Been really loving BelaBox setup lately and working hard to get it working. It really needs OBS though. In fact, OBS is far more open to customization than StreamLabs. But StreamLabs just worked for so many things that I needed immediately:
That first one is so amazing it is hard to put into words. You just tap a key and save the last 20 seconds. Then later, you click two buttons and they are all stitched together and uploaded automatically to YouTube. That level of time savings is worth every dime I’ve spent on it by itself.
But here’s the thing. I don’t use these things anymore and probably never will.
I don’t use clips anymore because I’m mostly muted and coworking. The only time I’m not is when I’m doing a 5-hour Boost session and all of it needs to get published to YouTube as-is (or with minimal editing), or when I’m IRL streaming, in which case there’s nothing to clip unless others do it or I do when I get back home.
Pinned messages can be done in OBS ways that don’t require StreamLabs.
If there isn’t already a plugin out there, I’m sure I can find one.
Besides, I’d rather manage all of that from the command line and “grep”
through the commands and highlight them all at the same time. This is
something I can do once my mim live tool is working down the road.
Video queuing is too problematic to get your community to use and usually I don’t use it anyway because I have other shit to do than babysit a list of song requests. When I am drunk and screwing around with the stream, they can just post the URLs and I can pull them out of the chat from the command line much easier.
CloudBot is going to be replaced. I’m already actively seeking to replace CloudBot with my own that maintains a database of local info commands and eventually has ML-driven AI answering certain chat messages automatically like a true bot should. That will free me to do other shit that needs doing instead of babysitting all the info commands.
So there it is. All the reasons I don’t need StreamLabs anymore. I suspect that using Windows will make OBS just that much better as well since so much more is designed to run on Windows instead of Linux. Most importantly, the noalbs plugin that changes scenes when signal is lost is really important.
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