Question / Help Peer to Peer Amcrest Cameras

[Tazz]

Howdy Members,

I'm interested in configuring 2 Amcrest cameras IP3M-941b that will point towards each other in a private Peer to Peer configuration. Is this possible with OBS? At present they are working fine in a browser setting with Internet Explorer. I heard that OBS will enhance the chat for my Son and his family whom is over seas. Then of course could someone share with me what the settings will need to be at each camera end? Thank you in advance. TAZZ

 

[koala]

OBS is no chat or voip application. Neither is it a conference call application. It's a streaming client, that means it's one-way. It is probably possible to do something like you want it to do, but there are way better tools than OBS. Why, for example, isn't Skype the chat solution for you? Or Whatsapp video chat?

 

[Tazz]

koala,

Thank you for the reply. Skype doesn't give the quality, nor does WhatsApp. Any other thoughts on a App that would run in the in the back ground that would enhance a video experience that does not go though a Proxy service? Seems to me that OBS would encourage this and make this possible.

 

[Narcogen]

Skype is absolutely capable of delivering very high quality videoconferencing. If it is not doing that for you I presume there are limitations in your setup that would apply to most other solutions as well, including OBS-- which, as koala wrote above, is not intended for this purpose.

OBS is an RTMP streaming app, it doesn't do conferencing or chat at all, and most of the uses for it involve using public services (YouTube, FaceBook, Twitch, Mixer, etc) and not private ones.

 

[koala]

You can do this: You can prepare a machine with OBS on both ends of the communication line, each with a camera. Both stream their video to some streaming service, to separate accounts each. On each location, you grab the stream from the other location and display it on some monitor. This way, in each location you see the camera from the other location.

This is not well suited for realtime, because streaming via rtmp (as OBS does) always involves a certain amount of delay between the recording of a video frame (camera) and the display of this frame when it reaches the client(s) on the other end of the stream (in the other location). It's 5-20 seconds delay. Conference applications like Skype are using streaming protocols with very low latency, so the video is almost realtime. This is something you cannot get with rtmp streaming clients like OBS.

If you transmit the voice over a more direct channel, you will be able to communicate fine, but audio and video will never be in sync. Video will always lag behind for 5-20 seconds.