It's my first time using obs. I want to record the meeting by using obs studio. I used the obs from the mini pc that connected to audio and camera. Using laptop that connected to tv for share screen. Both of them connected to tv. So there's 2 hdmi that connect to tv But the share screen not appear at the record. It just camera and audio. Is there any method or connector device that can record the whole meeting (camera, audio and share screen)?
Record mirroring screen displaying on tv and mini pc using obs
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koala
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Trying to read from your hdmi connected TV doesn't work this way. Data being sent to the TV by one device (your laptop) cannot be read by a different device (your mini pc) also connected to the TV by hdmi. The hdmi cable is just an output. Data can only flow from the PCs to the TV, not from one PC to the TV, and then from the TV to the other PC.
The easiest thing you can do is to use just one PC that does it all, so OBS can capture everything on that machine.
If you must use a separate PC for your TV, you need a hdmi capture device with a hdmi passthrough. Such a usb connected capture device is able to read a hdmi output and provides this like a webcam to a PC. Connect that capture device to your mini pc with USB, and connect the hdmi output of the laptop to the hdmi input of the capture device. This way the hdmi image created by the laptop is available as webcam device in the mini pc. To still have the image on the TV, connect the hdmi passthrough output of the capture device to the TV.
That hdmi passthrough output is optional. If it's sufficient to see the TV video just within OBS on the mini pc, you can go for a cheap capture device without passthrough.
The easiest thing you can do is to use just one PC that does it all, so OBS can capture everything on that machine.
If you must use a separate PC for your TV, you need a hdmi capture device with a hdmi passthrough. Such a usb connected capture device is able to read a hdmi output and provides this like a webcam to a PC. Connect that capture device to your mini pc with USB, and connect the hdmi output of the laptop to the hdmi input of the capture device. This way the hdmi image created by the laptop is available as webcam device in the mini pc. To still have the image on the TV, connect the hdmi passthrough output of the capture device to the TV.
That hdmi passthrough output is optional. If it's sufficient to see the TV video just within OBS on the mini pc, you can go for a cheap capture device without passthrough.