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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Program to Stream Desktop/Game to Friend?
 
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Col.Kiwi
Dec 28, 2004
And the grave digger puts on the forceps...
One way to potentially avoid the delay from streaming services like Twitch is run your own RTMP server. There are free software options, for example Red5 or Unreal Media Server. So you would run OBS or similar to stream, but instead of streaming to twitch you stream to an RTMP server you are running yourself either on a separate computer or on the same computer. The RTMP feed from the server can be viewed by your friend by opening an rtmp:// link in a video player application such as VLC. I'm not sure if you can get the delay quite as short as you want but it should be a lot shorter than the ~30sec you get with Twitch.

Col.Kiwi fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jun 15, 2017

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Col.Kiwi
Dec 28, 2004
And the grave digger puts on the forceps...

rizuhbull posted:

The issue is that I'm already using OBS to stream to Twitch. A friend of mine showed me how to get Mixer to stream with a 1 second delay, which is amazing, but I can't get virtual audio cable to work so my friend has a constant echo of his own voice while watching the stream. Plus I can't stream to Twitch if I'm streaming to Mixer. Programs like Restream are nice but you can't get the under 1 second latency with Mixer using it. I'd be fine with it if I could get VAC to work but it makes me want to kill myself every time I watch tutorials.
You're not understanding my suggestion. I was saying you can run your own software that does the same thing services like twitch and mixer do, so you don't have to use a service like that. This software is called an RTMP server and in my experience when you run your own RTMP server you can get a stream with an under 1 second delay over LAN. So it'd be higher delay going out over the internet but way lower than the mandatory ~30sec delay twitch imposes.

However if you can get down to 1 second delay with mixer already then the delay isn't actually your problem anymore, your problem is just the audio issue so it sounds like you just need to figure out VAC which is definitely simpler than running an RTMP server.

edit: you could also circumvent the audio echo issue by just having an audio-only skype call going on your phone or tablet to talk with your friend. While your PC is playing the game and streaming to mixer. That way the sound of your friends voice never goes to your PC and so it can't be picked up by the stream. Use an earbud style headset with the phone with only one headphone in. Not as perfect as figuring out a VAC solution but easier.

Col.Kiwi fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jun 17, 2017

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