Hello I’m Abbey Exley cat and if you’re watching this video you’ve probably noticed the massive rise in life streaming across all the various platforms whether it be YouTube gaming or twitch you’ve probably seen more live streams in the past year then you perhaps ever seen before this is because There is a serious push amongst all the websites on the internet whether it be YouTube mixer Amazon with twitch all these different websites are competing to be the live streaming platform and therefore you might logically assume that you should get in on the live streaming game whoever because you think It’s a good business idea whatever you think it’ll be really fun to stream and see what people have to say to you live while you play a game and that’s why I think that makes today’s video to tell you both how to technically do it and Also to give you a bit of advice on how you can do so and maybe be successful at it so this is how you can live stream minecraft or really any other game on Twitch YouTube or mixer hopefully you’ll enjoy the video but let’s get straight into the technical side of it because There is a lot of technical details that are shared here with YouTube itself this is because obviously you’re gonna require the exact same stuff a way to record gameplay a way to then transmit it to the Internet at a pretty decent bitrate and then you’re also gonna need A way to add your own you know a commentary flare to it because most people aren’t just watching gameplay streams they want to watch a person play the one watch a personality they want to see a real person the upside that so you’re gonna need a few different things So with that in mind keep in mind that you’ll probably spend some money if you want to increase your standards to be about the average of the you know average decent streamer but if you want to just start it for the fun of it right now then there are a couple of really Easy ways to do that the first really odd one that you might not be aware of is the fact that minecraft 1.7.2 only that update there moved it off words because there’s so many other ways that you can stream your game actually allows you to stream straight from the game so Have you ever wondered stream minecraft then go back to that version you can stream straight from there it’s like two clicks you have to enter your streaming details it’s the easiest way to do it and if you want to just stream you know right now of in your five minutes of This video then that’s the easiest way and the other easy way is if you have an Xbox one or a PlayStation 4 and soon to be the switch but if you have one of those platforms you can stream directly from those consoles there are share settings within the menus I mean Literally Sony has a share button but there are shared settings they’ll show you in the background that you can go through and you can stream directly from your console and a fair number of streamers on those platforms still do this so if you want the very easiest way To do it then pick up an Xbox one or a peer sport presumably you already have one streamed directly from that use your microphone and then you have an OK stream that against some big youtubers study use because it’s a very decent setting the only restrictions on This is that your microphone is going to have to plug into your Xbox or Playstation controller and the only of restriction is the fact that it’s limited to 720p on both platforms but these are pretty fair restrictions and obviously you know you have to be limited to the platform you’re playing On so yeah this is the easiest way to stream link up new distri minecraft the simple answer is to just get yourself a modern console give yourself some form of decent microphone and to get yourself a connection which can stream you know that amount of game because you’re gonna Need several megabits and upload again do a speed test if it’s not too high try and improve your internet if you can’t then love sharing might not be for you but do you have a good internet connection you have a Molly console and you have a microphone then you have all The components you need for a stream sort of so obviously this video isn’t just here to say by the way you can trigger the console because that’s kind of the lower end of things if you are watching a video and then you probably care a lot about live streaming and you Might want to take your you know low stream to the next level so you can compete with the big guys and so you have a good chance of actually converting people with your quality and with you know the way you’re watching stuff so the first thing I’ll mention is That if you are showing from the console then there is a few microphones that you might want to pick up don’t use the default one of your consult that is going to be garbage instead pick yourself up a real gaming headset I mean there’s benefits to up ways or this Turtlebeach microphone will hook straight into your controller again it’s good for broadcasters and whether your sort thing but by simply spending you know the forty to fifty dollars on a microphone alone one or a headset you can one have better quality audio just in general when you play on that console And two when you livestream people will be able to hear you that little bit better annoying audio is something that we all hate and that you don’t understand how bad you sound until you you go listen back so spending money on audio is something that is always Going to be worthwhile especially if you