Streaming to Twitch.tv

[soulstitchmmo]

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

[kmf31]

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

[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

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?