Is There a "Monitor Only" Setting for Video?

[WVDave99]

I know that when it comes to audio, I can use the Monitor Only setting to make sure that my audio only plays locally, but not on the stream.

Is there a way to do that with video also?

The problem I'm encountering is playing music during livestreams for Church services. We have the CCLI license to play the music locally, but not on the stream. As far as I know, there is not yet a license for streaming videos. If so, I'd appreciate any info that could help. For now, I'm muting the microphone to keep compliant. But I didn't know if there was a way that I could use OBS to play a recorded music video without the video also showing on the livestream.

I searched before asking and was not able to find anything regarding this. But OBS has been a real blessing for what I need.

 

[AaronD]

Another church rig here. :-)

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OBS for us doesn't play anything except the one welcome video, and the ending graphics. Otherwise, all of its content is received live from somewhere else, packaged together, and sent out. That makes it relatively easy to manage what OBS gets in the first place (poke the mute button on the sound board, for that audio going to the stream output, which is different from the PA output), or to have OBS do something else there (show a camera, with the screens out of frame).

Every once in a while, before our kids' directors got the idea, I had to mute the audio entirely for that part of the service and put a banner on the stream about copyright, while the kids danced silently on camera, but they've gotten pretty good now.

I'm sure there's a license somewhere that allows you to put videos on the stream, but with the stuff we do, our permission is pretty well implied. A missionary update, for example, or something that we've made ourselves. Something like that.

And check the EULA for things that you buy to use in the service. Some of those say that you can stream them, only in that context.