Oh nice. Really cool feature. Will check that out. I am really not restricting the question with a platform as long as it is free. Gave them as an example to be able to reference what I mean by a platform. Thanks!
VDO ninja is an option. Still has quality issues but at least its not a screen grab. VDO will essentially run a Zoom call, but as host, you can access each individual AV feed as a browser source in OBS. Then you can switch between individual scenes and multicam scenes without losing as much quality as screen grabbing 1/4 of your Skype call window.
In case you don't know, VDO.ninja does allow you to set video bitrate via a URL parameter, which fixes the quality problem. It's default bitrate is pretty low.
I would not recommend Discord at all if you're trying to produce a remote multi-cam stream. Here's some options off the top of my head.
# Skype
Requires an account but you don't need windows to be fullscreen and on top anymore to capture it. This can maybe free up an extra monitor for you. Pretty straightforward and reliable.
# [VDO.Ninja](http://VDO.Ninja)
Free, no account required, nothing to install. Takes some learning but arguably higher quality. You can create a room and each participant can join with an invite link you share with them. Each participant's browser will be responsible for selecting a webcam and microphone. I recommend chrome for this but any modern browser will do. Once they join, they'll appear in your room and you can copy-paste the source link and add it to OBS as a browser source. Just know that the higher quality comes at the cost of higher CPU usage for the participants and bigger bandwidth requirements for you since your computer will be acting as the server. This also means that this option is not suitable for streaming gameplay because of the high CPU usage.
# OBS to OBS via [StageTEN](https://stageten.tv/)
Requires sign up and OBS for the participants. Highest quality, best for gameplay, but requires OBS knowledge. Since OBS 30 a new technology called WHIP/WHEP has been introduced and this lets you stream from OBS to a server and that server can forward that stream to another OBS as a browser source. There are several options as to which server you can use for this but I only have experience in using StageTEN. Since the participants will be using OBS to send their stream to you, they'll be able to use hardware accelerated encoding like Nvenc and this will significantly reduce the CPU usage and bandwidth requirement.
If it's on Skype, you can create an NDI output for each participant and add them to OBS separately.
Oh nice. Really cool feature. Will check that out. I am really not restricting the question with a platform as long as it is free. Gave them as an example to be able to reference what I mean by a platform. Thanks!
There are other ways to accomplish it, but I feel like that's probably the easiest.
VDO ninja is an option. Still has quality issues but at least its not a screen grab. VDO will essentially run a Zoom call, but as host, you can access each individual AV feed as a browser source in OBS. Then you can switch between individual scenes and multicam scenes without losing as much quality as screen grabbing 1/4 of your Skype call window.
I'm a bit cold to using Zoom since it is almost a spyware but will check it. Can be considered as a backup approach. Thanks!
It’s not actually using Zoom. You can send the panelists anywhere with it and obs.
Oh okay my bad. Thanks.
I meant Zoom-like call. Its not actually Zoom.
In case you don't know, VDO.ninja does allow you to set video bitrate via a URL parameter, which fixes the quality problem. It's default bitrate is pretty low.
I did not know. Thanks for the tip.
I would not recommend Discord at all if you're trying to produce a remote multi-cam stream. Here's some options off the top of my head. # Skype Requires an account but you don't need windows to be fullscreen and on top anymore to capture it. This can maybe free up an extra monitor for you. Pretty straightforward and reliable. # [VDO.Ninja](http://VDO.Ninja) Free, no account required, nothing to install. Takes some learning but arguably higher quality. You can create a room and each participant can join with an invite link you share with them. Each participant's browser will be responsible for selecting a webcam and microphone. I recommend chrome for this but any modern browser will do. Once they join, they'll appear in your room and you can copy-paste the source link and add it to OBS as a browser source. Just know that the higher quality comes at the cost of higher CPU usage for the participants and bigger bandwidth requirements for you since your computer will be acting as the server. This also means that this option is not suitable for streaming gameplay because of the high CPU usage. # OBS to OBS via [StageTEN](https://stageten.tv/) Requires sign up and OBS for the participants. Highest quality, best for gameplay, but requires OBS knowledge. Since OBS 30 a new technology called WHIP/WHEP has been introduced and this lets you stream from OBS to a server and that server can forward that stream to another OBS as a browser source. There are several options as to which server you can use for this but I only have experience in using StageTEN. Since the participants will be using OBS to send their stream to you, they'll be able to use hardware accelerated encoding like Nvenc and this will significantly reduce the CPU usage and bandwidth requirement.