User:Nigamon/Streaming With OBS

Guide to Streaming

There are many different programs that you can stream with. The guide here is to teach you how to stream with OBS. This guide will not teach you how to stream Dota2, LoL Hearthstone ect. This guide will teach you how to stream Kancolle through Twitch.

So what is needed to stream? OBS : https://obsproject.com/ A twitch account

What I recommend at least you should have. At least 4 gigs of ram, more is better. 2 Monitors, a laptop with a monitor connected to it counts. Something going on the background, it can be commentary, music or something. No one wants to tune into a stream with no noise and just people farming up resources.

How to get setup

Download OBS
Install OBS
Find out your twitch stream key

 To find your stream key, log into twitch, go into your dash board, then click on stream key.
 Or http://www.twitch.tv/broadcast/dashboard/streamkey

Open up OBS, Click settings, Broadcast Settings.

 * Mode : Live Stream 
 * Streaming Service : Twitch
 * FMS URL : What ever is closest to you
 * Play Path/Stream Key (if any) : Put your stream key here.

Go to the encoding tab

 * Video Encoding
   * If you have the option you should use in order Quick Sync, Nvidia NVENC and X264
 * Max Bitrate
   * Finding out how much you can upload
     * Go to http://www.speedtest.net/ and find how how fast you can upload. You want a little bit of extra bandwidth so Kancolle can function and a little bit of extra space to use.
     * Take that number and multiply it by .75
       * 1mbs is = 1000

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