Really appreciate the time and effort you're putting in to this project. I'm a hobbyist back yard blacksmith with some pretty basic tech background. I've been using an old MacBook to do some YouTube live streams for friends and family during this covid crap, and the GPU on the MacBook finally took a complete dump. I've got about 10 Pi3's laying around so thought I'd dig in to this option a bit. Loaded on a Pi3 for proof of concept and was super impressed with the ease of installation. Ordered a Pi4 and seems I'm still not going to be using any USB webcams... so with the biography out of the way, now a question... How is the performance with a PiCam? How bout multiple PiCams?
Question / Help OBS Raspberry Pi Build Instructions
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TheMindVirus
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People have got it to work as an IP Camera across USB Ethernet: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/how-to/use-raspberry-pi-as-pc-webcam
It uses a piece of software called mjpg_streamer to work. A Pi itself could be a Webcam Server and an OBS Studio Server at the same time. However, it would be better if you had a separate Pi as each IP Camera (maybe situated somewhere else) and have them send the video over Wi-Fi to the Pi running OBS Studio. The quality of the stream would depend largely on the quality of the Wi-Fi (or whichever connection you decide to use).
It uses a piece of software called mjpg_streamer to work. A Pi itself could be a Webcam Server and an OBS Studio Server at the same time. However, it would be better if you had a separate Pi as each IP Camera (maybe situated somewhere else) and have them send the video over Wi-Fi to the Pi running OBS Studio. The quality of the stream would depend largely on the quality of the Wi-Fi (or whichever connection you decide to use).
I could use some help getting this running on my pi4 B with the latest version of raspbian. It's fails on initializing opengl, says, failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported or your graphics drivers may need to be updated (I updated all there is to update at this point).
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You could try to start it with
MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 obs
from the commandline, as @TheMindVirus did comment on :)
or, if you're trying it already with that parameter and it does not work, leave it out.
Ok that worked!! Is there any way I can add that as a startup parameter for an alias/shortcut so I dont have to launch from terminal every time?
Well, how about just putting it in a shell script onto your desktop and making it executable? Then you could just launch it via doubleclick?
Bash:
echo "#!/bin/bash
MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 obs" > obs_start.sh
chmod +x obs_start.shyes, thank you. It works now.
But now a new problem.
I open a link "rtsp://192.168.178.38/ch0_0.h264" from a camrea and try to stream it online.
in 1080p.
The Problem is, the rasberry pi is at CPU usage 98% or more and i have only 2-6 FPS.
So its not a good stream. I know that the rasberry is not a Streaming PC. But 2-6- FPS?
Why? Wrong settings?
My problem is to understand, why we have OBS for rasberry pi when the rasberry cant run it?
But now a new problem.
I open a link "rtsp://192.168.178.38/ch0_0.h264" from a camrea and try to stream it online.
in 1080p.
The Problem is, the rasberry pi is at CPU usage 98% or more and i have only 2-6 FPS.
So its not a good stream. I know that the rasberry is not a Streaming PC. But 2-6- FPS?
Why? Wrong settings?
My problem is to understand, why we have OBS for rasberry pi when the rasberry cant run it?
kilokahn
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Maybe someone can create an image of OBS on a Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM working. This way all we would have to do is take the image, install on SD card, expand the file system and then plug in whatever camera(s) we want.
My goal is to make a YouTube channel that is an old throwback TV bulletin board complete with music and slides. Nothing fancy. I may grab the slides off a website once a day to update them but the music would be locally playing and OBS would stream it.
My goal is to make a YouTube channel that is an old throwback TV bulletin board complete with music and slides. Nothing fancy. I may grab the slides off a website once a day to update them but the music would be locally playing and OBS would stream it.
But the biggest problem is that it does not support OpenGL 3.3, so it will probably never be really able to do much - I do use it to great success with a PAL capture card [however, its lags at 30ms+] and some LUA code and I did also try it with a Full HD Grabber Card which kinda worked - but I guess it won't do any advanced stuff... (to admit, I tried it with a 500 Euro Magewell Grabber which offloads a lot of the work in its FPGA, but a solution of a 500 Euro card + a RPi ain't gonna be the normal setup, most ppl will tend to use some cheaper Elgato or so).
I really hope they get the H.264 Hardware Encoding working, that would really help to getting the stream out a decent framerates :).
I really hope they get the H.264 Hardware Encoding working, that would really help to getting the stream out a decent framerates :).
As some people asked for it, I downloaded the latest Raspberry Pi OS (32 bit) / desktop today, updated it to the latest version and installed the current git version of OBS on it - thanks to the incredible work of @TheMindVirus :). Just download and burn the image with balena etcher to an at least 8 GB big MicroSD Card. The Username / Password is pi / obs
You can find the installed obs with the Override already applied to the shortcut in the startmenu under Entertainment.
I do not intend to make regular updates to this - nor give any support, as the upload of 3 GB to the net is a bit time consuming, as well as creating and packaging that image, but as a one-of to get people started this should help :)
https://mega.nz/file/w2gSXQCL#7Gp14ZcSiFZOnYuFyPaWv2RUtBm17dmGNkb8CYV5hiY
You can find the installed obs with the Override already applied to the shortcut in the startmenu under Entertainment.
I do not intend to make regular updates to this - nor give any support, as the upload of 3 GB to the net is a bit time consuming, as well as creating and packaging that image, but as a one-of to get people started this should help :)
https://mega.nz/file/w2gSXQCL#7Gp14ZcSiFZOnYuFyPaWv2RUtBm17dmGNkb8CYV5hiY
daneallen
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First off a big thank you to @TheMindVirus! Ran both the make-swap.sh and install-obs.sh files from your https://github.com/TheMindVirus/obs-rpi-build repo.
OBS runs great with the ^^ option... when a monitor/keyboard and mouse are plugged in.
But I'm running into a challenge when trying to operate the software over a VNC connection. Here's the specs of my setup:
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2
VNC Viewer 6.20.113
Every time I try and start OBS through the VNC connection I get the dreaded "Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated." The first error from the command line that appears is
It sure would be great to be able to manage an OBS installation remotely using a VNC connection but I have been unable to make that work successfully. I have very limited experience using VNC and perhaps it will be an easy command line option to pass. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.
Code:
MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 obsBut I'm running into a challenge when trying to operate the software over a VNC connection. Here's the specs of my setup:
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
VNC Server 6.7.1VNC Viewer 6.20.113
Every time I try and start OBS through the VNC connection I get the dreaded "Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated." The first error from the command line that appears is
Code:
QXcbConnection: Failed to initialize XRandrIt sure would be great to be able to manage an OBS installation remotely using a VNC connection but I have been unable to make that work successfully. I have very limited experience using VNC and perhaps it will be an easy command line option to pass. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.