BitteFüllenSieDiesesFeld
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Hi all,
first of all I'm a newbie regarding OBS and streaming in general, but I know a lot about IT. ;-)
Situation:
We want to establish streaming for amateur sports (Rollerderby) on YT. Budget is not very high, so we try to use as many exisiting hardware as possible.
What we already have are cams, an Atomos Ninja with AtomC cast extension to act as a 4 channel HDMI video switcher and an old Dell 7290 with an Intel i5 Gen 8 and 32GB (single channel, as only one RAM bank available).
I did some first rough speed tests where the xcast feeds via USB-c OBS on the dell. It seems to be (but further tests are needed from my side) that OBS can handle at least 1080p30 with nothing else than this stream. 30 is not ideal, but a framerate of 60 seems to much (some lost frames, IGPU load round about 90%.
My thoughts were to use that laptop only as
managing the xcast (which is only possible if the stream comes via USB-C into the machine) and
a "forwarder" of that stream via NDI to a second machine
The second machine needs more power as it has to handle
the via NDI incoming stream
2nd stream of a moderation cam
1-2 moderation audio streams
Browser tab for score overlay
Streaming and recording the final stream. Recording the audio sources separately (game "Noise", moderation etc) would be nice to have
Enough power to handle an additional vid/audio Stream in future
Maybe I can get an additional Dell 7290 for REALLY small budget (30-40€) to offload e.g. Modcam/Audio to it and send that also via NDI to the main streaming PC, if this would make sense
In an ideal world I would like to stream in 4k60, but a) I know the requirements are really high for that and b) the xcast can output via usb-c only 1080p30 and via HDMI out only 1080p60
I'm currently not sure, what requierements the main streaming PC needs to have. As the setup has to be portable, i see only the possibility to get a refurbished laptop (Intel/AMD or Macbook) or a (refurbished) Mac Mini (with Mx CPU) attaching at least two portable screens to it
Any ideas for 1080p60?
And what would be needed to be safe for 4k in the future? But maybe it makes more sense to buy it when it's really needed...
Any additional info needed?
Thx in advance :-)
first of all I'm a newbie regarding OBS and streaming in general, but I know a lot about IT. ;-)
Situation:
We want to establish streaming for amateur sports (Rollerderby) on YT. Budget is not very high, so we try to use as many exisiting hardware as possible.
What we already have are cams, an Atomos Ninja with AtomC cast extension to act as a 4 channel HDMI video switcher and an old Dell 7290 with an Intel i5 Gen 8 and 32GB (single channel, as only one RAM bank available).
I did some first rough speed tests where the xcast feeds via USB-c OBS on the dell. It seems to be (but further tests are needed from my side) that OBS can handle at least 1080p30 with nothing else than this stream. 30 is not ideal, but a framerate of 60 seems to much (some lost frames, IGPU load round about 90%.
My thoughts were to use that laptop only as
managing the xcast (which is only possible if the stream comes via USB-C into the machine) and
a "forwarder" of that stream via NDI to a second machine
The second machine needs more power as it has to handle
the via NDI incoming stream
2nd stream of a moderation cam
1-2 moderation audio streams
Browser tab for score overlay
Streaming and recording the final stream. Recording the audio sources separately (game "Noise", moderation etc) would be nice to have
Enough power to handle an additional vid/audio Stream in future
Maybe I can get an additional Dell 7290 for REALLY small budget (30-40€) to offload e.g. Modcam/Audio to it and send that also via NDI to the main streaming PC, if this would make sense
In an ideal world I would like to stream in 4k60, but a) I know the requirements are really high for that and b) the xcast can output via usb-c only 1080p30 and via HDMI out only 1080p60
I'm currently not sure, what requierements the main streaming PC needs to have. As the setup has to be portable, i see only the possibility to get a refurbished laptop (Intel/AMD or Macbook) or a (refurbished) Mac Mini (with Mx CPU) attaching at least two portable screens to it
Any ideas for 1080p60?
And what would be needed to be safe for 4k in the future? But maybe it makes more sense to buy it when it's really needed...
Any additional info needed?
Thx in advance :-)