Help setting up to Livestream

[Jerald Rhodes]

I'm new to all this. I want to livestream stuff at our church. I have a Lenovo Ideapad L340 laptop windows 10, elgato HD60 s+ capture card, Sony FDR-AX53. When I open OBS Studio it finds my camcorder but I can't get anything to come thru video or audio. What's wrong?

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Welcome to the wonderful (and sometimes frustrating) world of house of worship livestreaming

My first recommendation is to get audio and video working before even starting OBS. OBS is a powerful, flexible tool, which also means there is a learning curve associated with it. Make sure you can get video showing up in something like Windows Recorder, or a conferencing (Zoom, Teams, etc) type app. Same with Audio. THEN, and only then, getting the same audio and video working in OBS

Have you watched any intro to OBS videos on basic setup? Here's the quick-start guide:

https://obsproject.com/wiki/OBS-Stu...wnGGQ&list=PLT3Ure7_kYHwj8oT3AV-pZ4_r7yp6mDg-

When I started 2 years ago, I found these OBS Audio related articles helpful

• https://obsproject.com/wiki/Understanding-The-Mixer
• https://obsproject.com/wiki/Windows-10-App-Volume-Device-Preferences
• https://streamershaven.blog/softwar...hlight/advanced-audio-properties-obs-and-you/
• https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en...e-in-OBS-Open-Broadcaster-Software-on-Windows

And then, there is the CoreAudio AAC encoder option. My understanding is that is it purely an audio quality improvement over the built-in OBS AAC encoder. If you'd like to install CA AAC, extra steps are required and here is the guide: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-enable-coreaudio-aac-encoder-windows.220/
I recommend holding off on CoreAudio AAC unless you feel need to improve audio, and are not happy with default results (which I found are more than adequate for us).. so ymmv, depends on your worship style and audio content

Then, once you figure out source compositing in OBS, I recommend testing by Recording (not streaming) and making sure that is working as you expect. Only then move onto streaming, which has all of its own challenges. And do yourself a favor, don't try to livestream over a WiFi connection, unless you have a Network Engineer with real-time monitoring available, otherwise you may end up chasing your tail, so to speak

Finally, recognize that real-time video encoding is VERY computationally demanding. Laptops, optimized for battery life, sometimes are not up to the task of real-time video encoding (and/or thermally throttle). I recommend monitoring hardware resource (CPU, GPU, RAM, Disk I/O, etc) utilization [for ex. using Task manager’s Performance tab and/or Resource Monitor] to see if your system is being maxed out with your settings https://obsproject.com/wiki/General-Performance-and-Encoding-Issues and https://obsproject.com/wiki/GPU-overload-issues