I volunteer at our (very!) small church, and I have been trying to maintain an online streaming presence using the DaCast streaming service (which requires an RTMP data feed). For an input source I'm using a security IP camera, which goes through our Synology NAS (Surveillance Station) as a front end. Surveillance station then "shares" the stream with our encoding computer. DaCast recommended their own (somewhat neutered) flavor of OBS Studio, 0.16.2.dc.4. It does NOT have a help menu or a "log file" feature; I've checked. (They also provide a newer version of OBS, based around 21.1.2, but I haven't been able to get that to run longer than 10 minutes or so at a time before going black.)
When it works it works great...but it doesn't work over time with consistency. I'm planning to attach a few screenshots...one of a service from last November 8th when the encode was very good, one from November 22nd when it was quite bad, and one from November 29th when it was unwatchable. No changes in settings, hardware, or software in the interim. Our cameras, NAS, and encoding computer are all hardwired on Gigabit Ethernet and there is no other traffic of significance. There are no other applications running on the encoding PC (Windows 10) and CPU usage is around 35%. For comparison I'm also attaching a screenshot of the Surveillance Station monitoring application taken at exactly the same time as the unwatchable November 29th encode. This is exactly what OBS Studio should be seeing.
I'm wanting to move away from DaCast's branded OBS and use the standard package (with updates) if I can, or else find another solution that will allow me to do what I want to do on a consistent basis. I want to use Open Source Software if at all possible...I have no budget for this, it all comes out of my own pocket. But if OBS is not the right tool (and I saw with a quick forum search that others have had trouble with RTSP streams), then I want to find out what is.
When it works it works great...but it doesn't work over time with consistency. I'm planning to attach a few screenshots...one of a service from last November 8th when the encode was very good, one from November 22nd when it was quite bad, and one from November 29th when it was unwatchable. No changes in settings, hardware, or software in the interim. Our cameras, NAS, and encoding computer are all hardwired on Gigabit Ethernet and there is no other traffic of significance. There are no other applications running on the encoding PC (Windows 10) and CPU usage is around 35%. For comparison I'm also attaching a screenshot of the Surveillance Station monitoring application taken at exactly the same time as the unwatchable November 29th encode. This is exactly what OBS Studio should be seeing.
I'm wanting to move away from DaCast's branded OBS and use the standard package (with updates) if I can, or else find another solution that will allow me to do what I want to do on a consistent basis. I want to use Open Source Software if at all possible...I have no budget for this, it all comes out of my own pocket. But if OBS is not the right tool (and I saw with a quick forum search that others have had trouble with RTSP streams), then I want to find out what is.
