Question / Help Streaming to multiple sites at once?

[totalcereal]

With the recent Twitch issues, I've experimented with hitbox.tv a bit and I really like the site a lot. However, already having an established following on Twitch, very few of my viewers would know if I were casting on Twitch. My solution would theoretically be to have two instances of OBS running at once. One would be broadcasting to my Twitch channel advertising to my followers that I'm casting at hitbox, and the other would be running the hitbox stream.

My question is is there some was to do this without using two instances of OBS?

 

[Floatingthru]

Most people including myself will use NGINX to stream to multiple locations at once assuming you have the upload bandwidth for it. dodgepong wrote a nice guide on it on the forums -> viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2651. Ask in that thread or join the OBS irc channel if you need help with it.

 

[Krazy]

Not currently, unless you use the method Floatingthru described. It will be possible natively after the rewrite is finished.

 

[FerretBomb]

Just a word of caution, if all you were streaming to Twitch was an ad for your Hitbox stream (as it appears you're planning to do from your original post), if a Twitch Admin noticed it, your account would be banned. Using their service to advertise a competing service is a no-no, likewise streaming anything other than gaming content.

Better idea to just let your viewers know you'll be making the switch; use whatever social media you like.

In the meantime though, if you REALLY want to, you can use the -multi switch when launching OBS to allow yourself to run two instances. You'd set up one with an image doing whatever ad you were going to do, leave that copy mic/system muted, and stream to Twitch at a very low bitrate. If it was a static image, it wouldn't eat much (maybe 100kbps) and could be sent at a very low resolution (240p?) just to get the idea across.
Then on the other one, set it to stream to Hitbox (using Profiles could be handy here!) and stream your game as usual.

If you were trying to simulcast the full game video to both sites, the above advice by Floatingthru and Krazy would apply.