Easiest TWO PC SETUP Ever! - No Capture Card/NDI Required!

[@nuttylmao]

Update: 03:48 I made a mistake. It should be this srt://{streaming-pc-ip-address}:{port}?mode=caller It should be ? not &. Give this a try if it didn't work for you. -- Who here uses a two PC setup?

[@mattibro]

Im too Poor😅

[@Squared_Phoenix]

I've been researching it today, funnily enough lol

[@OldRasputin]

Started doing two pc this year and probably won't go back. I had spare parts hanging around, so it felt like a no-brainer to at least try Teleport. Both of my NIC cards are 2.5gbe and I also have a 2.5 switch. It took all of about 10 minutes to get going, and its been going strong ever since. I haven't even bothered moving my alerts/sources over to the stream pc, because just the performance I got back from off-loading has been enough of a difference.

[@astucespourentrepreneurs]

Started doing two pc today , Thanks

[@jimmymcgreason]

I do, only I use a mac mini instead of a pc for my output to stream. Because I am a masochist. Fighting NDI has been a great time. Definitely giving this a try when I get home from work. It would make life so much easier. Thanks again, Nutty.

[@legen_dary42]

I love when another two-minute video turns into 2 hours of me trying to figure out what they did in 30 seconds.

[@Gamingodj]

welcome to the pc master race lol

[@legen_dary42]

@@Gamingodj I'm a software developer. It's the story of my life.

[@Turn14Racing]

@@Gamingodj I see this as my future

[@ScaryLasers]

😂😂😂 me

[@DarkChaos87]

Time scaling becomes more non-existant, the more recognized papers you have.

[@MrGamelover23]

This is also good because if your PC crashes, the stream isn't over. This is especially useful for people who stream on KZbin, because if the stream crashes, you have to make a new video and lose all the people watching.

[@funktrain77]

You had my thumbs up at "you're super good at gaming King." Really heartfelt and I appreciated that very much.

[@devinlauderdale9635]

If you're using the SRT protocol for video streaming, you should be using port 2000. 22222 is not the move, ports all the way from port 1 up to port 49152 are almost all reserved by various technologies. If you want to use a different port than 2000 because there's a conflict, I'd recommend using a port between 49152 and 65535 which is the ephemeral port range.

[@GloryToPotatzka]

Thanks stranger!

[@raven_themechanic]

It thought about to it and gave me a new error😂😂😂

[@CoalitionGaming]

Hey there I was in the first 3 seconds! My video for 2 PC setups using OBS Teleport! Can't say I've had issues with it or know many people that have, but it's not the same for everyone. This method you're showing reminds me of the old NGINX based 2 PC setup configs, but wayyyyyyy easier. Super cool, dude!

[@bigalsplayin]

Thanks for all the help - Just a FYI for anyone that is using Streaming labs & is a bit confused as no Media Source showing . Just pick Media File & untick Local File same thing

[@jeaniciasparkles]

A1 thank you!

[@GoldenBoyHyper]

this help me with obs my dumb aa could not find the input an output stuff tell you told me about the unpick.

[@Baldguy_AB]

It needs to be the same obs

[@robbinridunk]

I’m about to rig my 2 PC setup, so this is SUPER helpful!! Thanks, Nutty!

[@ChoppedAndScrewedMusic]

DID IT WORK?! I CANN NOT GET IT TO WORK!

[@tajemna99]

@@ChoppedAndScrewedMusic It doesn't work

[@derRumble]

I like the possibilities for LAN events and gaming with a friend while streaming, thanks for this! And keep up the great work!

[@PlanetXtreme]

In your intro you scrolled through all those tutorials I was sitting here nodding my head agreeing with you what you failed to mention, however, was how much funnier, and less of a time waste, this tutorial was. So thank you, for being you.

[@SirchBehindTheBeat]

This chick is good, definitely knows her stuff. Subscribed 👍

[@TheTechnicianTV]

😂

[@makiunlimited]

Jealous much

[@Dawid_The_Man]

Its a man

[@KarlaRei]

I didn't need to record gameplay, but I used this to help me record my artwork for speed painting videos. It was exactly what I needed. Thank you SO MUCH!

