Our team just started live streaming events this past year (
FLL,
FTC,
AZ) and have been looking into upgrading our setup to be in HD, so this was definitely a great read.
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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
What is the best streaming site? I really liked youtube but our stream was taken down pretty quickly. I have heard of other teams/groups getting around the copyright take downs but I'm not sure how this has been done.
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YouTube Live has great features for being free, including automatic encoding of lower resolution streams, DVR playback, and instant archiving. Of course the only downside is their music content ID system. For our FLL and FTC streams we were in charge of the music as well, so on our high school's sound board, we found a button to "ground out" the music input allowing just the mic audio to be sent to the streaming laptop. This worked well enough that we did not get flagged by YouTube, but did make some parts of the broadcast a bit dull.
I also second the recommendation for Open Broadcaster Software. It is pretty easy to use and outputs a very high quality and reliable stream, especially for being free!