Streaming from a PowerMac G5 - Better Than You'd Expect!
Thanks https://PCBWay.com - What does it take to become a Twitch streamer? Do you really need the latest and greatest hardware? Nope! I became a Twitch Affiliate by streaming with NOTHING ELSE but a Power Mac G5!
Thank you PCBWay for sponsoring today's shenanigans!
https://www.pcbway.com/
VIDEO LINKS:
π Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/actionretro
π Cantankerous Tech ffmpeg video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb_5_9GkwZc
π OpenBSD macppc: https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html
π Mac Yak PowerPC Challenge: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/2022-powerpc-challenge.633/
TWITCH SCRIPT (save your twitch key in the same folder as this script, in a file named twitch.key):
TWITCH_KEY=$(cat twitch.key)
ffplay -x 250 -y 190 -video_size 640x480 /dev/video0 &
ffmpeg -f x11grab -video_size 1680x1050 -framerate 24 -probesize 42M -i $DISPLAY -f alsa -i default -af acompressor=threshold=0.089:ratio=9:attack=200:release=1000 -vf scale=1680x1050 -c:v h264 -g 24 -b:v 2M -preset ultrafast -c:a aac -pix_fmt yuv420p -f flv "rtmp://jfk.contribute.live-video.net/app/$TWITCH_KEY"
clear
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