Support OBS Multi Track Video - "Enhanced Broadcasting" #6446

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opened 2026-02-22 12:55:23 -05:00 by deekerman · 0 comments

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2026-02-22 12:55:23 -05:00

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Originally created by @btfreeorg on GitHub (Feb 3, 2026).

Describe the problem to be solved

OBS offers "Enhanced Broadcasting". This feature makes it so the streamer's resources are used in transcoding. It appears that OBS tells the server a few total streaming bandwidth, numbers of tracks it's transcoding, etc, and then the streaming server just handles streaming the files directly.

I can not find any information that PeerTube supports this. If the streamer could handle all of the transcoding themselves, and Peertube could take advantage of that, we've just massively reduced the cost to run PeerTube instances as transcoding is the single most expensive piece to testing out a PeerTube instance.

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Originally created by @btfreeorg on GitHub (Feb 3, 2026). ### Describe the problem to be solved OBS offers "Enhanced Broadcasting". This feature makes it so the streamer's resources are used in transcoding. It appears that OBS tells the server a few total streaming bandwidth, numbers of tracks it's transcoding, etc, and then the streaming server just handles streaming the files directly. I can not find any information that PeerTube supports this. If the streamer could handle all of the transcoding themselves, and Peertube could take advantage of that, we've just massively reduced the cost to run PeerTube instances as transcoding is the single most expensive piece to testing out a PeerTube instance. ### Describe the solution you would like _No response_