I’ve gotten questions like this way too often.
“How can I run OBS on my Xbox?”
“Can I stream my PS4 with OBS without a capture card?”
And I usually give the same answer: NOOOOOooo!
Technology is not magic, even if it seems like it sometimes.
If there is a specialized piece of hardware designed for a specific purpose, you’re
not going to be able to do it without that.
But there is a trick you can do to technically stream your PS4 or Xbox One game footage with
OBS and add alerts and whatnot - but it’s not elegant.
Who.. what..
Orisa, where?
HUH?!
I just see a Rein...
Oh.
Cool.
DUDE will you just get a ModMic already?
It attaches to any headphone so you can use that good pair you like, but I'll actually
be able to understand your call-outs.
It also has a mute switch so I don't have to hear all those conversations with your
grandma.
We gotta get serious to get out of Plat.
Yes, just order one tonight.
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It turns out that no matter how many times I’m asked for a solution to a problem, I’m
much more likely to put together a solution when someone close to me is the one asking.
My Twitch moderator, Dementia, wanted to stream his PS4 but add alerts and such to start diving
into the Twitch PogChat life.
He doesn’t have a capture card, and his PC - the scrap pile gaming rig I could barely
throw together for him to hold him over ‘til he upgrades - is too far away for one anyway.
So what’s the solution?
What I had him do was live stream from his PS4 to YouTube as an unlisted live stream,
then screen cap that live stream on the PC and stream that back to Twitch.
For those of you cringing or adjusting uncomfortably in your seats - yeah, I said it wasn’t elegant.
For this, you will need a beefy internet connection.
10 or more megabits per second upload speed will be required.
The PS4 can’t stream over the local network so it HAS to push out to a service like YouTube
or Twitch, and then the PC is pushing a second stream out.
He set up his YouTube channel connected to his PS4 and set the stream to unlisted.
Start streaming, and gets the link of the stream page.
Then over on the PC, he pulls up the stream page in a browser window.
You want this to be its own window, not just a tab - that way Window Capture can keep hooked
in if you need to do other stuff on the PC.
We set up window capture, turned off his computer speakers so it doesn’t echo the stream throughout
the room, and added the StreamLabs overlays.
You need a beefy internet connection, but not a beefy PC.
This build is an AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition, maybe 8 gigabytes of RAM and a dying GTX 660
graphics card.
Thankfully that card is new enough to still support Nvidia’s Nvenc encoder, which is
basically the only way this streaming experience is possible.
Set up a bitrate of 4 or so megabits per second, making sure not to use any other audio sources
but the system sound - since his microphone and such routes through the original PS4 stream,
and the alerts will come through system sound, and start streaming to Twitch.
This isn’t elegant.
The default PS4 stream quality is already pretty low, and window-capping the copy of
it and re-compressing it doesn’t do it any justice.
There’s even more delay added to this process, and a much bigger desync between when someone
follows or donates and the alerts go off - but if you’re desperate and really want to do
this, you can.
It works.
Since the PC is far away and speakers were turned off to prevent echo, he keeps a laptop
pulled up in front of him with Twitch chat and his StreamLabs alert box so he can keep
up with the chatters and when alerts happen.
Like I said, this won’t be a solution for everyone, but it’s the best I’ve got without
investing in proper streaming setups.
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