Question / Help I need help with my OBS Project

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Hi OBS Community,

i need a solution for a problem i have. How can i make it possible that two streamers are able to stream their screen + webcam to my streaming pc, so i can then stream it to twitch. The Problem is that i can`t connect the computers with a cable cause they are not in the same house. I don`t have the technical know how so some advice would be pretty amazing.

Thank you for your help

Alex

Edit: Btw buying hardware if needed is no problem unless its way to expensive.
 
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There's no good way to do this. You're going to have a lot of delay if you're playing locally along with them (they will be between 5-20 seconds behind, and may also not have the same delay compared to each other).

You'd want to look into setting up an RTMP relay server using nginx with the rtmp module, then capture those video streams into OBS via VLC+livestreamer (I believe the CLR browser plugin might be able to grab the streams directly too? Not sure how that works).

It's very technically complicated, and isn't going to work well at all even after it's running. No, there's no turnkey 'install this and go' package.
Honestly, the best way is to just stream to Twitch individually and use something like Multitwitch to watch all of the streams together.
 
The thing is i don`t really care about the delay. The reason why i want it is, so i don`t have to go offline with my channel. Normally if you have 2 Streamer on one channel the first streamer has to go offline with the channel and then the second streamer can go online. I want to give the viewer the best possible experience without having a downtime. So the delay is not really important since both streamers are not streaming at the same time.
 
At that point you want to look into something a bit more purpose-built than OBS. Take a look at something like a Red5 RTMP server. I believe there's a way to configure it so that if a streamer connects in, it forwards their video, but if no one is online, it pulls from configured stock videos or images.

OBS really isn't meant to do what you want to do with it, and is going to be even more complicated to set up than just using a piece of software geared toward that functionality.
 
So basically how it would work is that the streamer pushes the livestream to the red5 server and then i can access it and forward it to the twitch.tv server?
 
No, the Red5 (or other RTMP) server would act as a relay and jukebox. It would send video and a constant stream to Twitch, and allow (authorized) connections in. If no one was connected, it could be set up to either send a test image or play videos from a configured directory on the server's hard drive. Then when a streamer connects to it, stop playing the 'filler' video/image and just relay their stream to Twitch. So the stream wouldn't go offline, but still allow you to stream in shifts.

Probably better to pursue this over on their forums though. OBS isn't going to really be useful for what you want to do, other than for the actual streamers themselves. It's also not a simple thing to set up.
 
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