Question / Help Is OpenGL Required For RTMP?

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Rayj

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I am not any kind of expert with Linux graphics, or video for that matter. I am assuming OpenGL has something to do with the graphic card? My question is I'd like to try OBS from a remote linux box, using RTMP only. Is OpenGL required to do that?

Thanks,

Ray
 
No, those things are not related at all.

OBS requires OpenGL for the scene rendering. If you just want a linux box to stream a video or restream something, use ffmpeg instead
 
Yes, I want to stream to Facebook and/or Youtube. Remote videos will be from "Media Source" and not a video capture device.

I'm trying to start OBS on Ubuntu 16.04 and I an getting the followng error:

info: Initializing OpenGL...
error: ARB_GLX_create_context not supported!
error: Failed to create context!
error: device_create (GL) failed
error: Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated.
info: Freeing OBS context data

Ideas?
 
Rayj said:
Yes, I want to stream to Facebook and/or Youtube. Remote videos will be from "Media Source" and not a video capture device.

I'm trying to start OBS on Ubuntu 16.04 and I an getting the followng error:

info: Initializing OpenGL...
error: ARB_GLX_create_context not supported!
error: Failed to create context!
error: device_create (GL) failed
error: Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated.
info: Freeing OBS context data

Ideas?
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As stated in another thread OBS requires OpenGL. So yes, you need opengl to be working in order to run OBS.
 
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