In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about their 300th episode and the tech behind it.
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Show Notes 02:15 - 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!
Links Zoom
Hopin
Streamyard
Discord
OBS
MUX
Slack
Spectrum
Streamlabs
VLC
Twitch
react-hls-player
Principal
BlackHole
Loopback
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