Stream VR Oculus thru OBS.

[MAiki]

Yoho is there any1 who streams the HMD thru OBS, i cannot find how :P

Mny Thx..

[micha]

There are several guides etc. Search for "ets2 oculus vr obs".

I haven't done it myself yet (still struggling with getting the performance acceptable) but looked into it.

You can either use the OBS "Game Capture" mode to capture directly from ETS2 (start the game first, then start OBS and set it up) or you can mirror the VR display on your desktop and then capture the desktop window.

To mirror the display, set the following in your "config.cfg" file:

uset o_oculus_mirror_mode "1"

[MAiki]

Yeah when i use the mirror option i have stereo view :) but i will look into it.. Thx Micha..

[micha]

Ok, so the guides aren't accurate (anymore). Just had a play with it myself and yes, mirror option has stereo view which is useless, and the direct game capture doesn't work with Oculus (the guide said it was for both Oculus and Vive, but perhaps only Vive can be captured directly by OBS).

I did, however, find a way around it: OculusMirror.exe.

This is a tool shipped as part of your Oculus install and can be found in

%PROGRAMFILES%\Oculus\Support\oculus-diagnostics\OculusMirror.exe

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Just recorded this : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/543589617
but it did impact my performance a bit. Not sure whether that is mainly due to OculusMirror or due to streaming overall.

[MAiki]

This is really great :) Mny thx gonna try ;)

[MAiki]

I'm really greatfull.. It's working :) MNY MNY THX Micha..

[MAiki]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/543813612

I think mirror does the performance drop :(

[micha]

Awesome! Glad you got it working. But damn, I hope your in-game experience is smoother than your video though..

I don't know how much experience you have with OBS Studio, but make sure that you capture using your graphic cards' hardware encoder instead of a software encoder. For NVidia that is "nvenc". Software encoders may give a better quality result but will affect performance quite a lot, the hardware encoder should have very little impact.

Also if you do any recoding of the video before streaming in OBS (eg, to a lower resolution in order to save bandwidth) that could also significantly affect your performance, but if you stream the capture directly the performance overheads should be minimal.


Finally, I just found this page which has lots more options for OculusMirror including the recommended options for video streaming:
https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/native/pc/dg-compositor-mirror/

[micha]

And lol, what's the chance we'd both be driving in the same area of the map?

[MAiki]

Thx for the tips, gonna work on it. I’m using xsplit normally and never had the stuttering graphics in the stream. Gonna read thru the tips and will improve the stream ingame very smooth :-) and indeed whats the chance :P