SourceTV live streaming

[billythekid]

By using sourcetv how can we show matches from our web site ?

[Beaverbeliever]

You would need a dedicated computer to stream a live stream using xfire or a similar program from spectator or SourceTV on the match server.

[Beaverbeliever]

Yes, just issue the RCON command when you want to record: tv_record <demoname> and then when you are done, tv_stop.

This will store the .dem on your Computer, and will allow you to watch later by downloading it to your computer!

[xguju]

livestream is kind of weird because it will only allow 50 viewers maximum, while most popular sourcetv relays have like 100+ slots, just something to remember

[Daniel]

(11-22-2009, 12:07 PM)xguju Wrote:  livestream is kind of weird because it will only allow 50 viewers maximum, while most popular sourcetv relays have like 100+ slots, just something to remember

You can stream to well over 50 people with a live stream, you just need to get the correct software also using a free cam site such as justin.tv will work better then trying to host it yourself unless you have your own personal dedicated server for your web hosting

[3choE]

So we cannot directly stream to a web server for broadcasting?

For example, if I use my web server as a SourceTV relay (with small number of slots), and use it to record .dem, would it be possible to setup a frontend for playing it back (maybe with certain time delay)?

[Mooga]

I don't know of any front-end to support this. Mainly because you need the game to watch demos. There is no stand-alone support to view SourceTV.

The only possible thing I can thing of would be a bot that records the game as a streamable video. I guess if you were able to create qa web-end to give users access over the bot it may work... it would NOT be any easy job in any way, however.

[3choE]

"...Mainly because you need the game to watch demos."

Same here, that I couldn't find any 3rd party frontend for playing the .dem file, but a Google search returns some good methods for converting .dem to other video formats.

I am going to try this next week:
http://techsalsa.com/convert-dem-to-avi/

Would be great if there is some Linux command line tool that can do such conversion. Then I could try setting the length of each .dem an hour long, and setting a cron job for my relay box, for doing the conversion in every one hour. Depending on how much time such conversion would take, it might be a fine alternative.

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An interesting news, that Xfire is planning to feature a free live streaming service:

http://gaming.icrontic.com/news/xfire-to-feature-live-streaming/