Question / Help Facebook Live Audio / Capturing Stream

[RandyStevens]

Hi,

We have been using OBS for quite a while to stream our church service to Facebook Live on our Mac by using a Blackmagic Mini Recorder to capture SDI-HD video and using an audio cable from our sound board to the line in port on the Mac to capture audio. This all works relatively well but I have 2 issues I would like to solve:

1) Our sound in the Facebook feed is ok for sermons but it's terrible for our music, you can't even hear the bass or drums although you can hear them fine through the Mac speakers. Is this Facebook doing this or is it something we have set wrong in OBS?

2) We need to be able to somehow output this stream back out of the Mac for showing live on some TV's throughout the church such as our nurseries and other areas where they are not able to be in the sanctuary but yet want to see and hear what's going on. I need this to end up converted to RF coax in order to feed through our existing cables and directly into the back of the TV. I have no idea how I could get this signal back out of the Mac and converted with video and sound like I need. Any suggestions?

Thank you for taking the time to help!

 

[Narcogen]

1) Don't know for sure but Facebook is legendary for poor streaming quality overrall. If you want to test whether it's them or your setup, do some tests by streaming the same content to other services (youtube, twitch, local NGINX-RTMP install).

2) If all you're looking for is RCA audio you could use a USB audio interface like a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 that has RCA output.