Aaron Parecki

🔴 Live Q&A! Answering your questions about livestreaming gear!

December 14, 2025

Questions

(4:57) Let's see what today's stream brings

(5:04) Hello from Omaha, Nebraska - USA! It's so cold and windy, all the cows are facing south and in a Rugby scrum!

(5:35) After ~1 month, again nice to see you and hear your ''Hello hello''

(5:36) Cold in SF, too

(5:48) Totally worth it because of the community Discord

(6:28) Cold for CA lol

(6:33) Q: What a source for a 4 to 1 HDMI spliter

(6:55) Germany had a cold wave, but it got warmer again

(7:19) one source to 4 outputs

(9:04) @mattwruff I've had good experiences with OREI

(9:05) @aidancomi @mattwruff I've heard good things about OREI too

(13:41) I've used that exact 1x4 OREI model and worked great and handles EDID well

(13:50) Or you can just use a YoloBox Ultra...LOL

(14:24) Q: Please post Samsung software link please!

(14:36) OWC has NO issue with there drives so Samsun should just fit there firmware

(14:43) The OS should be the one that does it. The drive does not understand or care about the file system. So if something is deleted, the trim needs to be sent to the ssd controller

(15:05) Q: do you know if how you format drive impacts this?

(15:28) I think it’s all usb-c drives by default in Mac. Thunderbolt ssds are not impacted I think

(16:01) Q Link for camera that works with Rodecaster?

(18:44) Q: Better than the AVKans?

(19:13) Rolling Shutter?

(19:21) q: does the rodecaster multiview really have a rode branding?

(20:53) Rode really overdoes it with branding

(23:09) If you wear all that stuff, you'll win next year!

(23:14) That RCV multiview has way too much wasted screen real estate.

(27:36) can you can control with the ATEM how many boxes and what goes into each box

(31:00) Q: Can you customize the RCV multi view?

(31:06) Q: Did they send the free camera transmitter for the Micro too?

(31:19) I love having a clock in MV during shows but can totally see how it's annoying for recording your vids

(31:38) needs a bigger screen for the multiview

(32:28) I've always enjoyed the fact that all the windows of theA ATEM previews are full frame rate

(33:17) Q Would you trade the Atem Mini Pro ISO for a RodecasterVideo S - I already have a Rodecaster Duo?

(34:43) Have you played with the Atem Mini ISO G2 yet?

(35:26) Because audio is on the bottom. I like that!

(35:43) Rode used to have a college jacket with intensely large branding.

(35:47) Q: How do you use your SEETEC ATEM156 Broadcast Director Monitor ? with a mini pro, 4 hdmi in/out or as a atem program out for full view?

(37:10) I would say that if you're trying to go the TD route, you should use/learn ATEM instead of RCV so you can grow. For creators, RCV is probably great!

(38:02) Q: Do you have Discount code for YoloBox Extreme stand … Hidden someplace in the stream.. 😄

(39:24) Yooo saw a comment

(40:40) Do you have everything going into the rode videocaster, also how would you use it if you used OBS

(42:50) Do you have everything going into the rode videocaster, also how would you use it if you used OBS

(47:44) I see a cat, I press the like button

(47:47) The old Ultrastudio recorders only work on Intels

(48:00) Q: Could you have used MagSafe to charge if both USB-C ports are used on a Macbook Air?

(48:17) I like the stream

(48:20) Having a cat walk over my desk during a stream would scare the crap out of of me though....

(48:33) OWC makes some thunderbolt5 docks to expand the number of USB ports. they have them on sale now.

(49:28) Q: Aaron, do you run ? web graphics software into OBS

(50:27) Q:- I’ve built an app that takes rtsp as input and livestreams it with overlays. Great for court games and facilities. Let me know if you wish to test and will share.

(50:57) i'm probably using about 12 thunderbolt ports on my mac mini

(51:03) OWC does have TB Docks with passthrough ports

(51:11) My "old" OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock *does* let me use 3 UltraStudios from a single port on my MacBook Pro M1

(51:22) I think you're going to want a Caldigit Element Hub. It splits one TB5 into multiple TB3 connections

(52:54) just go full Mac Studio M4 MAX 😛

(53:16) Q: What about the OBSBOT webcam you used on the trip? Better/worst?

(54:54) The map is bluer

(55:00) People will still complain about no USB A haha

(55:05) Funny; my external Caldigit TB4 dock has a faster SD card reader than the built in SD card reader of my M4 Pro Macbook

(55:17) I like apple phone I like apple iPods but productivity use gaming pc and gaming laptop, they very fast, espically for gaming tech. And cameras are going towards high fps

(56:00) The whole idea was to balance the budget for the year end Aaron, stop looking at the new Macs 🤣

(56:37) If you do multicam, you run out of I/O very very fast, if you build a streaming PC

(56:50) Q There is a App to show specks of older Macs, it is Mactracker.

(57:16) Aaron good morning from NZ. Question about Yolo Extreme. I setup SRT out to my SRT server however I get 100% dropped frames and no attempt to connect to the server. What have I missed.

(58:57) Only the yolobox has the issue

(58:59) I can connect all other devices to the same server.

