Picarto.TV VS Open Streaming Platform

Picarto.TV Reviews

1. GalaxyCat    

   Artist at Hellcat Studios | almost 3 years ago
   They Like Your Money. Horrible Customer Service

   Picarto's customer service, those guys do not give a crap about helping you or your concerns unless it involves you having issues paying for the service.

   Their West server was dropping frames, their West server is known for it, and i was once told by one of their reps, ooh you are from the west, we having issues with that server, switch to East. East server works just fine but so far 3 years and its still the same. They dont respond to your messages at all, if you are lucky you might get a response. This includes their Twitter account as well. They do not give a crap and im not saying this out of revenge or anger. I am being very honest and serious when i say that. Maybe because of Covid? They've been doing this before Covid. So if you have a problem with the membership, they will help you right away but if you have a problem that is nothing related to "money", dont bother getting a message. It took me some ranting and pushing to actually get one person to respond and once i did, i got a half ass, lazy answer to get rid of me telling me i have to buy a membership when i said there is a bug that people can watch someone draw porn and get away with it and not have to log in and get banned if they are a minor. He said, you have to buy a Premium Membership, but my answer was if you have a Premium membership, they still can see it. They just cant join it. So the Rep said you have to buy a Premium membership, so thats the PR to make money. If i can find another live stream art hosting site, i would totally join it. Their servers are crap, their Employees are rude and dont care to help you, and they are becoming like companies, EA, Activision, Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Paypal. They want all of your monies, not just whats in your bank account but all of it. Companies like this pretend to be all supportive in the beginning starting out new, then once they are successful, they change their attitude, and now they want only your business, nothing else. This is my honest review, if you read this, dont buy a membership.

   🏁 Competitors: Piczel.tv

   👍 Pros:    Its easy to use|That it, i have nothing...

   👎 Cons:    The rtmp west us server has connection problems.|Customer support is useless unless it involves you having issues after paying for a membership. proof is from twitter.|Picarto tv uses a lot of cpu usage. xsplit customer service even pin pointed the problem and said the site sucks up a ton of cpu usage.|Picarto tv doesnt refresh itself on its own. the page freezes in the video, you have to refresh the page for picarto so it updates the amount of members in your channel. you wont see new messages or people unless you refresh the page. picarto's server and ui does this for every stream.|Picarto's last update ruined the site's refresh rate. the site cant refresh.|Its worse via smart phone/mobile.|Theres adult, and theres clean safe art. there is no way to secure, and prevent minors from watching. customer reps ignore it.

Open Streaming Platform Reviews

Picarto.TV mentions (1)

• Advice for dealing with Deppression/Anxiety preventing me from drawing?

  I noticed you mentioned feeling lonely when you work. If your comfortable putting yourself out there, I would recommend maybe finding other artists to live stream with while you work on your art? There are sites like picarto.tv that allow multi-artist streams so you can broadcast or work together. If streaming yourself is too scary or daunting maybe find another streamer to play in the background while you work! I... Source: over 2 years ago

Open Streaming Platform mentions (5)

• With Twitch committing suicide with their TOS updates, how viable is Peertube as a livestreaming alternative?

  It is, but OwnCast and OpenStreamingPlatform are probably closer to what Twitch does. Source: 11 months ago

• Any ideas for a self hosted twitch

  Check out Open Streaming Platform. This should cover what you are looking for. Source: over 1 year ago

• Open Streaming Platform 0.9.0 Released!

  You can find more information on the Open Streaming Platform at https://openstreamingplatform.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Open Source + Linux Cloud Computers for gaming

  Then one other way would be to set up OwnCast or OpenStreamingPlatform (basically self-hosted Twitch) and figure out some way to get your keyboard and mouse inputs to the server. Source: almost 3 years ago

• may lose job over failed live stream

  If you ever do this again, have a couple layers of "D'oh!" proofing. Record locally if you can. If you can't then set up something like Open Streaming Platform. So that you stream to it, it records on it's server, and also redirects the stream to youtube. OSP can do all this out of the box and it's very good at it. Source: about 3 years ago