Looks like I restored the wrong branch of #fauxstream on my #OpenBSD workstation during today's attempted #twitch #stream. Doh!
That explains the audio desync and stepped bitrate degradation which ultimately caused me to give up. Unfortunately, it was poorly timed with my #ADHD meds wearing off. Worse, I've been recovering from surgery this week, so my energy levels has been more rollercoaster-y.
I've now restored the correct branch, so hopefully that means a smoother start next time.
@joel Hear, hear!
Also not "look at me how smart I am", but I do podcasting from #OpenBSD via Zoom and client meetings via Google Meet using `ungoogled-chromium`. No problem at all! (Plus some Twitch streams using @thfr's #fauxstream.)
Folks should #RunBSD, at least for a little while, if only to expand their experience!.
My pull request updating @thfr's #fauxstream for #CBR (constant bitrate) encoding for #twitch #streaming, #screencasting under #OpenBSD is now submitted:
https://github.com/rfht/fauxstream/pull/7
A lot of research & testing went into this one and I'm very happy with the real-world results. Of course, most of the behind-the-scenes effort was actually getting my own stream configuration overhauled & optimized so my dual-core i7 laptop could actually keep up with the encoding so I could test my patches.
I wasn't actually scheduled to do a #Twitch stream today, but ended up spending a couple hours live testing & troubleshooting my stream tooling. I _finally_ have a working #X11 #Xephyr display running as a separate user and captured by #fauxstream under #openbsd!
My reasons for this are to: a) present, capture, and encode a full display at 720p25 to improve performance and b) sandbox the content I'm showing on stream from the rest of my apps. b) was a given and happy to report a) was achieved.
OK, time for me to do a #FollowFriday. #FF
@klaatu Host of GNU World Order oggcast and a cool Slacker alien. đœ
@mwlucas Author with lots of interesting ficton and non-fiction books to check out. His pet rats are cute, too. đ
@thfr Creator of #fauxstream for #OpenBSD
@solene OpenBSD user/developer who also has a neat Twitch stream. đ
@Louisa Co-host of various podcasts, loves Purple Thursdays, and always gets ready for JAZZ! đ·
@ariella Awesome, friendly, and engaging techy musician. đ©âđ» đč
@ephemeris I use a little ksh script of mine called #fauxstream:
https://thfr.info/cgi-bin/cvsweb/projects/fauxstream/
It's essentially a wrapper for ffmpeg that abuses a pipe to parallelize the workload and work around the performance problems with single-process ffmpeg on #OpenBSD.
Look in OpenBSD FAQ for how to set up a monitoring stream. Example:
$ sh fauxstream -r 1920x1080 -f 30 <twitch rtmp address or file.flv>
use -m to add in the mic, then -v0 and -v1 to set respective volumes.
Morgan Aldridge
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