Lightstream experiments with Twitch’s Xbox app integration, allows streaming with overlays

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What you need to know

After thedeath of Mixer, Microsoft’s own streaming service, the Xbox gaming platform was left without a viable, integrated streaming service for console players. Lightstream, an extremely popular program used to edit and improve a streaming experience with overlays and more, is looking to solve this problem with their new solution. Using Lightstream’s new experimental integration with the Twitch app on Xbox, players can stream to Twitch directly from their Xbox, stream overlays and all.

If you’re interested, you can read about the experimental featureon Lightstream’s website, but any interested streamer can try out this feature over the course of the next week, albeit after going through a few steps. Streaming to Twitch using Lightstream isn’t nearly as painless as streaming to Mixer was, but this is a great alternative, and provides access to Twitch with stream overlays and other features that are normally far more difficult to implement.

This integration with Lightstream brings streaming to Twitch from an Xbox console to a whole new level.

To use Lightstream’s new integration with Twitch, do the following:

And that about does it! Are you interested in trying this integration with Lightstream and Twitch? If you have already, what did you think? Let us know in the comments below!

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