OBS Studio Tutorial: Two PC Streaming Without a Capture Card

This guide shows you how to use RTMP protocol to send video/audio to your stream PC or laptop from your gaming PC.

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[joshoowa]

2:04 in case anyone is wondering when the tutorial starts

[Jason_Stephens]

Excellent tutorial but if you must encode video using OBS on your gaming rig what is the benefit of this configuration? You are still using the same amount of processing encoding to Twitch as you would encoding via RTMP to a stream rig. Basically, this configuration encodes the video twice, first on the gaming PC then on the streaming PC. Personally, my wife and I use a similar configuration to dual stream to a single twitch channel. The only difference is we use an AWS VM server to combine then push out to Twitch. What I really come here for is to ask, do you know of a way to stream the camera and the rest of the video separately? For instance, two separate RTMP streams from one computer. I've toyed around with running two instances or OBS with one capturing the cam and the other capturing gameplay, but I've had no luck in making it work properly. Thanks for any help you could provide.

[tylerrichardson]

Awesome video! Thank you!The link for NGINX is dead. Do you have another one?

[KadargoGaming]

Man I came to tell you, thanks so much, my streamings looks like bluray now, for not to say 4k. You are the best man. People like you do care about the streaming keep going . And how you explain it, damn!, way much better than a teacher. Once and again, thank you man. I feel like i`m debt with you.

[ninbroken]

Awesome video! Definitely rewatching a few times.

[WaRSPiRiTUK]

you kinda missed the part where 2.:16 starts on your streaming PC, I did all that stuff on my gaming PC and later in the video yuo said that part was on the streaming PC. xD

[Virtualvideos]

Thanks for this video.


If someone still getting "failed connection" then try:
Join a HomeGroup on your primary internet connection in order to allow a connection from the streaming pc to the gaming PC!
I had same issue until i created a homegroup. now everything works well.
I did also allowed OBS in firewall, you need to add manually.
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Defender Firewall< click on Allow an app or feature...< click on Change settings < click on Allow another app < browser < C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio\bin\64bit (if have have installed obs on C drive)
Make sure you allowing on private and public.

Cheers

[rstvproductions]

Works a treat. Thanks for showing us how to set this up.

[SimDude]

Great video. One issue I am having is that I get a "Failed to connect to server" error on my stream rig when I click the "Start Streaming" button in OBS Studio. I verified the IP and it's set to: 192.168.1.111 and the output is set to: rtmp://192.168.1.111/live and I have the stream key set.

[mohabsawah]

smartest man ever alive?but for real bro thanks

[BarbaDinos]

i am getting on my gaming pc OBS "Failed to connect to server" . Any ideas? everything is triple checked and i went through all the comments below to make sure i didnt miss anything. VLC says "VLC is unable to open MRL Check log for details.

gaming and streaming pc both connected via Nighthawk router.

[ArmadilloManiac]

Great tutorial. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort. I learned a lot. That Gaming lap top now gets some good use when I'm not on the road.
Subbed.

[pedrofidalgo]

This just makes 2 stream PC useless, since you are still saturating the gaming PC with OBs streaming to a Server anyways...

[Iordo]

Nice idea! despite having a proper capture card, i was struggling with capturing gysnced gameplays as you know, ndi tools disable gsync...
so i was trying to use an extra obs on the gaming pc, projecting to the secondary display via hdmi then to capture card but frame drops were annoying. setting both gsync display and secondary display to 60hz and cloning was not good either due to windows not properly cloning a gsync to a fixed refresh rate...

i think i will try this and i am sure gsync will work as i already know having an obs in the systray does not affect gsync. One thing i am concerned about is overloading the gpu on gaming pc by using gsync and letting it go wild (60+ fps) i will first beging by limiting gpu to 60 fps so that there is always headroom for the obs to send the rmtp.


I am wondering, (since this is an old video) do we still need an NGINX server app running ? i feel like obs (on gaming pc) can stream to custom server and media source (on the streaming pc can receive it without any extra apps). will see but in the mean time i am eager to hear your input about all this.

Cheers

[saschah]

is there a way that my friend can stream to the server so i can capture his gameplay and my

[davidnelson]

I had it working to test briefly, but now I get a "cannot connect to server" error when I start streaming. I was only testing to the VLC player, which of course can't find it either.

[gabrielcastlebary]

THANK YOU! Great video! Extremely useful.

[JayLGuitar]

Great tuto! thank you!
Do you have any idea on how to know the latency of the stream. I don't really mind it as I use OBS primarly to record, but I'd like to access to a precise latency value to compensate it in post prod

[skemise]

can i do this without a wifi adapter on my gaming rig?

[tylerrichardson]

@The Frugal Streamer  the link for NGINX is dead. Do you have another?