Question / Help OBS and BMD Decklink Mini Recorder(not 4K) problem

[EducationTV]

Hi everyone, first post here, glad to join.

I'm running a little streaming music collective for about two years now. We stream live dj sets from our little studio.
Till two days ago we were using just regular webcams(Logitech, Genius) to get the video to obs and stream it to youtube without problems.
After we saved some money, we bought Blackmagic Design DeckLink Mini Recorder to get HD video quality from our Sony Handycam HDR-CX155 to OBS or Wirecast. Now the problems start.

I installed everything as it should be installed, updated everything to the latest drivers and PC recognizes the card normal:
OBS Studio- latest update 20.0.1
BMD Desktop video- latest update 10.9.5
Wirecast 7.1.0
DeckLink card driver- latest update 10.9.5
and I still cant't get any video feed from Handycam to OBS, Wirescast or even Blackmagic Media Express where video should popup I just get the sound from the camera.

My PC specs are:
Win10 64bit system
Intel Core i5 7400 3,0gHz
16GB RAM memory
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti

I tried everything, even unplugged the card from PCIe slot and moved it to another one, same thing.

Thank you for your time and I'm hoping that someone here had simmilar problem and can help me to get HD live stream.

 

[EducationTV]

I also red everything connected with this problem and didn't found anything to help me.

 

[Raul]

I am having this same issue, trying to figure it now.

 

[Suslik V]

@Raul also using 'Video Capture Device' source? Why not 'Blackmagic Device' one?

 

[EducationTV]

@Raul problem solved after 3 days of playing with settings, in sources section right click and select Blackmagic Device not video capture source, you can also go right click on Bm Device and select properties, there you can play with the settings, I left mine to auto.
About the handycam, i had to turn on TV connect option first 3-4 times, after that capture card picked up signal automatically when i connected hdmi cable without TV option.
Hope this helps! :)

 

[Raul]

Similar situation here, using the blackmagic software (media express) I always saw the video but with OBS I had to swap source, close, open, recreate the source until it finally worked... weird