already have the video side lockdown so yeah that is the easy solution to how do you stream it however again there is quite a few quantity restrictions on streaming directly from the console one if you want to record gameplay clips on Top of that there is a limit five minutes so it has to be 720p 30 frames per second which for some games might be a deal-breaker and free is the fact that you can only stream in one place at a time which it’s fine because I know twitch partners like a restrict if They’re anyway but if you’re on mixer or you’re on YouTube then you gonna want to you know maybe be on the other ones too as a way to get your scream to more places so yeah that is the easiest into streaming but let’s talk about how You can do it on a different level because again I want to give you a guide on how you can exert it streaming not just just about do it because again I assume if you’re watching a video on this subject then you probably would Like to learn how to you know do it to the best level so at least know what’s out there so that if you eventually want to make the investment because it will cost a little bit more money which I know when I started streaming I only had You know $39.99 I bought the most basic capture card I could but nowadays if you want a stream then the highest quality is Dawne to really help you out so the highest quality capture card for a console is going to be an elgato hd60 s this is a capture Card that can do 1080p 60fps there are techniques 4k capture cards but for now 4k streaming isn’t a big thing yet but right now a 1080p 60fps capture card is what you’re gonna need if you want the pinnacle of gameplay quality so that people you know they don’t even care About you might just want to go see the gameplay itself again I doubt that’s a thing it’s not a common thing but it’s something that really will give you that little bit of an edge over other streamers which might be something you want if you’re considering doing this as Like a you know full-time for like a month or so things so I’ll link all this up in the description but it gets as to what that is in case you’ve never heard of a couch car before it essentially will take the gameplay in send it out Back to your TV so you’ll be able to see it just normally like you do right now but it will then also send it via a USB to a PC which you can then use set PC do stream it on to YouTube get that full 1080p or so from there you can do a few things that you can’t necessarily do a view console such as add a webcam add an overlay and chance the stream you can do lots of other stuff using a tool we’ll get to later but for now having a HD 60 S having a capture card built in will still give you an advantage in the game again it’s not the biggest advantage especially since a lot of people playing on console may not see the difference between 720p and 1080p but if you really want the best of the best it still just Come from a dedicated capture card but you can also stream directly from your console it just gives you less power over how you use that footage whereas the full 1080p capture card gives you entire you know use and how you want to use it you can record you Can stream you can stream and record you can put things on top of it before you stream and record you can do all these different things with it because you have the footage you don’t just have a plot you know a way to distribute the footage but you know I know that sounds Like a smaller station but it really is important if you want to add extra effects and cool things that make the best of the best streams really important so the next thing you’re gonna 1/2 if you do decide to use your PC to stream your console or interviews Taug we’ll get into later the one that makes all this lecture impossible even if you decide to destroy everything from your PC from your PC let’s say that you play the job addition each stream that to what you’re gonna want to have is a decent quality PC microphone so where’s The Xbox microphones they kind of have a cat because they’re going by our Xbox controller and so on and so forth if you’re on a PC you can get really high quality microphones using phantom power etc etc etc honestly though I would recommend like the highest quality the Most will notice in terms of the biggest price difference that is noticeable by the end user is getting yourself some form of real USB microphones so the top tier ones I’ll admit they’re gonna cost close to a hundred and fifty a hundred and twenty hundred and seventy dollars Somewhere in that book pop depending on the one you want I always recommend the rode podcaster because it looks like a microphone it really does the job like most high quality audio seems to come from a pro caster or a podcaster and also to me at least it has the best like Kind of sphere where on record things that you can directly hear it won’t record tiny audio things at the background that it you know if a car goes out so that I saw my house you’re probably not hearing it which is good and why you probably noticed that in Most my videos the audio is pretty clean unless I have my controller literally near the microphone you can hear it sticks but if I put the control over there you can just barely hear it and if there’s a control on the upside the walk then you’re not gonna hear that oh so Yeah rode podcaster microphone I recommend beyond anything else solid microphone if you want to go for the next level there is the pro caster but again