Question / Help Multiple remote streams

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APossible

New Member
Hi,

I'd like to (live) stream a conversation between two remote participants.
I was thinking that one way of doing this would be to locally capture the conversation on Skype and then upload that source to an RTMP server. However, I was wondering if there might be another way.

Ideally, I'd allow both participants to stream directly to the RTMP server. But then I have the difficulty of how to have the remote server produce a composite of the two streams. I'd also quite like to be able to remotely control the composition - switching one party off, for example.

Any thoughts?
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
Its definitely easiest to do with Skype. You can also setup something with nginx, but for a conference/conversation scenario this is not really meant to be used. Delays between the inputs and outputs would make it hard to make a real conversation.

http://www.twitch.tv/pcper/b/510578652
example of 4 person skype (setup could be tweaked to look better :D)
 
JimmyBoh

JimmyBoh

New Member
If you are only concerned with audio, you could try VoiceMeeter. It's essentially a virtual audio mixer, with 3 inputs and 2 outputs. With it you could use your Skype audio as one input along with any other audio sources (games, music, your mic, etc.) and then use one output for your headphones and the other for the stream.

As far as controlling the Skype calls remotely, you might just have to use your Skype to mute individual participants.

Let me know if you need a hand with VoiceMeeter, I'm more than willing to help.
 
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Legendary Neurotoxin

New Member
Darn.... Skype is $10 / mo for any more than a two-way video conversation. Google Hangout / Chat doesn't have a decent enough interface to pull it apart for a broadcast.

There's no way I can get the users to pipe their Webcam stream directly to me with OBS, so that I can grab the streams and add them into my own?
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
As mentioned a setup with a nginx rtmp server would be possible but synching the different inputs would be horrible. I am not sure how you want to do a conversation like that as all would stream to you but not to each other. So using a software that handles the conversation is probably necessary. Maybe you can find an alternative to skype or google hangouts?
 
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