[@Slimurgical]

I could see doing this over a LAN by just replacing the public IP address with the local IP address of the PC you're streaming to. At the same time this would easily work over long distances as well. Thanks for the video man!

[@LadyJustice86]

This is super helpful! And I am definitely gearing up to trying this tonight!

[@AyoEliii]

Yeah mine says “could not access the specified channel or stream key..”

[@dareal_kennysan333]

same, have you figured it out yet?

[@AyoEliii]

HELL no lowkey gave up trying.. says you need some type of hdmi adapter thingy..@@dareal_kennysan333

[@LoSoFrmDaGo]

Anything yet

[@The_Communal_Grind]

I ran into this issue as well and I resolved it by not using the '&' on the gaming pc and replaced it with '?' to match the syntax used on the Streaming pc. ie. srt://192.168.0.10:22222?mode=caller instead of srt://192.168.0.10:22222&mode=caller

[@kuhnootlesTTV]

@@The_Communal_Grind Have tried this with no luck, curious if you have any other suggestions? Not sure what else it could be! Have watched the video quite a few times and everything else is correct.

[@fredo19]

Thank you so much! I needed this. Since I'm using a mac mini to stream from pc, teleport and ndi did not work. But this did. I'm a subscriber now.

[@supermadgg]

I have never commented on any of your videos before but I must say a BIG Thanks to you for all your amazing tutorial videos. I watch almost all your videos just to learn new things related to streaming. I might/might not use them but the information I get is always helpful and interesting. Keep them coming. Thank you again

[@DryRoastedLemon]

I just commented here but I can't find it back, so until I do here's a detail I missed that completely goofed up my setup: make sure you use a question mark symbol after your ip address and port on the receiving computer. If you use an ampersand it will not work and OBS will throw the error shown at 9:10 as well!

[@Callmebillybobjrthethird]

Ok but why is nutty always coming through for me… this works perfectly for my needs, thank you bro! keep doing your thing your GOTED

[@Enoedx]

when i try to stream on the gaming pc it says check stream key

[@PumpedByRyan]

same

[@Kannuplay]

have you fixed it yet ?

[@LoSoFrmDaGo]

Facts same here smh

[@Ort1ca]

He forgot to mention that it should be "?mode=listener" not "&mode=listener". At least fixed the problem for me.

[@Ort1ca]

it should be "?mode=listener" not "&mode=listener".

[@Nirot123]

This method uses your Local Area Network to send the stream from gaming PC to Streaming PC before finally sending it off the the internet. It's worth noting that for best results you definitely want both PCs to have a wired connection to your router and hopefully both PCs as well as the router have 2.5Gb ethernet ports

[@lool75]

absolutely not needed for srt streaming pc to pc, you wont need anything other then your standard gigabyte (hell 100mb is more then enough for this) unless you are trying to do multiple uncompressed ndi signals.

[@3venthoriz0n]

​@@lool75it could be possible to send the streaming signal through wifi? In order to gain stability and reduce traffic on LAN network

[@lool75]

not optimal but with srt sure, i would not even attempt it with NDI though @@3venthoriz0n

[@nexTabDE]

I just wanna say thanks for all the great content you deliver. Half the time I'm not ~ really ~ interested in what you're showing, I just think it's super cool you're going above and beyond to innovate and come up with new ways! 🙂 Also, you're super entertaining!!! We love your sense of humor!

[@FrenchyAU]

Damn this is a bit of an ancient method, I remember wanting to start streaming back in like 2015/2016 and I only had my average performance gaming PC at the time and I found a guy who made a tutorial on 2 PC streaming doing exactly this, but instead of doing it wirelessly he hooked an ethernet cable up between the two PC's, that could allow the gaming PC to send that insane bitrate I'm assuming with little to no issues if it's over Ethernet

[@boosivemotorsportofficial]

Do you have a link on how to do this? I gather theres no latency with this method?

[@GravytyMusic]

​@@boosivemotorsportofficial Yeah I can't imagine the latency would be high enough to have a noticable impact, but there would still technically be latency, cause physics.

