In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about their 300th episode and the tech behind it.

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Show Notes

02:15 - The things we tried

• Zoom Breakout rooms
• Hopin - $$$
• Streamyard

04:24 - What we used

• Discord
  • Room as a waiting room
  • Roles to give access
  • An a/v room where Wes and Scott were hanging
  • Lots of questions about Slack vs Discord
• OBS
  • ObS to stream to three locations
  • ObS Streamlabs does this easily
  • Screen capture did a better job than using the video source from Discord
• Youtube, Youtube, and MUX
  • Streamlabs can stream to 4 sources at once
  • MUX
• How we got Syntax.fm/live to work
  • Create a new live stream on Mux via their UI
  • Get stream address and key
  • Point Streamlabs to it
  • HLS m3u8 address from Mux into a HLS react player
• Looping intro video
  • Principle for mac
  • Watch how I did it on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pSlESq_bY
  • Music
    • Song Scott wrote
• Recording Audio
  • Wes recorded two streams locally
  • All audio on stream was piped through BlackHole on Scott’s machine
  • Used Loopback to pipe Discord audio into an input
  • Scott + Guest were on the same channel, possibly compressed
  • Sounded good!

Links

• Zoom
• Hopin
• Streamyard
• Discord
• OBS
• MUX
• Slack
• Spectrum
• Streamlabs
• VLC
• Twitch
• react-hls-player
• Principal
• BlackHole
• Loopback

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