February 2017 - XSplit Blog

XSplit Broadcaster Integration with StreamShark

We’re happy to announce that StreamShark is now integrated in XSplit Broadcaster. If you’re doing your video content on StreamShark, this means you can now easily live stream from XSplit.

Make sure you’re using the latest version of XSplit Broadcaster first and once you are, you can go to the broadcast store, scroll to StreamShark and hit ‘Install’. Once the plugin is installed, you can now use it and live stream to StreamShark.

Please also check out StreamShark’s blog post about this integration as well as their support documentation for a step-by-step guide on setting StreamShark on XSplit Broadcaster.

XSplit Sponsors First Blood VII Tournament

Hello XSplit community! I hope your February was super awesome! It is soon to be March and this also means I’m in full preparation for another year of awesome travels to catch up with all the competitive gaming tournaments around the world who produces their shows and tournament matches with XSplit!

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From the beginning of March, I will be at Auckland, New Zealand to participate and to give some shout-outs to our XSplit friends in the Fighting Game community! Because I know that they’ve been around for many years and have been consistently keeping the competition heated for the old and new players to be part of their great community, I’ve decided to show them a little support as a Community Manager and as an encouragement for them to keep thriving at what they’re passionate for and their future!

First Blood 7 will be held from March 4th to the 5th at the Rydges Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand. If you’re in New Zealand and would like to witness some fierce competition in the fighting games scene, make sure to check it out! If not, you can catch all the action at twitch.tv/standingfierce.

Hope to catch up with you all there and many other tournaments around the globe soon!

XSplit Product Manager Sp00ky Stream Lecture

We’re pleased to announce that XSplit product manager Victor “Spooky” Fontanez will be giving a talk at this coming GDC2017. In his upcoming lecture entitled “Best Practices & Tips for Producing Awesome First-Party Streams to Grow Your Community”, Sp00ky discusses the best methods, common challenges, and tips to aid in the production of successful first-party developer streams.

As a key member of the fighting game community, Sp00ky has been a pioneer of live streaming tournaments and events, and since joining XSplit as product manager, Victor uses his breadth of experience in the market to work closely with the XSplit product team, as well as with external game developers and publishers to bring new features and improvements to the platform.

As first-party streaming becomes an increasingly common trend for developers to utilize to connect with audiences across platforms such as Twitch, Sp00ky’s talk will aim to empower attendees to conduct their own first-party broadcasts and to connect with their current and future audience more directly.

Level up your live stream with XSplit Bootcamp

As makers of the most popular live streaming and recording solution, we’re involved in different types of work outside of improving XSplit such as exhibiting at conventions, providing production assistance to some big brands, getting involved in the community through meetups and parties, etc. One that is not mentioned a lot is doing workshops and presentations for upcoming and intermediate content creators.

Enter XSplit Bootcamp, a program in partnership with YouTube Gaming centered around learning the basics of live streaming straight from our experienced staff members. Whether it’s getting the necessary equipment, setting things up, interacting with your audience, XSplit Bootcamp covers all of that. As a matter of fact we’ve been doing this since last year and we’re only looking forward to do more for this year.

For details of upcoming workshops or if you want to take part of one near your area, go visit bootcamp.xsplit.com.

XSplit Version 2.9 is here

XSplit Version 2.9 Update 6Updated: May 5, 2017
We released a maintenance update for both XSplit Broadcaster and XSplit Gamecaster which mainly contains bug fix for issues on game compatibility brought by Windows 10 Creator Update.

For complete list of improvements and bug fixes, check out the release notes for XSplit Broadcaster and XSplit Gamecaster.
XSplit Version 2.9 Update 5Updated: April 26, 2017
This maintenance update fixes an issue that might prevent XSplit Broadcaster and XSplit Gamecaster from starting up if missing Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013.
XSplit Version 2.9 Update 4Updated: April 3, 2017
In the latest XSplit Broadcaster 2.9.1701.1635 update we have incorporated a number of fixes and minor updates:

General Fixes

– Fixed an issue with XBC using more CPU when minimized

– Fixed WMI error on opening the application on some systems

– Fixed FormatException after load on some systems

– Fixed Flash ActiveX detection on some x64 systems
– Fixed unnecessary source refresh/flashes when default audio input device state changes

– Fixed exception on setup after install of plugin while a recording or stream is active

– Fixed authentication issues with Player.me

– Fixed issues sharing screenshots to Player.me

– Fixed Player.me game check-in field in the share dialog

Express Video Editor

– Fixed video files only showing up as audio track on Sony Vegas 12

– Fixed crashes with low bitrate videos and when combining certain types of videos

Streaming services

– Beam: Fixed to allow only CBR mode and limit bitrate to 9000 kbps

– Dailymotion: Fixed Ingest server not appearing in the list unless channel is saved and setup wizard not proceeding if started from the channel props
-Facebook Live:Fixed “Unsupported get request” from Graph API call – check if auth is present before trying to stream

– Hitbox: Exception warning appears on setup after install of plugin while a recording or stream is active.

