depending on the thickness of the bearing wall and the distance Accson may not be able to get a signal through either.
I am streaming from a different room without bearing walls and i get some choppiness once in a while.
We are planning another room across thick concrete walls and i will have to think about some kind of hard wired solution.
Thanks singleballplay
Is your setup wireless? I have a mesh network with devices in all three room, so a solution with that network could maybe work?
We are in a basement with thick walls
Got to thinking; is there any way to put like a relay station to forward the signal even with obstructed view?
Thick walls are hard on the transmission. Our rig gets a clean feed from over 150 yards away, outside with clear line of sight. It gets 15-30 yards through walls, depending on the construction of the wall.
Some people use a wired rig, with the laptop right on the rig. This limits the production you can do in realtime (telestrating, replays, etc), but ensures you always have a clean feed and with a remote monitor and microphone(s) it still makes for a good stream. It saves a lot of money and avoids all the pitfalls that naturally come with the complexity of wireless (and you can use webcams). Check out RLMAmusmentās Thursday night tournaments on Twitch for an example of this in action.
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If you buy into Accsoon you can buy multiple receivers for your multi-viewer transmitter. Put the receivers in strategic areas and run long HDMI cables to your booth. Use a cheap HDMI input switcher and simply use the receiver with less lag/choppiness.
Another solution is to get the Magewell Director Mini that @reclaimarcade is using. That hooks up to your existing WiFi mesh.
As for using USB cameras, I strongly discourage touching them, but as a FYI, there are multiple UVC to HDMI āadaptersā in the market.
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I was thinking more of taking a cheaper transmitter to use in the same way, but that is a smart solution.
The Magewell looks like a good solution, but way too pricey for me.
Yes. I use a dedicated wifi router for the rigs (can support multiple) and hardwire that to my laptop. Iām playing around shortly with a hotspot wifi router that has wifi 6 and cell capability (gl.inet spitz ax). The key is to keep only the video traffic on that network, no players or other stuff.
Amazing!
So if i get this right; You are using webcams that go into an usb hub.From that it connects to the rasberry which sends the signal to the wireless network. From there straight in to the computer via its network card and in OBS you can separate the different sources?
How would one program the Pi for something like this?
Is this not the cheapest way to stream pinball?
Thatās the gist. Itās been a side project for a while with the idea of cheap streaming options.
I have an open source project with all of the code and host a zip file on google drive that you can download and flash to an SD card and plug into the Pi.
Thereās a catch though that I have mostly designed the software around Linux and its capabilities and the requirements for Windows are a bit fiddly (requires a few additional installs). It will work on Windows but can take a bit of work to get going. So itās not as user friendly as it could be. If youāre interested Iām more than happy to help though.
hmmm so i could be 3 additional receiver, put those in my new room inside concrete wall and run long hdmi/active hdmi/fiber hdmi cables (being 100-150ā away)back to my stream station where i could use HDMI input switcher depending on which is betterā¦ I may just do that.
Iāve seen solutions where you basically have a tripod with a wheelbase and tall extension rod where you put your receivers. From that ārolling towerā you have your active HDMI cables feeding the booth. This was Monoprice era stuff though but the trick still applies.
Is 30 fps totally out of question? Otherwise there are a couple of options, like the Mevo.
I saw an earlier post from Dri, but that video is no longer available.
Are there any pinball streamers that use 30 fps so i can see what it looks like?
Pretty sure this is 30 fps
If you want to get the best out of 30 fps, make sure there is plenty of light on the game and drop the exposure settings a bit.
Iāve done stuff with vanilla OBS and switched to Streamlabs because I liked some of the features but with our new setup and streaming regularly now the commentators wanted a telestrator and Streamlabs doesnāt support it. I switched to Xsplit and I donāt hate the software but Iām 2 streams in now where the software has completely crashed on me which makes me think I need to jump ship and figure something else out. For those that use some type of whiteboard/telestrator option what software or hardware are you using? And sidenote anyone using Xsplit have these issues with the software just locking up? I have a beefy gaming PC so I donāt think itās the specs here.
No, many of us watched 720p30 streams for years before 1080p60 became the standard. But as chuckwurt said, lighting is very important and low exposure as well.
Movies and tv shows are usually not 60fps and they look fine. What youāll notice is a bit more motion blur of the ball since itās shiny and travels fast. So you wonāt get the clear smooth look of something like Karlās stream, but a nice 30fps stream is more enjoyable than no stream at all.
30 FPS is most noticeable and detrimental on modern sterns, where the ball is moving much faster than the firepower example above. this looks to be an example of 30FPS on BKSOR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykrPqopriFA
Iāve been following this thread on and off for a while so Iāve seen lots of discussion about wireless HDMI transmitters but Iāve been kind of out of the loop lately.
Would someone be able to fill me in on which transmitters are the currently accepted best options for someone looking to jump into the wireless world?
I think the Accsoon ones are the go to standard at the moment.
This is the streamer that uses the Mevo cams: https://www.twitch.tv/maryleemaryleemarylee (I confirmed itās 30FPS on their last VOD).