the existence of your post suggests that Trainwreck didn't do this. So yeah, to reiterate, if you get your viewers to raid someone's channel, you should give them a phrase to say (copy/paste) when they execute the raid. That way the streamer being raided knows that he/she is being raided, and whose channel the raiders came from.

Trainwreck CHOO CHOO!

Trainwreck CHOO CHOO! would be a good raid phrase, indeed. :)

I'm assuming you're referring to last night/this morning. I didn't have people say anything since I raided Man Vs. Game who was doing a charity stream, and using a charity stream to promote my channel did not seem appropriate. As for a raid phrase, I've been leaning toward using "Last stop on the Trainwreck express!"

I've been streaming my SC2 ladder games for about four hours. Big ups to Sparhawk and Sjemison(Sorry, don't know who this is on GWJ!) for keeping me company

Was fun to watch and also to see what to expect when playing ladder games.
You have a very decent connection. No lag or anything.

What are people using to stream with (eg. application)?

AP Erebus wrote:

What are people using to stream with (eg. application)?

I use twitch.tv website.

AP Erebus wrote:

What are people using to stream with (eg. application)?

I use OBS. It's functionally almost identical to XSplit, at least as far as core functionality goes, and it's open source and completely free.

There hasn't been a real reason to use Xsplit since its release.

*Here's an example of what my stream looks like with my current ~1.4mb upload speed.

Thin_J wrote:
AP Erebus wrote:

What are people using to stream with (eg. application)?

I use OBS. It's functionally almost identical to XSplit, at least as far as core functionality goes, and it's open source and completely free.

There hasn't been a real reason to use Xsplit since its release.

*Here's an example of what my stream looks like with my current ~1.4mb upload speed.

I also use OBS to stream and would highly recommend it to people who are just starting out or casually streaming. The fact that XSplit requires a yearly license made me wary.

I tried OBS and found it very crashy and lacking in game compatibility but that was a while ago and apparently they're iterating the crap out of it. It does still amaze me that XSplit doesn't have some basic functions like the ability to rearrange scenes that OBS does.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

I tried OBS and found it very crashy and lacking in game compatibility but that was a while ago and apparently they're iterating the crap out of it. It does still amaze me that XSplit doesn't have some basic functions like the ability to rearrange scenes that OBS does.

It's been rock solid for me, and I've seen people stream everything from Far Cry 3 to Sim City with it. And most of the Starcraft 2 community has already switched from what I can tell.

So Twitch just implemented a limit on how many channels you can follow, which (according to Twitch) only affects 0.1% of users, and now people are raising hell about it on twitter. Their reason for the limit is "to help optimize some of our backend processes". Apparently the planned limit was 100, but after people immediately started complaining, it looks like they're raising it to 250 and are rolling it out today.

I'm a fairly new Twitch user, so even the 100 limit wouldn't have affected me. Is anyone here currently following more than 250 channels?

This will probably primarily affect streamers who follow each other in order to keep track who is on for raids. From twitter one specific streamer said he had 500 channels that he was following and needs to cull them now.

Personally this doesn't really affect me. As a viewer I follow around 50 channels to watch/raid. As a streamer if someone has over 250 channels in their follow list and I'm not one of those that stay they probably didn't watch me often (if at all) anyway. Twitch would have been better served to put up a blog post with an explanation of the reasoning behind it and not just do a casual tweet, but hey, stuff happens.

If it is only 0.1% I wonder why they even bother...there must be something more to it.

I downloaded OSB, and then futz around with Twitch trying to get my stream key. All I got was an unhelpful error message, which from googling, can mean a slew of different things.

The upshot is that I closed my twitch/justin.tv account and created a new one, then I could get my stream key perfectly.

Still not sure if I really WANT to stream or if anyone actually cares. Being in Aus means most Goodjers aren't online who I would anticipate being my main audience.

I was thinking about streaming Prison Architect, but it feels like it wouldn't be very interesting to watch.

Sparhawk wrote:

If it is only 0.1% I wonder why they even bother

So you're saying Twitch shouldn't have even bothered with posting an announcement at all? Sorry, I can't agree with that.

MeatMan wrote:
Sparhawk wrote:

If it is only 0.1% I wonder why they even bother

So you're saying Twitch shouldn't have even bothered with posting an announcement at all? Sorry, I can't agree with that.

I believe Sparhawk meant that if it only affects 0.1% of the viewers, why bother implementing it.

AP Erebus wrote:

I downloaded OSB, and then futz around with Twitch trying to get my stream key. All I got was an unhelpful error message, which from googling, can mean a slew of different things.

The upshot is that I closed my twitch/justin.tv account and created a new one, then I could get my stream key perfectly.

Still not sure if I really WANT to stream or if anyone actually cares. Being in Aus means most Goodjers aren't online who I would anticipate being my main audience.

I was thinking about streaming Prison Architect, but it feels like it wouldn't be very interesting to watch.

Don't let the time zone difference stop you, I have many European viewers during my evening cast. If you want to try, do it! Especially now with OBS it doesn't cost you a dime to start streaming.

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