it uses XLR power and there’s there’s a lot of steps with that but let’s just burn out assume best microphone I recommend is a podcaster Don’t go for a snow boat whatever you do I have a snowball also but the quality difference is huge just go for like a decent quality microphone as long as it’s a dedicated microphone or headset mic you’ll probably be all fine because headset microphones usually focus on the Audio off the headset not the quality of the microphone because you don’t hear that other people do so yeah anyway there you go now you know more about how you can get the quality of your audio to match the quality of your gameplay so we’ve got high quality gameplay or at Least you know good quality gameplay we’ve worked out how to get high quality audio usually have a dedicated microphone device which ever platform you’re on so how do we then put all of that stuff together to make the magic stream happen because again up to this point maybe you still don’t know exactly How the stream process works how does my gameplay go onto the internet and again when you’re on the console the consequence it will for you but if you want to do this the you know the pro way the the way that everyone else does it you know it might seem like it’s Unnecessary but all these thing a having all this control allows you to decide where you stream it to so basically when you go to youtube and you go to my live events you’ll sue that will give you a little code it will hat you have to reveal it with a little Button or same with a mixer same with twitch they give you coats or string keys and these stream keys or string names whatever it ends up cutting them but these are things are the things that you type into OBS or xsplit you know again we’re gonna assume OBS later and That is how you get some stuff so yeah let’s talk about the program that’s gonna use this code to streams the internet because like I said I personally recommend OBS it’s a really it’s the free program there is the paid alternative with xsplit but they had really bad Experiences on the company whereas OBS seems to work just fine in my experience so yeah with OBS you could take all of your sources together you can mix them you can match them you create like a scene of all the sources together so for instance if you want to see what my Seng Looks like it’s got about eight different things combined but the end result just looks like this you can see I exist here with a blank screen behind me or at least the gameplay directly behind me you can see there is some gameplay in the background there is a Layer which will show donations when they do come up there is you know layer that can show text on the screen so for instance if I want to I can just magically show how many discs I’ve found or whatever I end up putting on there There is a timer I can use for speedruns there’s all these layers you can then throw on top of there to make it look like a you know like a real stream rather than just looking like some gameplay or looking like gameplay the camera and this is why people do that so Let’s turn off this now and goodbye again because now you know the program you’ve seen what it looks like you’ve seen what the end result is you’ve seen how books and now you know how to stream you get the stream keys you type it into your program and you get this stuff to Work so let’s do a recap of everything you need so far you’re gonna need to have some way to camp your game play every console directly a PC which has enough power to stream itself while recording itself while playing a game presumably to you know all it you know Decent frame rates and all you’re gonna need you know like a capture card which is the easiest way and any real quality of PC and the last like five years and then also on top of that you can want to have a microphone off some variety again Varies on your platform all link down below the ones I’ve spoken about and then you’re also gonna want to have this program OBS again some people recommend xsplit but I personally like OBS which is open broadcaster software it’s open source software that allows you to broadcast that’s why it’s called that so Now that we’ve gone over all of the basics all of the you know generics let’s talk specifically about where how what you should live stream because again that I’ve given all the advice some technical stuff that you need to know how to do this but there’s some Things that I would say a song who does stream about three to four times a week I have a fair number friends who make a full-time living just up streaming I also watch a fair number of streamers just to see what’s going on and see you Know how people doing it and I realized a lot of lessons from this and I wanted to share some of those of you just in case you know live streaming some you want to pick up will you just care so you have a friend or anything like that So the first one is that which seems like it’s the best site to stream on but the truth is they’re really inconsistent become a company so I’ve you know never like I’ve had lots of dealings of them and it’s always been a weird thing where they’ve broken their own policy while Speaking to me so basically they’re you know bad to me personally or like weird to me personally as a company but also when you partner with twitch where you’re one agreeing not to stream elsewhere or all this broadcasts the same stuff ounce where they’re the only company of an exclusivity agreement that Won’t pay you directly