• What is the best way to stream the games I playing with just a few friends?
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Hey there - I've got a Discord server going and sometimes I want to watch what other people are doing or have them take a look at what I'm doing. Unfortunately, Steam Broadcast has a huge latency as with all of the major streaming services. Is there a more direct way to stream the games I'm playing in a way that's convenient? I don't really want to use Skype or Google Hangouts as that's what Discord's kind of the replacement for that, so any alternatives or brainstorming would be cool.
If Steam isn't good enough (and last I saw it was broken for multi-monitor setups), and you refuse to use services that exist for it, you might try a social webcam site that uses webrtc, but then you'd need some garbage like manycam to convert your screen capture to a directshow web-enabled output. You might try using your own website: [url]https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/[/url] But then the problem is that it won't make any effort to STAY live. The delay is less than 3 seconds, but any lag in the situation whatsoever will stack up over time as the clients viewing won't skip late frames but rather will just STOP and wait for them to come, so that 3 seconds can become 3 minutes. If your viewers refreshed the page every minute it would work, but that sucks. [editline]24th June 2016[/editline] Using your own server is most ideal, but I don't know how to fix the problem mentioned above.
I use xsplit to stream through Skype and use virtual audio cables to send audio through Skype as well. We talk on discord and everyone in the Skype call mutes themselves. edit: sorry, didn't see where you said you wanted to avoid skype.
If you have the hardware for it and want to stream to just one person with minimal lag comparable to an in-house stream you can use Geforce Experience/Gamestream. If not I'd recommend OBS + beam.pro as from my experience that site displays the video as fast as it can process it without any artificial delay like Twitch has, most of the time the lag is under 5 seconds.
And apparently beam just got discord integration, so that could probably be helpful for you, too [url]https://watchbeam.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/211272323-Using-the-Discord-Integration[/url]
I chatted with the guys at Beam via Twitter and they said they don't have private Twitch streams yet, but I think I can mute me and my friend's audio with VAC. I think that's going to be my solution!
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