Using OBS to Stream to Comprimato

This guide is short tutorial on how to setup OBS Studio for streaming to Comprimato. For full OBS information please visit OBS Wiki.

Pointing OBS stream to Comprimato

Assuming your have your OBS Studio ready for streaming, the only thing you need to do is to setup the stream in the settings:

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Go to OBS Settings.

Navigate to the Stream settings and set the Source field to Custom. In the Server field, use the Comprimato input stream URL. The form of URL is:

srt://input.comprimato.com:30000?mode=caller&streamid=streamer_key

Where you replace the streamer_key with your actual streamer_key. So it looks like:

srt://input.comprimato.com:30000?mode=caller&streamid=bec90e60-d3a1-4c7b-9530-7dca33f11b24

Note: The Stream Key field in the OBS Streams Setting needs to be empty as bellow.

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Pointing OBS stream to Comprimato.

Start streaming

Configuration of OBS for streaming to Comprimato is done. Now you only need to hit the Start Streaming button.

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Start Streaming

How to setup a video source in OBS

OBS is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming, and you can use OBS with Comprimato.
When you open OBS, you will see this dashboard.

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OBS Dashboard - source of your stream

OBS can manage a lot of sources of data streams: you need to add one. In this case, we will use screen capture.

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OBS Dashboard - create new source of stream

OBS offers to create or add source of the stream: you can rename this source or keep the defaults.

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OBS Dashboard - source properties

You can use default values: usually there's no need to change anything.

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OBS Dashboard - source is ready

You should see something like this in OBS now.

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More info about or how to use OBS

If you need more specific settings regarding OBS, please refer to the official OBS wiki page: https://obsproject.com/wiki/