• Summary
• LiveStream Account
• LiveStream Procaster
• Streaming Video
• Streaming Audio
• Scoreboard

Summary

With the addition of streamers to help generate a more efficient league stream, several new streamers have expressed frustration with figuring out the how-to's of streaming. Hopefully, this video will shed some light on the simpler aspects of setting up your SPHB stream.

LiveStream Account

The SPHB streams are run through LiveStream, a free-to-use service for streaming video. In order to stream, you will need an account on their website here which again, is free.



The channel name you create is irrelevant, as you will be using HNN1-HNN4 to stream, not your own channel. After finishing account creation, you should contact a League Commissioner so they can grant you access to stream on the HNN channels.

You can see what channels you're able to stream on at this link.

LiveStream Procaster

I highly suggest that you use LiveStream's "Procaster" to stream video. It's easy and, of course, free. You can find the download here. The Procaster supports Mac and PC - this tutorial will use the Mac version, but to my knowledge, they aren't noticeably different.



Download your supported version, and run the simple installation. You should have a program that looks like this:



Enter your login details, and you'll be taken to a screen like this:

• Channel selector. Be certain that you have the correct channel selected before going live. Alpha is typically on channel HNN1, Omega is on HNN2.
• Go Live. This button will begin streaming your camera/desktop to the selected channel.
• Video source. Be sure that you don't have your webcam selected, or SPHB will be sure to take pictures and make you regret it. This should be set to "No Camera," and you will stream your desktop instead.
• Quality. If your stream is experiencing bad lag, use this to lower your video quality. When streaming, you will be given quality feedback by the Procaster. I'll explain this later.

Streaming Video

Once you're live, you're going to want to control the video being streamed. Primarily, this means which portion of your screen is being streamed - nobody wants to see your entire desktop.

By default, your entire desktop will be screened. You should see a narrow toolbar at the bottom of your screen called the Control Bar.



As you can see, this tool will give you several useful feature. From left to right:

• Stream preview. You will have a thumbnail view of what your viewers are seeing.
• Data. This will tell you how long you've been streaming, your FPS (Frames Per Second), Kbps, CPU usage, as well as the quality of your stream.
• Stop Button. This will end your stream.
• Zoom In/Out. These will adjust the size of your Stream window.
• Minimize. This will hide the Control Bar

To stop streaming your entire desktop, you want to click "Zoom In" a few times, until you see a green box. That green box will represent the borders of your stream view.



I'm not sure on SPHB's policy, but I recommend streaming the game window only (meaning not the chat box). I do this because the chat is often not something that the viewers need to see. For example, code word verification, password changes, and raging. In addition, idiots will be less motivated to flood the game rooms with idiocy if they don't have an audience.

Streaming Audio

Audio streaming isn't something I'm very knowledgable of, but hopefully I can shed some light on the subject. Typically, your stream will include any audio that is being played by your computer. If you're listening to music, on a Skype call, or watching ****, your viewers will probably know about it. However, if your audio isn't being streamed, this might help. Keep in mind, I'm showing you on a Mac, but you should be able to do the equivalent on a PC.




PC users should be able to do the same thing through the control panel.

Keep in mind that after streaming, you may have to go back to your Sound settings and change it back to your default speaker.

Scoreboard

The spoiled viewers of SPHB generally expect to see an easy to understand scoreboard during gameplay. For this, you have two options.

Star Board - I cannot supply image help for this because I cannot run it on my computer (Parallels won't support it), but it seems pretty clear cut. If Shawn can do it, so can you. (chew)

GeorgeBoner's Board - Hopefully he doesn't mind me sharing this, but he didn't seem to have any reservations when I asked for it.



Simply drag the red and blue circles to the competing teams (the white space next to their logo) and click "To Scoreboard!"



Controls

• Click the team's logo to play their goalhorn.
• Click the cactus (boxed in red) to stop the goalhorn.
• Click above a team's score to increment it by one.
• Click below a team's score to decrease it by one.
• Click above or blew the period to increase or decrease it.
• Click the empty area in the bottom left (boxed in red, click around to find it) to return to the team selector.

All credit for GeorgeBoner's scoreboard obviously goes to GeorgeBoner himself.

I don't see what you don't understand about her message lol

test

btw alexa is the best player in this league

perkins r u dum?

best player is obviously Lord of Fail

LOFFED~~~~~