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>Live Studio- The one I am talking about here, free only with a small watermark (that is not even there yet, unlimited recording - serverside and we are not charging right now for future features)

How is this different from using restream.io to stream in-browser, and then using commanderroot's Vault (or any other cloud service, many of which are free) to store vods? I struggle to see how this service is unique or better value than existing services.

Decent enough PC, streaming software (I use OBS), and a microphone! You can use a webcam too, but I personally can't be bothered anymore and my viewers don't care. Here's a good guide!

Great you got an answer!

For anyone else: if you don't want to use an OBS plugin (or don't use OBS), then I'd recommend the Restream Chat client - it works for Twitch/Youtube/Mixer all at once, if you're multistreaming to them all.

How is this service different from services like Restream.io's browser streaming, or VDO.Ninja for interview streams? There just doesn't seem to be anything unique about this service, and it's not good value either.

Something I would recommend is letting friends and family know about your channel. The first few subs and followers are critical.

I first grew my community on youtube and then moved over to twitch. I use https://restream.io/ to stream to both youtube and twitch at the same time. I would give your channel a bit of time, you are only a month old. Growth takes time when it comes to youtube and twitch.

Sounds like it is the powered speaker that has attracted attention, you might need to go stealth mode. You and your mates can go silent disco with minimal additional spend as follows...

1. Pick a livestreaming tool, there are plenty, I use Switcher Studio as it runs directly off mobile device (iPhone) as it has a few bells and whistles but doesn't need a laptop involved at all. There are others like Manycam etc as well.
2. Pick an output - mixcloud, youtube livestream, twitch; heck, hook up your Switcher Studio to restream.io and you can do all three at once
3. Everyone brings their phones and headphones and tunes in online, set up your decks in an unobtrusive spot (eg sitting on a picnic blanket), start your set voila you have some covert mischief.

You can use a capture card, run OBS on your MAC. Set up a Restream.io account. Stream from the MAC via OBS to Restream.IO and it will ingest into Facebook. You can also send it to Twitch/Youtube, etc.

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Easy setup, mindless. lots of support on Restream.io and YT vids to assist more in setup.

Man, it really sucks, but it's gone forever. I did not know that unless you were an affiliate, you get ZERO VOD storage. The good news is this week's #3RT is going to be about 50% a distilled version of what I covered on the stream.

Going forward I'm either going to stream to Youtube live, or YT and Twitch simultaneously, until we get twitch affiliate for Swizzbold, which probably won't take too long. But I also need a way to combine the two chats. I hear restream.io does all that for me, I'm looking into it.

https://restream.io/chat

https://restream.io/chat

https://restream.io/chat

I can't recommend this enough. Restream Chat gives you a customizable transparent chat window that can sit on top of your game window. It has click-through functionality so you can still interact with your game "underneath" the chat. It is a godsend for plebs like me with only one monitor, but I've convinced some multi-monitor streamers to pick it up as well.

It takes all of the hassle out of "hang on guys, let me catch up on chat". You can keep playing your game and, if your chat isn't insanely active, you can easily respond to everyone which I've found results in a much higher viewer retention rate.

Download Restream Chat

I'm no streamer myself, so what i have to say is probably misinformed, but:

1) Isn't there a service that does just that? It's called restream.io. I know i've seen u/arjunebug use it at least once.

2) As you alluded to, chat is an issue. From what little i researched, what i think that would be a game changer would be if you could chat from any channel with all others at the same time. In my head it seems simple enough; have chat bots echo messages from one channel to another. Obviously they shouldn't echo other bots, but that's pretty much it. There is such a thing as restream.io/chat, but that only delivers one user's messages to all channels, plus it's opt-in (you need the program).

Hey Dabacabb,

Really its all down to personal preference at the end of the day. If you stream on Youtube you'll have your Youtube subs have a notification in their sub boxes and maybe drop in.

You can also make a 10 second "Hey yo' guys I'm streaming over at Twitch, links in the description".

I personally feel like Twitch is really the place to stream over Youtube, it's designed from the floor up with streaming in mind and it shows that with the way you can progress as a streamer through partnership and with other streamers you meet hosting you e.t.c. It just feels like a closer community for streaming over Youtube from my point of view.

An option though is to stream on both platforms at the same time if your Upload can handle it at https://restream.io

A lot of my friends who have a very large Youtube following have not had many good things to say about streaming there and all stream over on Twitch, myself included.

i dont think its against old games (thats an overexaggeration imo), its just that fortnite on twitch gets 100.000 viewers and on mixer it gets 10.000. so if an indie game gets 10.000 on twitch, imagine how low its gonna go on mixer.

