Welcome back to Joe plays so you've been thinking about streaming your ps4 gameplay to twitch maybe but You see all this fancy equipment and maybe you don't have the budget for that But if you have a ps4 and a good internet connection You can stream to twitch straight from your ps4. I'm gonna show you how Streaming straight from your ps4 has been available for a very long time as long as I can remember there are some Small drawbacks to it, but if that's all you have then it's a perfect solution to get that done get your name out there I'm all for making content. So I say go for it. Let's jump back on the PlayStation and I'm gonna show you how it's done. Let's go All right, so now that they're on the PlayStation what we're gonna do is set up our broadcast and Pretty simple to do you're just gonna go ahead and start the game that you want ready to broadcast This case for me. It's call a duty Once you're in the game you're gonna push the share button and the share button is not the options button But the actual share button itself. So I'm gonna push that once And then you'll get the share menu You're gonna go down to broadcast gameplay And it's gonna ask you which service you want a broadcast on since this is for twitch. I'm gonna go ahead and select twitch It's gonna try to verify some account information and because I'm not signed in I'm gonna walk you through the sign-in process So we have to link our PlayStation account to our twitch account and it walks us through it pretty easy. So I'm gonna click sign in Two ways to do this you can either scan this QR code here with your phone or On a web browser on a computer or on your mobile phone you can go to twitch.tv slash activate So let's see what that looks like. So now that we're on the browser It's gonna ask you to log in with the account. So I'm using my test account. I'm just gonna go ahead and log in here Verify that May or may not be a robot. I Do have two factor authentication turned on. I highly recommend two factor authentication So what that's actually gonna do is send me a code in my email Once you're logged into twitch you're gonna see the code on your PlayStation 4 It was on that screen and you're also gonna see a place to enter the code into the web browser. So I'm gonna go ahead and enter that code I'm gonna click activate and That's it. We've linked our account as soon as we've done that the PlayStation will automatically go to the next phase of the sign-in which is to say that you've linked and you need to click okay So It's gonna hit okay So take us back to which service we want to broadcast on we just linked our twitch accounts or we'll hit and select that and then we have all of our stream settings So let's go through these settings first The top left is just a preview of your broadcast There are three options on the right include video from PlayStation camera in the broadcast If you have a PlayStation camera, that's really the only way to get like a face cam The next option is to include microphone audio and broadcast if you have a Chat headset such as this with a microphone on it That you use to talk to your party or your teammates That is the microphone that PlayStation is gonna use for your voice and the broadcast people watching your Twitch stream will hear the microphone That's plugged into your PlayStation the next option is to display messages to spectators and their comments So if you want to keep up with comments on your PlayStation you would check this box I don't really recommend it a Couple of reasons is whenever you turn this on if you if I turn this on you'll see in the preview that it actually shrinks the gameplay window down and puts a chat bar on the side and I feel like that kind of gets in the way if you have a different way of monitoring chat either through your phone or a tablet or another computer maybe just an old laptop I think that is the best way to do this However, if you don't this is a Vible solution it just Realize that your gameplay is gonna be smashed down a little bit and you're gonna lose a little bit of screen real estate Whenever you do this I'm gonna go ahead and leave that on I'm also gonna include the video from the PlayStation camera and Title that can be whatever you want that's gonna be the stream title that shows up in Twitch You can change that in the dashboard on Twitch if you need to Quality now this is pretty important. You'll see there's 1080p 60 1080p standard which will be 30 frames a second 720p 540 on down the line this Depends on a couple things the first thing it really depends on is your upload speed if you do not have great internet at your house Or wherever you're broadcasting from I recommend bumping this down to 720 60 Which would be the 720 high that also lessens the Impact on someone watching your stream if they don't have great internet if they're watching from mobile streaming 1080p is a little Too much overhead for that so You'll be able to watch the 720p with minimal buffering this quality is the stream quality This does not affect your gameplay quality. So if you're playing in 1080 on your TV You will still be playing in 1080 This is only what Twitch is ingesting and sending out to everyone so they were downscaled that 1080 2720 for everyone to watch I'm gonna keep mine on 720p 60 just because I don't want to impact viewers I Do have really good internet and I can stream 1080 but a lot of people can't even watch 1080 without a lot of buffering I feel like it's not fair Also, you can send invitation to certain people on your PlayStation So your PlayStation friends you can send them an invitation with a link to go watch your Twitch stream from their PlayStation. That's pretty cool Also, you can share this if you're if you have other accounts linked on your PlayStation Facebook Twitter Things like that and you can check this box. It'll automatically send a tweet or a post to Facebook lighting people Know that you're alive also with a link to the live stream And then after that you're just gonna start broadcasting So you see what that looks like It's kind of inception It's cameras a little blown out the PlayStation camera is not the best So you'll see that because I wanted to comments on the stream It's showing right above me here. That's your comments box You'll notice that right also up there is me that's the picture from the PlayStation camera If you don't have a camera it just shows your avatar But if you have a camera want to put your face out there, right? You're pretty all the chat will scroll up there It'll show you how many viewers and also any comments that you have how long you've been streaming Did you do see that this is kind of smashed over? This direction a little bit to make room for this chat bar So if you don't like that then maybe log into Twitch on your phone watch your stream on your phone and keep up with chat there Or a laptop like I said But if you don't have that again perfect solution for this But this is actually streaming to Twitch right now. You'll see right above my head my second head first head Top head right above the top head. You'll see that it says on air that lets you know that you are streaming live It's pretty easy to set up pretty straightforward Let me show you if you do need to unlink your Twitch account So to stop broadcasting I'm gonna push the share button again I'm gonna click the broadcast settings and the first option here is Stop broadcasting So I'm gonna go ahead and stop broadcasting It's okay. Now I'm no longer broadcasting my gameplay screen has gone back to the full resolution to only your Twitch account You're gonna go back to settings Account management Link with other services As soon as this loads you'll see all the accounts that are attached to your PlayStation. I'm gonna go to my Twitch And it tells me which account is linked through Twitch. I'm gonna do sign out and Then click sign out again, and that's going to unlink my PlayStation account from my Twitch account But again if I wanted to stream I would just go back through the the share button start broadcast And you're good to go a quick note also if you are not in a game You will not see the broadcast options there You have to go into the game And then you'll see the broadcast settings, but that's the quick and dirty of it So that's how you do it super super simple if you have a PlayStation 4 and you want to get into streaming But you're worried about buying all kinds of equipment. Not sure if you're gonna like it This is a great way to get into it See if you've got an audience or just see if you just like making content the great thing about Twitch As you can set it to automatically record your gameplay sessions So you also have a saved version of your gameplay So even if you're streaming to nobody you at least have record of all the things that you've done if you get an awesome kill streak Or something like that or a great achievement then that's recorded on Twitch You can download it uploaded to YouTube. I don't see any harm in anybody trying this out. It's very free Very free it is free It's less than a dollar That's Less than It's free if you're interested at all in streaming or getting started on Twitch or even YouTube streaming Then this is a great solution for that before we go out and spend a bunch of money Now if you start getting follow if you start getting a fan base and Maybe make some money off of it and you want to upgrade later then that's also an option as well But until then get out there get a Twitch account go have some fun Put your gameplay up there. There's people that are gonna watch it. I promise if you like the content Please subscribe if there's anything you want to see please leave a comment If there's anything you don't want to see leave a comment let me know not to make that video Thank you all for supporting the channel. It really means a lot to me because this is something I'm very passionate about and I hope to keep making more videos for you guys Until then love you all Bees