Question / Help Facebook and instagram live at the same time (differents resolution)1920x1080 -1080x1920
- Thread starter SirKobra
- Start date
FerretBomb
Active Member
tl;dr: Technically yes, it's possible. Realistically no, you can't.
That is not within the abilities of OBS at present. You may be able to run two Portable versions of OBS at the same time (to prevent settings file write conflicts) if your system is capable of managing the encoding of two streams of that size simultaneously, and your network has the bandwidth needed to support streaming at the required bitrates.
Do be aware that video capture devices like webcams can generally only be used by one program at a time (and two copies of OBS count as two), and multiple captures hooking the same game/window/display will cause problems.
Chances are good that running two copies of OBS will not allow you to do what you want to do here.
About the only way I can imagine to make this work would be to run an intermediary server, do some deep-level geekery to rotate the video stream before sending it on to the 'other' aspect ratio end-point. But that's extremely involved, and we absolutely cannot provide support on the process of doing that here.
In short, no, that isn't possible.
That is not within the abilities of OBS at present. You may be able to run two Portable versions of OBS at the same time (to prevent settings file write conflicts) if your system is capable of managing the encoding of two streams of that size simultaneously, and your network has the bandwidth needed to support streaming at the required bitrates.
Do be aware that video capture devices like webcams can generally only be used by one program at a time (and two copies of OBS count as two), and multiple captures hooking the same game/window/display will cause problems.
Chances are good that running two copies of OBS will not allow you to do what you want to do here.
About the only way I can imagine to make this work would be to run an intermediary server, do some deep-level geekery to rotate the video stream before sending it on to the 'other' aspect ratio end-point. But that's extremely involved, and we absolutely cannot provide support on the process of doing that here.
In short, no, that isn't possible.
Tomasz Góral
Active Member
What you are talking about are the same problems, first the 16: 9 and 9:16 aspect ratio, if you have a 16: 9 (1920x1080) source then the second stream you can do 9:16 (1080x1920) but with stripes at the top and bottom. It is easy to do this by running the local rtmp server, where the 1920x1080 format will be found, then you will send this format to FB (use ffmpeg for this), and the second stream using ffmpeg will properly embed and send to instagram.
In total, you need two programs (nginx-rtmp and ffmpeg) both are free.
In total, you need two programs (nginx-rtmp and ffmpeg) both are free.
michaelhamlin76
New Member
I do it at least once a week. You do have to have 2 machines with OBS. My primary OBS streams to YouTube & Facebook in 16x9 format. It also sends the stream out via the NDI plugin to the 2nd OBS. The second OBS is set to 9x16 format for Instagram. I have a "frame" that is set up in poitrait format with the landscape video displayed in the center. Streams to Insta via yellow duck.
carlmmii
Active Member
You can actually do it on the same machine using portable OBS, using exactly that same method -- NDI out from the main OBS instance (which is also streaming to one service), and the 2nd OBS instance just pulls the NDI, rotates, and outputs to the 2nd stream service. No need for extra transmission over network for the NDI portion, and very much within the capabilities of Nvenc for the multiple encoding streams.