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I am currently using FFMPEG to stream to Twitch. I have been told that VLC is an alternative to streaming, and would like to give it a shot (FFMPEG eats up way too much CPU imo). Is there an uptodate guide for Linux (ubuntu 12.04) that I can follow to get started streaming with VLC?

I'm a linux novice, but feel comfortable when given a guide I can follow.

Thank you in advance,
Soulstitchmmo

You should be more precise about what you exactly want to do.

Streaming as such does not use much of CPU, actually pure streaming (and to record a stream on a file) requires very little CPU and works even on very old computers (e.g. PIII etc.).

The CPU is mainly used for decoding/encoding or transcoding a stream and for this
vlc mostly uses the ffmpeg library (depening on the codecs) and there would be no much difference.

Apart from this streaming documentation is available here:
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... Use_of_VLC

You should be more precise about what you exactly want to do.

Streaming as such does not use much of CPU, actually pure streaming (and to record a stream on a file) requires very little CPU and works even on very old computers (e.g. PIII etc.).

The CPU is mainly used for decoding/encoding or transcoding a stream and for this
vlc mostly uses the ffmpeg library (depening on the codecs) and there would be no much difference.

Apart from this streaming documentation is available here:
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... Use_of_VLC

Thank you for the guides, but the guides do not explain how to stream from my desktop. I want to stream gaming from my second monitor. Is this possible with VLC or should I just stick with ffmpeg?