Question / Help Dual PC Streaming.

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Tenneiyl

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Hey all! Recently started using OBS and super happy with how it's all panned out so far.

I stream my games played with my fiance, and he and I were talking recently that it would be pretty cool to have his screen displayed on my stream, like in the corner (like a typical sized webcam overlay). Is there any way we can do this?


Thanks!
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
The nginx setup is free of any costs, but if you live in the same house an easier way would be using a capture card in your PC. Your fiance's PC just has to clone his desktop output, for example using the hdmi or dvi port of his graphics card, and connect that to the Capture Card in your PC. Now in OBS you can add the capture card to any scene you want it on, and it will show whatever your fiance does on his cloned monitor :)
Good capture cards would probably be the Avermedia C127 Game Broadcaster HD or the C985 Live Gamer HD, also from Avermedia. Both work very good with OBS and are not the most expensive. Also both allow input up to full 1080p (which can be recorded at 30fps). They should be in the range of 100$.
The next "better" capture card would probably be the x-capture which offers some more inputs and features but costs around 200-250$ at the moment I think.

Some links about capture cards:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...-streaming-or-recording-and-do-i-need-one.10/
http://www.helping-squad.com/wp/what-kind-of-video-splitter-should-i-get/

Last but not least, before you buy a capture card you can always ask us if it works good with OBS or has any known problems :)
 
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Tenneiyl

New Member
Jack0r said:
The nginx setup is free of any costs, but if you live in the same house an easier way would be using a capture card in your PC. Your fiance's PC just has to clone his desktop output, for example using the hdmi or dvi port of his graphics card, and connect that to the Capture Card in your PC. Now in OBS you can add the capture card to any scene you want it on, and it will show whatever your fiance does on his cloned monitor :)
Good capture cards would probably be the Avermedia C127 Game Broadcaster HD or the C985 Live Gamer HD, also from Avermedia. Both work very good with OBS and are not the most expensive. Also both allow input up to full 1080p (which can be recorded at 30fps). They should be in the range of 100$.
The next "better" capture card would probably be the x-capture which offers some more inputs and features but costs around 200-250$ at the moment I think.

Some links about capture cards:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...-streaming-or-recording-and-do-i-need-one.10/
http://www.helping-squad.com/wp/what-kind-of-video-splitter-should-i-get/

Last but not least, before you buy a capture card you can always ask us if it works good with OBS or has any known problems :)
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Just as I was about to come back asking about capture cards! The Nginx sounds great, unfortunately I'm not too good with coding and I'm not sure how it would go both of us gaming/streaming/restreaming all on the same connection. So essentially, I think we'd be looking at getting a capture card and copying his screen output to mine. I haven't clicked the links you've provided yet, but I will read them shortly. Are you able to give me a rundown on how the process works? We buy a card, put it in/plug into his computer and then connect it to mine also? Is there software involved?

Thanks! :)
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
Well, as I explained. Your fiance just needs a free port on his graphics card, preferably hdmi or dvi. Then just connect a cable from the graphics card to the capture card in your PC. (the mentioned capture cards have a HDMI input) and after installing the drivers for the capture card on your PC you can already add it to OBS.
Now on your fiance's PC a second Monitor will appear (or 3rd if he already has more than one ;)). You can set Windows to use this new "Monitor" together with his real Monitor in "clone" mode. And after the clone mode is activated you should see his Monitor picture in your OBS scene which holds the capture card source.
  1. Check which connections are free on the Graphics Card of your fiance
  2. Make sure the capture card has an input port that fits to one of the free connections (hdmi, dvi, etc) You can also get a DVI to HDMI cable for example to use the DVI output of the Graphics Card and connect it to the HDMI input port of the Capture Card
  3. Get the capture card that fits and install it into your PC case (and install the drivers of course)
  4. Connect the capture card to the graphics card of your fiance
  5. Set your fiance's Monitors into clone mode
  6. Add the Capture Card to your OBS scenes
  7. Have fun streaming!
If a step is unclear, just ask :)
 
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