Having VODs active is really a must-have for Twitch. I’ve been a consumer of Twitch content more lately since getting the Pixel 6 smartphone and realized that the Continue Where You Left Off feature only works if the streamer has VODs on. This is absolutely critical for not just educational streams, but any stream where you want to encourage people to just check in and be reminded of the streams you were watching previously but were unable to watch any longer, perhaps due to a conflict with another stream. You can just click and catch up without losing anything. Plus people watch your VODs when you aren’t around because of time zones and such.
I’ve added back Twitch VODs now that it is just so incredibly easy to isolate what sound gets sent. All you have to do is make sure you have the latest OBS and click on Enable Advanced Encoder Settings and Twitch VOD Track (Uses Track 2) and then uncheck Track 2 in any sound source you don’t want to be sent to Twitch. At first just unchecking all of Desktop Audio got me started, but I hope to add a new virtual audio device so that I can isolate just Spotify (and other applications) so that my clips, for example, will still work. I might, in fact, just keep all sound except my mic out of all videos. That would allow automatically publishing them to YouTube even if I’m watching YouTube content. People would see what video I’m watching and go watch it for themselves. It certainly isn’t as good as being live, but it would prevent any muting on Twitch and most demonetization on YouTube.
Another thing this does is allow users who want to watch what I’m doing in peace without my music that they might not like. People (so I’ve read) like to put me on while working on other things, but are annoyed that they cannot also have their own music in the background since it conflicts with mine. Well, now they can, it just won’t be live.
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