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11 years ago
Where's a Kaff-Pow when you need one?
So, for one, I do apologize for my lack of streaming the past couple of weekends. Technical issues and Life issues have gotten in the way.
BUT ANY-WHO, the streams have been really successful. I love all you crazy fuzz-butts for showing up and watching me do my thing. But I am starting to run into a little conundrum. You guys have made my stream so popular, I have nearly reached the Maximum amount of viewers allowed on a free account on Livestream. I would have to get a subscription in order to handle this. and with my financial situation being what it is, I do not believe It would be worth the investment to pay for a subscription.
So the solution, Look into other Free Streaming services, see what restrictions and limitations, if any, they may have. Ups and downs. Three I may be considering are...
Justin/Twitch
Furstre.am
Picarto.tv
Have any of you had experiences with these services? Know of any Limitations behind them? Know of other services not on this list I should consider? any help would be greatly appreciated.
BUT ANY-WHO, the streams have been really successful. I love all you crazy fuzz-butts for showing up and watching me do my thing. But I am starting to run into a little conundrum. You guys have made my stream so popular, I have nearly reached the Maximum amount of viewers allowed on a free account on Livestream. I would have to get a subscription in order to handle this. and with my financial situation being what it is, I do not believe It would be worth the investment to pay for a subscription.
So the solution, Look into other Free Streaming services, see what restrictions and limitations, if any, they may have. Ups and downs. Three I may be considering are...
Justin/Twitch
Furstre.am
Picarto.tv
Have any of you had experiences with these services? Know of any Limitations behind them? Know of other services not on this list I should consider? any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have used Justin/Twitch and it has been pretty good both as a streamer and a viewer, you need to download XSplit software to stream and it is a little bit confusing when you first use it but it's pretty easy once you're used to it, and if you've used similar software before it may be much more intuitive. Both the video and chat can be popped out so it's easy for viewers to adjust window size to fit their screens (on a laptop at least, I don't know about mobile) if they are multitasking. The chat seems to be a bit sensitive to a single person sending messages in quick succession, it has really ugly-looking emoticons, and each user can pick chat colors from a selection of about 10 colors or so; however, you need to log in with either a Justin or Twitch account to be able to chat, even if anyone can watch. I can't remember for sure but I think there was a language filter and only mods are allowed to swear but I'm not 100% positive. Over the last few weeks or months it seems to have bad lag issues for me and a couple of other people I know. They list their channels by default but you can check an option to prevent your channel form being shown in the main directory, so only people with the link can access it. Furthermore, I think there's also an option to have your stream room password protected so only people with the password can access it.
I've never used Furstre.am.
I've only used Picarto once, and only as a viewer. The chat has emoticons which...well they look pretty average. You can change your username color to any color of the rainbow and any hue (light up to white, dark up to black), no need to register an account to chat, you can just enter whatever guest username you want (I assume, with the exception of already registered usernames but I haven't checked). The video quality is excellent, the chat speed is good but sometimes if you've just finished sending a message and you start typing again very quickly it may not pick up the first couple of keystrokes.