Question / Help Using a Raspberry Pi for Cam streaming on twitch?

[solomonyo]

Hiya people.

I'll be soon putting together some things for my pc and was thinking to do a livestream at the same time, which is not gonna work on my main PC since I'm gonna delid my cpu for example, so I was wondering how I could solve this..

I own a Raspberry Pi Model B+ and was wondering if I somehow can put up a stream on that? I only want to stream my webcam. If possible, what do I need to do for this in that case?

Sincerely,
Jimmy.

 

[dodgepong]

Assuming you're asking about running OBS on it? What operating system is running on your RPi?

RPis don't have great processors and I don't think it would stream very well at all.

 

[Cryonic]

Well that would work with Google Hangouts and other stuff that can grab a webcam, but not with OBS.
OBS needs a lot of horsepower under the hood, specially the CPU horsepower is important. Expect it to just eat your CPU alive and drop frames all over the place.

 

[FerretBomb]

Nope. An RPi is a low-power device. Only reason it can even display 1080p video at all is because it has dedicated accellerated hardware decoding; without it, the little SoC couldn't come *close* to playing back a blu-ray. And encoding video is significantly more computationally-heavy than playback.

I'd doubt an RPi would even be able to do 240p on Ultrafast.

 

[gatema]

Hello, i'm trying to compile OBS on my raspberry pi2 with ubuntu mate but it failed in the build steps. Please help me?

 

[Harold]

No. OBS is x86 and x86-64 only. ARM devices are not supported.