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however, ive been enjoying mixer a lot, at least as a viewer. the community is very positive and not cynical, the terms of service are clear and well-put, and it just feels nice to be a part of. i would say try it, you could stream on both platforms via restream.io

That's what I mean. I've seen (What I assume are) partners, or at least Affiliates, streaming to Twitch & YT simultaneously. Restream.Io lets you do this for free/cheap, so lots of gamers are using it to maximize their audience. Some have been well known in their communities and acknowledge both streams while they are live.
That's why I think it's funny that one rule is being enforced & the other rule isn't.

There is a thing called Restream.IO where you can stream to both, however if you get twitch affiliate you can no longer stream to both due to having a 24 hour lockout to whatever content you create on twitch.

But I would really really like to tell you, streaming on Youtube is actually fine. Here's why!

1. It ups your watch time, which ups how Youtube feels about your channel overall in the first place.
2. It is easier to get noticed on Youtube rather than Twitch based on how Youtube has their system set.
   
3. Comments on Youtube actually help improve your overall engagement to where it ups the live stream being noticed by other people, thus upping the overall engagement.
4. As opposed to twitch, you get to keep a permanent archive of your stream.

If you want to stream to multiple services look at a option like (restream.io)[https://restream.io/]

You make an account there, link all your services and then point your streaming software to their servers and they do the rest for you.

It could be your ISP, or it could be your connection to Twitch. To rule out your connection to Twitch, try using a re-streaming service https://restream.io/?ref=QwP5 basically streaming to there and then restream will stream to twitch.

To rule out your ISP, trying using a VPN, though you may have to find one with a Trial.

For sure, you need to define your TA first. There a lot of good suggestions already here, you can search little bit. I usually suggest every newbie starts from reading/watching a great guide. For example, this one is very comprehensive and covers every aspect you need to start a podcast. Anyway, practice, experiment and good luck to you!

Canva is a good option, also I suggest you check Figma out. Here are some tips on how to create graphics using it.

I've just read about that: "Understanding how much time you’re ready to invest in podcasting helps you shape your schedule. Obviously, the more frequent you are, the better. What’s more important is to stick to the schedule you set up and launch episodes on a regular basis. With this, listeners will develop a habit of including your podcasts in their daily routines, and you’ll notice the consistent growth of your show." It feels like it makes sense 🤔You can read more if you'd like here.

Yes, I post all over social media and popular directories :) Check it out also here, there are some great tips on promoting a podcast.

Yes, you can run RPAN software and OBS simultaneously, which are basically the same thing. If you wanna get real fancy, you can stream to something like Restream.io and that'll pipe out to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch all at once.

Hi! This guide is very helpful for podcasters: Everything you need to know about podcasting equipment. Good luck and share your first podcast with us! :)

I'm seconding Restream. Especially, I suggest you try their Restream Studio. It's a simple online tool that works directly from a browser, and transmits to over 30 platforms.

Honestly the only advantage to youtube right now IMO is it's easy get your steams uploaded to youtube. Otherwise I find the chat to be worse, it's harder to get a new audience with live streams on it(especially since they integrated gaming into the main site more), and the dashboard aren't as friendly imo.

You could try something like restream.io and just do both (or more).

I'm only doing Twitch right now, I've only got like 56 followers so far but 3-6 viewers average I suppose. My best I think averaged 11 people for a whole a 4 hour stream! but with restream.io there's no real reason not to stream on both, I don't think. If you were a partner maybe you can't stream anywhere else, I don't know, and I'll probably check if I can "multi-stream" as a Twitch affiliate if i ever decide to try Mixer again, just to be safe y'know? It's just that for me changing the stream info and title on Mixer when i know there'll be very little traffic is yet another thing I gotta do before i can start my stream so i cut it out of the routine. I tried Periscope too but I couldn't get it to stop autotweeting about itself so I stopped that too, those vids got a lot of views sometimes but I don't know if any converted to the Twitch channel

Brave for going on Mixer!

Since you probably aren't partnered yet on Twitch or Mixer I suggest you try restream.io you stream there and automatically you're streaming on all the platforms you want, so you can stream on all three Mixer, Twitch and Youtube at the same time.

I use Restream.io and get crazy numbers of viewers from all over the place.

I might get a few hundred views on Periscope, a 700 person raid on mixer, 20 on fb, while getting 3 people on YouTube and 5 people on twitch.

None of those groups will usually switch platforms, but you can cater to each group with the Restream.io tools. There's no reason anymore to pigeon hole yourself on one platform.

Hey! Hi! 😊
Literally my FIRST time on reddit... I signed up only for DLIVE... LOL!

Anywho... I think in the nearer future you should think about partnering (or whatever it takes) to have DLIVE be one of the offered platforms on restream.io. Currently, we CAN use it, but must pay because DLIVE acts as a custom RTMP. I think this service could potentially help a lot of folks transition from other places, as we need to be getting their attention too.

