I am trying to do a comment driven live stream on several platforms at the same time. I am using pygame for the visualization by constantly saving an image of the game window using GTK and GDK, then loading the image using pygame and displaying it with other displays. However, I need to be able to stream several pygame windows to different sites. I originally tried just streaming a simple java processing window with sound on windows using ffmpeg, but I was having trouble because of sound drivers and microphones, and it would just not work.
I then tried using visual boxes running Ubuntu on on the same computer. Ubuntu has pulse which allows me to customize sound. I had I separate pygame window in each emulator that was streamed using ffmpeg from inside. However, I was unable to draw anything to pygame as the streaming and the visual boxes used all of the computer resources. I then saw that visual box would run faster emulating the OS it was run on. So I got my friend's old computer and changed the OS to Ubuntu and tried again. However it was still too slow.
I then tried removing the visual boxes entirely and having 3 pygame windows on OS. However, I then realized that ffmpeg (the rtmp stream aplication I was using) didn't have the option to stream specific windows on linux like it did with windows OS on my first try. It only had the option to stream specific pixel areas.
- How can I stream several pygame windows at the same time?
- Are there much faster, better, and low-resource Ubuntu emulator alternatives?
- Are there rtmp streaming applications that would allow for stream several windows at once? Something to do with workspaces or extra displays that I missed in my research?
- Are there other Linux versions that allow for this? Or will I be forced to create a new distro?
I would like the most computer resources possible, so the less resources the alternative uses, the better. I also need to be able to start and configure everything from terminal.
