Hi all!

I want to explore the most efficient way of receiving feeds, mixing them in Izzy, then streaming them out (to YouTube, Twitch, FB Live, and/or all the rest).

I got it working in April, but it felt like a lot of unnecessary processing AND (the major hiccup for me) I couldn't get more than 1 feed in full res (needing to crop as I added people).  My basic setup in April for a live performance was this:

Dancer A: feed via Skype (enabled NDI) > Izzy via NDI actor

Musician A: feed via their channel on Twitch > OBS Instance 1 (window capture) > Izzy via NDI actor

Local Dancer B (me): Sony A6000 via elGato video capture > Izzy

Sent out via STAGE and NDI

OBS Instance 2 > NDI plugin > FB Live

It worked and there were no hiccups, but running 2 instances of OBS was a window hog and I feel like routing so much could have been more simple. Ideally, I could grab each performers feed directly into Izzy and then sent the mix out via Spout through OBS. Trick is the method of grabbing those feeds directly. Of course I could just use SKype, but the performers (I found) weren't used to Skype and getting them to download the app, setting it up, etc. put a drag on our rehearsal time.

I'm looking at OBS Ninja at the moment and I seem to be able to grab solo feeds via a simple URL below each person in the room. I'm excited about this as it gives me full resolution, independent feeds with no watermark (as is true with Skype)!  I /could/ paste each feed into a browser and send to Izzy via window capture, sure. But should there be a way of grabbing directly from the URL (mitigating the need for resizing browser windows taking up real estate on my control screen)? I do have an external monitor, but would like to use that for the ultimate "out" in full screen, or at least the OBS window.

Any other workflows to suggest here?

@liminal_andy said:

 Please be sure to not exceed 6 mb/s if you use Twitch. Good idea though if that is an option for distribution 

 That's right. I was streaming via Atem mini pro using high quality setting. I love the flexibility/functionality/accessibility of OBS but have found that, for demanding patches, software streaming can be tough on CPU

@Fred said:

sorry I thought I added the link

 I edited your post to include the link so now we have it twice 

Thanks for all your help. It all went very quick and dirty, but we avoided direct life streams which made it much easier and more structured to manipulate the videos before streaming... Best wishes to all of you!

@videosmith Thanks a lot for all the details ! 

Best,

Maxi

@mc_monte Has been doing a bunch of tricky things with streaming video with synched audio and may have some insight.