Dual PC's questions

[PcBeExpensive]

I have a question. How to people use different PC's to stream stuff they are doing on another PC? Also how do duel pc systems work together?

[Spotty]

For game streaming specifically; The primary PC is the PC that the game is being played on. The second PC has a capture card that takes the display signal from the first PC captures the display output and processes the stream and handles the encoding. Using a 2nd PC is so that the first PC isn't slowed down by the stream encoding and allows them to use higher quality encoding settings.

For most people a single PC and using NVENC GPU encoding is fine without slowing down the system much, and with faster and high core count CPUs even CPU encoding is manageable on a single PC these days with very fast encoding settings without a significant performance impact.

[PcBeExpensive]

15 minutes ago, Spotty said:

For game streaming specifically; The primary PC is the PC that the game is being played on. The second PC has a capture card that takes the display signal from the first PC captures the display output and processes the stream and handles the encoding. Using a 2nd PC is so that the first PC isn't slowed down by the stream encoding and allows them to use higher quality encoding settings.

For most people a single PC and using NVENC GPU encoding is fine without slowing down the system much, and with faster and high core count CPUs even CPU encoding is manageable on a single PC these days with very fast encoding settings without a significant performance impact.

So how does the capture card get what the other pc is outputting?

[Spotty]

Just now, PcBeExpensive said:

So how does the capture card get what the other pc is outputting?

You plug the HDMI cable from the first PC in to the capture card and it captures the display output.

[PcBeExpensive]

Just now, Spotty said:

You plug the HDMI cable from the first PC in to the capture card and it captures the display output.

ok, and then do you connect a HDMI cable to a second PC and a monitor?

[PcBeExpensive]

20 minutes ago, TechlessBro said:

It sits in between the gaming pc and the screen.

capture cards have hdmi in from gaming pc and hdmi out to screen of gaming pc.

 

the streaming pc has the capture card which shows up the same way a webcam does as a video input.

your run OBS on the streaming pc and then add the captured video source and that does the streaming.

capture cards are real-time video so live action is passed through with only a few milliseconds delay.

ok thanks.