#Camtwist windows how to#
#Camtwist windows for mac#
#Camtwist windows mac os x#
#Camtwist windows install#
#Camtwist windows windows#

This will redirect the audio through Soundflower, and pass it through your normal output so you can still hear it. Next, click the Soundflower icon on the menu bar, and for “Soundflower (2ch)” select what you would normally have set as your system output (such as headphone, or Line-Out).

Open Sound preferences ( System Preferences > Sound > Output) and select “Soundflower (2ch)”.īasically, anything that you would hear through your speakers will now be directed first through Soundflower. We need to tell OS X to direct system audio output to Soundflower. It won’t open an application window, but will add a small menu item icon (a flower) on the top right of the menu bar.

#Camtwist windows install#

We can use this to capture system audio, and pass it on to FMLE to include the audio for our video stream.įirst, download and install Soundflower. Soundflower is a utility that can combine multiple audio outputs and redirect them into a single audio output.

#Camtwist windows mac os x#

Mac OS X does not have native support for doing this, but the free Soundflower utility enabled this.

In order to capture audio, we need a way to capture the system’s audio output, and make it an input for Flash Media Live encoder. You can test that everything is working by selecting Tools > Preview, which will give you a small preview of the video being captured. Make sure the “Desktop” section is selected. Once you have set the preferences, close the window and restart CamTwist. We will have Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder scale the video down, as my experience has been that it does it much more efficiently than CamTwist. Set it to the native resolution even if you are going to broadcast at a lower resolution. In my case, I have it set to 1920 x 1200, which is my native desktop resolution. Set video size to “Custom” and set it to your desktop resolution. The higher the FPS, the smoother the video, but the more bandwidth and CPU required to encode and transmit it. Set the frame rate to the same frame rate you plan to encode at. Now, open the preferences ( CamTwist > Preferences), and select the “General Tab”. Once you have set all of these settings, you can save them by clicking the “Save Setup” button. This ensures that only the main screen will be broadcast (which only matters if you have multiple monitors).Īlso make sure that “Full Screen” and “Show mouse pointer (simulated)” are selected. In the settings window, make sure that screen is set to “Main Screen”. In Step 3 make sure that “Desktop” is included and checked. You can save these settings by clicking the “Save Setup” button. “Desktop+” allows you to select a specific window to broadcast, but since we are going to be broadcasting our entire desktop, we will just use the Desktop preset. Once it is installed, open it up, and under the Step 1 section, double click “Desktop” (not “Desktop+”). Configuring CamTwistįirst, download and install CamTwist. Depending on what you are streaming, this may affect other applications running on your system, or even the quality of the stream. Keep in mind that encoding and broadcasting live video feeds can be very CPU intensive, and thus may require significant system resources. The basic setup is pretty simple, and essentially requires setting up CamTwist to capture your desktop as a video source, and have Flash Media Live Encoder take that video source, combine it with the system audio, and stream it to the server (in this case ).

config file : Only required if you are streaming to (link provided below).

Soundflower : Utility used to capture and redirect system output.

CamTwist : Used to capture desktop as a video source.

#Camtwist windows for mac#

Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder (FMLE) 3.2 for Mac : Encodes and streams video and audio to.

The basic setup will allow us to stream our desktop and system audio to. The second section will show a more advanced sound setup that allows you to also broadcast your microphone, and audio from other apps such as skype.

#Camtwist windows how to#

The first part will show how to get a basic desktop stream going, including system sound.

I am going to divide the article up into a couple of sections. This article will show how to use Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder (and a couple of other tools) to live stream your desktop to (although the setup would also work for other streaming sites).

#Camtwist windows windows#

There are plenty of articles online talking about how to stream your desktop on Windows based machines, but virtually none on how to do it from a Mac. One part of the community that I recently discovered has been live streams of games (some from pros) via sites like and. I have been playing a lot of Starcaft 2 lately, and really getting into the entire community.