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Tonight, she wanted to overlay her live-coded Python terminal over her gameplay, while her face camera tracked her without a green screen, and a browser source from her co-host’s remote feed sat in the corner. To do that with HDMI meant physical cables, splitters, EDID emulators, and a dozen adapters. Her desk looked like a cyber-octopus had died on it.

At 8:00 PM the next day, she went live.

For three years, she had run a two-PC streaming setup. Gaming on the main rig, encoding and streaming on the secondary. The connection? A simple HDMI cable running from her gaming GPU’s output to a capture card on the streaming PC. It was reliable, like a stubborn mule. But it was also a cage. obs-ndi-4.11.1-windows-x64-installer.exe