[@boosivemotorsportofficial]

@@GravytyMusic I didn't try this method. I just use an elgato capture card for my dual pc gaming/streaming setup.

[@mrmadhattertv4507]

You know i follow you on twitch but don't chat much, and i finally subbed on youtube. Hope your views get up, you're super informative and i like your satire. Keep at it, i also just ordered a thermal printer from one of your other vids~ Thanks a bunch.

[@Sirtee96]

“9:29” this video is amazing FYI man you’re amazing!!!!!

[@FrankBooger]

Thank you so much! I've been struggling with a cheap ass capture card for 2 weeks trying to get audio in it with nothing working. This was so eazy. Now I just need to figure out the best video settings.

[@tajemna99]

It doesn't work tho

[@FrankBooger]

@tajemna99 it worked for me???

[@JonathanDtz]

Oh nutty, I will always watch your videos. Even if I’m not applying the tip on my stuff, I always come out learning something new. So thanks!

[@PudzPudz3]

The persona BG music had me so confused for a second cause I wasn't sure if it was actually the song. But it worked really well for the video. This is a really cool method for Collab content too or for multiple perspective videos.

[@CrookedMustacheGaming]

For everyone else running into the "unable to connect" or "Stream key required" error! Here's what worked for me. For reasons I can't figure out setting both PC's to caller mode [srt:{ipaddress}:{port}?mode=caller] got them to communicate and now it works perfectly

[@The_Communal_Grind]

I ran into this issue as well and I resolved it by not using the '&' on the gaming pc and replaced it with '?' to match the syntax used on the Streaming pc

[@kuhnootlesTTV]

Have tried this with no luck. Curious if any other ideas for people who have the "Failed to connect".

[@CrookedMustacheGaming]

@@The_Communal_Grind I noticed the same issue with the “&” and swapping it with the “?” fixed it but it’s weird that I have to have both machines set to caller

[@CrookedMustacheGaming]

@@kuhnootlesTTV have you tried replacing “caller” or “listener” with “rendezvous”on both machines, Apparently that’s another mode for this sort of stream setup

[@kuhnootlesTTV]

@@CrookedMustacheGaming I have not! I was in the process of trying this NDI plugin as I keep seeing that in the comments haha. I will try the "rendezvous" option now as well. Thanks for the quick reply!

[@CaptMedfrag]

You make a lot of big brain and complex stuff but for some reason this one just hits different. I just moved and was just setting up my two PC setup again. NDI was being buggy as per usual. I literally ask myself if there a way I could just send my native stream output from OBS to my streaming PC. Definitely going to try this. Going to compare the quality to NDI (which isn't great as is), and the performance. Thanks for all your S tier help nutella

[@johnli7818]

So the gaming pc will not use any gpu to capture the video and send it to the recording PC? I still don’t understand how does it works

[@SuperDerek]

vibing to that Persona remix in the bg. You're a solid man of culture, Nutty.

[@blakepace]

Truly cool, nutty! Thank you, this makes so much sense to divvy up the tasks. Also, your unexplainable port addition fix is fun; another scratch-the-head "I dunno, but it makes things work properly" drop-in. More Cool. So, more thanks!

[@laner.845]

This actually might work for me. I have a gaming laptop and I've been thinking about getting a desktop. I'd make the desktop new one my gaming PC to crank quality of the game, and leave the laptop my streaming/editing PC because I can go sit on the couch and edit, lol. Gonna save this one to my streaming hacks playlist. Thanks for this video, nutty!

[@DizConnected]

This is just Nutty content! I've used Teleport and it seems to work a lot like this method. Thank you, I did not know about this method.

[@riotheartxo]

failed to connect to server from gaming pc when i hit start streaming, everythings typed out right i dont get it lol

[@canuckpaul]

On Gaming PC - Turn the server to Twitch (if you had that set up before). Turn off enhanced broadcasting. Then switch back to custom.

