Dirona - how to set up your stream with OBS

GasBandit

GasBandit

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Here's a good guide for getting that started, though if you have questions about the technical parts of it, feel free to ask.

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You will need to get your RTMP Stream Key from facebook (the above link has a section showing you how to do that) and put it in OBS.

More to come momentarily, I have to switch PCs to look at my OBS setup so I can tell you what else to do...
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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You'll need different "scenes" from the ones you used to do your recording (though keep those for when you do recordings later).

Set up a new scene and call it "stream live" and add your webcam to it as a source. Make it all look like you want it to look in the preview, then "lock" the webcam in the sources list so you don't accidentally move it around anymore.

Get VLC 64 bit here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

This is a media player for playing video and audio files. The nice thing about it is that it also has hooks for using in OBS.

Once you install VLC 64, close and re-open OBS (if you had it open), then make a new scene and call it "Play video".

Add "VLC Video Source" into the empty source list. Add the videos you want to play into its "playlist," and decide what you want the player to do when you don't have this scene loaded (Stop, then restart from the beginning, or pause and resume). Then set up the scene with how you want it to look (IE, make the video that should now be playing as taking up the whole window, probably).

So now, how basically this will work, is you start off on "Stream Live" and it works like you are used to... then when you're ready to play the video, you switch the scene to "Play video" and what's in the preview window there will go out over your stream instead of your webcam feed. It will play through all the videos in your playlist, so if you have more than 1, that will work. Then, when you are done with those videos, click "Stream Live" again to resume normal webcam broadcasting.

You can do a dry run with all this in OBS without actually streaming it. You won't be streaming unless you set up the RTMP and then click "Start Streaming." You could even prerecord a stream this way by hitting "Start Recording" instead of "Start Streaming" and then upload that to youtube or something.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Just as an FYI for anyone else who wants to do OBS, it is officially available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ubuntu officially, many others unofficially), so you should be covered no matter which flavor of OS you run.

--Patrick
 
Dirona

Dirona

Second question - If I were to pre-record a few things and wanted to splice them together without streaming - just mash a few videos together, would this be the software for that, or is there another option out there that I don't know about?
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Dirona said:
Second question - If I were to pre-record a few things and wanted to splice them together without streaming - just mash a few videos together, would this be the software for that, or is there another option out there that I don't know about?
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I'd just use windows movie maker for that. (Well, *I'd* use premiere, but you probably haven't purchased that and WMM is still free even if you have to download it separately now)
 
Dirona

Dirona

GasBandit said:
I'd just use windows movie maker for that. (Well, *I'd* use premiere, but you probably haven't purchased that and WMM is still free even if you have to download it separately now)
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Thanks Gas. I figured that was the tool to use (and had looked on the app store unsucessfully!), but wanted to check with the experts.

Thanks to you both! You're helping me look more competent than I am!
 
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