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Deadlands

SeanTSeanT
edited July 2010 in General Chat
I plan on broadcasting the tabletop RPG game I run here in the office tonight around 7pm. It will either be on Ustream or Livestream, not sure which.

Earlier I "tweetsploded" saying the following:
1.5 hours 'till the #TelltaleGames #Deadlands game. I will try my best to broadcast it on #Ustream or #Livestream. Stay tuned. #TTG

If you are interested in watching, follow my twitter (@voodoomon) and I will try my best to keep you up to date on when the stream is going live.

Comments

  • TomPravetzTomPravetz
    edited June 2010
    Sean! I'm already following you. Do I get special privileges? (Sorry And yes everyone else. This post is meant to annoy.)
  • SeanTSeanT
    edited June 2010
    So for the few of you that visited the stream last night and noticed it failing pretty badly... I'm sorry.

    VERY poor audio and even worse... The stream freezing and I didn't even notice. :mad:

    Telltalers! I need your help! We have a couple web cams in the office as well as a pretty high-res firewire enabled camera that no one knows if it can be used as a streaming device.

    What I would like, if any of you know, is what kind of setup should I strive for to stream live and record video of the Deadlands game. Have any of you done live streaming in the past? What streaming site do you use and prefer? Also, I'm wanting to pick up an omnidirectional mic that can pick up everyone in the room. Anyone have any recommendations for hardware to buy and use?

    Please let me know what you know! (Thanks in advance)
  • serializerserializer
    edited June 2010
    Hi Sean,

    I'm the developer of a video streaming website. We don't support live streaming on our site yet, only uploads. However the streaming software we're using (Wowza Media Server) can also be used for live streaming.

    A Wowza server license costs $65/mo which would allow you to run your own streaming server for whatever purposes you needed.

    However it sounds like you wouldn't really want to pay that much for these purposes! I'd be happy to help you set up a live stream on our server, and I'd be learning how live publishing works in the process; unfortunately our dedicated server is located in the UK so I don't know how well it'd work for viewers in the US. We do however have plenty of unused bandwidth and CPU resources, so I have no doubt it would stably stream to a decent number of people. Of course for plenty of TTers in Europe it would be fine.

    Another live streaming site you could look at is justin.tv which also seems to be very popular.

    I imagine there will probably be reliability problems with most free services, simply due to the cost of servers, bandwidth, and software.

    With regards your firewire camera, there will always be a way of converting (transcoding) from one source into the correct format for the publishing protocol being used. I have a feeling you might be able to do this with VLC Media Player.

    Let me know if you have any more questions or if you want to try out our server.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited July 2010
    Deadland game being broadcast tonight! Come and join us at http://www.livestream.com/deadlandsttg, it's about to start.
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