OBS Studio Display Skype Calls
- jonno
- Apr 25, 2020
- 2 min read
MOSTLY CORRECT BUT NEEDS A FEW FACTS CHECKING
Say you want to bring someone else into your Broadcast, as if you were conducting an interview with someone, you can now do this via OBS Studio and Skype with the use of NDI. This caused a good bit of frustration but I eventually got it working, here's how.
NOTE - This caused me a bit of pain to get working and it turned out to be the version of Skype I was using. You can't use Skype for Windows 10 you need Skype for Desktop. I'm not sure what the difference is but the wrong version resulted in all I could display in OBS Studio was a black screen, an uninstall and installing the right version and it worked first time! IT took a long time for me to find the answer to this so thanks to Fundación Vicente Ferrer on the Streamlabs How to Board for the answer
So here's how to get it working:
1. Make sure you have Skype for Desktop installed and the most up to date version of OBS Studio.
2. Browse here and click the "Go To Download" button and choose the Windows Installer.exe from the Assets table.
3. When downloaded run the installer, selecting everything positive (e.g. OK, I accept, Next) it's a simple installer. You'll need a reboot so make sure you have everything saved.
4. When rebooted, open OBS Studio.
5. Go to Tools and hopefully you'll have NDI Output Settings in the menu, there's no settings you need to change here at this point. If it's not there reboot, check again and if still missing go back to step 2.
ASSUMPTION - that OBS Studio and Skype are installed on the same PC.
6. You need to enable NDI on Skype. to do this open Skype, go to Settings, Calling, Advanced and turn on "Allow EDI usage".
7. Start a Skype call, I just used the "Meet Now" option
8. In OBS Studio choose the scene you want to add the Skype feed into and add a new Source. Click the "+" button and choose "NDI Source" - in the "Source Name" you should see your available live Skype calls, choose the one you want, click OK and job done.
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