Stream OBS direct to phones in the audience without client software on phones

[Weylin]

Hi all,

I am a bone fide noob at all this so please be gentle. I have search and researched for a method to allow me to send/stream OBS from my laptop direct to phones/tablets in the audience without leaving my internal network. My ideal solution would be to be able to give the audience members a QR code to take them to a url which would allow them to see the OBS stream.

The reason for doing this is that I assist a church in doing their sound and vision desk. We have members of the congregation who are deaf and what I want to do is feed the audio through web captioner in real time and then send that web captioner output to their own phones/tablets to allow them to engage with more of the service. I can get the audio, webcaptioner and OBS to work but can't find a way to stream it on my internal network only. I do not want to stream this to facebook or youtube as it is only useful for those in the church.

This feels like it should be simple but I am really struggling any guides / supports gratefully received.

If it helps to know my abilities, think over-eager amateur who has no external training!

Hope someone can help

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I recommend (if you can) changing your subject line to get a better response. Change the subject line to be more specific

"Stream OBS direct" - would typically imply your OBS Studio composited video, which you are streaming (and hopefully locally Recording)
And please clarify - as I'm guessing you don't want OBS Studio output to got to local deaf audience at all. Right? Or has the audio already been processed (captioned) and you've incorporated that into the OBS as a Source? ie - Are you streaming a video with your own closed captioning? or??

Having local deaf audience watch livestream is an option, with realization of typical livestream delays (15s to 30s/1min)... meaning not ideal IF they can see the live action directly. If in an overflow type room, then a non-issue.
OBS Studio, by default only Streams to a single destination. There are 3rd party plugin options for multi-destination streaming. But your technical wording would imply being a local server, which OBS Studio is NOT. Others have set up such, though, but my recollection was usually on Linux, and realize that for stable/reliable operations, you are looking at a decent level of technical sophistication. And you just significantly increased your computational resource demands

This stuff gets technical quickly, and what you want is NOT easy.. so just beware. First, I'd consider the advanced technical sophistication you have to set this up, operate and inevitably troubleshoot. And you are dealing with video compositing (OBS Studio or similar), mobile clients (probably Android and iOS), and possibly server related software (depending on protocol/transmission connection from client to stream source). And a WiFi network engineer, real-time RF frequency utilization monitoring, etc [unless you are okay with it not working at times and the House of Worship having no idea why, and being unable to troubleshoot, and appearing possibly random].

Basically - no this is NOT going to be simple... by any stretch, that I'm aware of. I have not, but in this case, looking into something like vMix or other pay software (Pro Presenter) which might support what you are looking for?

I'd be inclined to consider
- using OBS Studio Presentation mode output
- having a screen setup for the deaf audience to watch (in Sanctuary, cry/overflow room? depends on congregation), with the closed captioning on it
- As soon as you want in-house WiFi distribution (presumably only of the closed captioning??, not the video, to cut down on bandwidth consumption) things may, or may not work... it depends. Most folks don't really understand the nuances of WiFi, and how easy it is to 'break' and then get frustrated with easily foreseeable (by a WiFi network engineer) 'issues'

 

[Weylin]

First, thank-you for your response and advice. I am glad (kind of) its not simple as it makes me feel better about my intelligence!

I will provide more information on my setup but I think you are right in that it is probably outside my skill set...at least for a while.

Our complete setup involves 2 laptops. The first laptop presents OpenLP to the congregation through a projector, along with a couple of stage views being sent out over wi-fi to various iPads. This first laptop also takes a video stream from the video encoder, puts it through OBS and streams to FaceBook for those at home who wish to watch.

We then have a second laptop which uses vlc player to 'watch' the video encoder. The audio output from vlc is put into the web application Web Captioner, using VB cable. I then take the browser source of web captioner and put it into OBS to present captions. This is where the problem is, I tried last week using the sharing system on web captioner and whilst it worked on tablets, not so great on phones. I have also tried 'space desk' and then used OBS to send the output direct to the 'space desk' monitors but wanted to find a solution that did not require the congregation to download apps.

If this extra information means another solution springs to mind then brilliant, if not thank-you so much for responding and trying to help. I am tempted to buy a raspberry pi and maybe setup a basic media server in church on the raspberry pi and then have members access that but I will need more study on networking first I think!

Thank-you again.

 

[Al Floyd]

Would this work?

https://screentask.me/