YouTube Live stream

[AndyP]

Trying something new, looking at ways of promoting LiveCode to the masses.

Tomorrow at 10:30 Berlin time I will be live streaming the first in a series of videos on YouTube Live.
This will be in English.

The first one will be...

Coding a simple countdown timer in LiveCode that can output the countdown to a text file every second., which can be used as a live text source for OBS etc.

I will have a live chat open.. just to confuse me a little bit more than usual!

https://youtu.be/LOGP2ZEyguc

Hope to see a few of you there to correct and encourage me as I plow through my presentation.

Oh, and I'm looking for ideas for future videos, so please post your suggestions.

[bogs]

10:30 Berlin time

is that a.m. or p.m. ?

[Klaus]

Over here in germany we always have -> set the twelveHourTime to false
Hope that helps.

[bogs]

I'll try to make it, but 4:30 am here I'm usually clearing the decks for class

[AndyP]

AM, can't believe I didn't specify that in the original post..duh!

Yes sorry it's early for you, it's the only part of the day I can do at the moment. Hopefully later I will be able to add a few late evening slots in when the rest of my tribe have gone to bed.

[bogs]

Well, it might be early for some people, but I sure ain't one of em hahah.

[AndyP]

Ah well first stream and I had problems with the audio, not picking up my mic and lots of background noise, will be better next time.

SOUND PROBLEMS up to 15:58 please skip forward!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBY_7dKq6PU&t=5s

I think the url I posted changed on go live, still learning this live stream gig.

Next time I will just post my channel address.

[bogs]

Sorry to say I did not have time this morning to catch it Andy, but am watching it now

[AndyP]

Running through the video later I see I've made a few mistakes even though the countdown timer works ok.

I will do a quick follow up stream some time Thurs to sort these out and round off the the project.

[bogs]

It made for interesting viewing, but at one point it looked like you were struggling to explain 'URL' (Uniform Resource Locator). Of course, I'm not sure how far you were trying to dumb it down to.

Some of the parts about saving out to file you might want to make notes about for the discussion on screen as well so that it flows a bit better (i.e. the reasoning behind the different methods and reasons you might want to save the file out, etc.)

You might also think about the order your displaying the program being written in before the video is recorded and put that into some basic skeleton steps. For instance, you were describing a step down counter. Your outline of the controls you were going to use in it was fine, but during the coding it appeared you were bouncing all over.

Instead, you might :
1. code the basic timer routine first
2. format the results
3. write the code to put the formatted variables into the fields
4. save to file operations
...etc...

Other than the above, I thought it went pretty well.

Edit - What is OBS, as your referencing it, btw?

[AndyP]

Thanks for the insite. Yes it was fairly unstructured. This was for me a good learning experience. I had made no notes and did all off the cuff. Next time I will be more prepared, not only for the presentation but for the live streaming as well..oh and I was quite nervous as well

OBS open broadcast software, open source broadcast application which I was using for streaming which makes scene switching easier...oh and I was quite nervous as well.

https://obsproject.com/

[bogs]

Heh, I think you did fine for a first time shot, but notes or a script definitely do help keep you on track. The nervousness didn't show here, although at times you did seem a little distracted. I think that is understandable and probably expected.

You may want to hyperlink like that if your going to stick to just initials in the future, 3 or 4 things came up for OBS, I was fairly sure you were talking about open broadcast software, but if it had been hyperlinked (like this OBS), there would have been no room for doubt