Posts Tagged ‘streaming’

05
Apr
2022

I’m still attempting to troubleshoot Twitch here.

categories: personal; word count: 210 words

For some reason, I continue to have dropped frames and slow frames when attempting to stream on the desktop with Twitch Studio. (Thanks, Manchin… my tax refund literally funded this because we didn’t have a desktop.) I’m going to remedy this in the coming months with a desktop that is, at the very least, marginally better than the desktop that I’ve been attempting to stream on, because if it can not consistently or reliably stream, there’s probably other things that it can’t do as well. This perplexes me because this desktop is seriously only one year old, was advertised as gaming friendly, and has consistently begun to fall short of the things that I would like it to do. If it has significant trouble streaming, we are bound to run into other things that it can’t do as well, and I’m just now finding out that some of the games that I’ve gotten for free off of Epic Games (or downloaded from Origin or Steam) are going to have difficulty playing because of the graphics card in it — namely the type, as the drivers tell me that it’s an Intel… something something… 530.

Yeah, this is going to be fun. I shouldn’t be tremendously surprised by the outcome of this though.

03
Apr
2022

Two problems down, now how many left to go…

categories: personal; word count: 198 words

Okay, so I have the microphone set up in a really good position, and I’ve confirmed that it is picking up sounds at the volume that I want it to. The webcam is also in an optimal position on the desktop, being the one that I can move around a bit as needed. It picks up the images that I want it to pick up. They look crisp.

The only thing that I think I need to do is to make sure that frames aren’t dropped — or slow — although my current Internet speed indicates that I shouldn’t have to worry about that (29.1 Mbps download, 11.4 Mbps upload). I’ve been using Twitch Studio for the streams that I’ve done so far, although I am open to switching to a new program as long as it has the same ease of use and lets me install the overlays that I’ve been using.

Now all I think I have to do is fix the alerts (or wait for Twitch to fix them in Twitch Studio) and I’ll be good for awhile! This, of course, supposes that I decide to stay with Twitch Studio for the long haul. It is easy to work.

02
Apr
2022

I streamed for the first time yesterday!

categories: personal, television shows; word count: 226 words

I now have the mic on our desktop set up the way it should be (and, at that, a really nice setup that doesn’t get in the way of anything else… man, I’m loving this right now). The ring light should also be in a position to where it doesn’t look like it’s flickering on the webcam overlay of my streams even though nothing looks like it’s actually flickering in my room. Good times. (I suppose there’s a bit of a learning curve to this. I don’t mind.)

I’m also finding out that some peripherals have to be plugged directly into the computer via USB, not put on one of those splitter things. That’s a bit of a shame because now I’m going to have to juggle things on the peripheral splitters, but it’s nothing that’s completely unmanageable. It’s not as unwieldy as our television currently is. I’ve often made the joke that I don’t want to have to switch our television from gaming to satellite unless I absolutely have to (and I will for Doctor Who… just not anything from The CW, and I mean that). I’m not going to be one of the ones who “comes back” to The CW because Misha Collins is working on a pilot for Gotham Knights for it and Jensen Ackles has secured a script commitment for The Winchesters.

01
Apr
2022

In my spare time, I’ve been setting up Twitch.

categories: personal; word count: 318 words

I would just love to be able to stream games and do that as a thing.

It would work around my disabilities and our schedules in that I would be able to set my own hours. If migraines prevented me from streaming one day, I could do it on a day where they were more tolerable (or, better yet, mostly ameliorated by medication… I mean, you can dream, can’t you?), or if Bub and Monster needed more of my attention on any given day due to appointments that we would have to make our way to and back from, or even just because, the same principle would apply. Right now, I’m waiting for my arm to heal up more from the Staph infection that became cellulitis due to Bub’s pinching that broke skin, but only because it is my dominant arm and I don’t want to have to make clothing choices based on how the bandage would best be covered up to avoid people attempting to discuss it in stream chat. So we’ll see.

In the interim though, I have been setting Twitch up on our desktop and laptop! I’m thinking that I’m going to give Twitch Studio a go first because it does nearly everything that I would want something like this to do, and the one thing that I’ve been having issues with — setting Alerts in specific places — may be able to be remedied since an admin on a Discord server that I am a member of told me that they can reach out to Twitch themselves to see if it’s possible to fix this within the Twitch Studio program. I continue to hold out hope that it is and will be, but I also have a really sweet gameplay overlay that I got for this particular purpose that having the Alerts properly set in all of their places would make the most major difference with.

07
Nov
2020

One day, we will stream consoles. One day.

categories: consoles; word count: 290 words

One of the things that I’ve been looking into is streaming on various websites that… let you do that, with YouTube being one of the ones that I’d like to stream on the most since we already use it for personal reasons. However, reading about what I have to buy to stream retro consoles (why can’t they just stream like the PlayStation 4?!) and where I have to hook it up has actually given me migraines. I’m not even going to lie. But I’m eventually going to get it done, I’m eventually going to understand this, and I am eventually going to stream our retro consoles. And our new consoles. But it still surprises me that you can’t natively stream on consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, which are still pretty new consoles. That one still confuses me.

Frankly, I wish that setting up equipment to stream off of retro consoles was just a bit easier overall.

There are so many old games that I would just love to be able to stream at the click of a button, but sadly it is nowhere near that easy. That seems to be the one catch with the one thing that I want to do the most…

You would think that at least some of the “newer” consoles wouldn’t have the “protection” that they do that prevents this, or that their respective creators would allow you to stream over them, but you still have to walk in circles to be able to stream games from them, and that really sucks if you want to make any sort of job out of this or even if you want to stream them on sites like Twitch and YouTube to have a little bit of fun.

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