Question / Help Is OBS right for me....

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barnabythebear

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Hiya,

I really now very little about this sort of thing but have been asked to look into a possible project for the college I work at....

We have an animal centre and I would like to set up webcams in the enclosures and live stream from them, so I am looking for a solution that could:

Stream from multiple cams 24/7 maybe 7 or 8?
Be able to view the streams through our college VLE - Moodle (I can do this if I can get an iframe to embed from OBS)
Possibly record/store the footage.

Are there any storage implications for this? Will the source just stream through OBS without storing it if I choose to do so? It may be that we would want to keep 24 hours or so of footage to review and keep parts of.

Thanks very much!

Nige.
 
koala

koala

Active Member
OBS is able to create a video stream from one or more sources and send this to a streaming service, but it might not be the best tool for your project. OBS is designed as an interactive real-time video stream mixing tool, and not really a tool to just continually stream unattended camera video.
For unattended streaming operation, look at ffmpeg. It's not only a format converter, it is also a tool to receive video, process it, and send it somewhere else.

Either way, you need a streaming server in addition. That's a service that receives video from the streaming client and distributes this stream to the viewers. It's the same that public services like Twitch do. I you need a private version of this, you need to install your own streaming server.
There are two guides about setting up such a service:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/
https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...wn-private-rtmfp-server-using-monaserver.153/

Just streaming doesn't need any kind of storage. The video streams are distributed as they are received. I don't know if one of the servers are able to store their streams.
 
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