Tech Dump Stuff

Murasama

2025

Work in Progress – Japanese Translation

I’ll be translating some of these into Japanese (which will require revising the original English writings). Part of this is being done as a service to the Japanese Twitch creator community that streams to an western demographic since there aren’t a lot of these guides (because Twitch is not a large streaming platform in Japan). これらのうちいくつかを日本語に翻訳します（そのためには元の英語文章の修正が必要となります）。これは主に、日本のTwitchクリエイターコミュニティへのサービスとして行っています。彼らは欧米の視聴者を対象に配信していますが、こうしたガイドはほとんど存在しません（Twitchは日本で大きな配信プラットフォームではないためです）。
November 5, 2025
Editorial

Travel/IRL Gadget Backpack (Work-in-Progress DRAFT)

This is a work-in-progress draft (I also don’t do any sponsorships/monetize anything so nothing in this writeup is sponsored). Travel/IRL backpack, cable/power management test build (I already have tested quality braided USB-C cables that can handle 100W of charging/data transfer via a 5Gbps USB-C hub with 100W passthrough charging/power delivery (to trickle charge a phone, tablet, vlogging camera, DSLR, stabilizer, etc) and power a peltier cooler). The premise is to have an organized system (for my DSLR, tablet/laptop/devices) with secured cable management (quality braided cables that can handle both 65+W of power and USB 3.0 transfer speeds) alongside an easy...
September 22, 2025
Backpack / Gadget / IRL / Power Bank / Travel

iPad/iPhone Screen Mirroring to Windows PC via AirDroid Cast

Background: AirDroid Cast (the free version) allows wireless screen mirroring from a mobile device (Android, iOS, iPadOS) to a Mac or Windows PC (the paid version enables other options like Apple’s AirPlay and USB). Both mobile and desktop need to be running the application for each respective platform. This tutorial is specifically for iPad/iPhone screen mirroring to a Windows PC (iPad/iPhone’s can stream natively to any AirPlay device including Mac’s running at least macOS 12 Monterey). Testing Note: I ran this setup for several hours streaming audio/video without any crashes or frame rate drops (my PC is connected via Cat6...
June 12, 2025
AirDroid Cast / iOS / iPad / iPhone / OBS / Screen Mirroring / Windows

Moblin Picture-in-Picture Multi-camera

This is pretty simple to setup. It involves creating a new scene and new widget (in OBS terminology, this is like adding another source to your scene). The main scene is going to be the rear (outside) camera while the widget will be the front (inside) camera. The low power rear/outside camera source is what needs to be selected for the main Picture-in-Picture scene with this multi-camera setup. 1. Tap Settings, then Scenes. Create a new scene and name it to whatever you want (in this example, I am using “PIP2”). 2. Select your video source. This again is going...
June 12, 2025
iPhone / IRL / Moblin

Multistreaming via OBS

This is a work-in-progress… Multistreaming (aka multicasting) is simply being able to stream to different platforms simultaneously. Note that each specific platform has their own requirements (to qualify for live streaming). None of that will be covered here. As for the how, there are different ways to achieve this, each with their positives and negatives. Restream.io The free version of Restream.io allows streaming to two platforms (paid allows streaming to 30+ platforms simultaneously); OBS is reconfigured to stream directly to Restream (where you setup your Twitch and YouTube stream key info). While it’s not my preference because it is now...
May 26, 2025
Aitum Multistream / IRL / IRL Link / Kick / Moblin / Multicasting / Multistreaming / OBS / Restream / Sorayuki Multi RTMP Outputs / Twitch / YouTube

Streamer.bot Twitch Clip to Discord Action Import String

The following is a Streamer.bot action script that can be imported and modified to perform a Twitch clip (30 seconds) from chat (!clip) and have the URL posted to a channel on Discord. The 30 seconds is a Twitch API restriction. The channel owner will have the ability to go and manually edit these clips using the Twitch clip tool where its length can be longer (before and after the stream marker) and titles can be changed (another Twitch API restriction is that the clip title will match the name of the stream title). In the Discord Basic Webhook sub-action...
May 24, 2025
Discord / Streamer.bot / Twitch

Gimbal/Stabilizer versus Tripod Stick

There are a lot of wide ranging thoughts/opinions regarding whether or not gimbals/stabilizers (I will use these terms interchangeably) for ones smartphone are a high priority piece of equipment for IRL streaming compared to a tripod-style selfie stick. Gimbals utilize motors (gyroscopes) to stabilize the motion and allow for smooth tracking and panning. Thus it seems like it would be a natural fit for IRL live streamers. The reality is it depends highly on the equipment and actual situational use cases. Older stabilizers were large/bulky because they were designed with large motors. They were great for capturing really smooth footage...
May 24, 2025
DJI / Gimbal / Insta360 / IRL / Selfie Stick / Stabilizer / Travel / Tripod

