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by **JMR** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 00:34

Greetings miners,
I have been thinking about streaming minetest to my twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/jordanmrichards

But I am curious to know: Would anyone actually be interested in watching?

I will try to get the game minetest added on twitch, from there, it could boost the game's popularity depending on the quantity.

What I'd be thinking of streaming:
-Setting up a survival challenge in such a way that users in the chat can interact and help out.
- Featuring cool map challenges / cool new mods
-Building a project on a private server

If I'd go through with this, I'd build a dedicated website supporting the stream. Like I did for my SimCity ones: www.jordanrichards.com/simcity
Please reply with:
-Would you watch?
-Any suggestions

Thanks,
-JMR

by **Inocudom** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 01:28

I think it is a good idea to record videos of Minetest. If you want your videos to be unique, give paramat's paragen mod a try:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=6736
In order for the mod to replace the default mapgen, look at the post linked to below:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?pid=125366#p125366

by **onpon4** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 02:18

Can't; Twitch streams can't be viewed without Flash Player or some sort of special Android or iOS application. It doesn't even work with Lightspark; I checked.

by **JMR** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 15:47

Inocudom wrote:I think it is a good idea to record videos of Minetest. If you want your videos to be unique, give paramat's paragen mod a try:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=6736
In order for the mod to replace the default mapgen, look at the post linked to below:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?pid=125366#p125366

It wouldn't really be video recording, it would be live-streaming. But I could upload the livestreams to youtube I suppose.
That mod sure does look interesting! Thanks for the suggestion.

onpon4 wrote:Can't; Twitch streams can't be viewed without Flash Player or some sort of special Android or iOS application. It doesn't even work with Lightspark; I checked.

Twitch has their own application for android and ios devices. Has quite a lot of bugs at the moment, but hey, it's still possible.

by **onpon4** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 16:27

JMR wrote:
onpon4 wrote:Can't; Twitch streams can't be viewed without Flash Player or some sort of special Android or iOS application. It doesn't even work with Lightspark; I checked.

Twitch has their own application for android and ios devices. Has quite a lot of bugs at the moment, but hey, it's still possible.

Emphasis added. I'm not an Android or iOS user.

by **JMR** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 16:39

onpon4 wrote:
JMR wrote:
onpon4 wrote:Can't; Twitch streams can't be viewed without Flash Player or some sort of special Android or iOS application. It doesn't even work with Lightspark; I checked.

Twitch has their own application for android and ios devices. Has quite a lot of bugs at the moment, but hey, it's still possible.

Emphasis added. I'm not an Android or iOS user.

Right, sorry, misread that there, read it at 1am in the morning on tablet, then kept the reply till today. ^^

That is a real shame, twitch is probably the leading game livestreaming website of today. This is why I have chosen it. I will probably upload youtube videos of the streams after.

List of my mods · by **PilzAdam** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 17:08

onpon4 wrote:Can't; Twitch streams can't be viewed without Flash Player or some sort of special Android or iOS application. It doesn't even work with Lightspark; I checked.

Judging by your avatar you use Gnash?

by **onpon4** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 19:39

Heck no! Gnash is crap; pretty much nothing works with it. I don't use Flash at all. I do have Gnash and Lightspark installed, but they're disabled; I mostly have them so that the Flash Video Downloader can discover videos, for those video players that don't have HTML5 fallback (HTML5 fallback is actually pretty common now, so I don't need to use Lightspark this way often).

Most live video streams I'm not able to watch at all, because they depend on Flash crap and seem to do so purposefully. Sometimes (rarely) there's an RTSP link I can get to which VLC can stream (this is currently the case for Livestream, for example), and of course no special software is needed to view IceCast streams; so these are the types of video streams I'm able to watch.

by **JMR** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 17:08

I may be livestreaming minetest soon. Bar Inocudom's suggestion, anymore? :)

by **hoodedice** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 17:18

onpon4 wrote:blah blah I'm not able to watch at all, because they depend on Flash crap blah blah.

Oh God. Oh wait, you're athiest...

Oh great Linus Torvalds. No I'm not elevating him to the status of God, but meh.

Anyway. SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM THIS MADNESS!! You know what you're missing out on with no flash?

THIS

AND THIS.

onpon4 wrote:-snip-.

Emphasis added. I'm not an Android or iOS user.

I KNOW. YOU USE A NOKIA PHONE! M$ SUPPORTER! HYPOCRITE!!

by **onpon4** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 17:37

hoodedice wrote:Anyway. SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM THIS MADNESS!! You know what you're missing out on with no flash?

THIS

AND THIS.

Actually, the reason I don't get rickrolled is because I have ViewTube installed. :) ViewTube blocks YouTube's player and replaces it with a better one.

by **hoodedice** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 19:45

onpon4 wrote:
hoodedice wrote:Anyway. SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM THIS MADNESS!! You know what you're missing out on with no flash?

THIS

AND THIS.

Actually, the reason I don't get rickrolled is because I have ViewTube installed. :) ViewTube blocks YouTube's player and replaces it with a better one.

You didn't refute the thing about Nokia, so...

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