If DLIVERS were able to easily stream to a slew of platforms ALL while talking about how great DLIVE is... just think of the potential. Think of it! ... 😏

Yeah. That's my answer. I have other suggestions... but first go make friends with Restream.io! Or something similar 😉

As a "nobody" I've had more luck on Youtube. Back in January I was streaming private server WoW stuff with the upwards of 100 viewers but regularly got 0 on twitch. Depends on the scale of player-base relative to already existing streamers, per platform, generally.

The thing about Twitch is that there are already a billion people streaming pretty much every game people are interested in watching or being social with.

...And the thing about Youtube is that you have to have a PHD to navigate to people that are currently streaming live

With that said, why not both? https://restream.io/ (you can even combine the chat to one box and read messages from each site using restream.io)

Get Restream and OVRdrop or OpenDesktopDisplayPortal. Restream gives you the window with twitch chat and the other apps I mentioned let you show a window in VR. OVRdrop and ODDP are the same thing, ODDP is just older and free. I lile to set it up so I can see it on my controller.

The great thing is that this will work for literally any VR app or game, so no need for devs to add support.

LINKS:

Restream Chat

Open VR Desktop Display Portal

Open VR desktop display portal still has older versions free. I use that and Restream Chatto see chat on my controller.

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OpenVR Desktop Display Portal

Restream Chat

Ethically? Selfhost your own.

Pragmatically? Just stream out to the popular sites, there's a few sites that you pay to restream for you across YT, twitch, hitbox etc... https://restream.io/ is popular

Think of your Twitch channel as the center of a spider web and the other forms of social media are the points the web connects to. If you aren't affiliate, you can stream on both YouTube, Twitch and even Facebook simultaneously with the proper website i.e. https://restream.io/ (not a sponsor or anything, just what I'm familiar with). Use Instagram, Facebook, tiktok, snapchat etc. to connect then to your streaming platforms. From there you can monitor your growth and feel out which is your preferred platform. You can still stream on both after affiliate but not allowed to at the same time per the contract you sign exclusivity deal.

You have a lot of great suggestions already to start! I will never get tired of recommending this ultimate guide for every beginner in podcasting. You will find here all the equipment, software, strategy, and other suggestions. It helped me a lot from the start, and also I know it helped other people. Good luck!

Here are some great tips on how to prepare/conduct an interview. Also, this video tutorial is cool.

Well, you could record a podcast without showing your faces! Youtube is great for promotion, I would say it's a must. Also, try to cross-post it on other social media to gain more listeners. You can start anonymous Twitter account, for example, or FB and find communities/people/groups/hashtags that are relevant to your topic. Check some good guide for podcasting, like this one. There might be tons of ideas on how to promote anonymously 😎

I totally agree about promoting across the social media. use all the channels: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. You never know what will bring you the most of your audience. You can also repurpose your content to post on these platforms (e.g. make posts from you podcast topics or just a snapshots with main theme). Also, collaborate with famous podcasters from your niche. Check this guide out for more promotion ideas, it's pretty comprehensive.

You do everything right, you can also add some more social media platforms (eg FB, Pinterest, etc). Here is also alist of good tips for the beginners that you can check out too.

There are a lot of ways to do it in OBS, but I'm pretty sure it requires games that are being run in windowed or borderless modes (same thing for SLOBS' chat-through-game.) None of the games that I personally play on my stream perform well unless the game is in full-screen exclusive mode. Therefore, it's not an option.

One good method is restream.io's Chat program. Specifically, their stand-alone chat program. It has the required features of Always on Top, click through, and transparency settings. To capture the game, you use game capture and not display capture, and it won't also capture the chat client.

nice one.

Note on the video quality comment on your title. It's clear your bitrate is low based on how it shifts to higher quality when the image is still (like going into your inventory)
See what bitrate is recommended here

Rode podmic is great! But yep, as mentioned below it all depends on your budget 🤷🏻‍♂️Here's also a good guide about podcasting equipment for different budgets. Might be helpful!

I liked suggestions from this article. For me, adding catchy description worked pretty good (I just underestimated the power of words before 😃).

1) Youtube royalty-free library 2) AI-generated music in Restream Studio.

That definitely needs to be higher, I use 3000 for 720. Here is a bit of a guide on what you should be using for different settings on different sites... https://restream.io/blog/what-is-a-good-upload-speed-for-streaming/

Welcome to the club, Im actually dropping my Affiliate Status here very soon. I enjoy Multi-Streaming, and after you take the status "Affiliate" you start getting bombarded with pre-roll ads, and it can really hurt viewership. I have just over 100 followers, used to get a regular 5 viwers then now barely 3...1 being myelf watching from another screen for my kids.

