Exact way to stream with FME to JTV - READ HERE

[Sergeras]

Hey every1 i registered just for this one question.
Everything is nice and clean except that the screen flashes to my viewers which is annoying. ( I am streaming Starcraft 2 Beta matches)


Sergeras SC2 on Justin.tv

Computer Specs:
2.2ghz x2 athlon
2gb ram
gpu 4670 512mb

[Tim]

Heck yea awesome! Make sure you link up the streaming tutorial so other people can learn

Where you from btw?

[Sergeras]

Originally Posted by Tim

Heck yea awesome! Make sure you link up the streaming tutorial so other people can learn

Where you from btw?

I'm from Bulgaria for now it isn't actually awesome i'm trying to stream a High Def stream at which i'm failing i guess because the video flickers for some reason

[purostaff]

Originally Posted by VirgoT

Hi there.

I've recently (read: in the pass few hours) found out that I am able to broadcast in HD, since my upload speed is around 3.00-4.00+ Mbps. I've been broadcasting for awhile so I'm pretty used to FME and VH Screen Cap.

But my problem is this: FME won't capture my games when in fullscreen. Windowed is fine, but fullscreen FME just shows black. I have my tv hooked up via s-video, and it acts as an extended desktop, so I put FME there when I'm trying to broadcast.

I'm running Windows 7 and I've read that I can't broadcast games fullscreen with W7, is this true? If not, how can I get FME to show fullscreen games?

Originally Posted by Tim

Correct it will not work in fullscreen mode, no way around that.

Instead, select windowed mode in your game, but make it full screen windowed mode.

Tim, you said there's no way around it, but oddly it works for warcraft III: TFT for some reason. I've tried Bioshock and TF2 but no luck, but windowed mode works. Just some info...

Thanks for all that you do Tim.

I'm running win7 64bit btw.

[Sol1d]

Great guide Tim,

I followed it word for word and got it working perfectly on my channel...but now, there's a problem.

The stream is running perfectly with 700 upstream and a resolution of 1280x720 then about 15-30m into the stream, my computer will randomly lock up forcing me to reboot. I'm an avid system builder and keep my OS as bare-bone as I possibly can. That includes not installing any programs I don't need or will never use and not having any background programs running that I don't need. I keep everything up to date as I possibly can, including video/sound/chipset/directx drivers. (not that it probably matters in this case)

I just don't see what could be the problem causing my machine to crash, all I'm trying to do is broadcast movies not any games or anything. If you or anyone here has experienced similar circumstances please let me know, I am willing to try just about anything to not have it crash my pc all the time. Thanks any help would be appreciated.

Here are my system specs.

Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
WD Raptor HDD 300gb
EVGA 122-CK-NF68 Mobo
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
DirectX 9.0c
4096 MB DDR2 Dual Channel 5-5-5-12
Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer Sound Card
Windows XP Pro SP3 (32bit)

This is a link if anyone needs further details (Cpu-z Validated)

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

If you require anymore info please let me know.

[Tim]

Hey there, I've heard of this before with the PC crashing during broadcasting, and I would put it 100% at CPU or memory problems, with a high likelyhood towards CPU.

Doing the video encoding is pretty much exactly like stress testing your CPU and memory with random mathematical patterns. My guess is that you have overheating or spot-overheating (ie, a specific sector of your CPU), or power/clock issues to your RAM.

Try this: Download Prime95 and set it to your max cores and run it for 2 hours straight and see what happens.

[Sol1d]

Originally Posted by Tim

Try this: Download Prime95 and set it to your max cores and run it for 2 hours straight and see what happens.

Just gave this a try, I used the torture test option. I let it run for 5 hours, and my pc dident freeze at all. Can you guys suggest anything else?

Ill swap out memory tomm and clean my hardware of dust see if that helps at all.

[Luke14789]

Hello, great tutorial.
Followed everything step by step, however.
I click on my bat file and the command line flashes for maybe a fraction of a second and nothing happens.... :-(
I've tried on two different computers so it is not the computer issue itself.
I am on Windows 7 64-bit.

[Poyzon]

You'll need to run the batch file from a command prompt so that you can see what the error is.

You could also put "pause" at the end of the .BAT file (but don't forget to remove it later).

[Luke14789]

ok, I finally managed to get it going.
Very weird thing is, I tried both versions of FME, the 2.5 one takes up less resources but never produces output higher than ~21 FPS, while the 3.0 streams at very steady 30.
I have identical settings on both, capturing with VHScrCap at 1920x1080 and outputting to 720x394.
Beats me...