Question / Help LAN stream event

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GameswithChao

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My friends and I are looking into creating a livestream event as a fundraiser for our sports team. Our plan is to bring our individual setups into one room and set up ONE stream on Twitch.tv that is able to broadcast our gameplay and reaction. Similar to how tournaments broadcast to the viewers but on a smaller scale. I understand that when you stream with 2 computers, you need a capture card for input and a separate computer dedicated for output. Does this method apply if we were to stream more than 2 computers (e.g. 4 inputs going into one output)? Or would we need to stream individually into some program that'll consolidate our streams?

Thank you for reading.
 
Boildown

Boildown

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I haven't tried it myself, but there has been other threads asking similar things.

Anyways, you should be able to have one encoding PC with all the capture cards do all the encoding work without needing the consolidation you mentioned. The trick would be the capture cards.

You'd need something like this: http://www.magewell.com/xi400de-hdmi

Or four capture cards that can do one input each. Or two that can do two each. Or some combination of that. And you should make sure you have enough of the correct kind of PCIe slots. You will want to avoid using USB for your capture devices, the USB bus will run out of bandwidth otherwise. If you decide to use webcams, I'm not sure that 4 webcams would work over USB either, you may have to set each of their resolutions lower than usual.

Anyways, it should be possible, but I personally haven't read any after-action posts from people who have tried it. Just people asking questions if its possible or not. So no idea if those previous posters met with success or failure.
 
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