Streaming software

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Live communication is very popular on YouTube these days for the purpose of self-presentation and earning money. It's a great way to get your target audience talking about your hobbies, a webinar, and a business meeting. People who perform these activities are called streamers. To become one, it is not enough to register in the program you like, you still need to understand how to conduct a dialogue with the audience.

Software allows you to make a video of any length and improve the clip (quality increases by an order). You can also trim the video, insert titles, music, intros and save it all in a format you like. After these steps, the clip is ready to send directly to YouTube.

Order of operations in programs for streaming:

  1. You start the screen camera and choose something like "Record Screen".
  2. You choose a screen capture mode and a sound source.
  3. Then the recording begins.
  4. The clip is edited with the app's built-in tools.
  5. The next step is to save it to the hard drive or send it to the recipient.

Next, consider a selection of popular services for streaming on the computer. Which option to choose depends only on you and your level of computer skills.

All Streaming software in rating

The most popular video streaming service today is Twitch. This multiplatform streaming service also has its own PC application called Twitch Studio.

Pros

    • Customizable on-screen windows and tabs
    • View virtual competitions from top eSports athletes
    • Keep video streaming from Playstation, Xbox and portable devices
    • Download quality Full HD videos
    • Reposting your gameplay on YouTube and other social networks
    • Mobile App
    • Huge number of games including Call of Duty, GTA V, The Sims 4, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, League of Legends, Dota,
    • Starcraft, Clash of Clans, etc.
    • The widest selection of gaming industry channels
    • Allows you to see the gameplay and learn how to install mods, customize your character, get donated, exclusive items, and more

Cons

    • High system requirements
    • Installation of additional software is required to expand the tools

Steam is the largest online gaming platform where you can buy licensed games and add-ons, keep up with new releases and updates, communicate with like-minded people, and play as a team. Here you have access to almost every game in the world - from little-known indie projects to global hits. Developers can launch their own games here as well, which saves on physical media and allows you to test a project on a wide audience.

Pros

    • Free and fast downloads
    • Steam streaming lets you watch your friends play their favorite games
    • Text and voice chat, the rich Steam Community to keep you up to date on what's new and what's on sale
    • You can use the service on your PC and a variety of mobile devices
    • Possibility of online battles with real users
    • Easily install games from Steam Cloud
    • Customizable skins and look and feel
    • Easy item exchange for multiplayer multiplayer games
    • Supported not only Windows, but Mac OS and Linux

Cons

    • Full purchase of the game versions is required to use all features
    • Constant network connectivity required for proper operation
    • Steam Guard to protect copyrights prevents you from updating and activating games offline

The official client with an embedded store for the purchase of games from the company Electronic Arts. Among the possible games there are many sports simulators from EAspots, action, strategy, and many other game genres. Here you can stream and record what is happening in the game, and the resulting save or broadcast in real time on the popular platform Twitch.

Pros

    • Store data and save a variety of computer games in the cloud
    • Built-in chat allows you to communicate with other users
    • Real-time screen capture function
    • Automatic work with applications and the ability to pre-order a game via Origin for Windows
    • Quick chat with your teammates while playing online
    • View and discuss live gameplay video broadcasts of video games
    • Easy-to-use Russian-speaking interface of Origin Download Manager
    • Server scanner for auto-updates at every launch
    • Quality technical support from official Electronic Arts web site

Cons

    • Origin works only with products from EA (Battlefield series, Sims, Fifa, Dragon Age, etc.), so you can not try any game
    • After you download the content through the utility, run it without the help of the client Origin is impossible
    • To purchase games on the platform, and to install updates you need an Origin store account

GeForce, created by Nvidia, is a gaming service for platform leveling. The proprietary cloud gaming service allows you to access games that can normally only be played on a high-performance gaming PC.

In other words, you can play modern, high-quality Windows games using a GeForce-enabled device. In the past, the only device that offered this capability was the Nvidia Shield TV, which is a powerful set-top box with pretty impressive gaming performance. Now, however, GeForce Now can also be accessed on Windows and Mac computers.

Pros

    • Easy and fast installation of driver updates from official sources
    • Graphics customization for most popular strategy, action, simulation and MMO RPG
    • Background Passage Recording
    • Works on desktops and notebooks with GeForce 400 and up

Cons

    • Requires a fairly fast Internet connection.

    • Not compatible with all games

Streamlabs software running on the Windows operating system was developed as an application for streaming broadcasts. The free software will be a real boon for beginner streamers. A rich list of tools and simple settings will make working with the program even more effective.

Pros

    • Multithreading - streaming to multiple platforms (Youtube, Twitch, Facebook)
    • Tip from viewers - notification displayed during broadcast
    • Personalization of broadcasts with professional overlays
    • Applications that provide additional management, automation, analysis and new ways to interact with viewers
    • Site builder
    • Cloud backup options
    • Quick operation
    • Open Source
    • Free of charge

Cons

    • Useful tools such as multithreading, overlays, and sponsorship of paid Prime subscriptions

Bandicam is the optimal software application for recording and capturing everything that is currently happening on your computer monitors. It will help you record video with a high compression ratio, but the recording quality will be close to the original.

Pros

    • Desktop video recording
    • Automatically end recording
    • While recording video, you can pause
    • Utility provides control as well as FPS output
    • Saving objects in convenient formats

Cons

    • The free version has limitations

OBS is a program for recording broadcasts. It has helped everyone who has ever tried to start a live broadcast via Youtube, Hitbox, Twitch. It allows you to record video both from the screen and from any external cameras. It is very easy to use and there are many reasons why hundreds of thousands of streamers choose it as a broadcasting utility.

Pros

    • Streaming video recording function
    • High quality image when recording games
    • The program supports multiple streams to broadcast the highest quality pictures
    • Contains open source code
    • Ability to create unique plugins for the software control panel by yourself
    • Sound track extraction
    • Support for Intel Quick Sync Video
    • Streaming on Twitch, Hitbox, YouTube, GoodGame and other services
    • Optimization with Windows, Mac OS, Linux

Advertising has always been the engine of progress. But the best advertising is a spectacular video, which is much easier and more easily perceived by the consumer. Therefore, many users, in order to sell their goods or services at a higher price, turn to specialists in video editing. But this brings with it additional costs. Therefore, you can use additional programs that allow you to create a good quality video.

Pros

    • There are no restrictions in the trial version
    • The developer is constantly releasing new features
    • User-friendly interface
    • Ability to use midi devices for controlling
    • Software video mixer and switcher for HD video mixing in real time
    • Affordable price of basic package
    • Real time streaming video to the internet
    • Record and stream live SD, Full HD, and 4K video sources including cameras, video files, DVDs, images, Powerpoint, and more
    • VMix Go allows you to connect up to 8 cameras

Cons

    • The free trial version is valid for 60 days

Everyone who has ever worked with video or audio files knows that you need a good multimedia player to work with this special extension of the document, which will cope with a large number of tasks. This is a special type of program that allows you to encode and decode video information. The VLC Media Player itself contains a wide range of codecs that you simply can't do without.

Pros

    • Can be used as a server to stream audio/video over the network
    • There are separate versions of vlc for ios, android
    • High quality equalizer
    • Streaming video, images
    • Adds subtitles
    • No need to install additional codecs
    • Remote control via telnet, AJAX via HTTP
    • Play all major file formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DIVX, FLV, DVD, VCD

Cons

    • Sometimes slows down
    • Fails to launch objects in .TS format
    • Uncomfortable volume change in video playback mode