Mastering the Art of Live Game Streaming on Smashcast.com: An Ultimate Walkthrough for Gamers

Action Tutorials

Gameplay Recording

LIVE Streaming

User Interface introduction

Installation, activation and updates

Desktop recording

Webcam tutorials

Exporting and upload

Capturing Screenshots

Hardware and settings

Remotly Tutorials

Live streaming games to Smashcast

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Introduction

Using Action! LIVE Streaming you can easily stream all your games to Smashcast service. Play PC games and share your best gameplays with viewers from all over the world with Smashcast.tv service.

Follow steps below to learn how to start live streaming games to Smashcast.

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Action! LIVE Streaming

Open Action! application and select “Live Streaming” tab.

Select Smashcast service

Please make sure to select “Smashcast” option for streaming service.

Open Accounts Manager to log in to your Smashcast account.

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Use Accounts manager to log in to your Smashcast account.

Please note that it is required to have a Smashcast account to start live streaming to this service. Open https://www.smashcast.tv/ and sign up for a new account if you don’t have one.

Now use Login with Smashcast button to show a new Login window. Login to your Smashcast account and authorize Action! application.

LIVE Streaming settings

Use video quality and bitrate settings to setup your Smashcast broadcast.

We recommend to use HD live streaming on PCs with Intel Quick Sync Video, AMD APP or NVIDIA NVENC acceleration for video encoding.

Please remember that for the ultimate streaming experience you need to adjust your broadcast settings to your internet connection speed. If you experience any streaming performance problems please reduce video bitrate, video size or framerate and try again.

Set your preferred recording mode

Set Action! recording mode to “Active screen” or “Games and Applications” to capture and live stream games. If you plan to live stream a game running in windowed mode, please use “Games and Applications” mode.

Start LIVE Streaming to Smashcast with Action!

Run a game, Action! HUD will be displayed in the top right corner of your game screen, showing game framerate in blue color. Action! is connected to your game and ready to start to stream your game to Smashcast!

Now, press a hotkey (Ctrl+F9) to start streaming your gameplay to Smashcast service. Action! HUD displays “LIVE” icon during gameplay streaming and current number of your Smashcast live stream viewers.

Press hotkey (Ctrl+F9) to stop streaming to Smashcast.

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Mastering the Art of Live Game Streaming on Smashcast.com: An Ultimate Walkthrough for Gamers