Question / Help Multiple instances while streaming

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sectioni

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Hello,

I've set up OBS on my main PC.
It's streaming into an RMTP server i've set up on the same machine. (rmtp://127.0.0.1:1935/live/test)

If I then try to open another instance of OBS and add a media source from the same url the first instance it's streaming to, then after a few seconds/minutes the streaming stops on the first instance. It just shows a red box and 0kbp/s. And if I click "stop streaming" its stuck and I have to end the process.

If instead of opening a second instance, I open one on another machine and try to add the media source then no problems.
The logs show no errors after "streaming has started..."

Why is that?
 
Some more info:
When opening VLC on the machine I'm streaming from (which also hosts the rtmp server), if i try to access rmtp://127.0.0.1:1935/live/test I don't see anything. But if I try to connect via an external ip which redirects back to my machine via port forwarding, then I see the stream.

The same seems to happen with OBS.
Why can't I pull the stream via 127.0.0.1?
 
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