Its great your hitting those checkpoints, id push to get much higher viewership. Build that community with A Discord, Youtube Videos and push highlights to a FB Page.

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I have people on all platforms, and i personally would like the ability to go live on all 3 (Twitch, YT and FB) at the same time. (very easy with StreamLabs OBS Prime or Restream.io) but cannot due to TOS with Twitch Affiliate. (cannot be live on Twitch and others at same time, i can however still stream to FB and YT concurrently, as long as im not live on twitch).

This is just my issue, but others who grinded and got the point they were able to apply with the bare minimum are also getting in the same boat.

keep up the good work, stay positive!

I use restream.io, basically you stream to restream's servers then they redistrubute it to multiple platforms. Currently I use it to stream to twitch+youtube simeltaneously without using additional bandwidth

The biggest issue with doing multiplatform steaming including RPAN is because RPAN has a Portrait orientation, on other platforms it might look weird or get stretched. (Eg - Streaming to Mixcloud and RPAN via Restream.io - RPAN is fine but Mixcloud is unusably stretched)

I'd suggest trying out "multi-streaming" to all platforms. You can use a service like Streamlabs OBS Prime or Restream.io . I wish would of known about this when i first started. You may be able to grow on other platforms faster, OR gain a following to bring over to Twitch to keep growing on there.

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Just a thought.

I suggest you try Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO 80 out. Around 100 bucks. Also, you can find a good list here and here. Good luck with your podcast!

I also use restream.io to stream to FB, Twitch, and Mixcloud. FB is a crapshoot, you might make it 20 min or 45 min before they start muting you or killing the feed. I've found Twitch is best for letting you at least finish your set uninterrupted. However, after about 24 hours, my recorded sets are usually muted for copyright on Twitch.

I started years ago on Mixer and Twitch, never got into the YT vibe as initially setting up the YT and Facebook streams were more cumbersome, not difficult, just setting up the stream took a few extra steps. its not like that now. with Restream.io and Streamlabs OBS Prime, you can just set everything up in their application and go.

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After signing the stupid Affiliate agreement, i can no longer multistream if im Live on Twitch. So i keep my very minimal Twitch stream schedule and been pushing to YT all other nights.

YT Compression is just out of wack, where Twitch is limted to 6k bitrate, ive been pushing 15-21k bitrate to twitch to get a decent quality stream. I was always caught up into what the quality looked like on PC and in reality, im a very small % of PC online viewing. Majority of viewers are mobile/tablet.

i just hope YT gets a better search/discovery function. Tags and Stream Titles dont always pop when your live and people search for you.

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Long story short, if your not Affiliate, Multi stream to all platforms, grow as much as you can, throw up tweets and FB posts to re-direct everyone to your stream. (multi-streaming sometimes limits bitrate, ie Restream.io may injest 6k bitrate but will restream at a lower. or if using Streamlabs OBS Prime, you may stream to YT at 15k but Twitch and FB wont like the high bitrate. as they are limited to 6k....)

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Practice, practice, practice! Make as much video content as possible until you will like the results. It takes 2-3 months to become a better version of yourself, I would say :) Follow some popular tips on how to be confident on camera (here and here are good ones). Take your time and don't criticise yourself too much :) Good luck! And share your videos with us when you are ready ;)

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I use Restream.io to go to Facebook and Youtube at the same time. So far everything has worked out well. Just be sure to note the requirements of each platform. For example, Facebook is much more picky with what video you send it than Youtube.

The first answer to this question is: Go lookup Restream.io and see if that meets your needs. If so, done.

If not, then understand that for each separate session of OBS that you have open an encoding will produce a multiplicative system load.

Most people's set-ups can handle 1 encode.

A 3950x might get away with being able to churn out 2 separate 1080p encodes without significant system performance losses.

More than that you're talking higher-end Threadripper territory to have the number of cores/threads available to do that kind of serious work.

A Ryzen 7 will up and die trying to output 2 separate 1080p encodes of any significant quality (any 8 core / 16 thread CPU would have this issue).

Thanks for your input on this.

I can safely rule out the shared administrators part as this is a small FB page sharing a national TV FB live stream.My understanding of tools such as restream.io is that the user needs to generate the content for the livestream to then broadcast across multiple websites.

In terms of OBS, I don't understand how they got the FB livestream in there as an input source to then broadcast to begin with. This has me stumped.

Well I've used restream.io to stream on both Twitch and Mixer simultaneously. In that time I've gotten over 500 views and become an affiliate on Twitch, which means that I've gotten 50 followers and had an average of 3 viewers watching me for some amount of time, and meanwhile I've only gotten a dozen or so views on Mixer. Only like 2 people from Mixer have even ever said hello in the chat. So I got tired of taking time to edit stream info and whatnot for the service every time I streamed and gave up on it because no one ever watches me on it.

