My Super Easy Live-Streaming set up!
Tags: youtube, livestreaming, streamingbeginners
Published: 2020-05-15 17:07:43

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title: My Super Easy Live-Streaming set up!
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description: Everyone can start live streaming with minimal set up, the post intends to help you in doing the same.
tags: Youtube,Livestreaming,#StreamingBeginners
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## Background
I don't know why i always had this desire (in native tongue Keeda) of sharing my learning with the community & improving/learning from the feedback. The journey for the same manifested via blog posts, Q&A on our [SAP Community](https://community.sap.com/). I was pretty satisfied with it but in parallel kept on thinking how this can be enhanced. I never knew about Live-Streaming till the time our mentor [DJ Adams](https://www.linkedin.com/in/djadams/)  introduced this to us starting via his channel on Twitch then moving to [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/user/qmacro99). The moment i heard of it, i knew this is direction where i wanted to explore more. But my initial reaction was its way too complex for me. But it turned out other wise😀

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/kzj5enxwz185z960voor.PNG)

## Bare minimum What all we need to start?
I realized all we need is a decent laptop with a webcam to start it, pretty simple right. Of course you need to decide on which platform you want to stream for example i wanted to do it on [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8OSu54ONLbsdV30tB3sKQ). When i saw DJ's stream he had his screen also as well his camera being projected in same view that is when i got to know about [OBS(Open Broadcaster Software)](https://obsproject.com/). OBS is what allows you to create different scenes for different times, such as when you are starting a stream what shall be shown to audience, when you are offline what shall come etc...
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/s0bv7nwlbaj4yfq03xct.PNG)
I was overwhelmed and created few scenes. Only thing which i did not like about OBS was each time i have to first schedule a session on Youtube and then provide the key manually to OBS. I found it bit irritating. So the search to ease out this experience started that is when we discovered [Streamlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/streamlabshq/). [Streamlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/streamlabshq/) is built on top of OBS but with all enhanced features. The moment you login into Streamlabs using your [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8OSu54ONLbsdV30tB3sKQ) account, you don't need to add a key each time. Plus it comes with very nice inbuilt widgets such as chats, subscriber notifications etc. which is like icing on the cake!
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/0jgodgf4hfrpc5dogme0.jpeg)
So I had my streaming set up ready with a laptop, Streamlabs and a [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8OSu54ONLbsdV30tB3sKQ) account. I already had an additional desktop which i used as an extended one. I was like it is done we are good...no...read on what happened after we got the feedback from my first session😀




## Working on 1st Session Feedback!
The first feedback which we got from session was good but my face was not clearly visible😀. I was like okay let me see what we can do. So looking around i found out we can use my phone also as a webcam using an app named [EpocCam](https://www.kinoni.com/). I ended up buying the paid version of the app its very good. So the set up got enhanced to as shown below.
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/tpto21590aemhzzc7710.jpeg)
Does the story end here no no.. the second session had another feedback read on..

## Working on 2nd Session Feedback!
The feedback from one of the person was about sound quality which can be enhanced if possible. I was like okay. Let me try to see what i can do, i ended up buying a micro phone, [Maono](https://www.amazon.in/Maono-AU-A04-Condenser-Microphone-Black/dp/B07JHDKXK4)  which actually just worked like magic that too with default set up. I have not got into the details of modifying parameters, planning it soon. So as a result my current set up got enhanced to as shown below. I was like now everything is good now but my 3rd session led me to another change😀 read on!
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/yh2pp7lwcuxvbbfjkrbi.jpeg)

## 3rd session brings another change
If you see we have an extend desktop, so normally on extended desktop my [Streamlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/streamlabshq/) run and then we broadcast the laptop screen. Since during the stream we have multiple windows to be opened in one frame it makes sense to have [Streamlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/streamlabshq/) running on laptop and desktop being used for screen sharing. I was like okay lets do it but then i realized the jugaad which i have used to set up phone😜 does not fit well here!. So that led me to add a a [Logitech webcam](https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B008QS9J6Y/) to the desktop. So the final set up looks something like as shown below. So when we livestream now, in the normal chit chat scene we are using phone and while doing live coding on desktop we switch to webcam.
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/6jtp9gatmnppzyd4fwi8.jpeg)
You can see the use of both the views in below mentioned screen shot!.
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/5z9bbdvfi3vtoavya079.PNG)
## The next question is does it stop here?
Obviously not, looks like the more we stream the more we learn:). I believe this set up shall keep evolving. I am just using every setting as default one and its working perfectly fine. I for sure know that i will tinker with them the more i understand the technical jargons. I hope this experience helps you in getting started into streaming and sharing of knowledge what you have. Feel free to share your setup details or provide any feedback. My rants can be heard on [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8OSu54ONLbsdV30tB3sKQ?view_as=subscriber) or on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/nabheet)😀