EPTVery quickly they snowballed in popularity, with over 700K views on our little interface today. It's all gone ridiculously fast, so that's why it's time for clarification on a few issues that have popped up.
The good news
Kentor has been doing a nice job embedding the LiveStreams in 640x480 resolution. Since this has proved to give a far superior viewing experience, SonuvBob is working as we speak on giving you the option to select this resolution in the TL embedded streams as well.
While most of the SC videostreams are on LiveStream.Com, we are able to support most other streaming websites too if requested. If you want your Justin.tv / UStream or another stream added, just let us know in the recently added User Stream Feedback thread in the Website Feedback forum.
Also, Disco coded a nice application to manage specific streaming alerts
If you have any other suggestions for our streaming interface, please put it in the same thread.
Some clarifications
- First of all, if you want a stream added to TL's interface, just create an announcement thread in the Broodwar forum and PM SonuvBob with a link to it. SonuvBob will give you access to your own streaming interface and move your announcement thread to the stream discussion section. Please get your stream verified asap if you get added! This will allow more than 50 viewers to tune into your stream simultaneously. This involves contacting the LiveStream.com staff, contact me for more information.
- If you have any problems setting up your stream, or with the interface on LiveStream.com, please post your problem in this thread. Please always read the ENTIRE thread before posting. 90% of the problems you're going to encounter have been encountered (and solved) by other people before. Do not PM me if you don't find the answer, I have less experience with these programs than most people helping others in that thread.
- Like most of you have probably already figured out, streams that appear with a star in the User Streams page are featured streams. These appear under the Calendar when they're live. Please don't PM us asking to get featured. You will get featured if we like the quality of your stream, and we do tune in & monitor every stream. Also, you'll find us quicker to feature a stream if live commentary is provided, as we believe this doubles the entertainment value as well as educational value.
To streamers [PLEASE READ]
- A lot of you tend to forget to list your stream as Offline/VODs when you're not broadcasting anymore. Please don't put your stream on Online mode unless you're really streaming live.
The VOD mode is appropriate if you either are looping prerecorded VODs in your LiveStream AutoPilot, or have VODs in your On-Demand section.
- The description you provide can either be your 'daily topic' or a permanent description, but please don't let it get outdated. Don't say you're going to train TvZ when you're BGH'ing.
- If you have a lot of viewers, your LiveStream chat can start to lag your stream. You can prevent this by clearing the chat room in your LiveStream Studio after each game. If it gets too bad, you can just disable the chat completely.
- We are aware that chat moderation is an annoying issue for the popular streaming channels. We request you add the TeamLiquid account on LiveStream as a moderator of your channel so we can help you kick people out while you're playing a game. All TeamLiquid staff members have access to this account, so most of the time annoying/spamming people will be dealt with. If you find that certain TL staff members are active on your stream under their own names, feel free to contact them through PM on TL and ask them to perform moderation duties. We're all willing to help.
- If you're still keen on merging StarCraft sounds with your Microphone sounds, Grobyc made a guide to Virtual Audio Cables that can get it to work.
- If you're still experiencing lag problems when streaming, either CPU or connection related, please read all the comments in this thread. There's been a lot of possible solutions suggested, and a lot of these provide great improvements.
A little thank you
There's been a few people that really deserve a little word here:
- SonuvBob: for implementing a TL project in a record time. MiR never went faster. Someone made a topic, a few days later SonuvBob had it all coded and working.
- wonkman and Grobyc: for making additional guides to achieve specific results when streaming.
- Mystlord, konadora and many others: for providing a reliable stream for every single pro event there is.
- All the other current streamers: for providing entertainment and advice to such a big userbase. I know I've wasted multiple hours watching streams and enjoyed the experience.
I'll just finish this newspost with an image of the SC community winning the internet once again:
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