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Streaming 101 with OBS/FFSplit; Step-by-step guide
Topic Started: Dec 17 2014, 03:52 PM (2,953 Views)
Sexy Soraka
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It has come to my attention that Factions does not have very many active streamers.
Sometimes when one of the main streamers are playing in a game, the matchstaff spends a lot of time looking for a replacement, and often new people don’t know how to stream effectively.

Right now it’s mainly me, Wexiomatic, and Heavyweapons guy who stream the Featured games on the weekends.
So we’ll need more people! If you’re interested in helping, please read this little guide.

I mainly use FFSplit, which is basically like XSplit, I’ve also used OBS, but find it a bit wonky sometimes, but it still works. I've started using OBS a lot more now that I've figured out how to get it to work with League. :P
You can download FFS here.
or OBS here.

Before you start, please make sure your computer is capable of streaming. If I tried to stream using my old 200$ laptop from Walmart I used to have, my computer would probably burst into flames.
Right now my current specs for my laptop are

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
8 GB RAM

So I’m pretty good to run almost anything.
If you’re able to run League and most current gen games smoothly, you should be able to stream.

Let’s start with FFSplit. Oh, and make sure you sync up your Twitch account, or the Factions twitch account with your streaming device, for which you’ll need the stream key. To find your personal stream key if you want to stream using YOUR Twitch account, go to http://www.twitch.tv/dashboard while logged on. It should take you here:
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If you want to stream on the Factions Twitch account, please ask 501st Big Mike or me for the Stream Key.

Go to Stream Key then Show Key. Now once FFSplit is installed, go to File > Options > Output
and insert your key where it says Stream Key, then click apply OR click Connect With Twitch to log into your account to sync it up. Now we’ll talk about each part of FFSplit.

Session:
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You can have multiple profiles associated with your streaming device. Twitch, Hitbox, other streaming websites. I have one for LeagueFactions and my own person Twitch account, I mainly use the Factions one now. Also, test your upload speed like it says above. I’m in California and my ISP is Xfinity, so my current speeds are:
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Output:
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Choose the profile you wish to use, rename the Factions one LeagueFactions or Factions, and your personal one whatever you want to keep track. My personal Twitch account is currently selected above. Output type should be Twitch.tv. Now choose the best sever for you, you can just use the Find Best Server button.

Encoder:
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I would suggest using the same settings I use for the best streaming quality. You can also create multple Encoder Profiles to experiment with, but I just this one as my default one. My normal screen resolution is 1366 x 768 but I just have it set to 1280 x 720 for whatever reason.

Capture:
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I use my headset to talk and listen to others on Raidcall. So I have the Capture Playback as my headset and Capture Recording as Default (not sure if my headset is also default, I've just never changed it from Default Recording Device).
Push to talk you can use if you're going to have a lot of background noise, so you just push a button if you want to talk.
You'll notice I have Audio and Mic Boost set to 300%. Idk if it's FFSplit, or something else, but when I had it at 0% or anything under 300% the audio was very quite and I couldn't hear the shoutcasters or myself, so I played around with the audio and found this to work fine. So if your voice or casters are too quiet or loud, adjust these settings. I believe Audio is for INCOMING sound, eg: Shoutcasters in Raidcall, music player, League Client.
Mic is for sound coming from YOU. So if YOU are too loud or quiet, adjust the Mic. If the casters are too quiet or loud, adjust the Audio.

Misc:
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Hotkeys I skipped because I have no use for them, and I don't think you will either. Make sure to have your high end graphics card selected next to Video Adapter. I also use Monitor Capture, which as stated, captures everything shown on your monitor. So I don't have to have the Windows Aero enabled.

I now have started using Windows Capture.

Only use Windows Aero for Window Capture.
So using Monitor Capture = Check Disable Windows Areo*
Using Window Capture = Uncheck Disable Windows Aero*

Now we'll talk about the Canvas and Layers section you see on the bottom left here:
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This is what it looks like when setting up your Window Capture mode.

One thing to note is that League of Legends has two different "sources" one is the Pvp.net Client you see above.
The next is when you get into the loading screen/game.


I don't know if that's just for me or normal for everyone.
So make two different Layers/Sources as show below:
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Make sure to have your Game Capture on the top. As shown above I have "LoL Game Capture above LoL Game Client".

Canvas and Layers is the same as Scenes and Sources in OBS.

So now you have your two main Layers sorted, the Client/Game. Now we'll talk about using Overlays or Text or Webcam Capture.

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Click on "New" under "Layer" on the bottom left, rename the Layer Name whatever you wish, this will be our Loading Screen Overlay, so I named it just that. Layer Type is Image, load the image from your computer or URL, I used one from my computer. Now click on "Add Layer", next we can adjust the size of the image so it fits over the whole screen. Just click on the image and drag it so it fits. It should look like this:
Edited by Sexy Soraka, Dec 17 2014, 03:54 PM.
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Sep 10 2015, 07:52 PM
Y'know, the one post from recently that's actually on topic, lol.
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