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How to find your Twitch Subscribers in 2023

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Twitch have this annoying habit of moving things around every couple of weeks. This just happened with the downloadable list of Twitch Subscribers on your channel. Here’s where the option is hiding as of January 2023 (this might be outdated by the time you read this, which case please let me know below so I … Read more

Exporting commands from the Streamlabs Chatbot

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The other day I wanted to use the local Streamlabs Chatbot for both my Twitch and YouTube streams. Turns out when I restart it for the other streaming service, my custom commands and settings are not automatically linked, they’re stored separately. I wanted to import all those little shortcuts and quotes I have stored for … Read more

Using OBS Virtual Camera with delayed audio in an external app like Zoom, Skype or Discord

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Since version 26 of OBS we have that wonderful built-in Virtual Camera option. This lets us use the OBS video output with external apps that do the streaming for us, like Zoom, Skype and Discord to name a few. Video processing takes a small amount of time, and as a result our audio arrives too … Read more

How to unpublish a video on Twitch

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Twitch have added a new option for video creators: we can now UN-publish videos that were previously public. It’s a new way of access control for streamers and possibly related to the recent announcement with promises of better control over the footage we store. In the announcement Twitch admitted that they and creators need better … Read more

Getting Started with Streaming – An Overview

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I’ve been meaning to put this quick guide together, with helpful bits of equipment and software that you need to get started in the world of streaming. I also wanted to explain the principles in a not-too-technical way. Here’s what I’ve come up with! This guide includes some philosophy, general tips, some basic kit suggestions, as well as “extra credit” optionals with affiliated links to the products I’m talking about. I hope you get some information out of this list!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments and I’ll try my best to help if I can.

Table of Contents

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OBS NDI: Quick Setup Guide for Dual PC Streaming

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I’ve been experimenting with OBS NDI recently, and although it may not be as relevant in 2020 as it once was, I thought it best to take some notes on how to make a dual-PC streaming setup work before I forget. It’s pretty straightforward. Here’s what we need:

  • two computers on the same network (wired for best results)
  • two installations of OBS, one on either computer
  • the OBS-NDI plugin installed on both systems

I should mention that this will with a wireless network, but it can lead to lower frame rates due to data throughput. Essentially the main PC will send its entire OBS scene more or less uncompressed over the network, at a very high data rate, only to be properly compressed on the second PC that will do the actual streaming. However, we can still switch scenes on the main PC in OBS just as we always do.

Let’s get this going!

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How to get the URL to your next Live Stream on YouTube (stream now)

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YouTube’s Studio “forever Beta” interface is in a continuous state of disarray. At the time of writing, and since 2018, we’re seeing a partially upgraded interface with plenty of deep links into the older YouTube Classic experience. 2020 is almost half over, and YouTube have upgraded half of the Live Streaming experience (Events). However, the Stream Now option is still Classic, and as such has a few issues that won’t be fixed (until we see the rest of YouTube’s upgrade… at some point in the indeterminate future).

The issue that I sometimes have is to find the URL to my new Stream Now live stream. With events it’s not a problem, but Stream Live Classic will often show us the generic live URL to our channel (say https://youtube.com/TheWPguru/live) rather than a direct URL with an ID. It entirely depends on the channel. On some you’ll see this (generic):

where you’d really like to see this (direct ID):

The latter is preferred because you can start chatting with people before you go live, and you can give out this link before the event begins. Although the generic live URL will work, the event will not be accessible when you start streaming the next time.

Thankfully, there is a way to extract the correct direct URL from the new YouTube Studio interface, but it’s not entirely obvious. Here’s how to grab it:

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