Shoutcast (esports)

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In e-sports, a shoutcast is the audio transmission of a computer game match.

With the ever increasing popularity of e-sports, various transmission formats were introduced so that fans of their favorite team or players could watch. It all started with HLTV , which was integrated into Counter-Strike to broadcast league or tournament games over the Internet. Other games were later given their own transmission format, such as Quake III Arena with G-TV . However, these formats only offered video transmission. There was no audio commentary on this.

With the ever increasing popularity of computer games such as Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos or StarCraft , it became necessary to find a transmission format here too. However, since Blizzard, as the manufacturer of the games, had not built in a function to transmit a game as a video stream or the like, alternatives were sought within the scene.

The choice quickly fell on simple audio transmissions. These were similar to the earlier radio broadcasts of soccer games, in which only a presenter put the whole game into words. In the Warcraft scene the name lobbied for such transfers quickly Shoutcast through, because you, the (originally) for Winamp designed Shoutcast (but it is also used with other technology media players available).

As such shoutcasts became more popular, they became more widely used for other games as well. A big advantage of this technology was that you didn't need an installed version of the game for these shoutcasts, just a media player .

Furthermore, a video transmission tool called Waaagh! TV was released for Warcraft 3, which even allows the game to be (manually) synchronized with that of the Shoutcaster . Assuming an installed and current version of WC3, you can enjoy the game with video and audio commentary.