Question / Help OBS and Bitdefender. They don't get along!

[rapturedheart]

I've done everything under the sun to try and get OBS to stream with the Bitdefender Firewall still enabled. I've given it permissions, I allowed it through ports going outbound, inbound and both. I can't get it to work at all. The only time I can stream with OBS is if I completely disable the firewall all together. I think everyone knows how much of a security risk that can be though... :\

 

[dping]

I've done everything under the sun to try and get OBS to stream with the Bitdefender Firewall still enabled. I've given it permissions, I allowed it through ports going outbound, inbound and both. I can't get it to work at all. The only time I can stream with OBS is if I completely disable the firewall all together. I think everyone knows how much of a security risk that can be though... :\

you do know that there is a firewall built into windows vista/7/8.1/10 that is very adequate as a firewall. not including the one in your home router that does nat and when set properly will keep out the bad stuff. I am not familiar with that firewall program so sorry I cannot help, just giving you input on what I use.

I do know that rtmp is over TCP port 1935 but you shouldn't need to do anything as this is a connection out, not in.

 

[R1CH]

Yeah you shouldn't need a separate firewall, the Windows firewall is more than sufficient.