Using 2 laptops to stream

I'm researching picking up the the TVS for work and am wondering if you can use two laptops for streaming a live event? I'm thinking of a situation where one laptop connects via ethernet to run the program and the other takes the output to stream through USB into something like Livestream. This will free up the second laptop to have a wired connection without the need of additional adapters.

If I understand correctly, you want 1 laptop to stream (via USB) and 1 to control the switcher (via Ethernet). This scenario will work.

What will not work is 1 laptop to stream (via USB) and 1 laptop to control and stream (via Ethernet). That second laptop would need some capture card as you can't get video down the Ethernet cable of the ATEM. With that SDI capture card, this scenario would work though, just not stock.

Note that with an ATEM TV it sends out h.264 and not something that most streaming software can see. You mentioned Livestream and I know it will work with that. But it won't work with Flash Media Live Encoder, etc.

It'll work with Livestream Procaster; if you need to create a RTMP stream for other services mxLight is a cool little piece of software.

I thing U can do it with just one laptop .. U need MXlight , whitch will be streaming H264/aac from USB .. and U can control Atem over ethernet ..

Yes, you could do it with one laptop, but you will need a network router in order to connect both the ethernet control and the internet stream.

i think, that everybody have network/internet router

Great! Thanks Benjamin. I figured it would work -- the setup to have one control each on it's own. But wanted someone more experienced with the system to give it a thumbs up/down.

If I understand correctly, you want 1 laptop to stream (via USB) and 1 to control the switcher (via Ethernet). This scenario will work.

What will not work is 1 laptop to stream (via USB) and 1 laptop to control and stream (via Ethernet). That second laptop would need some capture card as you can't get video down the Ethernet cable of the ATEM. With that SDI capture card, this scenario would work though, just not stock.

Note that with an ATEM TV it sends out h.264 and not something that most streaming software can see. You mentioned Livestream and I know it will work with that. But it won't work with Flash Media Live Encoder, etc.