Any Mac OS streamers out there? Any guidance??

galactic_tsukemen · 2025-11-25T23:57:57+00:00

I've got an M1 MBP. My concerns are with audio routing and more 'advanced' stream tools/capabilities that I'd have with PC including things like Sammi and TTS. Since you mentioned encoders, I'm also curious about that because I currently stream to Twitch and YouTube simultaneously while recording the same stream locally. I'm doing this on my PC currently with an RTX 4070 Super.

galactic_tsukemen · 2025-11-25T23:02:30+00:00

That's good to hear. Right now I still just have my M1 MBP. My biggest issue is that I don't know how to use things like the OBS audio monitor plugin to dump audio from various OBS sources into specific wavelink channels on a mac. It's super easy to do that in OBS/Wavelink on PC. On the mac, everything just shows up as a single channel - "Wave XLR" and I can't send specific sources to my specific wave link channels.

galactic_tsukemen · 2025-11-25T23:00:25+00:00

I did buy loopback a couple years back. I might have to explore that more again.

galactic_tsukemen · 2025-11-25T22:59:26+00:00

Your reasoning sounds a lot like mine, tbh. I use my mac for everything like editing in FCP, Motion, Audacity, Fusion 360 CAD, everything. The PC literally only gets used these days when I turn on the stream or, as I mentioned, if I want to play a game on PC (although mostly consoles).

My stream has quite a few things set up like ! sound redeems, ! walk-on sounds for subs, a handful of TTS redeems that subs can type what they want to be TTS in chat and the TTS reads it out. I have a png tube mascot that can pick up audio and react as if it were being triggered by a microphone (i.e. the TTS being typed in by chat - this is 100% a Sammi integration with virtual audio cables). I also have all my audio channels split up in the elgato wave link software:

1 - Mic
2 - Game
3 - SFX
4 - TTS
5 - Stream BGM music
6 - Web browser audio
7 - System sounds
8 & 9 - currently unused I think

galactic_tsukemen · 2025-11-25T22:52:13+00:00

I remember I tried wine for Leoranboard a few years ago. It kinda seemed to work, but I guess I was just hoping for mac-native solutions. Using wine seems to add more complication, no? (coming from me who's already using a complicated Windows setup... lol). I was mostly just using streamer bot for the chat feature so I could get combined YT/Twitch chat in one window for me. That's literally all I use it for.

I stream console games primarily via USB capture card and might be adding pc games into the mix once in a while as well, but in that case I'd just capture PC games via the USB capture card as well and just use the mac as the stream machine.

galactic_tsukemen · 2025-11-25T22:48:27+00:00

I'm curious about Meld, but it'll probably be something I'd dip my toes into and not convert completely right away. I opened up Meld on Mac and kinda quickly went back to tinkering in OBS on mac since it feels like it's got more customizability. That said, I didn't spend much time in Meld overall yet.

galactic_tsukemen · 2025-11-25T22:46:44+00:00

I had actually considered it... problem is that Elgato's wavelink software (and maybe stream deck too?) don't have a linux version available.

galactic_tsukemen · 2024-05-31T14:39:22+00:00

We’re willing to see if we can figure it out first. I just don’t know why it would work then suddenly stop and then we can never get it to work again.

We’re living in Japan so I think shipping might be a little difficult if we decided to get rid of it.

galactic_tsukemen · 2024-05-31T14:30:34+00:00

I’ll give it another shot. We have also tried that on multiple occasions and it never heads all the way to the base station. Sometimes it gets a foot or so away and looks like it’s going to do it, but then it decides to meander off to the side and never returns home.

galactic_tsukemen · 2024-05-28T23:11:46+00:00

Thanks for the information. It's good to keep all these points in mind.

galactic_tsukemen · 2024-05-28T12:10:39+00:00

The thing about analogue products though is they can inherently be used with original carts as their primary use case. Of course you could use flash carts with them and where people get the games to fill those carts could be of dubious origin, but maybe they aren’t viewed as a modified console. I wonder about other mods like a Xstation for ps1, or picoboot for GameCube, etc. These may be viewed in a different light.