and then simply for their agreement is actually private so you know you’re not meant to know this technically but they pay their bigger partners more not only in terms of they’ll make more subscriptions but as a percentage of that subscription so as a you know first time partner you Only make fifty percent of the money that people give to you on a month-by-month basis which is terrible you know twitch makes most of their money on the little guy which is service you know model I really don’t like Nora in terms of I don’t know I personally That makes me feel very uncomfortable maybe it makes you feel the same way but if you are gonna be a little guy then dreaming of being a twitch partner is really tricky because for a long time you won’t make money then you will make money but which will take most of it and Then you know like you’ll have to stream at certain qualities and only on twitch you’re looking yourself into a platform which already is very saturated so that’s why I always recommend YouTube and mixer one or the other or both together like I sometimes do YouTube again very open model you can you know Help make a youtube channel at the same time which a lot of people like streaming like YouTube to really highly recommend it it’s also one of the easiest ones to stream to has the best quality options and then mixer has the best interactivity there is like a no point Two-second delay or something like that the interactivity on mixer is always you know like just amazingly responsive and also people can watch it directly from their xbox so if you are an Xbox player then mixer has that little advantage built in there’s no current monetization methods there but because of that Because it’s under saturated you might do pretty well that again I mean a lot of friends who just love mix up beyond belief and maybe that’s something that you personally want to do so now you know how to stream you know where to stream you know my opinions on the string Platforms let’s talk a little bit about the actual string itself because a lot of people make the mistake of just starting up being a little bit awkward I think you just have to throw yourself into the world for your personality into the world and maybe it’s awkward or it’s Cringe as people like say on the internet when you go back all these years later but the truth is is that as a live stream art you can’t just sit there saying nothing into a song comes in people want to come and observe you know stream that’s actually going so you Have to be on all the time even you know like even if you spend an hour and no one joins again just I feel like it’s worth one you know like trying to be on it and so I’d say get some fake people or like get some friends Oh get whatever To try and boost that live stream count so there’s at least five or six people because that will boost your results in the YouTube gaming and the mix of space because again killing big as a live stream it it’s not as simple as just streaming and then it magically happens People have to find you somehow and there aren’t many good discovery tours so you kind of have to you know help make them yourself and also you have to again I feel like the best way is to stream a new game that’s doing really well You have to stream lots of hours of the day that aren’t usually taken by big streamers and you have to somehow get into the top 10 or the top 20 or the top 50 biggest streams so someone has a chance of coming by and maybe becoming a subscriber again being a live streamer It’s not easy you might think oh you just play games for free hours you make a few hundred quid yeah I don’t know why that was in an accent but you might just assume it’s like oh yeah get paid to play games but the truth is you’re getting you know some people might Choose to donate or tip you as cooler you in exchange but and staing them in some way and finding people to entertain let alone and stain them is this whole balance you have to work out so yeah when you want to consider streaming minecraft first of all consider the Technicals signif oh I’d say just jump into it throw yourself into it see what happens and then further fall I would say try and be the best you can be try and stream in as many place as possible and just like many things where lots of People want to do it and very few people can do it your odds of success are by default very low you know like one percent of streamers ever make it anywhere less than that even but if you work hard if you believe in yourself and If you you know like put a lot of time into it it might just work out for you so that is how you stream minecraft there’s a comprehensive guide I know a lot of people want to do it because they you know they they’ve got some stuff They want to sharks the Internet and this is my guide on how you can do that and I’d love to know you know the results from streaming or if you scream already and you think this I was helpful let me know in the comments down below this is one of the Longer videos I’ve made in a while but it’s something everybody wanted to share and hopefully you all do appreciate that like if you do like it share really liked it if you have any stream of friends that want to learn how to do that and subscribe in your antics and Make videos like this one every single day on my channel and subscribe you’ll see them daily on your home page thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you all in the 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