(1:00:05) I mean now Elgato has a 4K capture card pcie slot that can do 4 cameras at once

(1:00:35) @2EpicGaming I'm retired now and built my own PC for years I would never trust a PC to stream

(1:00:52) Have tried direct on the same internal with no firewall in the wway

(1:03:36) Curious that horitzontal and vertical aren't in sync on YT multistream

(1:04:50) SRT configuration is so frustrating sometimes. so unnecessary

(1:05:49) These days I think moving UI elements needlessly IS the software developers job description

(1:07:44) Q: Can you share the procedure ( typed out ) address for SRT for us?

(1:13:14) Back of the head cam

(1:13:22) Q: On SRT! and that is why I asked, it's not that easy to config!!

(1:14:42) Its fussy with formatting on the Yolobox.. Frank has a video on it

(1:14:55) Yep its only SRT I have the issue with. Can stream with all other protocols. And all my SRT cameras work fine to the server. Just yolo refruses. Thought I was having a idiot moment

(1:15:04) Once you get it working it generally stay working but the getting working can be a challenge!!

(1:15:39) Luckily I just got an Utz potato chip advertisement while looking at the back of AaronPK's head

(1:15:43) I'd love to send an SRT stream to my Magewell Director in the field, but requires me to have a public IP. I can get that with Speedify Dedicated Servers, but that's crazy expensive

(1:17:54) @aaronpk Isn't that what you did for Vegas ANB

(1:18:16) Q: YOUR VEGAS!!!! Thats a good 1.5 hour setup

(1:18:25) I'll look into the tail scale option on my GliNet

(1:19:14) It's called subnet routing on Tailscale

(1:21:04) @aaronpk You can add another admin user and log in with a passkey, I think.

(1:21:35) You can request the change of identity provider through support

(1:21:44) a bit of a side quest, but let's not forget to check the server room temp levels today!

(1:23:53) For the efforts

(1:24:04) Aaron thanks for the efforts today. Time for me to go stand in 50mph winds and stream some aircraft 🙂

(1:24:16) Q: Have you used Rustdesk with Tailscale?? it's awesome!

(1:24:40) 850 watts of PURE POWER - PKTV Sunday afternoons EDT, morning PDT.

(1:24:44) Q: Any suggestion for getting a public IPv4 address which can be forwarded over a VPN to wherever I have my server? My home power will be out for a while during rewiring.

(1:25:44) 50mph winds would be a pretty cool stream. I remember tuning into a stream back in 2021 during a big UK Wind storm, watching the big planes skew/crab their way into Heathrow. It's a good day to film.

(1:25:52) I’ve played with Atem Mini Extreme G2 and I have to say it’s really impressive. Being able to use Thunderbolt as a in&out interface is priceless.and it looks like it’s still the beginning

(1:28:36) I might be able to temporarily move my server but it will be to somewhere behind NAT. But I need connections into it to work (web side, calendar, dns)

(1:29:58) apparently, tailscale is the solution to all the world's problems. lol

(1:30:16) Did we lose Aaron? Chat is still moving for me, but video/audio is frozen.

(1:30:26) Q: For stability, what order would you rank the different YoloBox encoders in?

(1:31:15) @cwichura avoid the originally like a plague .. but mostly, they are fairly balanced for their features

(1:31:35) Q: The long awaited Yolobox Pro update finally dropped... very nice improvements including an option for NDI out

(1:32:03) Q: Aaron If you use rustdesk ( sorry to be on a soap box) but it's crazy easy to be on your computer at home from anywhere!!!

(1:32:52) But none that's a private address. I want a publicly routed address.

(1:33:06) @Graham_Rule You can use Tailscale Funnel to share outside of your tailnet. Depending on what you're running you could also use a VPS with Wireguard which would give you a public IP for $3-5/month

(1:33:24) graham: can you elaborate? if your home is without power, how would the server run anyway?

(1:34:35) THE NDI announcement

(1:36:05) @mattwruff I think if NewTek is encouraging manufactures to include NDI licensing with products that makes more sense (like RCV), but this is a confusing way to say it

(1:36:15) That annoucement makes no sense at all.

(1:36:38) I just love how Panasonic released an update making NDI free right weeks after I paid for 3 licenses.

(1:36:53) you might be confusing upgrades with updates

(1:38:10) It's more of a TAX for NDI

(1:39:41) I had to get the NDI license key for the Ultra

(1:40:00) I mean on professional TV equipment every optional feature requires a license.

(1:40:16) Q: please, how do I solve flickering Atem Mini pro video on vmix? the video doesn't flicker in OBS

(1:40:53) Q: NDI is not open source?

(1:43:10) OMG the ASCII borders in the docs

(1:44:31) YBE comes with NDI license, but YBU doesn't. have to buy ($99)

(1:44:39) A lot of YTbers who were given equipment were also given the license. I remember one telling his viewer 'I have the license to show it off, but you will have to buy it.'

(1:45:09) IETF parties like it's 1989 (not even 1999) lol

(1:45:21) Even DistroAV which is open source requires the closed source NDI SDK

(1:45:44) The two flavors of NDI is confusing, If OMT is more straightforward, I'm akk for it

(1:46:56) When are you moving in?

(1:48:25) What? Doesn't Lily want our unprofessional input for her studio?!

(1:48:33) Q: NYE plans?

(1:49:35) plan must have pink sparkly jacket or riot. lol

(1:49:53) Q: What if we just talked about Tailscale the whole time while you build the studio?

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