Question / Help Streaming Multiple PCs from One Device

[hexidecimal]

Hello! I've looked around online and here on the forums as well and haven't found an answer to if this is possible with OBS or not.

A group I game with does charity event LAN parties, and like to have a room cam up, as well as the personal gameplay of whoever is "hosting" that block of time in the event.

We've done this before pretty successfully with XSplit Pro and their Local Streaming option. One PC acts as a "server" and broadcasts out to our twitch channel.

Then each participant select local stream and is given a unique ID which we can add as a brodcast source in the XSplit source list. Then we can arrange the window however we want in the app. It's excellent for things like displaying what two players are seeing on one channel.

The thing is, it's about all XSplit is good for and we'd prefer to use OBS. The lower system impact and overall better usability of the app makes us not want to go back. Not to mention the fact that you have to be a Pro XSplit user for the local streaming function.

I know OBS can output to a custom server, but is there a way to setup something like I'm describing?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

 

[dodgepong]

Not with OBS alone. You'd have to set up an RTMP server (like crtmpserver, Red5, nginx with RTMP module, Wowza, etc.) and then have a program that can play back RTMP streams that you can capture with OBS, such as vMix (http://vmix.com.au). It is certainly more complicated, but possible.

 

[Lain]

I have an RTMP server thing written into the application, but it's basically not in use. I'll put it back in.

 

[hexidecimal]

I have an RTMP server thing written into the application, but it's basically not in use. I'll put it back in.

Sorry to perform thread necromancy here, but I thought it better than starting a whole new thread. Has there been any progress on this Jim? Our website is starting the planning phases of another LAN Party and wanted to know if it might be a feature that's available sometime soon.

Thanks.

 

[Lain]

There is an issue with the (currently taken out) server code currently - the server code doesn't properly perform frame dropping, so data can get backed up. I have to put in some form of frame drop code into it for each connection.

 

[Cortexian]

I would like to see something like this as well in the future. I often do some live streams with multiple other members and we would like to be able to switch between views.

I think the best way to set this up would be to allow other OBS users to stream directly to someone using OBS as a server. The person running the server can then manage which content is being shown. Would be great to have this all in OBS instead of having to use OBS plus two or three other applications.

 

[Travler_III]

heya, i was wondering if this is still an issue?
I'm planning on making a stream room with 4 pc to 1 server.

 

[Jack0r]

I would recommend to use nginx at the moment.