liveStreaming from One pc to another over LAN for twitch

[thomas harding]

i Have 2 pc's and hate the lag and frame drops a i get from playing and strreaming at the same time.

i have a 4thgen i3 system with 1gig networking

im looking for a way for me to ofload all the work to my other machine without a graphics car

[thomas harding]

1 minute ago, quakeguy81 said:

Wut?  Get a Steam Link (discontinued) or RPi and Steam Link app.

my bad its for streaming to twitch

 

[Skiiwee29]

Just now, thomas harding said:

my bad its for streaming to twitch

 

You could setup an NDI link. http://streamersquare.com/ndi-guide-for-dual-pc-streaming/

[Kisai]

On 5/5/2019 at 9:54 PM, thomas harding said:

i Have 2 pc's and hate the lag and frame drops a i get from playing and strreaming at the same time.

i have a 4thgen i3 system with 1gig networking

im looking for a way for me to ofload all the work to my other machine without a graphics car

There's more than one way to do this, but the ideal situation requires two PC's with two network interfaces (that aren't WiFi)

 

I've personally done this using a PC and a Mac Mini using nginx rtmp. your mileage will vary. USB capture cards are inherently, awful. But HDMI capture cards tend to have their own issues. The NDI route mentioned in the thread is probably the better option without resorting to relay-streaming. The nginx-rtmp is a relay streaming method basically has you stream your PC's capture at like 50mbps, but not to disk, to another machine to save it to disk and compress it to 3mbps to stream to twitch.

 

The only way you really avoid lag and frame drops however is by not having your gaming PC do the capture in the first place, and instead split the HDMI output or use "clone" mode on the PC using the GPU's additional output options. Obviously with a PS4/PS3/Xbox One/Xbox360/WiiU/Switch you'd have to use a HDMI splitter instead. The second machine should have a "capable" GPU, but you can use quicksync too (quicksync is kinda bad on 4th gen Intel iGPU's though.)