Question / Help Duplicate stream?

[g:gl]

Hey
Does any one know how to open 2 OBS windows at the same time? Like use a camera in one OBS for one site and open the copy of the same stream in a second OBS window with the use of OBS camera?
Appreciate any tips

 

[Tarumes]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/
if you want 1 to many stream

 

[g:gl]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/
if you want 1 to many stream

Thanks, but is this the only way? Are there no other options?

 

[Narcogen]

It might be helpful to know what your use case is. This isn't a normal use of OBS, and it may be that what you want can be achieved another way, but hard to tell without knowing exactly what you are trying to do.

 

[g:gl]

It might be helpful to know what your use case is. This isn't a normal use of OBS, and it may be that what you want can be achieved another way, but hard to tell without knowing exactly what you are trying to do.

The thing is, there no specific goal. Just curious if there is an option to use one OBS window stream to one place with a 4k resolution and the second OBS window duplicates the first stream to broadcast to another place with a lower resolution.

And was trying to find some info on what is OBS Camera (that can be used as a webcam), but no luck

 

[TryHD]

The thing is, there no specific goal. Just curious if there is an option to use one OBS window stream to one place with a 4k resolution and the second OBS window duplicates the first stream to broadcast to another place with a lower resolution.

You can do excactly that with the provided link if you add ffmpeg in the mix. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

 

[g:gl]

You can do excactly that with the provided link if you add ffmpeg in the mix. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

Thanks! To all of you!

 

[Narcogen]

To clarify the earlier answer, NGINX with RTMP is a great way to mirror the same stream to multiple destinations, but it would be the same stream, with the same resolution and bitrate.

The custom FFMpeg output option above does let you stream to different destinations with different settings, as you can use streaming and recording output simultaneously, and custom FFMpeg output can be configured as a stream.

Restream also just mirrors the same stream to multiple locations.

A better way than OBS Camera to send output from one instance of OBS to another (either on the same machine or different machines) is to use the NDI plugin.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-ndi-newtek-ndi™-integration-into-obs-studio.528/

OBS isn't intended to be used with multiple instances on a single machine, but it is possible.

 

[Tarumes]

except if you run nginx on a linux box in combination with exec ffmpeg directive you can output
so many streams you want or bandtwith is fully consumed ^^
and its easy to set up
even on windows you can start an nginx server and config is easy and then you can hook in own ffmpeg processes