When streaming live coding, you can get away with significantly lower settings, making it much easier for people with a slower connection to watch your live stream. While typical video game live streaming configurations will work for live coding, they are overkill. You traditionally used Twitch to stream yourself playing video games, but recently Twitch has started encouraging people to stream themselves coding.
Twitch TV is a popular live-streaming service.
Setting up OBS studio was simple and easy, and best of all its FREE! … and we were able to live stream on Twitch in no time.By Wesley McCann Setting up OBS for Live Coding in 7 Steps This is where Free Code Camp livestreams
Twitch is one of many streaming platforms out there, but we find it works well with our PC/laptop as it has all the options, including the ability to have multiple video capture inputs and audio inputs. If you’re a gamer, then these hot key options a must … you have a wide range of options including start/stop streaming, start/stop recording, mute/unmute, push-to-mute/push-to-unmute and many more. As for the other settings, I would leave everything else as default. The video section has options to adjust the Base (Canvas) resolution and also the Output (Scaled) resolution. You may want to change from stereo to mono to save on bandwidth and disk space if you are recording. I usually leave everything as default in the audio section. The same goes for the recording section as well. If you have a decent graphics card, then you may select the encoder to “Hardware (QSV)” in the Streaming section. Now copy the stream key and place it in the OBS stream settings.ĭepending on your computer’s hardware and graphics card, you can select the type of output and streaming quality. Go to your Twitch account and select the “Dashboard”.
See below on how to get the Twitch stream key. Select the Twitch service from the dropdown bar, and the closest server nearest you. When you have fully configured your settings, you may select option 1 to start streaming, and/or option 2 to allow you to start recording to your desktop.
Next, check the settings circled on the right. Once you have OBS installed, you can check and add the video capture device (usually a webcam) as circled on the left. Goto OBS website and download the latest version … More information.ĭownload OBS Studio (Open Broadcast Software) Twitch’s live and video on demand platform caters to the entire video game industry, including game developers, publishers, media outlets, events, casual content creators, and the entire Esports scene.
Each month, more than 100 million community members gather to watch and talk about video games with more than 1.7 million broadcasters. Founded in June 2011, Twitch is the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. Twitch is a live streaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Inc.
In this article, we’ll be showing you how to install OBS studio (free software) and live stream your broadcast via (Twitch account needed). Obviously, the mainstay for Twitch are the gamers, streaming hundred of thousands of hours of gameplay everyday. Believe it or not, using Twitch for our live stream broadcast wasn’t our first choice … it wasn’t until I spoke to a Twitch representative at Computex 2016, which he later convinced me that the Twitch platform can now live stream literally anything and everything. In the end, we managed to get 85 active viewers, which was pretty good considering we didn’t make any announcements about our broadcast times.īefore we could live stream and broadcast, we had to do some investigation on what to do, and how to do it. The whole session went pretty well and it wasn’t as bad as we thought. Last week, we tried for the first time to live stream our podcast on Twitch.