Direct streaming
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Tomasz Góral
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Why?
You always need 3rd software.
OBS send stream RTMP, you need converter to HLS too serve files to user.
You always need 3rd software.
OBS send stream RTMP, you need converter to HLS too serve files to user.
Lawrence_SoCal
Active Member
of course... though, it depends on what you mean
The "Yes" answer applies to sending straight from a camera to a streaming site (ie RTMP straight from camera). in essence, the streaming software is running on the camera
If you are asking about sending from your computer - no, not really. What that would require is a native Operating System capability to send a video output in a streaming protocol. And Operating System vendors know better than to waste their time doing such a thing. It woudl be truly silly on their part to even attempt such a thing. There are lots of driver options (3rd party) to enable such, including both major video card makers.
Now, if you want sophisticated, powerful compositing (bring together of multiple pieces in exactly the way you want them), then OBS or similar is required
koala
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It depends on what you mean with "3rd party program".
You always need a server on the website that receives the data stream from the streamer (OBS), then multiplies it and send a copy to everyone currently viewing. The server needs to understand the streaming protocol, which is either RTMP (proprietary), or HLS (came up somewhat recently, easier to implement a server for). If the website you want to stream to already has a server or a web server module installed that is capable of processing rtmp or hls, you need no extra software.