Double OBS Setup: How to Setup?

[MartinKing]

Hi,

since OBS is constantly crashing on my "stream and play" PC I wanted to set up a fail-safe protection with two different systems and OBS. To understand my motivation: I've looked through the logfiles and OBS crashes for different reasons, sometimes just closes without "leaving" a crahs report at all.

Basically I just want to add another system PC#2 into the chain, between my main PC#1 and the upload. Both running OBS. So that if my OBS crashes on PC#1 i can simply restart it without the connection being interrupted. PC#2 should not be busy with any kind of encoding or workload, basically just passing through the encoded signal by PC#1 to Restream/Twitch and keeping the connection alive when OBS crashes on PC#1.

Any advices on how to setup a system/network like this? I imagine instead of pointing the signal towas Twitch/Restream on PC#1 I have to target the OBS on PC#1 and make PC#1 a "browser source" that gets passed to Twitch/Restream.

 

[MartinKing]

Hi,

since this is the "You'll never get an answer..." forum: It's possible to solve this via NDI (OBS to OBS signal transfer) or simply with a capture card.

 

[Tomasz Góral]

eh, probably no one else other build that config.
Stream server on one channel receive only from one source (one obs).
If OBS closeing immediatly or crash, i check computer.
For more stable i use capture card and second computer with NVidia card to hw encode.