Question / Help RTMP & NDI mobile phone streaming issues

[Jwin970]

I’m doing an irl stream renovating a house and when I need to go outside to cut pieces of wood I want to use my phone to follow outside.

I tried to solve the issue by casting to an rtmp server using my phone than in OBS I’m adding a VLC video source and add in url of my rtmp.

When it loads it just shows a still image of whatever my camera was looking at but thats it... if I reload than it’ll do it again.

It only picks up a still image of what my phone is pointing at whenever OBS picks up the source or restarts it.

How can I fix this

I tried 2 different rtmp servers and 2 different ways of pushing my videos to the rtmp server... both have same issues so I’m thinking it has something to do with my OBS config?

 

[Tomasz Góral]

Your phone send data to local server ?
NDI no need server only local network.
VLC video source is not best solution for live, use media source (but some times i lost sound).

You can use VLC to test sended video.

 

[koala]

There may be an alternative to relaying the phone video over a rtmp server. With a rtmp server, you probably experience many seconds long delay of the video. There are many smartphone apps that "turn your smartphone camera into a webcam". A very sophisticated app for Android I used in the past is "IP Webcam" - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam - you can connect to its video stream from OBS with media source or vlc media source. There is also a paid version without ads.