OBS already exists and it works great. No point in re-inventing that and adding it to Plex. However what would be AMAZING is if Plex could be the Stream feed HOST. So that my users can click on a category and watch me streaming games etc live. And then see past streams in that library.
Basically when OBS lets you set Twitch, Youtube etc as a host, would be nice to choose other. Put the IP of Plex in and auth it. Then users show when you’re live etc within Plex. A Public share optional link to the stream would be a nice edition as well for those that dont want or have a plex account and / or arent part of your server.
Its helpful for streamers that dont want to be on a public platform but just want to host stuff for their friends and family etc.
I’m curious, what would constitute you being “live” within Plex? Would this just be you watching any content? Related: What would be a “past stream” in that library (in the context of this request)?
If I load up OBS and start playing something. Click Start Stream. Since its linked to Twitch, it shows my channel on Twitch live and broadcasts my stream to whoever is on my channel.
Same thing on Plex. If I load up OBS, Play a game, click start stream > the next part would be users being able to watch the stream through my Plex server - So a Separate Pinned Section on the left for “Streams”.
Admin could “Add a Stream” > Give it a Name and then generate a stream key for it and its its own Library.
This is a HORRIBLE idea that lends itself to many and varied ways it could become a horrible invasion of privacy.
The more Plex does to include social media type invasions of privacy the more they move away from their original view of being the platform where you view your own media on your devices.
That is doing anything to emulate social media means that Plex becomes more the enemy that the friend of users. It is another reason to use anything else to view media.
Again Plex could implement this and move another step towards the media dictators the have chosen to become. Go Plex!!!
I’m not exactly sure I actually get the use case… maybe that’s a sign of getting older
If your main goal is to publish some game streams… this has already been requested in another thread just a few days ago. If that’s what you’re looking for, I suggest you comment/vote in that thread (thought the overall feedback is “similarly cautious” as the one you got here)
Hey. Thanks for the link but thats completely different and still cool but…
That person is asking for a feature to be able to PLAY PC games on their TV byt streaming the game feed to the Plex app on their TV. Kinda like that arcade thing Plex was trying to do. This is functionality thats built into the NVidia Shield for example which comes with its own controller.
Completely different feature and I’m not sure if its really inline with what Plex does which is stream media content.
What I’m asking for here is streaming media content. A stream feed which is just a video of someone playing a game. I can easily Stream on Twitch right now. Record the stream and add it to a library on Plex that users could watch. But when Live theres no way to stream that live video at present through Plex. Which is what I’m asking for here. I don’t really see the relevance of the “cautious” feedback though… that doesnt apply here.
Ive not heard of ErsatsTV or xTeVe… I’ll take a look.
I have setup an NGINX end point at one time and was able to live stream to it with OBS. Friends could just hit my ip and the stream port on NGINX. In OBS you just simply choose “custom” and put the details of the server in there. So adding a listener on Plex that ties to a clickable channel to do that same behavior was where I was thinking about going with it. OBS does the initial capture/recording and streams it to wherever. I’m sure the video stream could be futher transcoded/manipulated if wanted at the end point but in the basic sense it would just need to receive it and have a UI that shows it.
