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My team is trying to get sourceTV to work in our server, but we don’t know entirely how it works. We know the commands tv_enable and tv_record and stuff, but how do you get sourceTV in the server in the first place?

the other source tv related commands are self-explanatory as well:


> find tv_
"tv_delay" = "30" min. 0.000000 max. 120.000000
game
- SourceTV broadcast delay in seconds
"tv_allow_static_shots" = "1"
game
- Auto director uses fixed level cameras for shots
"tv_allow_camera_man" = "1"
game
- Auto director allows spectators to become camera man
"tv_delaymapchange" = "0"
game
- Delays map change until broadcast is complete
"tv_enable" = "0"
notify
- Activates SourceTV on server.
"tv_port" = "27020"
- Host SourceTV port
"tv_maxclients" = "128" min. 0.000000 max. 255.000000
- Maximum client number on SourceTV server.
"tv_autorecord" = "0"
- Automatically records all games as SourceTV demos.
"tv_name" = "SourceTV"
- SourceTV host name
"tv_password" = ""
notify
- SourceTV password for all clients
"tv_overridemaster" = "0"
- Overrides the SourceTV master root address.
"tv_dispatchmode" = "1"
- Dispatch clients to relay proxies: 0=never, 1=if appropriate, 2=always
"tv_transmitall" = "0"
replicated
- Transmit all entities (not only director view)
"tv_debug" = "0"
- SourceTV debug info.
"tv_title" = "SourceTV"
- Set title for SourceTV spectator UI
"tv_deltacache" = "2"
- Enable delta entity bit stream cache
"tv_relayvoice" = "1"
- Relay voice data: 0=off, 1=on
"tv_status"
- Show SourceTV server status.
"tv_relay"
- Connect to SourceTV server and relay broadcast.
"tv_stop"
- Stops the SourceTV broadcast.
"tv_retry"
- Reconnects the SourceTV relay proxy.
"tv_record"
- Starts SourceTV demo recording.
"tv_stoprecord"
- Stops SourceTV demo recording.
"tv_clients"
- Shows list of connected SourceTV clients.
"tv_msg"
- Send a screen message to all clients.
"tv_autoretry" = "1"
- Relay proxies retry connection after network timeout
"tv_timeout" = "30"
- SourceTV connection timeout in seconds.
"tv_snapshotrate" = "16"
- Snapshots broadcasted per second
"tv_maxrate" = "8000"
- Max SourceTV spectator bandwidth rate allowed, 0 == unlimited
"tv_relaypassword" = ""
notify
- SourceTV password for relay proxies
"tv_chattimelimit" = "8"
- Limits spectators to chat only every n seconds
"tv_chatgroupsize" = "0"
[...]


on a side note – IF you are not hosting the server on your own, your GSP might have it disabled and you need to ask / pay for stv.

recommend you to not use autorecord and use tftrue instead, it will record only when tournament mode start is triggered instead of making 500+MB demo files and recording 24/7