This is a great tutorial, thanks for sharing! Have you seen the new Retream Studio? It's an easy, free, and browser based tool to go live. it allows broadcasting to more than 30 platforms! Would be great to see a tutorial too! Here is more about it: <strong>Meet Restream Studio – a simple and powerful tool for live streaming</strong>

I started twitch streaming this week with my ddj-800 and rekordbox using OBS and BlackHole (to route the audio both to the stream and so that I can hear it locally). Today I found something called YellowDuck that lets you stream to IG Live from your computer. I know that you can also use something like restream.io to output to multiple services.

Hope this all helps! Also the "virtual cam" thing someone else mentioned sounds super cool -- more like a virtual rave if you get a bunch of friends together and can see all their video too. Good luck, and let me know if you have any questions about my setup.

How are you getting on with this?I couldnt get VLC to play my livestream. I've been trying to setup my drone as a media source in OBS and have found it extremely difficult. I'm not a techy so setting up a RTMP server manually was a non started for me. Instead I turned to using restream.io (which has an RTMP server included). Now my problem is getting the drone to appear as a seperate source whilst simultaneously streaming in OBS. Tried using RTMP pullbackto do this but Restream.io have said that is not possible! I'm running out of solutions!

is it possible to stream on both platforms without being booted off for a ToS violation? if so, restream.io is kinda useful, i had it setup with over a dozen streaming platforms.

no one watched though.

So I'm in the same boat as you. Been streaming on Twitch for a little over a year, close to 625 followers and was getting 20-25 viewers before Twitch changed the algorithm for how views are counted. Now I get around 5-6 active people but sometime Twitch only shows 2-3 viewers, myself being 1 of them.

So I started using Restream.io and now stream to Twitch as well as DLive and Mixer to try and build a base before completely cutting off Twitch. I know it's against Twitch TOS to stream elsewhere within 24 hours of your broadcast, but honestly who cares at this point. Twitch has boned the small streamer with all their changes, it's hard to get eyes on your channel unless you win a national tournament or get recognized from another streamer. Restream.io is free to use and has a chat window that allows all the platforms you stream to show up in one feed with the platforms icon next to the chat so you know what platform they commented on. May want to give it a try. Good luck OP!

How/Why does your ISP justify doing this? Which one is it, anyway, and what connection is it - cable, DSL, satellite, LTE hotspot?)
Can you watch Twitch? Can you use your phone (while on your Wifi going through the ISP) to broadcast other types of streams - Facebook Live, Twitter/Periscope, YouTube Live, (maybe even try the Twitch mobile app)?

As wrong as it should be for an ISP to do this (especially if you're in the US or similar countries) I'm betting they're just blocking Twitch's domain names, not the actual protocols for sending real-time video upstream. The above tests should determine if this is correct, or if they're blocking all video upstream.
If you can send to other platforms, try making an account with Restream.Io and having them forward your stream to Twitch.
If actual blocking is going on, I don't think you have many options. A VPN might be able to encrypt your upstream traffic enough that your ISP cannot identify it, and therefore block it. But they may also just block any large, sustained data going up your connection, regardless of it's encryption or what the data looks like. In which case you're out of luck, as far as my knowledge goes.

I admit I've got no knowledge of VPS, and very little of VPNs, so if anyone else knows otherwise please correct this.

Don't be like others and don't overdo on the "be different" aspect. Photography is a widespread business and attracting your target audience is both easy and difficult.

So, consider the following:

1. Have a USP - unique selling point. What makes you different from your competitors? You should have something to be recognized for
2. Create responsive, SEO optimized web pages - design is very important but it should be aligned with your overall goal of creating a good user experience
3. Choose what works for your competitors and use it - This could be a website template, hashtags on social media or even a social media strategy.
   Note - don't copy, use the same thing your own way, interpret the idea but never copy the exact same thing.
4. Get creative and engage your audience- create a good marketing strategy which will include stories, videos, live videos, live streaming events that are likely to increase your reach

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Don't panic, just use whatever works for your competitors and get creative on what they are not doing but your audience would love.

