Helpful Streaming Tools

[patrickgh3]

Let's compile a list of tools, scripts, plugins, etc. that are useful for streaming fangames.

Snip adds playing song information from Spotify, iTunes, Winamp, foobar2000, or VLC to a Text Source. I configured snip to launch on startup of my computer.

I wrote a batch (.bat) script to automate opening all the stuff i use when streaming. It's not perfect; please let me know if you find any improvments.

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start /b "" "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\OBS Studio\OBS Studio (64bit).lnk"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" "https://www.twitch.tv/patrickgh3/dashboard"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app="https://www.twitch.tv/patrickgh3/chat?popout="
start /b "" "C:\Patrick\Stream\pat chat bg.exe"
start /b "" "C:\Patrick\Stream\pats balls.exe"
pause


[tehjman1993]

I have nothing but positive things to say about TA's (TwitchAlert's) chat box (https://www.twitchalerts.com/).

Using the CLR Browser source plugin (https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/clr-browser-source-plugin.22/), you can easily take the URL provided by TA and put it into the CLR browser, and boom - instant chat. This chat works very much in the same way as the NightDev chat did back when that was popular, but TA allows users to customize their chat extremely easily while not changing the URL to use in the plugin. There's various options for different color schemes and for a large variety of sizes. It is really a simple way to get an on-screen chat efficiently and with great uptime (as opposed to NightDev's chat, which went down for me quite frequently).