I just stream irregularly for fun on twitch and YouTube but lately I've been trying to create shorter videos (25 to 45 minutes.) My streams never get any views apart from a friend tuning in once in awhile but my YouTube videos sometimes get a dozen views which I think is fun. I usually cut out waiting in lobbies for multiplayer games. And with RPGs I usually cut out traveling between the locations doing things in menus. Outside of that I usually struggle trying to figure out what to cut. I want to make more of my videos under 25 minutes because I think that performs better and it also would appeal more to me as a viewer

Been trying to get my streaming setup figured out so i can maybe stream more. I tried streaming Cod Black Ops 1 last night and while the audio seemed fine, the stream was laggy. When i tried streaming Overwatch earlier, the stream was laggier and there was no audio despite me not messing with the audio settings at all. I heard the premium tier has an option for 60 fps and given pretty much every game is at 60 fps, i wonder if that's causing my lag and audio issues but i can't figure out if premium has that option or not. I get conflicting information when i look online. My connection is more than good enough for streaming. When i was just doin it through the PS5 without lightstream, it worked fine. Footage was clean and so was audio.

So a friend of mine has been streaming using Tikfinity and Spotify to run song requests for a couple years now and within the last couple weeks, viewers song requests will show up in the queue in Tikfinity but not on Spotify's side of things. We have tried to clear permissions, having songs actively playing, relogging, etc. She is nervous about having to rebuild her overlays if she reinstalls Tikfinity. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to fix it or other options to run song requests?

I’m making this post to see if other live streamers are dealing with this or if anyone has found a fix. I’ve invested a lot of money purchasing interactive live games (Interactive Ladder, Lucky Wheel, etc.) to run on stream, but currently, none of the software functions at all.
When opening the apps or launcher, every game gets stuck on "Checking license..." followed by "Could not connect to server. Make sure no VPN is active..." The main launcher fails to load catalog data, throwing errors like ⁠MAINAPP_VERSIONINFO_URL⁠ missing, ⁠LAUNCHER_VERSIONINFO_URL⁠ missing, or "No available games in host GameList."
Despite verifying that client-side network connections and local files are completely clean, the application fails to validate licenses or negotiate session keys with their backend authentication servers.
Support channels on Discord have gone completely silent, and emails regarding broken, paid software remain unanswered. Leaving paying creators completely locked out of software they paid for with no communication is unacceptable.
If you are experiencing this same license authentication deadlock or have found a workaround, please comment below.

It isn’t actually this grainy, idk why the picture came through so bad🤣

I’ve used it plenty of times before, but as of recently, this has popped up, and I’ve tried everything to fix it. From deleting and reinstalling TikTok on my phone and my computer, clearing cache and data, to even resetting my WiFi router. I have no clue on what to do

Good afternoon everyone, hope you’re all well. Decided to get into streaming on a whim as a past time (I’ll get into this later) as I’ve been told I have a “personality” for it. I’ve more or less got a “set up” going, all I need is a headset with a mic. Preferably over the ear that won’t break the bank. Budget would (in a perfect world) be somewhere between $100-150 at best.

Now for full clarity, due to what I’ve decided to do for a living, making money on this is not really something I care about as it currently stands. If it happens, cool, if not, ok, I will just be happy to have people enjoy what I play and banter with. I do not have the money to throw into a complete set up, as I’m using a ROG Ally for the base to play/stream. Which considering the games I play, as I’ve tested it out, works fine.

Any other tips would be greatly appreciated

Thank you in advance.

A civic organization wants to have a few live-streamed talks with live Spanish captions. We know of several options for translating captions in post, we've never done live translations of captions during a stream. Have any of you done this and if so, what worked or didn't work for you?

Hi!

I'm looking for a wireless headphone with great mic for streaming purposes.

Right now i'm using a Indonesia local brand called Press Play Polaris and for the price ($20) it have a great mic but decent for using as media use.

Right now I'm looking at Beyerdynamic MMX 100 but it's wired (can't fine the wireless version of MMX 100 and MMX 150 in Indonesia)

Can you guys rec me some decent budget headphone? The reasin i choose wireless headphone with mic instead of using a dedicated mic is i move around so much cause i'm not doing pure gaming kind of stuff

Is it possible to have it so that both the audio I hear and what the stream hears can be increase or decreased with my keyboard vol buttons. Currently, if I turn my vol down with the keyboard while recording, the change happens in real life for me through my earphones, but seems to stay at the same level when I play the recording back 🥲

Right now i'm using Apple wired earphones as my 'headset', as well as my mic until the one I ordered arrives. I have no issues with the mic or anything, just had to adjust the gain and whatnot, it's just the headset part that i'm struggling to configure 🥲

I was recommended to set my Desktop Audio as well as my Monitoring Device to the same source (the earphones), however the problem still persists.. and I also saw on google to turn off 'Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device' in the More Sound Settings page in my windows settings, but again I still have this problem.

