Problems...

[MusicJoy]

Hi! Just downloaded procaster and can't get it to work.

1) What is CPU? How do I change it? I think it said it was 100? And should be 80? Or was it the other way around...

2) How do I lower the quality? I think it said I should do that.

3) How do I get it to stream what I want it to stream? It kind of worked once, but very slow - and it streamed my desktop. But when I checked the livestream channel and studio to see if it worked, it then streamed my channel and studio - is there a way to fix it on what I want it to stream?

Thanks.

[MusicJoy]

In the small window down to the left, it says something about 100% CPU.
Underneath that in yellow, after a "warning sign", it says "Above 80 CPU" (or something similar). And it says "Stop, or lower quality"
I also get a message that says I have a problem with the bandwith, and that I should lower the nquality in the main procaster dialogue (I think it said).
My problem is that I can't find where I go, to do that. Can anyone help me with that?

Also, it seems to slow down everything on my computer, this program - including what I am supposed to be filming on my screen.
Will this change if I can lower the quality? Or is there something else I can do to change this?

I hope someone can help me with this.

Thanks.

[mbaron]

You can drop the streaming quality below the "go live" button on Procaster. Procaster is very CPU intensive, if you do not have a powerful machine you might experience a crash, lag and/or poor stream quality.

You can see our recommended system specs here:

http://www.livestream.com/userguide/...se#Recommended


Matt
Livestream Producer Support

[MusicJoy]

Originally Posted by mbaron

You can drop the streaming quality below the "go live" button on Procaster. Procaster is very CPU intensive, if you do not have a powerful machine you might experience a crash, lag and/or poor stream quality.

You can see our recommended system specs here:

http://www.livestream.com/userguide/...se#Recommended


Matt
Livestream Producer Support

I see. And the lowest quality I can choose is "Normal quality 446 Kbps" ? I think?
And I suppose I should have it set on the Webcam splitter alternative?

[MusicJoy]

Well, I am gettting it to work. But it still tells me to lower the quality and that I have too high or too low CPU. The stream is very jumpy.
I tried with the lowest quality now, which I believe is the mobile one? But it didn't get any better.
Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Kmroberts16]

MusicJoy,

If you haven't already, you can also turn off the option to record your broadcasts locally to your computer's hard drive which will free up some processor usage. Go to Procaster Preferences and then to the "Desktop" tab. Uncheck the option "Save video to File".

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Best,
Kevin
Livestream Producer Support

[MusicJoy]

Okay, starting yet another thread....

What I want to do, is to stream live through my livestream channel from events that are happening, and which will be covered, for instance by other livestream channels, or on newspapers' online sites. Like court procedings.
I have tried the procaster option, with "filming" a channel and streaming it through my channel. But it turned out my computer isn't good enough to stream it with good quality. So that option is out.

I don't really know what webcaster does. It says it is a simpler version of proccaster, but to me it seems that it is to use if you want to be on camera and broadcast yourself? Is it possible to stream from say your desktop with webcaster? Or from other channels, and send it through my channel?

The reason I want to do it, is so my small group of friends can watch things together and chat about them.
I'm not interested in filming myself.

I have the impression that webcaster can't do this? It's just for having the camera on yourself and make a broadcast of yourself?


Anyone who can help me? If webcaster is not the solution, does anyone have other suggestions that can make this happen?

Thanks.

[MusicJoy]

Bump.

Anyone?

[Henry_live]

Originally Posted by MusicJoy

Okay, starting yet another thread....

What I want to do, is to stream live through my livestream channel from events that are happening, and which will be covered, for instance by other livestream channels, or on newspapers' online sites. Like court procedings.
I have tried the procaster option, with "filming" a channel and streaming it through my channel. But it turned out my computer isn't good enough to stream it with good quality. So that option is out.

I don't really know what webcaster does. It says it is a simpler version of proccaster, but to me it seems that it is to use if you want to be on camera and broadcast yourself? Is it possible to stream from say your desktop with webcaster? Or from other channels, and send it through my channel?

The reason I want to do it, is so my small group of friends can watch things together and chat about them.
I'm not interested in filming myself.

I have the impression that webcaster can't do this? It's just for having the camera on yourself and make a broadcast of yourself?


Anyone who can help me? If webcaster is not the solution, does anyone have other suggestions that can make this happen?

Thanks.

MusicJoy,

For your needs, I would recommend Procaster, however your computer does not meet the minimum requirements needed to use the software. Another option for you would be to use a third party screen capturing software such as ManyCam or Camtasia which would be recognized as a Camera Source within Webcaster instead of your webcam.

[MusicJoy]

Originally Posted by Henry_live

MusicJoy,

For your needs, I would recommend Procaster, however your computer does not meet the minimum requirements needed to use the software. Another option for you would be to use a third party screen capturing software such as ManyCam or Camtasia which would be recognized as a Camera Source within Webcaster instead of your webcam.

Hi Henry. Thank you. That works
Any tips on making it stream more smoothly? It's still a bit jumpy, moving in frames.