To be, or not to be? That is the question—
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them?
I have been toying with the idea of streaming the last couple of weeks, more so since Drew suggested I should get into Vloging. He really enjoys watching Panser #tradechat and she is enjoyable and fun, but I am not sure the stuff I blog about would be worthy of a Vlog.
I decided to see how hard it would be to start streaming and jumped onto Twitch for a squizz. I downloaded a program called Bebo and started fiddling with it. I would say I was “streaming”in about 20 minutes. Not so bad really for a clueless nublet such as myself. I put that in quotation marks as flipping between game and software doesn’t really mean I was doing anything other than flying around herbing 😀 But I was sending data into the multiverse!
I remembered Panser commenting about moving to FB live to do her streaming now thanks to Youtube and their change in expectations with vidoes. So I also created a page on FB for Azerothian Life because I wanted to test out the Blizzard live streaming function they had, but I didn’t want it on my personal feed. I have to test it out with my group and see if it records discord as well so they can be heard on the stream and not just me.
There is a video on my twitch channel of the 5 of us running a mythic 10 in kara however you can’t hear them very well as I had the wrong settings chosen. I corrected it later and tested it with Ben, so in theory I know how it works.
I didn’t notice any frame rate issues with my laptop when running the stream in a dungeon, so I am hoping to stream on our raid nights, but honestly no idea how that will go.
I haven’t even looked at Youtube based on the Vloggers I watch who have commented on their recent changes making it difficult for people to even subscribe and receive content or be paid for that content. So at this stage I am tossing up between twitch and facebook. I also note that because I am an Amazon prime customer I get twitch prime which is nice as well.
Anyway, feel free to follow me on any of these places and let me know what streaming platform you prefer to use or watch!
As much as creators are turning away from YouTube, a lot of people are turning away from Facebook at the moment. Or thinking about it before doing nothing about it. 😉 Which one is better or worse is probably up to personal opinion. And what’s easier.
Very true with their recent drama. Nowhere is safe anymore 🙁
I’d stick with Twitch. They’re flush with all that Amazon money.
True! I have to apparently work out some fancy UI things now as well!! Lol