I went ahead and tried to stream using the spectate function with help from some local players. I'm gonna point the problems I had but keep in mind that internet in Brazil is far from stable and I was on wireless. Here is how we worked it out: Vinn and Onihime were playing, Arkhar and me were spectating on caster while talking on skype, meanwhile I was streaming my end through OBS. My notebook handled it smoothly the whole time, even through what appears to be 12x/16x game speed + broadcast.
- Both me and Arkhar experienced crashes with "broadcast is over" error message at random times, for me mostly between rounds.
- While reconnecting, since we needed some kind of sync to commentate, more crashes trying to speed things to the point where it crashed the last time, or the round after I got to that spot.
- After a few matches I asked them to wait in char select so we could regroup, after trying to fast forward I got stuck in char select, it never froze or crashed, and I had to close the program, while Arkhar told me he got to the next match just fine. So we asked them to close and start over a few times for resynching purposes, which can be a little burocratic (one hosts, the other connects and give it a green light so the others spec)
We did not touch the broadcast feature yet, may be something for another time. The result can be
seen here for at least 2 days more, comments are in portuguese.
Overall, good stuff MadSci! The new features are pretty cool. Sadly it will be pretty hard for us to stream online matches yet.