Question / Help Using Multiple Live Video Streams

[JezRussell]

Hi - I am hoping that there will be a (simple) way of receiving multiple live video streams as media sources and switching between them?

This is probably really basic stuff, but this area is not my forte.

For instance, if you had 3 or 4 performers in different locations and you wanted to give the impression that they were all playing at the same gig, how would they need to send their individual video streams? Would they download OBS and stream themselves to a specific URL that we could then use as a media source?

https://obsproject.com/logs/lC4LP2Q04Z_8GBfA

 

[koala]

This is actually a quite difficult challenge with no standard or established setup. Especially if you want your remote performers appear to play together. Transmitting ordinary video has a big latency of a few seconds. You need everyone having the same latency, if their actions should appear simultaneously.
Of course you can let them all do their own private solo stream, and someone pulls all their streams as multiple sources and makes a composite stream out of it. But the delay would be different between all of them, and it would be a huge delay. If you add the music they are supposed to be playing, it would be 10-20 seconds later than the actual fact.

Skype is a common app to transmit multiple videos from multiple remote participants, but the image quality is limited.

 

[JezRussell]

Hi Koala - many thanks for you answer. When I say play the same gig, I mean one after the next as opposed to simultaneously.

So there would be 4 individuals performing one after the next - I'm not trying to make them seem to be together on stage (I hope that makes sense?)

So its just a case of whether it is possible to mix between multiple live streams, and if so, how to go about it? I have used skype for conferencing, but what is being planned here is more of an event that we will want to be able to share widely and have people join the stream on Youtube/FB beyond our existing contacts.

Any further advice will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Jez

 

[Dihelson]

Hi Koala - many thanks for you answer. When I say play the same gig, I mean one after the next as opposed to simultaneously.

So there would be 4 individuals performing one after the next - I'm not trying to make them seem to be together on stage (I hope that makes sense?)

So its just a case of whether it is possible to mix between multiple live streams, and if so, how to go about it? I have used skype for conferencing, but what is being planned here is more of an event that we will want to be able to share widely and have people join the stream on Youtube/FB beyond our existing contacts.

Any further advice will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Jez

They could install OBS and broadcast to their own channel on YouTube, setting for list only mode. Each one would give you a link to their broadcast. With these links, you put in your OBS as a source, a common browser source. You could create a different scene for each one, so you can switch their performances live, but be aware that it's only live, they can't play simultaneously.

Good luck.

 

[konsert]

Hi Jez have youcome up with a solution for this yet? I know of a few people trying to find one. Streamyard seems to offer a solution but their set up is direct via them to Facebook/Youtube, and in my experience so far they dont offer multiple camera options or good sound quality, though i may not have tested the technical depths of Streamyard's sound quality

 

[Sketaful]

Use discord and have them use their webcam there and/or stream the game there. Choose to view the streams in separate window from discord and in obs choose to add specific window and choose the one with the stream from discord.

If you want it to be kinda like an intervju this works perfectly for multiple webcam since you only need one extra window for the cams and they'll switch by themself showing the person talking. Using this together with capturing the sound from discord make every video perfectly synced to the one speaking.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I'm guessing you are thinking more performance theater?
There are tools like OBS.ninja and others for sending a live video stream and then using OBS to compile
The challenge is if the remote participants need to hear each other? Why challenge is if remote user has speaker with other's audio, you can easily get a feedback loop. Which is why you often seen folks using earpieces so their microphone won't pick up remote audio