How to stream on Twitch.Tv

Question

Alright so I've had Linux Ubuntu 12.04 for over a year now and I still don't know anything about it. That only thing I can do with it is use the internet. I want to start streaming games that I play on my computer to Twitch.tv., but I don't know how. All of the downloads are only for windows. I found a website that tells you how to do it, but since I know nothing about linux, I can't do it. I haven't been able to get past the first step yet. Can someone please give me a step by step tutorial on how to do it. Please do not think you are being to specific, because I am sure it will help me. The link to the website is this -http://www.creativetux.com/2012/11/streaming-to-twitchtv-with-linux.html

Answer 1

You'll likely have to use ffmpeg or avconv and supply your Twitch.tv key which can be found here: http://www.twitch.tv/broadcast/dashboard/streamkey

Personally I use ffmpeg because avconv for some reason only displays my mouse on the stream when streaming from my laptop. A short example of this would be:

# stream key. You can set this manually.
STREAM_KEY=$(cat ~/.twitch_key)

# stream url. Note the formats for twitch.tv and justin.tv
# twitch:"rtmp://live.twitch.tv/app/$STREAM_KEY"
# justin:"rtmp://live.justin.tv/app/$STREAM_KEY"
STREAM_URL="rtmp://live.twitch.tv/app/$STREAM_KEY"

ffmpeg \
-f alsa -ac 2 -i "pulse" \
-f x11grab -s $(xwininfo -root | awk '/geometry/ {print $2}'i) -r "30" -i :0.0 \
-vcodec libx264 -s "640x360" -vpre "fast" \
-acodec libmp3lame -threads 6 -qscale 5 -b 64KB \
-f flv -ar 44100 "$STREAM_URL"

There are several gists out there that bundle the whole process into a more understandable script. I couldn't find one that I liked so I created my own based on the code above: https://gist.github.com/oseparovic/2db2aaa737cd37e7c068

You can see more about streaming to twitch.tv/justin.tv from ubuntu in this post: http://www.thegameengine.org/miscellaneous/streaming-twitch-tv-ubuntu/