runningracks
New Member
My apologies if this is a newbie question, but ...I'm a relative newbie with OBS.
I've used OBS to do a bit of streaming to OBS for work and personal life, but some friends of mine who own a pool hall are considering setting up so that they can stream games/action from all of their tables. Each table would have its' own separate stream, so that people could subscribe to their YouTube channel and just hit the stream for the table that they're interested in. Part of the plan is also that when teams/individuals that play out of the pool hall travel to larger tournaments, they'd travel with them and stream the matches (which will also often be on separate tables simultaneously).
They'll obviously need separate cameras for each table, but for the ease of travel and ease of setting up (without needing a huge amount of space to setup when they're in other tournament rooms) I'd like to condense the streaming setup as much as possible. So here's my questions:
1 - can one computer/laptop, with one graphics card, capture audio/video from multiple cameras and stream the separate cameras out to separate YouTube streams on the same channel simultaneously?
2 - if so, how? Would I launch separate instances of OBS for each camera input/output stream pair? Most streams would just be the audio/video from one camera, with occasionally commentator audio/video input on one stream. The only other source on each stream would be a banner on the bottom with player names and match scores which would be relatively static.
3 - also if so, how many can I practically run per graphics card, and what would the limiting factor likely be (processing/RAM on the graphics card, etc.)
Thanks in advance for any help/advice!
I've used OBS to do a bit of streaming to OBS for work and personal life, but some friends of mine who own a pool hall are considering setting up so that they can stream games/action from all of their tables. Each table would have its' own separate stream, so that people could subscribe to their YouTube channel and just hit the stream for the table that they're interested in. Part of the plan is also that when teams/individuals that play out of the pool hall travel to larger tournaments, they'd travel with them and stream the matches (which will also often be on separate tables simultaneously).
They'll obviously need separate cameras for each table, but for the ease of travel and ease of setting up (without needing a huge amount of space to setup when they're in other tournament rooms) I'd like to condense the streaming setup as much as possible. So here's my questions:
1 - can one computer/laptop, with one graphics card, capture audio/video from multiple cameras and stream the separate cameras out to separate YouTube streams on the same channel simultaneously?
2 - if so, how? Would I launch separate instances of OBS for each camera input/output stream pair? Most streams would just be the audio/video from one camera, with occasionally commentator audio/video input on one stream. The only other source on each stream would be a banner on the bottom with player names and match scores which would be relatively static.
3 - also if so, how many can I practically run per graphics card, and what would the limiting factor likely be (processing/RAM on the graphics card, etc.)
Thanks in advance for any help/advice!