Question / Help MXPTiny and VLC Source URL

Switlikm

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I have MXPTiny setup to stream a Blackmagic H.264 Pro Encoder to VLC. I click preview and it launches VLC with the stream in full screen just fine.
I have the "VLC Source" available in OBS. When I add it I have to add a File, Directoy, or Path/URL to the playlist. Files work fine. But I can't figure out how to format the URL to view the stream from MXPTiny. I've tried "\\.\pipe\DeckLink.ts", "\\\.\pipe\DeckLink.ts", "rtsp://\\.\pipe\DeckLink.ts" and "stream://\\.\pipe\DeckLink.ts" but nothing works. Every forum thread I've found people say to use MXPTiny or MXLight but don't explain what you actually enter into the VLC Source for this part of the setup.

To clarify the "\\.\pipe\DeckLink.ts" came from "Prev. Cfg." in MXPTiny. I had to change that command to point at Program Files\VideoLAN instead of Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN for 64bit VLC 3.
 
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Switlikm

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I found a work around. Which lead to a solution. Since it was working in VLC I simply saved the currently playing stream as a playlist file. Then I used that playlist file as the VLC Source in OBS and everything worked. Then I opened the playlist file with notepad and saw the url you want to paste as the Path/URL.

stream://\\\.\pipe\DeckLink.ts

Note the \\\. vs \\. that I had done earlier.
 
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