Question / Help Send raw feed directly to VPS with no encoding?

[tlfxxx]

Hi,

I have an Ubuntu VPS (64GB RAM, Intel Xeon E3-1275, 1gbps Up+Down). Is it possible for me to just send the stream from my Elgato capture card on my local machine directly to the VPS with no transcoding to then get the VPS to do all the work?

Ideally I would like to use a better preset (Hopefully medium streaming at 720p 60fps) to reduce motion blur and ensure the quality of stream is high but can't as my local setup is lacking oomph

This would also reduce load on my local machine.

I'm on a 35mbps upload at home so shouldn't have an issue pushing the raw feed somewhere bandwidth wise.

Many thanks for reading.

 

[Tarumes]

possible yes but recommended no

 

[tlfxxx]

possible yes but recommended no

What’s the reasoning behind this?

 

[Tarumes]

if your upload is realy capable of taking a continnous high load then yes give it a try
but if your connection get unstable result is a fragmented video

 

[tlfxxx]

if your upload is realy capable of taking a continnous high load then yes give it a try
but if your connection get unstable result is a fragmented video

Yeah, I mean it is.

My question is how would I do it?

 

[Tarumes]

Set Rate Control to CBR
Bitrate to your max desired upload
Preset to something between ultrafast and fast

this will still encode your output but the cpu impact is low

 

[tlfxxx]

Set Rate Control to CBR
Bitrate to your max desired upload
Preset to something between ultrafast and fast

this will still encode your output but the cpu impact is low

And then on the VPS I guess take the RTMP location and re-encode using ffmpeg to hls or just add the RTMP location as a source?

 

[Tarumes]

you can install nginx-rtmp and set up

Directives

NGINX-based Media Streaming Server. Contribute to arut/nginx-rtmp-module development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

so stream is reencoded and pushed to new source
or push directly to source if supported by your service (twitch i think have a max bitrate)

 

[tlfxxx]

you can install nginx-rtmp and set up

Directives

NGINX-based Media Streaming Server. Contribute to arut/nginx-rtmp-module development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

so stream is reencoded and pushed to new source
or push directly to source if supported by your service (twitch i think have a max bitrate)

I'm currently using OSSRS on the VPS, tried to use nGinx but had a few issues. I'll try and follow one of the guides.