Question / Help Two PS4s side-by-side in the same stream?

Baik

New Member
Hello,

I have been looking for a way to do this for a while and it seems like this is the right place to ask. I would greatly appreciate any help offered.

What I plan on doing is have two Playstation 4 consoles broadcast their feeds side-by-side, with facecams in each feed's corner. I saw an older thread in these forums asking for a way to run several Xbox 360 consoles on the same stream, whereby someone can switch between feeds when prompted or at certain time intervals, and an HDMI Matrix is what you guys recommended to them. What I want to do is not run two PS4 streams in an alternating pattern, but simultaneously and next to each other.

From what I've gathered, it seems OBS's "Dual Screen" feature might be able to get this job done, if I manage to somehow hook up the two PS4 consoles (or their screens) to my PC. However, I don't know what sort of gear I would require to do this, or how. I'm willing to pay for any necessary hardware, regardless of cost.

Here are my brief PC specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4910MQ CPU @ 2.90GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M Sli
24GB RAM

My PC doesn't have an HDMI-in port but I have a USB-to-HDMI-in converter I got from Amazon. I also got plenty of HDMI cables and two Samsung TV screens, but that's about it.

What other hardware do I need? And how would you go about getting this done?

Additional: Is there also a way to have voice commentary during the dual streaming described above? I'm asking because I'm not sure where to hook up my mic: either one of the PS4s or the PC itself. There will be two people playing, and they don't mind sharing a mic, but I can't give each one their own mic because they'll be in the same room and we don't want any echoing.

Thank you in advance, and sorry if this was asked before.
 

Baik

New Member
You need a capture card per console you want on screen at the same time.

So I get two capture cards, hook up a PS4 to each one, and then connect each capture card to both a screen and my PC?

EDIT: Pardon me if I sound like a noob; still new to the terminology. I'm asking just to confirm that I got what you mean right.
 

Harold

Active Member
Yes, and you need to make sure the capture cards will play nice in regards to having multiple in the same computer.
 

FerretBomb

Active Member
I'd recommend looking on eBay for a Datapath VisionRGB-E2 (or e2s). Dual channel inputs on one card. Doesn't capture sound, but that can be run in over an analog input (line in) on the motherboard. Probably the cheapest option for two-system capture, plus will do 1080p@60fps capture on each channel. They even play nice with multiple cards in one machine, if you want to expand later.

More expensively, I've heard good things about the Magewell cap cards, and they offer a dual HDMI card that also captures audio.
 

Baik

New Member
Yes, and you need to make sure the capture cards will play nice in regards to having multiple in the same computer.

I'd recommend looking on eBay for a Datapath VisionRGB-E2 (or e2s). Dual channel inputs on one card. Doesn't capture sound, but that can be run in over an analog input (line in) on the motherboard. Probably the cheapest option for two-system capture, plus will do 1080p@60fps capture on each channel. They even play nice with multiple cards in one machine, if you want to expand later.

More expensively, I've heard good things about the Magewell cap cards, and they offer a dual HDMI card that also captures audio.


Thank you, guys. Your advice will help tremendously.
 
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