OBS RTSP Server Plugin

The OBS RTSP Server Plugin, published by iamscottxu and currently at version 3.1.0, adds a lightweight RTSP streaming server directly into OBS Studio, enabling users to re-broadcast their live production as a standard RTSP stream that any network client—IP cameras, set-top boxes, mobile apps, VLC, or other compliant players—can tune into without extra middleware. Once installed, the plugin appears as an additional output mode alongside the familiar streaming and recording targets; selecting it exposes granular controls such as bind address, port, mount point, and per-stream authentication, while inheriting OBS’s full scene composition, transitions, audio routing, and hardware-accelerated encoding capabilities. Typical use cases include feeding a low-latency camera signal to surveillance NVRs, distributing a church or classroom production to local smart-TVs over VLAN, providing a wired backup path when primary CDN uplink is congested, or letting mobile robotics teams pull a reference video feed for AI testing. Because the resultant stream conforms to RFC 2326, downstream devices merely need to open rtsp://:/ and playback begins instantly, preserving timestamps, multiple audio tracks, and even closed captions when encapsulated in the MPEG-TS payload. Eight successive releases since the plugin’s debut have refined memory usage, added IPv6 binding, HEVC support, and optional TLS tunneling, while keeping CPU overhead below two percent on a mid-range quad-core setup. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources (e.g. winget), always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.

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