Additionally, you can take an Inbound Marketing Certification by HubSpot to learn a lot about marketing and business

So I'm currently running into an issue. Maybe you can help me. Background: I recently started streaming to Twitch via slabs OBS and have enjoyed it enough that i wanted to expand into Mixer. I setup restream.io to stream to both Twitch and Mixer, and am using the Chat App as an overlay over the game so i can keep up with both chats. All well and good. Normally, streaming to just twitch, ive been watching the Slabs Live/Recent Events list in a second window in order to thank followers and such. Its worked great. I am understanding though that this Recent events list will not show mixer event of the same type. So my question is this. How can i, either through an overlay or widget that i can have up on the second monitor, keep tabs on a activity feed of all follows/subs/etc for BOTH mixer and twitch siumultaneously. I've been googling the internet for a fix for this for a while with no luck. I've noticed some streamers on mix have a chat line that pops up when someone subscribes. Is that something that is default to Mixer Chat and would therefore appear on my restream.io overlay? Any advice you can offer would be great.

I'm not entirely sure about the app to stream your screen, but I use Restream.io to simultaneously stream to Twitch and Youtube. The base plan that I use is free and works for those.

Encoding lag would be a separate issue from Network lag.

I would triple check that nothing in your testing is changing other than the service/server. i.e. within a 20 minute span, using the same game, same settings in OBS and in-game, rerun test and benchmark performance (as opposed to, 'I tried this one day, and tried this other thing the next day').

Network lag could be easily explained that your route to the Twitch server is completely different than Restream.io's route to the same Twitch server.

First off, if you have a Windows 10 PC with the Xbox app, you can mirror XB1 gameplay to PC and capture that in OBS (or SLOBS) and stream it to Twitch. (and/or Mixer. You can use restream.io to stream to both platforms for free)

Second, you cannot stream to both Twitch AND Mixer directly from the Xbox, you'll need to stream within one app at a time.

Hope that clears things up!

The most important thing while posting on Facebook groups is to find relevant groups where you can find your target audience. If you are promoting a watch on a group about excavators, you will definitely annoy the members as they are less likely to be interested in buying a watch. But a group about shopping, maybe about collectioners will get you more interested people.

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Another way is going live and sharing it in groups. With this, you will both spread awareness about your product and get views, also interested people will watch your live video, like your page. For doing this more effectively, you can pre-record a video and set it as live. I am using Restream for this and having a live video but not being live actually, is worth it. Now they offer 70% OFF on restream + scheduler bundle so it's a good deal.

On posting Facebook, you can think of a strategy, choose groups, choose different messages for promoting your product.

Alternatively, you can comment on relevant posts. There are lots of ways of promoting Facebook without annoying the members.

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1. OBS Studio- easy free program to post live video/screen mirroring ect.
2. Manycam- I have multiple cameras and views. This program allows you to switch back and forth with nice transitions between screen/ camera/ anything or show them at the same time in split screen. You just choose this as your video source for OBS. OBS will allow you to have both your screen shot and camera on the screen at the same time but it doesn't allow you to transition between multiple inputs.
3. Restream - This allows you to broadcast on multiple platforms live simultaneously. We currently do ours on youtube/twitch/periscope. Restream gives you a code which you paste into OBS and it streams to restream which then re-streams to other platforms.

When you're streaming via Restream, you'd use the Restream.io stream key on that site there. That allows you to go live on all your connected services (i.e. YouTube/Twitch/Twitter/etc)

Restream Chat is Restream's own chat program. They have a web app that can allow you to view multiple chats at the same time, but not sure if it works on mobile browsers.

Please note that if you are an affiliate (or plan to be), you are not allowed to multistream as there is exclusivity for content streamed to Twitch that lasts until 24 hours after the end of the stream. You can still stream to Mixer separately, just not at the same time as on Twitch.

If you are a partner on Twitch, you may not be allowed to stream elsewhere at all, you'll have to look at your contract for anything regarding exclusivity.

When I started streaming I went with YouTube first only because there seemed to be less streamers and more viewers. I figured at the time, the numbers were just better for someone starting out. After finding a groove I started seeing more and more reasons why Twitch was friendlier to streamers so to start my transition to Twitch I started using Restream.io . Using their free service you can stream on both platforms and it hardly affects your pc performance. It's really easy to set up.
If I had to start all over again I would go with Twitch. Fuck YouTube. They continue to alienate their product (you) for commercial revenue. I get that it's a business and they need to make money. I just dont like their business model.

There are AMD GPUs and Intel CPUs without this limit, but neither of them gets anywhere close to the same quality you would get with NVENC. NVENC is almost identical to x264 veryfast, while Intel QSV and AMD VCE are both between x264 ultrafast and x264 superfast. So you would likely have to multiply the original bitrate 1.2 - 2 times to get similar quality to what you did before.

What is your actual end goal?

• "Just streaming to two places at once.": You do not need to encode twice for this, just have the output multiplexed into two seperate streams. There are services like restream.io which offer this for free, or you could run your own solution with nginx rtmp and ffmpeg.
• "Stream different content to different platforms.": Requires multiple encoders, as well as configuration for each platform.