[@snoopy7254]

@@canuckpaul what do you mean

[@snoopy7254]

@@canuckpaul can you help

[@joshoakman8289]

i got it thanks boss man that was much help

[@Digikidthevoiceofreason]

Great video. I have two pcs. A video with the specs of both of your computers would be great. Also subbed. You deserve it because you remind me of the Mortal Kombat character SHANG TSUNG and I love your humor. FINISH HIM!!!! 👊👊👊😂😂😂

[@djnaydee]

Brilliant idea, didn't know about this. Will give it a shot 👊

[@hodza4297]

It says failed to connect, why?

[@leonheartzx]

So is this basically a simpler method to NDI, whilst having the same pros and cons? I've been using NDI, but if this helps a little more for performance, I'm willing to switch over!

[@nuttylmao]

One of the great advantages of this method is that you have all the flexibility of encoder options that OBS Studio supports. So you can tune your settings to use the exact network bandwidth you specify, with the exact encoder and encoder options you want. All without installing anything other than OBS. There is a little rendering overhead, but that's why I recommend keeping the gaming PC's OBS layout as simple as possible.

[@leonheartzx]

@@nuttylmao Yup! That's exactly how I've been treating OBS with the NDI plugin, just an empty/clean OBS installation, sending 20k bitrate with nvenc to my streaming PC. I play competitively so if this method works out help push out a bit more performance, I'd switch in a heartbeat!

[@omkartanpure270]

I am rocking 3 pc setup. one streaming laptop, one gaming pc, one Android and emulation and sketching pc. This guy helped me so much and now gone add 4pc to stream afk Minecraft grind on stream

[@agumy]

You solved something for me that I could not figure out for the past 10 years. Thank you!! I have a very particular situation with a minidisplayport on a digitizing tablet from 2014 causing issues which makes it so I cannot use a capture card. AHHhhhh I'm so grateful you made this video even if you did not expect it to do well in analytics, and I'm so happy I finally found a solution T__T

[@thepuru]

Great vid, love your style. The outro was gold btw xD

[@OSkarSS20]

I guess this should work even if I would try to use it on my old macbook as a streaming machine... Will try and come back tommorow...

[@SpiderWicket]

Sadly getting "Could not access the specified channel or stream key, please double-check your stream key. If it is correct there may be a problem connecting to the server" any idea?

[@jphanks]

Same error here, too!

[@Steam-Player]

Same

[@semihakgul]

Same

[@desperadodavex51]

Having the same problem and I have no idea how to fix it, especially since I had this setup working at my previous pad.

[@semihakgul]

@@desperadodavex51 check the description of the video👍🏻

[@monkeyjshow]

I watched the whole video twice - and I'll watch a few minutes again when I'm sitting in front of the computers

[@dubusuaytm]

10/10 for the XG - GRL GVNG Video at 2:42. Love it! ♥

[@d1erubey]

I am not able to get it to work, I went ad looked on my streaming PC for an open port. I found it and enter all the info as listed on the video but I get an error. "Failed to connect to the streaming server. Please check your internet connection."

[@canuckpaul]

On Gaming PC - Turn the server to Twitch (if you had that set up before). Turn off enhanced broadcasting. Then switch back to custom.

[@maverick_cw]

This works insanely well! Really appreciate it!

[@seobradley]

Cant get it to work ;-( Keeps saying "Cannot access the specified channel or stream key" Ndi works fine so I know its not a connection issue 😞

[@The_Communal_Grind]

I ran into this issue as well and I resolved it by not using the '&' on the gaming pc and replaced it with '?' to match the syntax used on the Streaming pc. ie. srt://192.168.0.10:22222?mode=caller instead of srt://192.168.0.10:22222&mode=caller

[@AtabaniRL]

@@The_Communal_Grind omg, thank you it worked for me after using the ? instead of the &

[@katajade]

@@The_Communal_Grind I changed the & to the ? and I still get the error asking for a stream key. anyone try anything else?

[@canuckpaul]

On Gaming PC - Turn the server to Twitch (if you had that set up before). Turn off enhanced broadcasting. Then switch back to custom.

[@Zhiphex]

@@canuckpaul CONFIRMED WORKING!!

