The Problem: The most up-to-date version of the installer for Windows seems to not have the RTMP module pre-installed. Yep, something didn’t work out-the-gate so I’m glad to document here the issue and how I resolved it. This was actually the first real problem for me.
Feel free to check out the NGINX Website to see what other applications of the server are available. Note: NGINX can do MUCH more than what this article is describing a solution to. I’m looking forward to trying this out as a way to accept incoming audio/video for a commentator on the next duel. While I haven’t tested it yet, NGINX claims to be able to handle multiple incoming RTMP streams with little overhead. We will use It to listen to the port we’ll specify (1935) for RTMP connections which will allow us the ability to serve up someone else’s stream as a media source in OBS. NGINX is a very light-weight open source multi-language application and web-server.
There are other ways and hopefully we’ll have more articles in the near future that document how to do those with a quick summary at the top of each type’s benefits. As I learn more about this and how to improve upon the process, I’ll document those changes and plan a part 2 in another week or two ? Is This The Only Way To Stream With Other Streamers? I have more duel streams tentatively planned, but this is very early in the process. That night I worked with another streamer ( MPT3k) to test everything and eventually streamed our first duel stream a couple of hours later ( Who’s Tron Will Reign Supreme!?). I only went through the hassle of figuring this all out on while I was stuck in a meeting that I could half-listen to. Quick Note About This Being a Work in Progress I’ll do my best to identify the most likely reasons for something not to work and suggest what to do to resolve… but you may need to figure things out. It’s a multi-step process with many different moving parts that can fail for any number of reasons. Thanks to JediMcMuffin for this wonderful graphic!Īnd this is no small task. The Zoom parts in RED are just for low latency player communications and don’t directly impact the stream