We have a church that uses OBS to stream to Facebook. I know nothing of the specifics. As is typical of smaller churches, this is handled by a volunteer committee. But I see in an email thread about bandwidth and video resolution, one of the volunteers mentions OBS as doing the encoding.
I can tell you that if they are trying to push a higher video resolution than their upstream bandwidth can support, the symptoms are a little different than someone watching streaming TV. It seems to cause dropped video and/or audio frames. People watching the stream will complain about little glitches rather than buffering, and they may not realize they just need to ask for some additional upstream. At this point if you are dealing with volunteer DIYers, anything can happen. Sounds like Steve is dealing with bigger churches that may have more formal IT people. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 3:32 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OBS appliance Capture card is a PCI or USB box that inputs the HDMI, RCA, whatever OBS is a Windows program that takes that content and throws it to various streaming platforms (Youtube, Twitch, etc). OBS does the encoding. On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM Steve Jones <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Nerds: I have needs to set up some dedicated live streams, mostly churches. Im told OBS is the bees knees. I dont want to build machines, manage OS, any of that nonsense. Im having a hard time identifying if there are dedicated devices for this, like appliance level. I see listed capture cards, but If im understanding these arent the streaming appliance, just the interface to it? One location is a mosque with multiple audio/video streams, so I assume this needs some encoding beef. They stream to multiple platforms/ Im not an audio/video guy, so I dont know anything, I dont mind supporting hardware as long as I dont have to learn the other side of it to nerd degree, and I have no interest in a cobblefucked solution for something i give exactly zero shits about -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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