Question / Help How would I relay an OBS stream into another stream?

[Vizhonary]

I'm new to OBS and still getting used to it and figuring out how to get the best performance out of it but this isn't one of those sorts of questions... I've been having troubles with my headset working on my gaming machine and it is probably Microsoft driver related and going to be a pain to troubleshoot, while I also have a laptop that is already used to monitor my stream and handle chats and stuff like that... I still haven't fully tested my headset I'm having problems with on it, but if it is my gaming machine and not the headset that is having issues, I was thinking that it may actually be handy and actually easier for my broadcasting if I just breadcast the game with my mic from my game machine, sent that signal to my laptop, remixed that signal with the mic signal in the laptop, then relayed it on to twitch or wherever else I might end up streaming to. It would actually make it easier for me to do it that way if the restreaming is done quick enough, because I could put the video preview, and my website dashboard as well as any other chat engines I am going to be using on the laptop.

So, hoping there are some that both much more experienced and savy with this streaming stuff than I currently am and likes the challenge of figuring out how to do this stuff and explain it, I'd love suggestions on how to do it.. I am figuring it would actually mean using Windows Player or something like somewhere in the chain to render the window that OBS is rebroadcasting from on the laptop, but I'm all eyeballs for any how-to answers or if such relaying is already build into OBS itself.

 

[FerretBomb]

Getting something set up like you describe will be a far bigger pain in the ass as compared to just getting your headset working on your gaming rig, even with the other benefits mentioned factored in.
I mean, it's do-able. But... really? Just get the headset working with your gaming rig.

If you want to broadcast from your laptop, consider a USB capture device instead, and using it as a two-system casting setup. But I'd strongly recommend investigating if your lappy has the processing power to keep up with encoding video at your desired resolution/framerate, before splashing out on something like that.

 

[Vizhonary]

Getting something set up like you describe will be a far bigger pain in the ass as compared to just getting your headset working on your gaming rig, even with the other benefits mentioned factored in.
I mean, it's do-able. But... really? Just get the headset working with your gaming rig.

If you want to broadcast from your laptop, consider a USB capture device instead, and using it as a two-system casting setup. But I'd strongly recommend investigating if your lappy has the processing power to keep up with encoding video at your desired resolution/framerate, before splashing out on something like that.

I am not worried about the bandwidth within my LAN to do it. Not worried about the laptop being able to as long as it's not running the game too. Heck, doing it that way, if it could be done would also allow me to set up to use the camera on the laptop without having to rig a cmera to my game machine, if I start working in actual video of myself.. and I'm a little more worried about sharing USB on the laptop, as that may be part of the issue with the headphones on the desktop, is other USB devices, than I am about other limitations.

 

[dodgepong]

So you want to stream your game to your laptop, add in your mic, and then restream that back out? Because that sounds like a bad idea for a number of reasons, the largest of which is that you will have some really bad audio latency issues.

Instead, you could do something like run Skype on both computers so that you can talk into your laptop and hear it immediately on your gaming computer. That would be a lot simpler.

Or you could let us help you figure out your microphone issue on your gaming computer so you don't have to resort to weird hacks.

 

[Vizhonary]

So you want to stream your game to your laptop, add in your mic, and then restream that back out? Because that sounds like a bad idea for a number of reasons, the largest of which is that you will have some really bad audio latency issues.

Instead, you could do something like run Skype on both computers so that you can talk into your laptop and hear it immediately on your gaming computer. That would be a lot simpler.

Or you could let us help you figure out your microphone issue on your gaming computer so you don't have to resort to weird hacks.

Skype the other way? Hrm... I'd use Google Chat or Goggle Hangouts to do it and not Skype, but that is an option, and trouble shooting that mic is what I'm currently trying to do but right now the request from their support is to eliminate the chance of a hardware problem before tearing windows apart to play with drivers that really aren't supposed to be played with, and right now that means doing some streaming from the laptop to test if the headset works of dies within 2 hours. Not something I have set up to do yet and it's going to take a few days for me to be sure it's not the headset...

The headset is being troubleshot.. I'm just trying to figure out ways to keep all my controls on one keyboard while I game from the other, so that I don't ever have to pause the video of the stream to hop out and mess with stuff like I have to date.

 

[FerretBomb]

Take a look at the OBS Remote plugin. It has some issues, but it will allow control OBS from your monitoring laptop if that's what you mainly want.

I'll restate. Your original suggested 'workaround' is a bad idea. Focus on fixing the mic problem on your main system instead. Alternately, look into moving to a proper full two-system casting setup, utilizing a capture card/USB device. Half-assed workarounds aren't a good idea, unless you're fully conversant with all of the aspects involved.

 

[Vizhonary]

You know.. That OBS remote seems like a pretty good idea, if I had any clue at all on how to install it and get it to work, because it's either not compatible with the latest version(s) of OBS or it simply won't install with the self-installer and is completely lacking instructions on the manual installed zip... So I am pretty much going trial and error on trying to get it to work and so far it's neither trial nor error because I can't seem to get it to load it at all.