rtsp-simple-server VS obs-rtspserver

If you want to stream your webcam as an H264 encoded rtsp stream, it can be done with either rtsp-simple-server or V4l2rtspserver And it is possible to stream a linux desktop (and any program that might be open, like your web browser with the gcode viewer running on it) with the V4l2Loopback device and either of the two prgrams above. It is quite an involved process, but it is do-able.

rtsp-simple-server

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I've tried using ffmpeg and rtsp simple server:

Ok, you need a NAS or their Cloud, a simple USB drive won't do it. The important thing is you need the receiving device to offer a transfer protocol named 'RTSP'. Modern Synology, QNAP, and MyCloud (by WD) devices support RTSP, although different methods to connect. Eufy Cloud would be the easiest method, next is Synology NAS is simple to setup with Eufy instruction, but since you have some hardware you can run things like this: https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server but obviously that will take more time and effort.

Very cool - going to try this out later. I had something similar on my todo list, but figured I would use: https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server

I had a nightmare setting this up for my streams. I ended up going with rtsp-simple-server as it seems to work a little quicker and is much better documented. There is an option to toggle between always having a stream "live" or stop when there are no viewers

Here is one example that I found (there are more). https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server

Then get the OBS rtsp plugin on github (https://github.com/iamscottxu/obs-rtspserver/releases) and install this too. You can access it through the tools tab in UBS and configure it to send out the OBS picture through an rtsp stream.

I haven’t done it but all you should need to do is setup OBS to stream to a RTSP and tweak OctoPrint to see it.

Ah. Well, there's this version luckily: https://github.com/iamscottxu/obs-rtspserver/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta3

Also, an alternative that might be useful if you do want to watch some sort of video (or if Krfb likes to crash after a while) is to use OBS to create a virtual screen and adding the RTSP server plugin to it, you can then use VLC to connect to the stream, although there will likely be a significant amount of latency (1-2 seconds in my case) with that option.

just found out about this, something like this is probably what you'd be looking for https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-rtspserver.1037/

You could try this https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-rtspserver.1037/

Alternately it looks like there's a plugin for OBS to publish rtsp streams. It's overkill but would work.

I have a project where I need to stream gameplay from several computers to a couple of Yodecks, which are basically just digital signage Raspberry Pi's. The Yodeck software uses Streamlink as it's backend for streaming video. Everything is on the same local network. I've tried using the RTSP server plugin, and while it technically works, the quality is terrible and it freezes constantly. Streaming from OBS to Twitch, and then having the Yodeck grab the Twitch stream works with only a few seconds lag (acceptable), but I'd prefer not to have the video leave the network since I'm not sure how good our actual bandwidth will be on site during the event.