Question / Help Using OBS Studio with Skype Video Chat

[ronlonse]

What's the best way to use OBS Studio for Skype video chat? I tried ManyCam, but it doesn't screen capture per application, but all layers.

 

[TickleMeOzmo]

Meaning OBS as a "camera source" for Skype? Or Skype as a source for OBS?

 

[ronlonse]

OBS Studio as a virtual camera

 

[Simes]

Use OBS to "Project To" a specific screen, and then use Skype screen sharing to share that screen?

 

[ronlonse]

Skype screen sharing does not do what I want. XSplit is the closest app, but uses too much CPU.

 

[Steve Seguin]

So, there are better ways to do this now without Skype or screen-capture. A simple solution is the following:

1. Use the BrowserSource element in OBS (not the screen capture element)
2. Enter the address https://stevesserver.com/obs/view.html?room=123456 (or whatever room ID you want)
3. Set the resolution of the BrowserSource to 640x360 or 1280x720 ( depending on whether you want 1 person or up to 4 people to join the video chat.)
4. Final Step -- share this link https://stevesserver.com/obs/index.html?room=123456 with anyone who you want to join the video call.

Low latency, no screen capture, FREE, and works without Skype. Anyways, I welcome feedback and I'm hoping to have a much more advanced version released soon too (overlays, controls, etc)

*Note, if you are having any sort of high CPU issue, enable webGL support in OBS, but this shouldn't be an issue.

 

[TickleMeOzmo]

Or simply https://appr.tc/

 

[Benman2785]

u can build an own nginx rtmp server
you stream to that and the recipent watches the stream with vlc
and he streams to you over that same server (with differnt streamkey) -> and you watch his stream on vlc

would take 15min of work