Best way to stream OBS to another screen in same network?

[eriklanden]

I am planning a mountainbike event where OBS will be used for speaker support, 12 cameras out on the track connected to a local PoE network. No streaming to internet or anything. We came up with the idea that it will be fun for the friends and families to see what the speaker are seeing on a bigger screen in the arena.

The problem is that the café where we want to put up a big screen is 150m från where the speakers are at. Can I output a local stream from OBS and then use VLC or any other software to pick that stream up?

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

IF OBS PC is up to it (as it would be extra work) you could use NDI output from OBS, but that distance is still over 100m Ethernet std length,
You could also get a appropriate length fiber video cable, and take HDMI or DisplayPort output from PC, route over fiber cable to monitor in cafe

And just curious, have you tested in advance the PC that will have 12 simultaneous video feeds to process?

 

[eriklanden]

IF OBS PC is up to it (as it would be extra work) you could use NDI output from OBS, but that distance is still over 100m Ethernet std length,
You could also get a appropriate length fiber video cable, and take HDMI or DisplayPort output from PC, route over fiber cable to monitor in cafe

And just curious, have you tested in advance the PC that will have 12 simultaneous video feeds to process?

Thanks, I will explore that! No problems putting a switch on the way to extend that 100m.
Yes we used the same setup last year. I use an "old" i7 3770k with 16GB ram PC and with 12 streams in full resolution from Reolink 410 cameras the CPU load ends up at around 25-35%. Canvas and stream in OBS set to 720p.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Yes we used the same setup last year. I use an "old" i7 3770k

That isn't old, for real-time video encoding that CPU is ancient ;^)
Congrats on your setup/optimization

 

[alphakator]

I am planning a mountainbike event where OBS will be used for speaker support, 12 cameras out on the track connected to a local PoE network. No streaming to internet or anything. We came up with the idea that it will be fun for the friends and families to see what the speaker are seeing on a bigger screen in the arena.

The problem is that the café where we want to put up a big screen is 150m från where the speakers are at. Can I output a local stream from OBS and then use VLC or any other software to pick that stream up?

that will be of great help , i think you should , i have noticed that when ever i connect over two cameras using the usb output , obs dol crash , sometimes the amount of dropped frames is normally too much cuppled with the delay

 

[Purplecookie]

Look into NDI. As long as you have good ethernet connection I highly recommend it.

 

[eriklanden]

Late reply here :) We ended up using NDI plugin for OBS and a Intel Nuc mini PC with OBS at the cafe to receive the signal, worked great, thanks!