XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 http://bit.ly/Z2WSAq Finally got it working (a bit). If you're around and wouldn't mind popping and letting me know how it looks and what needs fixed, I'd appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 Told me the stream key was invalid after about 45 minutes of playing. Reset it and it worked, other than that pretty smooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dateranoth Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Just got home, but I checked the archive. Looks pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 Sound okay? Took me forever of fiddling with it to even be able to hear me. I still think the game audio is too low to be heard right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 Also going to have to adjust the microphone noise gate. Voice was getting cut out a lot which messed it up pretty bad. Didn't realize til just now. Might it be best to not use one? I was worried about catching too much background noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Edit: I think tomorrow night I will finally have this working well on my PC, and the plan is within the next week to hopefully stream some console games too. Sorry to spam you all up with all this, thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Don't worry about it, Bdub. Dat and some of us have been helping countless people and it's almost second nature now. lol If I can give you one small piece of advice about casting -- Never take it too seriously. It's good to care about your quality and all, but there's so much that can bring you down when you're casting. "Twitch Drama" is a very real thing. The one thing you should be focused on, is fun. We've seen people who cast for other reasons than fun, and it never works out well. Also, if you weren't asking questions, we'd be worried. Enjoy your time and all should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Thanks man! I just feel like an irritant sometimes, because I feel like some of these things should be so obvious. It's funny because I've always been great with computers and electronics, but some of this is just foreign territory for me. As far as that's concerned, I am all about this for the fun. It's something I wanted to get into for a while, just never had the time or means to. I'm not after A++ quality, just getting things to an acceptable level so I can do this properly and have a system down. I've noticed though...whenever I'm off an evening Gamercide usually starts a stream around the same time. Maybe I'll do some sort of late nite casting for the night birds, since a lot of nights I do work late. I dunno, we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Well, we do have 8 casters for the channel and a schedule that's fairly open for them. There's also a few fill-in casters, like PipMagnet and myself. We try to have a cast going at all times possible. After streaming and getting used to the software, you'll end up helping people. Just a natural cycle and the streaming community tends to help one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Yep, I'm excited. I'll be tinkering with it probably most of the evening trying to get my computer set up properly, and hopefully have my capture device ready to go shortly down the line. I don't know if anyone has ever had this problem before...but the problem I was having before, was with my audio and mic. It seemed to work fine, but when I started streaming I would hear both myself and the game sound echoing. I didn't have the stream playing in Twitch, and I tried it with and without headphones, playing with the volume levels and mic noise gate, none of it really seemed to make a difference. Any ideas what might cause that? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I've done that before when I streamed. Checked that the stream was muted - it was. Later realized I had the channel's dashboard up and the echo was coming from that. lol Might want to check this, too Tick off "listen to this device" in mic properties. May or may not be the problem, but you want it ticked off anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Awesome, I'll try that thanks. One last thing then I'll be off your back til later (promise lol). Well two things. Related to the sound in XSplit or OBS, when you're streaming and you have the two volume controls for sound...mic sound and system sound, what's the best setup? Should one be louder than the other, both maxed out? I've been tinkering with that, and also with the mic boost built into the mic (like if you were to click the 'levels' tab on the image you just showed me). I have mine set to +24 dB, and between that and the mic boost in the streaming software, it's driving me mad trying to get my voice to sound high enough without the game sounding too low, etc. Second quick thing...I think I may go with XSplit, since I like the features a lot and I don't really mind paying $15 for 3 months. Good idea or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Soundcards are too different across the board, so you'll need to find a good mix through testing. I found my best level with Kevin in the stream giving me feedback. I couldn't trust just my own ears. Give us some heads up when you next go live, and we'll try to come in and help you determine a good mix. That choice is all yours to make. OBS works fine for me. The only big difference to me is, delay. OBS has a 6-10 second delay from the time you say something, to the time the channel hears it. Xsplit's is a bit faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 Thanks Looking pretty good. I have everything good except for a few lag issues left to fix. It's not perfect, but soon it'll be as good as it's going to get for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Looks like I just missed your last cast by 10 minutes. I checked out the archive, though, and the sound mix was solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 That was just a test run. I'm going to do another in about 10 minutes and view it. If that works, I'll set up a normal stream for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 Streaming live now. It's good enough. If you get the chance to see it or check the latest video in the archive after it's done, much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 Couldn't sleep so well, so I decided to download and stream the demo from the original Bioshock. Good news, I hooked my laptop up to my TV. So I can somewhat multitask in streams better now. Bad news...yeah my computer is abysmal for streaming PC games. Check out the video if you want to see what I mean. Skip to around 21:00...that's where I stop fiddling with settings and just play. Set to low graphics quality, still awful. Played better on my end than the stream by just a tiny bit, but there's no doubt I need an upgrade. Semi-good news: it wasn't AS bad as I thought. I thought it would be unplayable to be honest. It was painful, but I could play it. So today I'll probably try Half Life 2. I know most of you have played it to death at some point, but it's the only Steam game I have that I'm familiar with. Should work perfectly fine, and I can try that out. http://bit.ly/10GX9JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Going live now w/ Crash 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxBollWeevilxX Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share Posted April 8, 2013 With any luck I will be streaming from my console on Tuesday evening. Should work well compared to my PC at least until I get my desktop. Don't have the best selection:Bioshock 2BorderlandsCoD (BO2, WAW, MW3)GTA IVCrysis 3Fallout 3Portal 1, 2Skyrim Was thinking maybe Crysis 3, I haven't beaten it yet but I haven't seen too much of it around either. But let me know if there's anything anyone might prefer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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