Multi-camera livestream recommendations

[vomitHatSteve]

My band is gonna try to do a livestream show in the near future, and I'd like to get real fancy and do a multi-camera thing.

And by multi-camera, I mean phones. Android phones.

Anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Recommendations for tools and software to use? Preferably free?

[Tadpui]

I do a lot of multi-camera stuff, but not much livestreaming. For a simple setup like mine, I use OBS as the encoder software and either a USB webcam or a USB capture card for the video. YouTube recently added a built-in encoder, but I haven't used it yet. I'd assume that it works well enough.

You can stream directly from a phone (if your channel has 100+ subs) but I'm not aware of a way to tie multiple phones together into a single stream. I'll have to look around and see if I can find a way to do that, just because I'm curious.

*edit* DroidCam can at least tie a phone to your PC over WiFi, but it seems to only support 1 device and I can't run multiple instances of it to tie multiple phones to it.

[Tadpui]

Aha! It appears that ManyCam can do it, and it's available for iOS and Android: https://manycam.com/mobile/#home

[vomitHatSteve]

Nice! Thank you!