For Organizers
We are offering various services for both Demoparty- and Demogroup organizers. This includes getting your own streaming channel for your demoparty, and getting a dedicated private team created for your demogroup coordination.
We are offering various services for both Demoparty- and Demogroup organizers. This includes getting your own streaming channel for your demoparty, and getting a dedicated private team created for your demogroup coordination.
Get your own channel for streaming your demoparty. Experience our sub-second latency platform providing the highest quality in live streaming. No ads, no commercials, no getting kicked out for showing "offensive" demos.
We will send you a Plug&Play ready to use SceneCity stream encoder. It's a tiny MiniPC running OBS and having two HDMI capture inputs, and two HDMI video monitor outputs. As the tech area of demoparties often is very hot, we have added an external ultra-silent fan.
With a size of 12x12x8cm and a weight of below 1kg it's easy to take it with you, even on a train or in the hand luggage on your flight.
We will send you the device free of charge via UPS. After the party you then send it back again using UPS's pick-up service.
You will be able to create and manage streams yourself using our stream management web interface. You may ask SceneCity admins if they are available for support during a demoparty weekend, but in general should be able to handle, test and troubleshoot things yourself.
Also, you can configure your stream to have people auto-join a party chat channel on SceneCity's chat platform. Such a channel must created by a SceneCity admin, and that should be done well ahead of the actual party date.
The encoder will use the H.265 coded and send out the stream via the SRT protocol. This is ideal because SRT can handle packet loss much better than outdated RTMP, and can adapt to the upstream bandwidth available at the party. Ideally you will be streaming at 8-10 MBit/s.
The Mini PC while encoding has a pretty high CPU load. There is enough CPU capacity to have two video input sources (for example a camera and beam output) in OBS running on the MiniPC, and some text etc. It's not powerful to run any sophisticated effects or plug-ins, though.
Bigger demoparties typically will be running their own video mixer chain and/or OBS. In this case you would be receiving a ready to send mixdown, and only use one of the two HDMI capture inputs provided.
As indicated depending on what the organizers of a demoparty want, SceneCity can re-stream to other platforms. This is happening on our transcoder chain backend in the SceneCity data center, so it does not use additional bandwidth at the party. For the re-streaming, the stream will be re-encoded from H.265 to H.264 and then send out via RTMP. You can configure the stream key the party organizers get from those platforms in the web management portal.
Also, you can configure your stream to have people auto-join a party chat channel on SceneCity's chat platform.
Contact us on SceneCity's chat channel #SceneCity:
To co-ordinate your work for organizing a demoparty, or for coordinating a large demogroup with multiple projects, you can get a private "Team" on our system. A "Team" means that you have your own private space only users invited by you can see, with your own Team branding and full administrative control.