Question / Help Dual streaming

[jb205]

I've been searching for an answer to this but can't quite find this situation. I'm looking to stream from OBS to both YouTube and some sort of internal server to display on TVs inside the building as sort of a CCTV-esque solution.

It's for streaming events in a school gym. We want to let people at home view via YouTube Live, but we also want it to display on a couple TVs in the school when needed. I've been just streaming the YouTube feed, but I've run into some roadblocks with the filter and YouTube not allowing embedded live streams. I have mini ChromeOS machines hooked up to the TVs running Chrome Sign Builder so I need a link to feed them that will just open the feed fullscreen and go. the other issue w/ viewing the YT streams in the is the delay which is much more noticeable when the live event is happening down the hall.

Essentially I need some sort of solution that will either relay the stream to make a local feed or dual stream to YouTube and some other server that will create a local stream.

any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[Roids0777]

See if this general idea is what you're looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jROntrxj5-E

 

[jb205]

That one is a little intense. I don't think it's quite what I'm looking for.

I'm looking more for something like this: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/

I have that running and it works... I can pull it up in VLC locally with only a few seconds delay and it's pushing it up to YouTube Live. I just need a way to auto-play the stream so I can schedule the Chromebit to load a URL that will auto play the video full screen at the start of an event.

Worst case scenario I can have someone manually load the stream at each event.

 

[Roids0777]

Ohhhhhhhhh ok I see what you're saying now. I'm not entirely sure how to do what you're asking in this case. It will probably have to be manually started. This was a tricky one.

 

[jb205]

I feel like I'm so close... I'm using the video.js CDN from http://videojs.com/getting-started hosted on the same nginx server that I'm streaming to... I just can't get it to autoplay. still requires a click on the play button and full-screen.

 

[Roids0777]

Honestly I have never heard of it autoplaying. Maybe an Admin or Developer might have a trick for it.

 

[RytoEX]

From the Video.js docs page:

<video autoplay ...>
or
{ "autoplay": true }

 

[jb205]

Thanks... I got it to work sort of. The autoplay tag didn't work, but I found someone else's example and that worked. Must have been something with the order I had them in.

It seemed like it was working great. I just made a simple HTML page that sized the video to about the resolution of the TVs. It was working great for a bit but then both TVs started to lag horribly. Dropped to a few frames per second. The YouTube stream remained flawless.

So I must have some sort of network issue to contend with. Unfortunately, the PC that's streaming is WiFi and both TVs are running via WiFi, so that might be my problem. Although they switched over to the YouTube stream for the TVs and it worked fine after that so who knows...

 

[RytoEX]

If displaying the YouTube stream on the TVs works better, why not just do that?

 

[jb205]

If displaying the YouTube stream on the TVs works better, why not just do that?

Youtube won't let you autoplay live streams or auto start in full screen. We also have some funky DNS stuff with YouTube for some restrictions offered to edu customers that doesn't jive well (all users must be signed in to youtube to view videos). It's doable but if I could figure out a way to make it auto switch and start, it'd make life easier.