An alternative solution is to record on the PC that is playing, you can likely set up a network drive to record to if space is the issue.

Restream Chat overlay - https://restream.io/chat

I used this myself for the first month or so I streamed (as I wasn't used to looking at my other (small) monitor and was missing messages).

It has opacity settings so you can see the game through it, and is by default set to allow clicks through it (so you can interact with your game) -- ctrl+click to interact with the chat window itself (to move it, etc).

If you are pushing to three platforms simultaneously, I recommend a middleman service. Otherwise you're pushing three identical feeds to three different servers, thus increasing your bandwidth requirements by 3. 6 meg up is good enough for one, maybe two streams. You won't be able to get all three streams over a 6 meg uplink without taking a quality hit.

Livestream has the ability to simulcast to Facebook at the same time as Livestream.

For other platforms, like YouTube and whatever server their website is using, I recommend Restream. You send them one RTMP stream, and they re-encode it for all the various platforms that you require. Once your stream hits their servers, you don't have to worry about bandwidth requirements.

For an encoder, I recommend the Teradek Cube. You can get away with using a laptop, a capture card, and software like OBS or Wirecast, but the whole setup is more complex than a Cube.

Welcome to Mixer! If you are streaming via the Xbox Mixer app, then I don't think there is a way to stream simultaneously to twitch. However, you can hook up your xbox to a PC via a capture card (assuming your PC is powerful enough) and stream to a service called Restream.

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Is this the first time you're trying to set up or have you been able to successfully connect before?
It's very possible that the problem is related to the phone hotspot, as I cannot imagine those provide optimal speeds. Have you conducted a speed test? You need at least 3.5 mpbs upload speed for a relatively stable stream.

One more option is to try using Restream.io. It's got the added bonus of allowing you to stream to several other platforms (Hitbox, YouTube, Beam, etc). I've found that when we started streaming through it, our streams became more stable and consistent (though I'm not sure as to why exactly).

They can interact vocally, you'd just have to have a Discord or whatever for them to chat with you in. I'd tread lightly in that regard, since you have no idea what they could say or do, and since it's your stream, you could take the fall.

As far as streaming to Twitch and Youtube simultaneously with Xsplit, I'm not sure how or if that functionality exists as I'm a staunch supporter of OBS. You could use a service like Restream to accomplish this.

Twitch has a bigger creator base for livestreams for most games and markets, but Youtube allows you to stream in higher bitrates. You can also use something to simulcast, like https://restream.io/, to see what works best for your audience (or keep simulcasting)

If you're feeling plucky, maybe check out restream.io, assuming you can't or don't want to stream to both simultaneously (or want to add hitbox, for instance). I can't vouch for the service, and honestly have reservations and giving them access to my accounts, but I've read others who have nothing but positive things to say.

I'm using restream.io

You stream to their servers and they in-turn send that traffic to the ingest servers of the sites you want to stream to. That way you don't need to stream to each site individually with OBS/Xsplit and butcher your bandwidth.

To make the switch easier and to allow your current viewer base to transition with you i would suggest using https://restream.io/ to stream to both twitch and hitbox and just let your twitch viewers know you're more into hitbox. This way they can still watch on twitch and not just think you vanished.

restream.io exists, but just because you're streaming on two platforms doesn't really mean that you're going to get 2x the exposure.

when you're first starting out, networking and advertising is as important or more important than having good content.

For actual technical tools, youtube is hands down the better option, but it's a lot easier to network and discover people on twitch. It's still extremely hard to wade through a sea of people with 0-1 viewers.

Youtube and twitch also have different video formatsm. For pure streaming viewers, twitch is still going to have a lot more people who watch streams for the live interactive experience whereas youtube has more people watching edited content.

restream.io exists, but just because you're streaming on two platforms doesn't really mean that you're going to get 2x the exposure.

when you're first starting out, networking and advertising is as important or more important than having good content.

For actual technical tools, youtube is hands down the better option, but it's a lot easier to network and discover people on twitch. It's still extremely hard to wade through a sea of people with 0-1 viewers.

Youtube and twitch also have extremely different video formats and for pure streaming viewers, twitch is still going to have a lot more people who watch streams for the live interactive experience whereas youtube has more people watching edited content.

I would stick to "The Trains Podcast", it's clear and easy to search. As for the keyword rules I've read in this guide: "You’ll also want to add keywords to your podcast description, as Google crawls this info as well. Avoid keyword stuffing (adding your keyword repeatedly), as both Google and human readers/listeners don’t like it. There are no hard and fast rules on podcast descriptions, and content that uses an RSS feed doesn’t have a limit. But Apple Podcasts doesn’t let you go over 4,000 characters, so that’s commonly seen as the limit."

