Setting Up a Twitch Feed in Utah/Denver?

[blazingbronco18]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Sorry I meant to say twitch can be a mess IMO. It works perfectly fine from a viewer standpoint but I have had some struggles with it from the streaming side. Turns out our youtube channel is in good enough standing that we can work through youtube live.

Personally not a fan of the Youtube live streams, due to the fact of no audio. Makes it difficult to tell when matches are starting if your not paying attention to the stream the whole time. Also makes alliance selections a little difficult from the view side. You may consider looking into livestream.

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by blazingbronco18

Personally not a fan of the Youtube live streams, due to the fact of no audio. Makes it difficult to tell when matches are starting if your not paying attention to the stream the whole time. Also makes alliance selections a little difficult from the view side. You may consider looking into livestream.

My understanding is that the audio was disabled on most youtube live streams because the background noise included music that would most likely have triggered Youtubes copyright violation system. Youtube goes hard when it comes to copyright enforcement absolutely true, but there are absolutely legal work arounds to this issue.

[blazingbronco18]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

My understanding is that the audio was disabled on most youtube live streams because the background noise included music that would most likely have triggered Youtubes copyright violation system. Youtube goes hard when it comes to copyright enforcement absolutely true, but there are absolutely legal work arounds to this issue.

If your able to get a good feed with some audio. Then by all means go for it. Definitely looking forward to a good regional next week.

[Deetman]

MAR gets around this with our YouTube webcast by feeding the microphones and game sounds to the DJ and the streaming system. YouTube is happy because we don't have copyrighted music playing but still have all the other audio, and the DJ can mix the microphones into their system. The music is never fed back into the stream input and any background audio from an open mic doesn't seem to be loud enough to trigger the copyright system. Unfortunately this may be harder to do at regionals because you don't have the same control over the event as we get with districts.

As far as why YouTube?
-auto archiving
-easy to use
-mobile YouTube just works and is preinstalled on almost all android devices, not sure about iOS.
-smart TVs have YouTube apps, others are present in some brands but not others
-pretty much anyone, despite age or technological know how knows how to use YouTube and is not afraid of it.
-Copyright infringement is copyright infringement whether you get in trouble for it or not. Unlike team provided webcasts, MAR has real assets that someone could come after through the legal system of they wanted to. Now is not the time to lecture on ethics though.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

I meant setting up the hotspot is illegal. In the NYC a team asked to livestream the event and they said no.

See, there's the thing. Who says you need a hotspot to stream the feed?



Right. You need Internet access, which is not repeat not the same as a hotspot. If the RD and his crew know ahead of time that you are interested, they can help make arrangements for that. I know IE's webcast computer was located somewhere around the scoring table.

[blazingbronco18]

Are you guys planning to stream on practice day in Utah?