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Hi all,
Really long story that I will try to keep short, but I run a sim racing broadcast channel here in New Zealand that streams to YT, twitch, kick and FB Live.
We had previously been using Streamlabs Ultra to multistream this which has worked well but is pricey with it's annual subscription.
vMix looks to have a lot of additional features and a lifetime subscription option which is a massive plus for us, especially when we are non-for-profit.
We already have all our broadcast content set up in StreamLabs with our overlays, transitions etc, and I was really hoping we could simply just output this directly into vMix and essentially use vMix as the multistreaming platform for us.
I have tried setting it up via the Virtual Camera option, but I just get a 'black' input screen in vMix. The StreamLabs virtual camera does show as a live option in vMix when it is running
I have tried setting up as an NDI source but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to output StreamLabs through NDI - seems to only support NDI inputs
I briefly looked into using a 'Mona Server' to use a rtmp input straight into vMix but this was a bit over my head!
Ideally, we will eventually rebuild and run solely in vMix but as we run broadcasts almost daily we do not have the time to fully rebuild everything into vMix
Is it possible to output StreamLabs into vMix ?
Thanks
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If i remember well streamlabs needs extra plugin for NDI. Instead of trying to make mona rtmp server,you can try to send from streamlabs to vmix via SRT directly.
Into vmix go add input-->stream/srt-->stream type-->srt (caller). Hostname pc ip that runs streamlabs and if it is same pc you can put 127.0.0.1 and press ok
Then go to streamlabs -->stream and write something like srt://127.0.0.1:5000?mode=listener or the right ip if is in other pc.
Then in streamlabs press to stream and see if you have video/audio into Vmix
SRT has many other options like latency,etc that you can find in Google
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You're gonna want to just go ahead and learn vMix and make the switch when you can, it will be so much better. Running StreamLabs into vMix and streaming from there is a bit like sitting the the driver's seat of a Ferrari, but the Ferrari is on a tow truck.
You can use the Zoom for vMix plugin and allow the talent to join Zoom instead of Streamlabs, and pull their feeds in that way, but one limitation is only two can share at a time. If a third needs to share, one of the first two needs to stop their screen share first.
But the big advantage is you can talk to them without it going to broadcast, unlike Streamlabs where in order to be heard you have to be on the stage.
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Originally Posted by: knbPixels  You're gonna want to just go ahead and learn vMix and make the switch when you can, it will be so much better. Running StreamLabs into vMix and streaming from there is a bit like sitting the the driver's seat of a Ferrari, but the Ferrari is on a tow truck.
You can use the Zoom for vMix plugin and allow the talent to join Zoom instead of Streamlabs, and pull their feeds in that way, but one limitation is only two can share at a time. If a third needs to share, one of the first two needs to stop their screen share first.
But the big advantage is you can talk to them without it going to broadcast, unlike Streamlabs where in order to be heard you have to be on the stage. Thanks for the response, but to be fair none of your issues we have. We stream iRacing which is a sim racing title, where all the drivers and commentators use a communication app called Discord. We are able to set up individual audio tracks for each user within Streamlabs for Discord, so we can easily have the commentators on broadcast, drivers, interviews etc all with the click of a toggle. We also integrate driver cams for interviews via a program called Video ninja, which is very similar in that we just toggle the 'highlight' of the driver cam we want to be showing on our broadcast. Ideally one day I'd like to think we will eventually rebuild our broadcast ground up entirely on vMix but we don't have the timeframe available to us at present with our current StreamLabs multistream subscription ending next week - if we can get vMix to handle the multistream aspect for us until our season wraps up and we have more time available to really re-develop that would be incredible.
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Originally Posted by: nikosman88 If i remember well streamlabs needs extra plugin for NDI. Instead of trying to make mona rtmp server,you can try to send from streamlabs to vmix via SRT directly.
Into vmix go add input-->stream/srt-->stream type-->srt (caller). Hostname pc ip that runs streamlabs and if it is same pc you can put 127.0.0.1 and press ok
Then go to streamlabs -->stream and write something like srt://127.0.0.1:5000?mode=listener or the right ip if is in other pc.
Then in streamlabs press to stream and see if you have video/audio into Vmix
SRT has many other options like latency,etc that you can find in Google Thanks, I tried to look into SRT but I really couldn't find much information in the way of SRT within streamlabs. The only stream options I have are to stream channels (YT, Twitch etc) or a 'custom ingest server' which requires an RTMP address.
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I tried it and it work. In custom stream instead of rtmp:// you write srt://
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Originally Posted by: nikosman88 I tried it and it work. In custom stream instead of rtmp:// you write srt:// Thanks Niko, I will give it a go!
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Originally Posted by: nikosman88 I tried it and it work. In custom stream instead of rtmp:// you write srt:// Hi Niko, I wasn't able to get this working via StreamLabs but I did manage to get this set up and running through OBS and StreamElements with no issue Thankfully most of our StreamLabs stuff should be able to export into OBS as the systems are very similar, so this should work for us
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Originally Posted by: NZSRC Originally Posted by: nikosman88 I tried it and it work. In custom stream instead of rtmp:// you write srt:// Hi Niko, I wasn't able to get this working via StreamLabs but I did manage to get this set up and running through OBS and StreamElements with no issue Thankfully most of our StreamLabs stuff should be able to export into OBS as the systems are very similar, so this should work for us Cool. Also personally started from OBS and some years now im on Vmix. To be honest Vmix is lot different. You may miss the infinite number of 3rd party plugins that do "crazy" things but in the other hand,vmix stabillity is miles better according to my personal use.
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