Your question was regarding getting restream.io to work with Cloudbot's Loyalty system, and regardless of the age of the post, the answer would be relevant today since they both still exist.

You use reddit when you need an answer to your question, then you should be willing to rethink how you fixed it and provide a solution. Its only fair if you're going to bother other with your problems.

By the way, this post still comes up in search results...

Do you stream live on your channel? It's one of the biggest trends nowadays to gain more followers. Also take a look at this guide, it explains what types of content are the most popular now. And of course, share your videos across all the social media.

Create really good graphics for you show (it may seem not important, but it really works as a brand in whole). Collaborate with other podcasters. Find niche communities and promote yourself there. Also, include some SEO strategies like hashtags, searchable name, etc (here's a great guide on how to do that).

There are browser streaming services like restream.io. You can also use OBS with Linux, which you can enable on a fair few Chromebooks: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en

Your internet sucks, and it's not going to handle 5000 bitrate. Your PC is fine for streaming. But with that low of an upload speed, it's going to be hard. I'd start with testing out 720p30 with 3000 bitrate. Keep your game on low settings, and see what results you get. If they're not too bad, kick it up to 3500 bitrate and see what happens. I wouldn't go above that though. If it's still looking bad, drop down to 2500.

Think of it this way, your internet uploads at 5440kbps, and trying to stream with 5000kbps doesn't give you much of a buffer. You need wiggle room, so dropping to 3000kbps gives you that wiggle room. This is a pretty good article about how bitrate and internet speed works.

Για upload σε 720p και 30fps, θα σου φάει μέγιστη ταχύτητα τα 5,7Mbps. Και μετά θέλεις περισσότερο upload για να παίξεις το παιχνίδι. Δηλαδή, χρειάζεται upload τουλάχιστον 10Mbps. Είναι απαραίτητο όταν παίζεις παιχνίδια FPS όπως το Fortnite ώστε να μην κολλάει η σύνδεση και σε κάνουν συνέχεια με τα κρεμμυδάκια.

Αν η κάρτα γραφικών είναι καλή και μπορεί να βοηθήσει στην συμπίεση του βίντεο πριν φύγει από το PC σου, τότε η ανάγκη σε upload bandwidth είναι πιο χαμηλή. Είναι 3Mbps για το βίντεο.

Για σύνδεση Internet, δες στην Vodafone αν έχει γρήγορο Internet στην διεύθυνσή σου. Στην περιοχή σου έχει σκάψει η Vodafone. Μπορείς να πάρεις σύνδεση με κάθε πάροχο όμως. Μπορεί να είναι αρκετό το VDSL 50Mbps (23€/μήνα), το VDSL 100Mbps (κάτω από 30€ το μήνα) ή να πάρεις FTTH (σπάνιο και αργεί η εγκατάσταση).

Για PC, πάρε πύργο ώστε να μπορεις να αναβαθμίζεις. Έχει άλλα subreddit που ξέρουν περισσότερα ώστε να σε βοηθήσουν. Μπορείς να ξεκινήσεις με μια μεταχειρισμένη GPU. Ναι, υπάρχουν διάφοροι που μπορούν να στήσουν τον υπολογιστή με λίγα χρήματα. Αν αγοράσεις όλα τα κομμάτια από το ίδιο κατάστημα, το συναρμολογούν οι ίδιοι με μικρό κόστος ή χωρίς έξτρα κόστος.

You should take copyright of that videos. https://restream.io/blog/how-to-copyright-a-video/ from this webpage, this is the process of copyrighting your video with full rights on it. Register with the Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) here. Fill out the electronic form provided to you. Either upload a copy of your video to attach it to your application form or submit it by mail on a CD. Pay a $35 processing fee.

Maybe there are more ways to do it. You can search on google more about it.

Here's a great guide to podcasting equipment, and also this guide overviews microphones for live streaming/podcasting. Hope they will help!

I would not risk doing it if you are affiliate, it is against Twitch's TOS if you are partnered/affiliated unless you have a written exemption. As for bitrate, if your upload is around 20 Mbps, you might have some stability issues when trying to do two streams from your computer, if you did just restream.io then it would be fine. Also, you could technically run two different OBS instances, but that would be a very complicated setup every time you launch it.

Find niche communities with related topics and let them know about your show. Also, post everywhere on social media with appropriate hashtags. In this guide there are a lot of tips, take a look if you use all of them.

Hey, Please update this game list so we can select the game in OBS and we don't have to go to the restream.io website to update our game selection every time we make a change. Thanks!

The good mic is the most important thing, the starter one can be around 50 bucks. Also you need a stable connection. For more tips check this guide out, it's pretty comprehensive: Everything you need to know about podcasting equipment.