– Periscope: Fixed Custom RTMP to be compatible with Periscope.

– AbleGamers: Added alerts plugin

For complete list of improvements and bug fixes, check out the release notes for XSplit Broadcaster and XSplit Gamecaster.
XSplit Version 2.9 Update 3Updated: February 22, 2017
This maintenance update fixes potential crash issue that might affect XSplit Broadcaster’s camera and video sources and XSplit Gamecaster’s console viewer.
XSplit Version 2.9 Update 2Updated: February 17, 2017
This update features XSplit Broadcaster’s Beam.pro FTL streaming support and important security fixes for both XSplit applications.

Missing FTL features

Stream recording

The option to save your live stream locally is disabled. You will still be able to record locally while streaming, but you will need to manually start a local recording which requires an extra encode.

Adaptive bitrate

The experimental adaptive bitrate settings still show, but the function is not yet implemented for FTL.

For complete list of improvements and bug fixes, check out the release notes for XSplit Broadcaster and XSplit Gamecaster
XSplit Version 2.9 Update 1Updated: January 30, 2017
This maintenance update fixes possible crash issue with XSplit Broadcaster when using NDI source and possible freeze issue for both XSplit applications.

For complete list of improvements and bug fixes, check out the release notes for XSplit Broadcaster and XSplit Gamecaster
XSplit Version 2.9 ReleasePosted: December 1 2016
Our XSplit 2.8 release was well-received thanks to some kickass new features like unlimited scene support, global sources, new plugin store and a refreshed user interface among many other things. With XSplit 2.9, we worked on adding even more features as well as making improvements on the existing ones based on all the feedback you gave us.

We want to announce this version release a little different and instead of going through each of the new features in text as we normally do in the past, we had our product manager, Victor Fontanez aka Spooky go through each of them in a video so you can see them all in action.

See our version update policy for more details.

XSplit Version Updates and Fixes

We generally only support versions of XSplit which can be downloaded via our webpage.

We use the following version numbering: [Major] [Minor] [Patch]

We always support a minimum of two stable release versions in our website, but once a new patch is released to one of the two stable release versions, the older release version will be replaced. Once we release a new minor (or major) version of XSplit we always leave the previous latest minor version.

If your receive this update prompt, it is because the version of XSplit that you are using is no longer supported. Sometime service endpoint or API changes, or we may have found issues that have been patched, so we want to make sure that users are using a version of XSplit which is supported and maintained.

If you are having any issue with the latest release version of XSplit, you can always go back to XSplit.com and download the latest previous stable release version. Here’s a screenshot:

XSplit Broadcaster download version

Starting XSplit 3.0, we have also created release pages for both XSplit Broadcaster and XSplit Gamecaster which contain some highlights for the said release. Those pages will be updated continuously going forward when we release version updates.

Example:

At the time of this writing the supported release versions of XSplit Broadcaster are versions 2.9.1701.1615 and 2.8.1607.1952

If we ship a 2.9.[patch>1701.1615], then 2.9.1701.1615 will be replaced and no longer supported OR

If we ship 3.0.x then 2.8.1607.1952 will be replaced and no longer supported OR

If we ship 2.8.[patch >1607.1952] then 2.8.1607.1952 will be replaced an no longer supported

XSplit and Player Sponsor Melbourne Streamer Meetup

On the 17th of February, the Twitch streamer community of Melbourne, Australia will be gathering for some good vibes and sharing their ‘techs’ among other Australian streamers. Hosted by the one and only Bradley ‘DYoshii’ Jolly, his efforts to grow and develop the community is very respected and we’ll all get to meet and greet him as well.

As for us at XSplit and Player, our community manager Kevin “Burnout” Kim will also be in attendance and will be providing some swag that he collected while visiting our XSplit and Player.Me swag dungeon. How generous of him to be sharing all the loots! Be on the lookout for one Epic item as a surprise gift to the community.

The place of meetup will be at the Pinball Paradise on 213 Franklin Street, Melbourne. See you all there!

Missing FTL features