Question / Help No picture,no layer,no stream

[wraystyle]

Hi I'm new to streaming and I know a little about it all. However all I want to do is put a nice layer on my channel on twitch through my OBS settings on my laptop but it's not happening I'm streaming from my ps4 and trying to do the stuff on my laptop but it just won't connect with my channel please help ,I've put my stream key in and connected to the nearest server to me which is London England ,which is half way dwn the country away but does this Matter????? I've got a Sony Viao laptop which I'm trying to run the OBS to link it with my channel but no joy any ideas ?????????

 

[FerretBomb]

What capture card are you using to connect the PS4 to your laptop? You can't just stream from the PS4's native streaming, and at the same time stream from a laptop to do overlays; everything has to go into the laptop, and then be streamed from there to work.

Beyond that, make sure to put your streaming key in on OBS correctly, you can get this from your Twitch website dashboard.

 

[wraystyle]

Hi thanks for that I'm copying and pasting my key and just saw I needed a capture card so I'll have to get 1 .if I'm streaming from my ps4 tho how am I gonna do it from the laptop? I thought it was a case of what was been put out on my channel OBS would pick it up and I could put layers on it from that ????

 

[FerretBomb]

Nope. OBS doesn't pull a stream down, edit it and then put it up again. Not how it works.

Essentially what you do is plug the PS4 into the capture card, set up OBS to use the capture card as a video capture device source in a scene. Then you put the rest of your elements above or below that layer (usually above), like a deck of cards to create the layout you want.

OBS then composites the video, encodes it and streams it to Twitch at a significantly higher quality than the built-in PS4 streaming can manage. This does require a fairly powerful CPU though, fair warning.

 

[wraystyle]

Ok thanks I'll buy a capture card and see how I go from there because the only OBS server is in London will that matter if I'm half way up the country or will it b ok ???

 

[FerretBomb]

Physical location doesn't matter so much as if you have a solid network connection.

 

[wraystyle]

Ok thanks that's great news

 

[wraystyle]

Hi again rite I've been an got a elgato capture and I've set it up its pulling the pic and sound but it's freezing and stuff so is that just to do with my settings in OBS because it's fine in the elgato program