One of the most popular and used programs today. to direct and record the screen from our computer is OBS, standing out for having a simple to use interface so that anyone can use it, However, it requires some minimum requirements to use it optimally and correctly, in this article we will explain how it should be used to make Facebook direct.
What is OBS and how does it work?
Open station software o OBS is an open source software that is used to transmit videos on digital platforms such as Twitch or Facebook in a complete and simple way for all audiences, this is more geared towards the game than normally a regular live show because OBS works as a screen capture medium more than a webcam transmitter.
Among the functions of OBS we have the use of scenes, mixers, sources, transitions and retransmission options so that we have a complete program to be able to transmit in a well done way what we want in our team, but with some minor inconveniences in terms of configuration because it must be optimal.
How to broadcast with low income PC on Facebook with OBS?
When we refer to low resources in OBS we are talking about a computer of 2GB RAM of resources or work without video card, which is usually the most important thing when doing a live show, have enough RAM and graphics card capacity so that the scene we are going to transmit can run without any lag.
- We go to the Facebook live address where it shows us a series of things to transmit our scene and configure it, we title our live and we put a transmission foot in the comments, there is the option to share.
- The key to flow The one that we are going to use in our live is the direction that the OBS is going to take to transmit, you can enable a permanent stream key so it doesn't change when the live closes.
- We go to the OBS we go to the configuration where they say settings, where the transmission settings are located here we are going to indicate on which platform we are going to do direct and we select Facebook Live In the stream key we are going to copy and paste the Facebook one and place it in the OBS with the key you have given us.
- We go to the exit module, and we are going to configure it in advanced to have the advanced settings, in broadcast on the audio track we leave it in 1, the encoder we put it in Quicksync H_264.
- We go to Video where we are going to select the maximum as canvas, the output resolution that we put in HD in 720p a 3 fps and the scaling filters we leave it as is, in fps volume values we set it to 30 fps.
- We uncheck the change of escalation in output and in control CBR frequency and bit rate a 4000 kbps.
- Then we create a scene where it tells us to create a scene, we select capture game and in this way the OBS detects the game window that we have open, When this is done, it only remains to give it to transmit in the Facebook Live without closing the OBS.
We must take into consideration that our computer will be at the limit when it comes to transmitting because it not only consumes a processor, RAM and graphics card but it will also depend on the speed of our internet, it is advisable to do it directly with an internet of how minimum 6 MB per second because if it is lower, any low latency would affect our life.
It is advisable to use a computer with good resources for these kinds of things because they end up wearing down the life of a computer very quickly, both the graphics and the disc are used constantly at the moment of a live, thus causing failures in the medium or long term, so we advise you to buy even if it is a graphics card of at least 1GB so that it can free up the use of the processor and RAM.
