How can I stream using OBS to a local server which can convert the stream into a file?

Question

As stated above, I would like to stream to my lan server using OBS (open broadcaster software)

In OBS there is a "save to file" option but the quality can be quite low and take up a lot resources on the computer. I have a file server I use for just about everything with a decent CPU and plenty of storage space.

I'm trying to find some software which can convert the stream from my client computer to a file on the server, so all the rendering is done on the server rather than my computer. This will free up a lot of resources on the client computer.

My client computer is running windows 8.1 and my server is running windows server 2012 r2. I am able to use Ubuntu on the server too but I would rather use windows as everything is already setup.

Answer 1

I found this really nice tutorial on how to do this with Ubuntu.

Here's the link: http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2651

All you have to do is download and compile nginx with it's RTMP module. You can then setup a simple configuration to do whatever you want, e.g: save the stream, forward it to other people, forward it to twitch etc.

I have tested stream forwarding and saving the streams to a disk and it works extremely well. The only downside is you have to compile nginx yourself but on Linux it's not really a big deal.