DaveRotterdam
New Member
Hi everyone,
I am quite (very) new to the live streaming world and I'd need your opinions.
I tried to live streaming from my PS4, through a video capture USB device, on YouTube but it turned out that my laptop is quite outdated for it (Acer Aspire 3 A315-21-68QC with 12Gb RAM running Linux Nobara). On this device OBS Studio always shows an error during the recording such as "Couldn't initialize muxer" and if I try to stream on YouTube I need to drastically reduce the output bitrate and resolution, ending on a pretty bad quality.
I've searched on the web about this issue and, surprise surprise, it confirms that my device is outdated.
Now, I would like to fix this buying a new pc/laptop, since with my current device I can't do anything, but considering that I am very inexperienced I would like you opinion: Which PC/laptop would you recommend to me, considering that I don't need to game and stream, but only to get the video source from an external USB device, process it via OBS (adding my voice from the headphones + few overlays) and stream it on my YT channel? Which are the specs I would need to have on my device?
Thank you very much in advance!
I am quite (very) new to the live streaming world and I'd need your opinions.
I tried to live streaming from my PS4, through a video capture USB device, on YouTube but it turned out that my laptop is quite outdated for it (Acer Aspire 3 A315-21-68QC with 12Gb RAM running Linux Nobara). On this device OBS Studio always shows an error during the recording such as "Couldn't initialize muxer" and if I try to stream on YouTube I need to drastically reduce the output bitrate and resolution, ending on a pretty bad quality.
I've searched on the web about this issue and, surprise surprise, it confirms that my device is outdated.
Now, I would like to fix this buying a new pc/laptop, since with my current device I can't do anything, but considering that I am very inexperienced I would like you opinion: Which PC/laptop would you recommend to me, considering that I don't need to game and stream, but only to get the video source from an external USB device, process it via OBS (adding my voice from the headphones + few overlays) and stream it on my YT channel? Which are the specs I would need to have on my device?
Thank you very much in advance!