Question / Help 'Daisy-Chaining' OBS

[martinqc]

I know there is probably a fancy term to describe what I am about to say. I have no idea what it is called and therefore have had no luck finding this in the forums. We are gearing up for a fund raiser and would like to either hot swap from one broadcaster to another on the fly with no stream downtime or use one OBS install as a source for another OBS. Basically when I finish my part, I want to trun stream control over to another OBS workstation without having to drop the stream and he picking it up. Is there any way to do that? If this has been answered before and I am just not having luck finding it, please let me know what this is called so I can search more intelligently in the future. I love the OBS software and am getting better every day. I want to try the chroma key green screen setup in the near future. I can't wait until we get this all figured out.

 

[Kharay]

An easy approach is to have every streamer stream to their own (private) channel and have the production PC be a viewer in all those channels, capturing whichever stream is actively being watched and streaming that to the public channel.

Assuming, of course that every streamer is in their own location. If everyone is in the same location what you could consider doing instead is something like an HDMI switch + capture card. So, a capture card in the production PC, hooked up to an HDMI switch so you can select which output to capture.