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On the streaming PC, she went to Tools > NDI Output Settings. A small panel appeared. She clicked "Main Output" and gave it a name: MAYA_GAMING_RIG .

Maya didn’t sleep that night. By 3:00 AM, she had rebuilt her entire production stack. Her face camera was an NDI source from a separate laptop. Her co-host’s remote feed was an NDI-HX connection from a cloud server. Her gaming PC was the core. The streaming PC was the director. obs-ndi-4.11.1-windows-x64-installer.exe

For one terrifying second, the preview pane remained black. Doubt crept in. Of course it failed. Networks are unreliable. Should have stuck with HDMI. On the streaming PC, she went to Tools

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. Maya didn’t sleep that night

She clicked "OK."

Maya rebooted OBS on both machines. On her gaming PC, she added a new source. She scrolled past "Display Capture," "Game Capture," "Window Capture." There, nestled between "Media Source" and "VLC Video Source," was a new entry: .