Question / Help How to use laptop as 2nd streaming PC?

[sethbw]

Greetings fellow OBSer's!

I've seen a lot of people ask this, but so far I've only found one solution, which requires streaming from the gaming BOX (unnecessary CPU load). I need to figure how to stream without impacting my gaming computer's performance & with a laptop that has no capture card.

I don't have the option of using a dedicated 2nd PC with a capture card due to budget restrictions, but really need to keep streaming while I wait if I am to be successful!

QUESTION: What are all the different ways of using a second pc (in my case an Alienware 18 laptop) as a dedicated streaming device that do not involve a dedicated video capture card?

That is I am hoping to find:

1. A streaming setup/solution which doesn't:

• • negatively impact game performance
  • require a dedicated capture card
  • have low quality

Bonus questions that would also help greatly in solving my problem:

- This is a laymen question so sorry if it rubs anyone the wrong way! I am surprised this isn't already a standard capability, but if anyone out there with a lot of low-level technical knowledge of video cards could answer: why don't standard video-"output" ports also receive input?

 

[Videophile]

Here ya go - https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/

Requires no capture card, but does require OBS to run on the gaming machine and run some light encoding.

Also, would not recommend laptop as streaming PC, but still might be better than gaming+streaming on desktop, depending on specs.

 

[Bamse]

Very dependant on specs I would add tbh :)
My laptop has a i7-2630QM I'm able to transcode 720p60 @ 50000kb/s to 720p60 3500kb/s using fast preset using the above nginx solution. CPU spikes 89% in intense scenes and averages around 70% :)