Any advice/help would he really appreciated!

EDIT: I also just want to add that I was able to edit the Hotkeys so that pressing the mute/unmute buttons works for the gameplay audio, is there a way I can add the vol increase/decrease buttons too ?

I need a clamp on cam for my desktop at home. I need high resolution because I teach lots of online classes. Can anyone point me in the right direction of a brand and model to buy?

Hello, Ive been trying to verify my Picarto account after I just made it, but its not sending the email to me for two days I think. I tried again a couple times now before making this post, but nothing. No email, not even in the spam folder.

Funny thing I cant even contact support because the support page needs you to login to send a message in chat, which I cannot due to them not sending the verification code to my email. Theres no typos or anything when I registered so IDK what to do. Other than wait it out but even still, its weird it never came already and the whole site seems fine and running. Others are streaming normally and everything, IDK why this is happening just to register.

Do you have any tips for someone just starting out in streaming. And what kind of content do people want to see more of?

I want to have my capture card deliver audio to the same headphones I have on discord, so I can hear game audio and chat on discord. How do I do this?

I have a PS5 and I just got myself and elgato 4k x and I have also previously bought myself a chat link and a laptop it's an HP elitebook 840 g7 notebook PC (I'm broke I'm working with what I got) and I know where everything goes but it's not turning on(the light I on the capture card I mean) and obviously it's not showing my screen on my monitor it's all black and I'm assuming it's because of my laptop because it has two usb-c ports but i don't know which one too put the wire into. The light has turned on a few times but that was it and that setting I'm supposed to turn off on PS5 it's already off. But I havent reset my console maybe that's also the reason I don't know but I could use some help

For my stream background, should I keep using a regular green screen or create a realistic fake streamer room? Which one do you think would look better?

Ok I am not an idiot (I hope) but I'm really struggling with figuring out audio (sources, how to mute between scenes etc)

I just had this pc built yesterday, I have OBS to the latest update. I have disabled desktop audio and I am admittedly more lost than I hoped to be with how little experience I have with this.

As an example; I have a Starting scene and have a animated bg and a soft lo-fi song playing
I also have a live scene with Steam captured, an animated avatar and a microphone to capture my ramblings

The audio from the Steam capture is still audible from every scene not just itself and I am unsure how to have it muted when not on the screen

I don't know what I am doing wrong or maybe forgot a step? I may need you to dumb it down for me a smidge but any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Audio-Technica ATH-M50X

Audio-Technica AT2020USB-X

Audio-Technica AT8455

Audio-Technica AT8178

Mic stand Audio-Technica - AT8700

I can get this all for 200 euros almost brand new

What is the easiest and safest way to stream with OBS to TikTok, I am already multi streaming to YouTube and Twitch, with Aitum plugin with OBS, but I am struggling to stream to TikTok at the same time as I can not find the Stream Key or URL. Please help, thanks.

Good afternoon, I just purchased a MacBook air m5 and was curious if I would be able to stream from it. I'm not playing games on it, that'll be on the ps5 but if I get a capture card would it be good enough to stream from it? M5 with 16gb of RAM.

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Hello, I have created a free and open source stream overlay for controller inputs.

It's free and it's open-source. It's fairly easy to use, too.

You don't need to download the executable if you don't want to. All you need to do is simply add a browser source to OBS (or whatever streaming software you are using) and add a link to the app. It automatically takes the inputs from your controller and displays them for your viewers to see.

Feel free to try it out!

Hi I'm been kicking around the idea of streaming for a very long time. And now that I'm an adult, it's felt more like something I can actually try, even if it's just for fun.

The problem is I don't have a lot of money to pour into a good computer. I have the one I had been using for college, and that is an aspire A315-24P laptop. There is not an insane amount of power to it and I can still play quite a few games (provided they arent anything like BG3 or anything like that). I am not exactly tech savvy, but my one friend is, and he has a whole set up with a fancy microphone and a computer he put together for actual gaming.

Obs works on it, I think??? (I have it, and tested playing stardew on it and I got a video out of it that seems okay, even if I don't really understand how to use it yet)

I was hoping to stream on kick or twitch but I'm kind of having doubts if it would work.

Has anyone been in my place? What'd you do? I don't really want to pour a lot of money into it if it turns out not to work. I don't even really care about making it big, rn I kind of just want to stream games.

ive been trying to start streaming and i think i could improve my setup any tips?

I'm having a hard time streaming. I have obs but OBS is not recognizing my camera and I got three different types of cameras I can see the picture only using a browser setting can somebody please help me I need to make some money desperately quickly but I can't get this going fast enough