Question / Help Capturing Audio and Video from a Separate Computer

[DeadiONE]

Hello OBS Community,

I've been pondering this for a week or so, and I'm stumped. I regularly stream League of Legends tournaments for a local LAN center. I've been designing a setup that is admittedly somewhat cumbersome, but it will allow my casters to control the game while allowing my production guys to control OBS. So the question then is, how can I pull the video and audio from a separate computer to the OBS computer? The connection in question is the green line in the diagram below.

http://i.imgur.com/rFtHSyy.jpg

Thank you for your help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Krazy]

Well, maybe you should look into the OBS remote plugin and have your production crew just use that and control OBS on the casting PC.

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[Jack0r]

Ehm, I am not sure, but you might be looking for a capture card?
Such devices can input hdmi/dvi/vga or older inputs, so you can just capture anything that is going on on the players pc!

 

[DeadiONE]

Thank you for your responses.

@Krazy, I'll look into this. This looks like an idea solution.

@Jack0r, I'm trying to stay away from new hardware. I agree that this is a solution, it just isn't what I want to hear lol.

 

[dodgepong]

I'm sorry if it's not what you want to hear, but it really is the correct solution to your problem. If you want to capture audio and video from another computer, you use a capture card. That's just how it's done.

 

[Jack0r]

Well, you can in theory setup a network stream on the players machine and stream that to a local server, the production PC would play that back in a browser or vlc and you could capture it. But a Capture Card is definitely a "better" solution, as its more stable than using rtmp streams.

 

[DeadiONE]

Thanks again guys.

@dodgepong, I understand. It just isn't feasible for me right now.

@jack0r, my production buddy is a full-time techie/network administrator/etc. He mentioned this VLC as a possible solution. I'm also investigating this OBS Remote. The test of using remote will be the video quality and the lag.

 

[FerretBomb]

OBS Remote acts to control OBS running on a second machine. It's designed to be used on a 'monitoring laptop' if your primary gaming rig (running the game, and OBS) only has a single monitor or if you won't want to alt-tab out of the game. This will not offload any processing from the gaming system, only offers a reduced level of control, and on many setups it simply will not work at all.

Again, even if it 'isn't what [you] want to hear', the correct solution is a capture card on the production system. A cheap one will generally work, and if you intend to use this in a professional environment, spending out $60-120 is a forward-looking investment.

You may also want to investigate a VNC server/viewer setup, in multiuser mode, with the client controls disabled (so the production PC won't be moving the mouse around on the gaming system). The quality will be markedly poor, is more of a 'duct tape and baling wire' method, and may introduce additional overhead and potentially input oddities on the gaming system.