Question / Help How to stream two gaming PCs outputs to one streaming PC

Kalixt

Kalixt

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Hello,

I am looking for solution (not necessary low cost) to stream two sources from two different gaming PCs (on the same network) to one streaming PC. I've read several guides about this but I didnt find enough informations to do this. First and the easiest way how to do this should be by using the capture card like HD60 in each of gaming PCs and connect them with streaming PC but I dont know if this should work. It works with one PC but can I use it also for more than one ?

Thanks for any advice with this.
 
Boildown

Boildown

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The capture card(s) would be in the streaming PC, not in the gaming PCs. Of course then they'd both need to be in close proximity to it. Is that the case?

Be careful with USB capture devices, even one of them can overload the USB bandwidth. Two makes it actually likely that USB won't be able to handle it.

Search these forums for information on Elgato capture devices, you need a special driver and certain models don't support having more than one in the same PC.

You can get a single capture card that supports two or more simultaneously active inputs. Usually this is more expensive than two individual cards though. But the simplification might be worth it.

You'll be hard-pressed to beat the price of getting two of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/112198559131 . But 2 caveats... 1) you'll need to route audio separately as its video only, meaning you'll need an add-in sound card on your streaming PC with two inputs, and 2) its a PCIe 1.0 4x device, physically and electrically. Make sure your motherboard has the slots (8x and 16x also work).

Here's another Datapath option, one card with two inputs: http://www.ebay.com/itm/192239112226

Here's another brand, I couldn't find a lower price on Ebay for it though: http://www.magewell.com/pro-capture-dual-hdmi I've used Datapath but never Magewell, but I hear Magewell is good. This one will capture audio embedded in the HDMI, too.
 
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