[@king_only_halfdead]

Man your videos have helped so much. Thank you😅

[@HowToGamingsChannel]

Im a bit late to the vid but my gaming pc cant connect to my streaming pc, typed everything in right too

[@AshSpots]

Next up: Nutty releases new method that doesn't even need a second PC.

[@jaguar2927]

i absolutely love u nutty

[@noahwatkins9968]

THIS IS CRAZY THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! Keep up the good work

[@ladysouldja]

The Persona background music was an awesome choice and I thank you.

[@littleghostytv]

8:14 I've been a one-PC streamer ever since I started streaming. But since yesterday I've started using this method with all my stream stuff still connected to my main PC, mainly because I'm too lazy to move everything over. But just taking the stream load off my main PC alone was more than enough to get my frames back. My laptop just has one scene that acts as a glorified downstream keyer while it handles the stream load and that's it. (All done through Teleport btw)

[@kzondc]

Oh my god my chat message made it to the video LMAO where all my ONCEs at? 😂

[@nuttylmao]

🍭🍭

[@Buckleupletsgo]

+1 For the Itzy Bet on Me clip. Love your content!

[@TheRealAlpha2]

I had just about figured out my two PC set up using an HDMI camera link to capture video from my PC. Technically more simple than a game capture, but also pretty much the same thing because it's a pain to get audio sources... I have considered this method, but really wasn't sure if it saved a significant enough portion of the gaming PC when you're still encoding, and sending data across your network. Also, both my two computers are semi-Potatos so I need every gigzhert I can get.

[@highdesertbiker]

hdmi camera link? How does that work?

[@ozzy1b_0]

thanks man, tutorial work the same to my laptop.

[@tajemna99]

It doesn't work at all

[@DeanoSauruzRex]

Such a convenient upload, just got my gaming PC and am looking at turning my other one into the stream PC

[@zylo9531]

Mine didn't work at first until I realized that BOTH PCs have to be "Streaming PC's" IP address. I was putting in Gaming PC IP in Gaming PC Settings. After I made that change it worked. Thanks!!

[@thefacts1813]

I try same as you do but it gives me the error "there may be problem with connecting to server"

[@MinhDoan-qf6no]

yeah same did u find a solution yet?

[@tajemna99]

Seems like this doesn't work anymore. Tried everything, even corrected the address as said in the comments, tried different ports, disabled enhanced streaming, nothing helps. "Could not access the specified channel or stream key"

[@o-curtis-ulus]

I personally encountered the bug just now when I had tried it. You're not alone.

[@G4MFR34K64]

cool concept if you have mad resources and hardware, but essentially tripling your total load, including limiting your total network bandwidth (20k bitrate on local traffic plus the 6K on Twitch upload) on this method

[@RyanEllerbe]

I use the NDI plugin and it works fine.

[@nuttylmao]

Good

[@wayneschonasky6424]

Awesome video! Because I'm so Effing supergood at gaming. I'm def gonna need that dual settup so I can watch myself ragdoll out the windshield of my car and see a WASTED sign pop up without any latency drag. Because, I am a king,

[@LukeThePianistYT]

Thank you for this solution. It's very helpful.

[@theskuffedknerd]

Minor problem here, OBS insists I use a stream key.

[@DarrenStylzNyc]

Anyone have any answer to this...what's the stream keys that's need??

[@Andy_DJ34M_Hiams]

​@DarrenStylz4 yeah I need the answer to this

[@ShyRockFreak86]

Same. How do we bypass the key?

[@kleimo83]

@@ShyRockFreak86 Test this. Add stream key ex. 1234 on the gaming pc. Then in streaming pc change the srt://ip-address:port&mode=listener to srt://ip-address:port?mode=listener&srt_streamid=1234 This is how i did get it working.

[@ceejcity]

mine didn't require this once i went through the settings tab rather than the autosetup wizard.

[@ThaKingCharming]

“You’re super good at gaming… King”. Felt called out lowkey lol

[@imperialdelights1123]

Oh thank you so much, I can't play games and have my vtuber going at the same time, so I was hoping to have my model set up on a second computer. I hope this works well, thank you again!

