Question / Help Question from a new and stupid person

[seanayb]

Hello, streaming people. The community theater I work with is trying to do an online Cabaret of sorts, with multiple hosts putting on a live show (broadcasted to YouTube) during which they banter back and forth and play videos submitted by regular cast members.

The extent of our knowledge of OBS and streaming in general (other than using something really simple like StreamYard) is summed up thusly:

1) input the stream key from YouTube studio into OBS
2) set up a few "scenes" that are media sources for things you want to play
3) start streaming on OBS, then start streaming on YouTube studio

Obviously that'll work fine with one host, but how can I get two different hosts from two different locations to interact in real-time and stream that back-and-forth (plus intermittent videos selected by a host) to YouTube? Thanks for your help!

--SB

 

[Narcogen]

You need other software for that.

Either you need to set up videoconferencing between your participants (zoom, webex, google hangouts, skype, facetime, whatever) and use that as your source in OBS, or

Everyone streams independently to their own platforms (youtube, twitch, mixer, whatever) and you add those as browser sources.

OBS is not a videoconferencing app. It can broadcast content from a videoconferencing app, but it by itself will not link up video feeds from remote participants.

 

[seanayb]

You need other software for that.

Either you need to set up videoconferencing between your participants (zoom, webex, google hangouts, skype, facetime, whatever) and use that as your source in OBS, or

Everyone streams independently to their own platforms (youtube, twitch, mixer, whatever) and you add those as browser sources.

OBS is not a videoconferencing app. It can broadcast content from a videoconferencing app, but it by itself will not link up video feeds from remote participants.

Thank you for the reply. So how would I set it up to use zoom as my source? Again, I'm pretty dumb at this. Would the Zoom meeting be one of my "scenes" and the videos be other scenes?