[Deetman]

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

Doesn't YouTube take down any stream their contentID system flags as containing copyrighted audio? Correct me if I'm wrong. YouTube is a great streaming platform, but the risk of being cut off because the mic picks up the background music would be a showstopper for me.

(This is a useful thread for us as we prepare our off season event)

MAR has been streaming to YouTube for 2 seasons now. With our setup, we have never had a stream taken down during the event. I am aware of one instance in which we got a "warning" during a live event that temporarily blocked the stream, but was quickly remedied as the Mic was turned off. See https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3367684?hl=en for a good description of the Live Stream Content ID repercussions. We sometimes see after the event has completed that the content ID system has found a song in the background that it didn't detect live. Most of the time, this just results in automatic ads and blocking in some countries of the event recording, but we are able to upload the individual matches afterwards anyway.

Our set up is simple. Game sounds and Mics go to our DJ's audio mixer, which then sends us back a clean feed of just the game sounds and mics for the live stream. When the MCs and game announcers are not talking, make sure that they turn their Mics off. Open mics are the only reason background music ever seems to get detected, not to mention they can pick up unwanted private conversations around the field.

More details on the MAR streaming system can be found in this whitepaper: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3160