[@tazzydevill]

I have had Issues where a game lags because of OBS hogging a lot of the Vram on my 8g 4060, so this would def help. Just need someone to buy me a second PC Thaanks lol. Seriously though this simplifies the process and as usual nutty you explained it in a articulate and easy to follow way. GG sir

[@TweazFN.]

Helped alot thankyou! my gaming pc was not quite strong enough to support everything i was running while streaming and this took a massive load of my pc. I FOLLOWEED ALL YOUR SOCIALS THANKYOU

[@byteman21]

Slam-Dunked! it worked, Thanks Nutty.

[@niklas_Slam_O]

Dude, your setup at 0.18min is amazing. Something like that, I would love to have some day :D :D

[@aidendomi_]

OBS doesn’t make a frame rate drop but it feels like it does, I think it adds input delay of affects frame timing

[@DoctorHazy]

Will you also include a tutorial as to why it didn't work for me? Wasted like 2 hours for no reason and downloaded NDI and worked right away.

[@ogamibr]

Subscribed, I love you sense of humor , nice

[@IlseMulAuthor]

This is an excellent idea for the future. So far I have only one laptop, but in the future I hope to have dedicated PC's for various things. Your ideas will come in handy then!

[@xxMELLOx17]

"Step one get 2 PCs...no sh---" 😂😂 Great tutorial Nutty as always, keep it up!!!

[@FurryMetalFerretVT]

this is also a good method for couples and friends who stream and want to play games or draw art side by side on the same stream. i know some freinds who use discord streaming for this. but i think this will work allot better than that for them.

[@JHero]

Nutty: “decent network connection” Me: nvm, back to only one setup…

[@ItzWalk3r]

Thanks for the amazing solution Nutty sir :)

[@andrewdahawk]

After clicking Start Streaming on the Gaming PC, the Gaming PC shows two different popups every two seconds saying it disconnected and then reconnected succesfully then disconnected and so on. Using Mid 2012 Macbook Pro as Gaming PC and a 2024 Macbook Pro M3 Max as Streaming PC.

[@elimelechelohim9983]

This video was very useful and very funny.

[@tsarbombahoney2764]

I dont think my pc and internet situation is gonna be able to use this method but good knowledge thanks for making this

[@roselea6938]

I tried but everytime i start streaming from the gaming pc, it keeps on saying that it cant access the specified channel or stream key. I dont know what to do

[@cr8zyminer]

same

[@ManDontBrag]

I connected my ROG Ally to my streaming PC. Ran across your vid because I had trouble with capture card. Thanks

[@chandreshjohnson9912]

Super Helpful! Thank you!!

[@egblackfang]

Great video, but I have tried so many different ports and yet I get the same error.

[@aarongrubbmusic]

same for me so far

[@acymel]

Thanks for the great video! But I tried and... I keep receiving the message that needs streaming key :/

[@Moendos99TTV]

Same for me. Checked if the ports are open and listening.. IDK what im dooing wrong

[@TheNeatwork]

Gonna use this with my drawing laptop to get the feed over to my stream PC! Thanks dude!

[@gemma5301]

really useful video actually, and also helped I was able to buy a windows key at a reasonable price via that link, my PC didnt have one set up for over a year

[@ravikushwaha7390]

Sir can I stream ndi from 2 PCs from different internet??

[@dablackseto14]

Thanks for all the quality content. Learned alot here.

[@Igotit4cheep]

Yo I dnt even subscribe to nun but u got mine from ur personality

[@livecleo]

😂😂😂😂 was that to comment to me when you said chaturbate?? 😂😂😂

[@derekmacintyre8960]

9:25 - I am still here Nutty 😅 and I don't even need this, I have a 3 PC setup with capture cards LOL... Love the content dude.

[@dmartinnj]

Been using 2 pc setup for about 10 months now. I'm trying to configure them both the proper way instead of the gaming computer crashing and losing the stream. Your suggestions have helped but was not working through OBS only, had to enable teleport. It's working now but sound issues I'm working through.