Feature request: websocket video stream

[Niek]

Issue type

Feature request

Description

First of all, thanks for building obs-websocket - it's an amazing plugin!

I've built OBS-web, a SPA to control OBS. In order to get a view of the preview/program scenes, I take a small screenshot every second (TakeSourceScreenshot). This works, but obviously it's not the best experience (delayed, laggy). What would be great if there would be a StartSourceStream function or similar that starts a separate video encode that streams to the websocket.

Would this be possible? If not, any other ideas on how to improve the preview experience?

[tt2468]

I dont think that this would be a feature worth the incredible amount of work it would take to implement unfortunately. My only suggestion is to use a faster screenshot rate.

[nxtreaming]

I suggest you use SRT to transmit an additional preview stream to your host.

it is not related with obs-websocket.

[Niek]

I suggest you use SRT to transmit an additional preview stream to your host.

it is not related with obs-websocket.

Once WebSRT (P2P SRT) is released in some months that would be an option, together with obsproject/rfcs#27

[tt2468]

Implementing websrt would be enough work to warrant its own plugin. It is out of the scope of obs-websocket