Streaming Foldit on Twitch

Started by DoctorSockrates

DoctorSockrates Lv 1

I'll be sure to let you know, I'm actually thinking to start doing 1-puzzle streams on Fridays. #FolditFridays, see?

Susume Lv 1

S0ckrates has inspired me to try streaming foldit myself, and I have been working for a while to learn how and get all the pieces in place to make that happen. The Good news is, I had a successful first stream today, and a few foldit players even came out to watch and chat! The Bad news is, even though I checked the box saying to archive the stream to video, I apparently failed to save that setting, so there is no video. I will definitely test that setting and stream again soon!

Susume Lv 1

I streamed for a couple of hours this evening, and the video is up (search Susume2 on twitch.tv) for the next 2 weeks. The first hour is on the denovo (1431) and the second is a from-scratch monomer design (1433). If you enjoy the video, please tune in live on an upcoming stream (either S0ckrates' or mine).

Susume

Susume Lv 1

Video is up of me trying to fold a barrel protein similar to a natural one I found in the Protein Data Bank (rcsb.org/pdb). The video is pretty choppy, for unknown reasons, but the audio is ok, and foldit is not a fast moving game so hopefully it's tolerable. Starting around 8:00 S0ck and I have a longish convo about the video being choppy - the folding commences again at 17:00.

Bruno Kestemont Lv 1

I enjoyed watching socrates's video but i can't open the live stream above ("unable to connect"). The main point I observed was the very high quality of socrate's stream (both definition, voice, comments). I see it as a perfect tool for creating tutorial videos (à la Susume). Is it then possible to edit the videos and keep the most relevant extracts?

Could you repeat the way of watching the streams and/or videos here please? Thanks both of you for this.

(btw, I tried myself a stream long time ago, but it slowed down my computer a lot, do you have this problem?)

DoctorSockrates Lv 1

Alright, one thing at a time.

I stream at 720p 30fps, on Twitch. Typically since I am not a Twitch Partner, my channel does not get quality options to downscale for weaker connections. Sorry 'bout that! Although, if this is happening to you for any Twitch stream, then provide me with further details (browser, OS, etc. I might not be able to help you this way, but it's worth a shot.)

My Twitch channel is here: https://www.twitch.tv/s0ckrates
This is the link to follow when I am actually live on Fridays. There's live chat right next to it. If I am not live, it may switch to a channel that I "host" as way to feature other streamers that I like or support.
The videos tab of my Twitch channel is here: https://www.twitch.tv/s0ckrates/videos/all
This is where you go when you've missed the broadcast live and are looking for my past broadcasts/highlights on Twitch, with chat replay of who said what at that point in the video.
My YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrSockrates
This is where my YouTube exports go. There's no chat replay here, since it's YouTube!

It is possible for me to "Highlight" past broadcasts, but I can only take out single segments. To edit them further, the possible way I see doing it is me Highlighting my broadcast, exporting it to YouTube, using a YouTube downloader, and then using your favorite video editing software from there. I do not record my broadcasts locally, so this is the only way I can see to do this. I did upload my get yourself folding special to YouTube, but I typically do not archive my broadcasts to YouTube; there hasn't been a demand for this kind of thing quite yet so it's not worth the effort for me. Let me know if you have a specific episode in mind!

Also yes, streaming bogs down a computer a lot. My hardware is a little old, but still good enough since I built it to play video games. If you're streaming from your typical storebought computer from a couple years back, you will definitely have performance issues. Heck, even when I stream I already get some lag just having OBS open. I'm in dire need of a CPU/Motherboard upgrade (or really just a new system build at this point) but I don't have enough money to frivolously spend on dorky hardware endeavors just yet.