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Introduction

OBS VNC Source is a VNC viewer integrated into OBS Studio. You can use this plugin to stream your external computer.

Pros and Cons

Compared to other protocol such as NDI, VNC has such benefits.

• Pros to use OBS VNC Source
  • Lightweight in terms of CPU usage.
• Cons
  • Quality is not stable. If network connection becomes slow, quality will be reduced.
  • Latency is not stable. The frame will be displayed as it arrives to the viewer. There could be a jitter.
  • Audio is not supported in VNC.

Future plans to implement

• Further options for VNC Source
  • color depth
  • hide cursor
  • configurations such as user-name.
  • interactive (mouse and keyboard)
• External or new features
  • VNC camera on iPhone
  • interactive mouse/keyboard input through obs-websocket
  • VNC output on OBS Studio