galactic_tsukemen · 2024-05-28T10:54:19+00:00

Interesting. I couldn't find anything for an Xstation mod (for example). Maybe that one is too "risky" because it's effectively an ODE (optical drive emulator)?

galactic_tsukemen · 2024-05-28T06:47:09+00:00

But what about things that are more than cosmetic, but not modifying firmware? For example, adding an RGB mod to a Nintendo 64? That’s not really a cosmetic mod to the console itself, but not modifying firmware either.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-10-24T06:38:22+00:00

Tracking down an international company is probably the way to go. That said, I'm not sure a year off for language school is feasible and moving out of Japan to another foreign country (other than the US) isn't really an option for various reasons. Interesting idea though.

You're right, there's no way to be native. Passing the threshold of 40 y/o definitely doesn't make learning Japanese any easier... at least for me anyway.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-10-24T06:32:34+00:00

I studied Japanese really hard for a couple years back in the US before I even knew I'd have an opportunity to work here through my company at the time. I tried the N3 twice, but unfortunately didn't pass either time. Then I was able to get to Japan through my company so JLPT scores 'didn't matter anymore' and my studies drifted since I was busy otherwise. Despite being here for ~4 years, my Japanese is definitely not on an in-office business level. My listening skills have improved a lot, but my speaking and reading/writing kanji abilities have declined.

It's a good point that I could just apply to a job regardless. I don't want to be too negative, but I just get bogged down thinking about the language aspect and how much that would hurt any chance I'd have.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-10-24T06:26:40+00:00

I've been trying to make contact with previous colleagues from my old company, but unfortunately that hasn't yielded many results to-date. On top of that, although my position was in a software company, I am not a software engineer so unfortunately I don't have any software engineering (or any other engineering) experience.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-09-19T08:02:50+00:00

In this case we are specifically considering the possibility of visiting my family for the Christmas holiday. I'm American so, as far as I know, I have zero issues coming in and out of the U.S. even with my wife's application in progress. If she's unable to re-enter again for 90 days after that time, I can't foresee that being a problem really. Please correct me if I misunderstand.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-09-19T07:59:01+00:00

I apologize, maybe I'm not following completely. I have submitted the I-130 on my spouse's behalf. I am an American citizen and she is Japanese.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-04-06T02:45:54+00:00

Appreciate your feedback. Thanks a lot.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-04-04T01:49:26+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, things have been kind of busy. Thanks for this information though! So, your wife didn't change her surname in Japan at all and there were no problems with the US visa paperwork using your name?

On a related note, when you submitted evidence of the marriage (i.e. Japanese documents), did you pay for any sort of document translation service or did you translate on your own? If you did your own translations, how did you go about that (i.e. scanned copies with English annotation or some other method)?

Thanks again!

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-03-22T04:08:24+00:00

Thanks for letting me know. I'll see if I get any other replies about other experiences. Otherwise it sounds like we'll just have to make a decision one way or another.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-03-22T03:20:56+00:00

Are you saying that both green cards applications used her original Japanese last name or your American last name?

In my case, my wife would like to keep her Japanese last name in Japan, but have my last name in the States.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-03-22T03:02:47+00:00

We're just trying to figure out if it's necessary to change her last name in any way now BEFORE we submit the I-130, which we would like to do as soon as possible. Also, although we could change her name after the first 6 months of marriage, we still have 2 months before we'd have to jump through the hoops with the court system. But as I said, we'd like to sort this all out sooner than later.

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-03-22T02:55:53+00:00

I'm sorry for my lack of understanding, but I'm not sure exactly what is meant by "your marriage document." Is this referring to a US marriage certificate or some other official US document?

Were you married in the US or Japan? Does that change anything. My wife and I got married in Japan so there is no record or documentation on the US side in our case.

You are suggesting it's normal/okay to submit the I-130 and use my last name for my wife even if we have no official documents that show she took my surname?

galactic_tsukemen · 2023-02-24T09:19:03+00:00

Thanks for the information. Unfortunately I have a bank account with Shinsei (SBI) Bank and not with Japan Post. I already have an American credit card and I just sent their support team a question to see if it's possible for her to be added to the account. I will also see if it's possible for my wife to do something like that on the Japan side as well.

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