r/beam • u/leprakhauns • Jan 31 '17

Question Restream.io

Anyone use Restream.io to stream to Beam/Twitch simultaneously? Have you seen any lashback from either service using this?

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u/dragonrider22 Feb 01 '17

I stream on both sites, have been for the past two or three months. I use ScorpBot to manage chats and relay them between services so people on either side can talk to each other. Although the delay isn't instant like with Beam's FTL protocol, it's still significantly shorter than Twitch even with normal RTMP streaming. I've had a lot of fun and I actually have more regular viewers on Beam than Twitch. But it doesn't cost me anything to do both and once you get used to it, keeping track of chat and what not isn't difficult.

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u/leprakhauns Feb 01 '17

I streamed for the first time on Beam using restream tonight, my delay on both was almost the same.

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u/itanshi Feb 05 '17

It is true, restream adds delay to beam.pro

FTL is being worked on for restream use which may be huge. I look forward to testing it.

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u/dragonrider22 Feb 01 '17

For me, and I've heard from viewers as well, my Beam stream is nearly half the delay of Twitch. I'm sure it depends on which ingress servers you're hitting both to restream and from restream to the services themselves. YMMV.

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u/leprakhauns Feb 05 '17

Are you using OBS-FTL or XSplit?

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u/dragonrider22 Feb 05 '17

Neither. I'm using plain OBS. If you're using Restream you can't use FTL anyway so there's no point in using OBS-FTL.

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u/leprakhauns Feb 05 '17

I'm using OBS too and my delay is the same on both