2024

Screenshot Twitch Stream to Discord via Streamer.bot and OBS

This tutorial is for a channel point redeem that takes a screenshot of a camera source (raw) from a selected scene in OBS Studio (using Streamer.bot), which is then posted into a channel on Discord.  Capturing a screenshot with all of the overlays is more complicated (and is not covered).  Similarly, an onstream visual/sound effect are also not covered. Please see the note in Step 6 regarding the security considerations of running this bot. Note: this requires an OBS setup running on a Windows based PC since Streamer.bot is a Windows only application. Step 1: Download Streamer.bot Step 2: Extract...
October 1, 2024
Discord / OBS / Streamer.bot / Twitch

Sidekick Clip Shoutout

Overlay for OBS that plays back clip from a channel (allows you to shoutout video clips from a Twitch channel).  Note that this used to exist at efuse.gg/sidekick but is now located at the linked site.  Prior overlays/settings were not migrated over to the new site (but may still be running on the prior site). It’s a standard browser source overlay for OBS that is configurable. Step 1: Create an account and sign in (old efuse.gg accounts still work; you will just need to link your streaming platform account).  Some of the following screenshots do not match the newer setup...
July 16, 2024
OBS / Shoutout / Sidekick

Naginreed’s Belabox Cloud Guides

NOTE: In order to help facilitate guides that will better translate into Japanese, I’m forking the IRL guide repositories (to the following) to make edits in order to have that Japanese translation branch that will include the eventual incorporation of critical security/privacy notes. 注記：日本語への翻訳をより円滑に進めるため、IRLガイドのリポジトリを（以下に）フォークし、編集を行います。これにより日本語翻訳ブランチを作成し、最終的には重要なセキュリティ／プライバシーに関する注意事項を組み込む予定です。 https://github.com/LordMurasama The following video is his basic setup guide for using Moblin (iOS) to stream directly to Twitch. It’s a good starting point to learn how to setup this mobile streaming app for iPhones (the Android equivalent is IRLPro which there are many tutorials online for). 以下の動画は、Moblin（iOS）を使用してTwitchに直接ストリーミングするための基本的な設定ガイドです。iPhone向けのこのモバイルストリーミングアプリの設定方法を学ぶ良い出発点となります（Android版はIRLProで、オンライン上に多くのチュートリアルが存在します）。 His github repository has text guides for setting up...
June 30, 2024
Belabox Cloud / iOS / iPhone / IRL / Moblin / Twitch

Mac noalbs installation

The following are the Mac specific details for Naginreed’s IRL guide. 4.2.a – Download NOALBS for your System (it will be a .tar archive file in the Downloads folder).  Double-clicking the file will unpack the file into a folder of the same name as the filename (without the extension).  Rename that folder to NOALBS. Open your home user folder (Click “Go” from the Finder, and select “Home”).  Create a new folder; something like Stream or Streaming for example. Move (click and drag) the NOALBS folder from the above step into this new folder (in this example, the Streaming folder). 4.2.b...
May 23, 2024
OBS

OBS Studio Mac Installation Section

The following are the Mac specific information for Naginreed’s IRL guide. 4.1.a – Download OBS Studio for your System. The download will be in a disk image format (default folder is Downloads). 4.1.b – Double-click the disk image file to open it and drag the OBS application onto the Applications folder to copy (install) it. In the Finder, open the Applications folder and double-click OBS to launch it. The system will put up a dialog like the following when running the application for the first time.  Click on Open. Newer versions of macOS have implemented greater degrees of security that...
May 22, 2024
OBS

2015

Sun Microsystems Stuff

Sun Microsystems (in the 90’s which was wild due to the dot.com bubble) was a great learning experience (as a systems engineer).  Most of what I did was on Sun-4c (SPARC) aka SPARCstation and SPARCserver, Sun-4u (Ultra SPARC) and SunOS 4.1.x (aka Solaris 1.1.x).  Lot of the workstation and enterprise hardware was built like tanks. The following folder are some of the Solaris 7 datasheets (after I’d left). Google Drive I still have my SPARCstation IPX (SunOS 4.1.4) It’s still funny looking back at what are now crude digital images (from the lousy 90’s era digital cameras that existed at...
January 6, 2015
Silicon Valley / Sun