Terrible Stream Advice Is Stopping Your Growth

I just spent a few weeks Multistreaming, and what I learned is every platform wants different content, the technical limitations aren't worthe hassle, and multistreaming is awful for genuine community.

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What Is The Difference Between Direct and Relay Multistreaming?

Relay means you’re streaming from OBS, for example, to a service, like Restream, and then that service will stream to the platforms you link to it.

The pro of this is that you’re just encoding and streaming one stream, and letting the service handle the rest, this means no added stress on your PC or internet, another great pro is Restream will combine your platform chats for you, and even give you a browser source to put it on screen for viewers, granted it looks like ass but hey, better than nothing, now the cons though are for starters services like Restream tend to lock really important features behind paywalls, they tend to be horribly unstable constantly crashing one or multiple platforms, at least in my experience, but worst of all, they lock your streams quality to the lowest platform.

We get around this instead by doing the second type of Multistreaming, Direct.

Essentially, you’ll use a plugin, in today’s case Aitium, to create several streams that go out to different platforms. The major pro here is the ability to customise settings for each platform, but this also means more stress on your PC and Internet as you’re literally streaming to multiple places.

Another Con is that plugins only work with OBS, because Streamlabs locked plugin support behind paywalls to force streamers to pay them money, and use their terrible services… like their shitty multistreaming tool.

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0:00 Why Multistreaming is terrible for your Viewers
2:17 Why the technical limitations of Multistreaming are making your content worse
3:57 How Multistreaming makes copyright strikes more common
5:26 Epidemic Sound Sponsor Segment
6:34 How Multistreaming is stopping YouTube channels growth
9:25 When should you Multistream?

What Is The BEST Encoder For Streamer?

The best encoder for streaming depends heavily on your computer's hardware, the two main options are x264 and Nvidia NVENC.

The major difference here is x264 uses your CPU and it can be very taxing, but Nvidia NVENC uses a special chip on your Graphics card, it is a different part of your graphics card and has nothing to do with your game performance so it won’t hurt your gameplay and vice versa, but not every graphics card is NVENC capable. Elgato has a great list and tool to help find if yours is capable

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Can you now Simulcast or Multistream on Twitch?

Dan Clancy the CEO of Twitch announced in the Opening of Twitch Con, how Twitch will now allow anyone to go live on any platform at the same time as Twitch.

For more information on the Simulcasting Guidelines, check here:
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/simu...

What Bitrate Should I Use For Streaming?

The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.

Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up

By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.

If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.

The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.

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