Did anyone report that bizarre OBS bug that Jon Blow ran into while streaming a week ago? It was pretty entertaining...
OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
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#12I use OBS to record training videos for our engineers. I used QuickTime for a while, but jumped ship when QuickTime crashed and ate an hour-long session, with no recoverable backup.
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#13I started using OBS when our church moved our services to live streaming due to the pandemic. Our mostly non-technical volunteer media team has had zero issues using it to stream to Facebook or a self-hosted Restreamer instance. Easy to use, straightforward interface. I'm sure we'll keep using it for streaming even after the pandemic is over.
What kind of camera are you using?
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#14There’s one feature of OBS that’s missing for me, and that’s recording sources to separate files. I believe this is called “multicording”, and it something I’ve only found in paid software, like screen flow. Here is the multi year discussion in the OBS forums: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/recording-sources-to-se...
What's the use case?
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#15Love it. I've been using it on Linux with v4l2loopback to get it into things like Skype, zoom, jitsi, and teams. Really slick.
For quarantine levity, this combined with live audio effects possible with JACK rack like voice changers and echos is hilarious. Maybe today's a good day to try that out on the engineering managers meeting.
Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
#16I started using OBS when our church moved our services to live streaming due to the pandemic. Our mostly non-technical volunteer media team has had zero issues using it to stream to Facebook or a self-hosted Restreamer instance. Easy to use, straightforward interface. I'm sure we'll keep using it for streaming even after the pandemic is over.
What's your setup if you don't mind me asking?
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#17There’s one feature of OBS that’s missing for me, and that’s recording sources to separate files. I believe this is called “multicording”, and it something I’ve only found in paid software, like screen flow. Here is the multi year discussion in the OBS forums: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/recording-sources-to-se...
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Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
#18There’s one feature of OBS that’s missing for me, and that’s recording sources to separate files. I believe this is called “multicording”, and it something I’ve only found in paid software, like screen flow. Here is the multi year discussion in the OBS forums: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/recording-sources-to-se...
What's the use case?
Exporting to something like iMovie to manage chroma keys (video alpha channels), or manage the two videos separately: zooming in, highlighting in the background recording, effects for the foreground recording etc.
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#19Did anyone report that bizarre OBS bug that Jon Blow ran into while streaming a week ago? It was pretty entertaining... https://www.twitch.tv/videos/575151695?t=00h00m25s
I experienced a similar thing while testing it. Had it on another monitor with an app in full screen and it just locked onto a single frame.
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#20If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland, and screencasts on that have long since been a complete pain in the neck with per-compositor "solutions" that mostly don't work quite right. Fortunately someone who works on Gnome wrote the obs-xdg-portal plugin that should fix this, at least for Gnome and hopefully soon for wlroots and KDE once they fully support the underlying portal API. Until then, the easiest way to get screencasting working is just to run in X11.
(Ask me about ffmpeg raw GPU buffer capture one day; running a bunch of codec code as root is always exciting.)
OBS Plugin: https://gitlab.gnome.org/feaneron/obs-xdg-portal/
For GTK: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk