Hasty Treat - 300th Episode Tech Chat
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about their 300th episode and the tech behind it.
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Show Notes02:15 - The things we tried
- Zoom Breakout rooms
- Hopin - $$$
- Streamyard
04:24 - What we used
- Discord
- Room as a waiting room
- Roles to give access
- An a/v room where Wes and Scott were hanging
- Lots of questions about Slack vs Discord
- OBS
- ObS to stream to three locations
- ObS Streamlabs does this easily
- Screen capture did a better job than using the video source from Discord
- Youtube, Youtube, and MUX
- Streamlabs can stream to 4 sources at once
- MUX
- How we got Syntax.fm/live to work
- Create a new live stream on Mux via their UI
- Get stream address and key
- Point Streamlabs to it
- HLS m3u8 address from Mux into a HLS react player
- Looping intro video
- Principle for mac
- Watch how I did it on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pSlESq_bY
- Music
- Song Scott wrote
- Recording Audio
- Wes recorded two streams locally
- All audio on stream was piped through BlackHole on Scott’s machine
- Used Loopback to pipe Discord audio into an input
- Scott + Guest were on the same channel, possibly compressed
- Sounded good!
- Zoom
- Hopin
- Streamyard
- Discord
- OBS
- MUX
- Slack
- Spectrum
- Streamlabs
- VLC
- Twitch
- react-hls-player
- Principal
- BlackHole
- Loopback
- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets