HUDL Focus - OBS Help

[JDunham]

So I run livestreams for my school. We recently installed a HUDL Focus camera in our gym, which works great. But, we want to run the stream through OBS to be able to add graphics. However, when I set it all up the video lags when I run it through OBS. It works perfectly fine when I stream it from the HUDL camera to YouTube.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this as how I can fix it?

 

[Schlegs]

I'm running into the same issues. To me it looks like it's a network buffering issue and some settings in OBS on video side of things.... Anyone have settings that are working?

 

[JJordan]

I want to do the same with adding graphics. My graphics software is showing up in OBS as a source and I added the Hudl Focus cam with all the settings Hudl outlined as a RTMP source but the camera is not showing up even when I record. Any troubleshooting tips with this?

 

[JDunham]

Jordan, could it be as simple as you have the hudl media source layered beneath the graphics?

Also, I found that you need to have the camera on the same network as the computer running OBS.

I have played with settings, but haven’t been able to sort out the lagging HUDL stream.

 

[mbrsports1]

We are having the same issue. I got it to happen less by maxing out the buffer to 16 on the camera properties popup.

It still pixelates, but far less frequently then before. Hudl was no help when we asked them, they just said it had nothing to do with their camera.

I am thinking the larger issue is due to the internet. My understanding (and correct me if this is wrong), Hudl is uploading video to a server, then the stream computer is download it, then you are re-encoding for upload to whatever platform thru obs. My guess would be you would need something close to 20mbps up to be able to stream at the minimum quality with no buffering. I know at our gym our up is only about 10mbps when there is nobody in the building (and of course our wifi and stream computer are all on the same internet line, so when people get on the wifi everything slows down more).

Any thoughts?