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16 years ago
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What program is the best for capturing screen images? I've heard Fraps, but does anyone have other suggestions?
What site is the best? Do they allow for adult? Do they allow password protection?
Do people prefer to talk to the artist or for there to be music playing? How do you get both without drowning one out?
Thinking about starting this as a daily thing, just wondering people's thoughts.
What site is the best? Do they allow for adult? Do they allow password protection?
Do people prefer to talk to the artist or for there to be music playing? How do you get both without drowning one out?
Thinking about starting this as a daily thing, just wondering people's thoughts.
I know of three sites:
Ustream: Does NOT allow adult artwork or nudity. Has passwords.
LiveStream: Does NOT allow adult artwork or nudity. Does NOT passwords.
JustinTV: Does NOT allow adult artwork or nudity. Has passwords.
Ustream allows you to have control over your chat. You can delete lines of text from the chat if someone says something reaally bad. You can disable censors, allows guests to talk(or make them register first), but has really annoying emoticons. Guests can set nicknames for themselves. Broadcaster has red text, moderator has blue text, everyone else had black text and can't change it.
LiveStream allows you to also change your name, very easily, allows color changes to your text, which is kinda nice, but can be annoying if your viewers are obnoxious. :P I haven't figured out how to turn off the censors on this one. I also don't know how to kick or ban people if they get out of hand. Never had to though. No annoying emoticons. :D But you can't use the less than '<' symbol unless you type some code thing. I forgot what it is.
JTV allows you to have control over your chat as well. Banning people is TOO easy. If you ban someone, it deletes everything they ever said in the chat. Fortunately, unbanning is as easy to do as banning. The text color never changes, but you can easily change the color of your username, and mods and admins are easily labeled. Guests can chat, but they can't change their nickname. They MUST register if they want a name, but it's a quick process and you don't even have to verify your email address. The smilies are creepy freaking monkies, but they're fairly easy to avoid.
I was banned twice from ustream for drawing nudity. Even if you have a password, there's still a chance of you getting caught. The broadcast panel is pretty nice. It remembers your settings, and you can continue broadcasting but turn the video or audio off. So, you can still talk to your viewers while you turn the video off, maybe if you want to open a private note on FA or something.
I don't use LiveStream because half of the time it doesn't work for me. This would be my main though because the broadcast panel is really nice. Has lots of settings and such.
I currently use JTV. It's alright. I don't like the broadcast panel as much as the others, but if you embed the video, and you make the video larger, the JTV video will stretch to fit the size. Ustream and LiveStream videos don't do that.
Everyone has their own preference for music or listening to the person talk.
I personally talk and use music. I use two computers. I have my desktop computer set up with the chat and playing music, and I have my drawing program on my laptop, and that's where I broadcast from. There's an internal mic in my laptop, so I'm closer to the mic than the music. As long as the music isn't too loud, they can hear me fine.
There are going to be people who don't like your music, of course. Just tell those people to suck it up and mute you. If they want to know what you're saying, one of your viewers can tell them, or you can type to them. Using voice is really nice because it limits the amount of time you stop to type. :>
lol, longest comment I've ever made in my life.
As soon as they have one that allows adult art to stream, I'll make sure to sign up to show off. ^^
Here: http://www.livestream.com/kurowolfbane
Thats the quality you get if you have your cam set on "Low Quality". I tend not to use high quality just because it takes up too much bandwidth, and I'm using the hospital wifi.
Someone needs to get cracking on that furry one. Lol.