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OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by technofiend »

I've been using it to create videos of an infrastructure provisioning product. One of the most useful things so far is being able to record a process that may take 15 minutes to fail but only has an error for a few seconds before clearing the screen, rebooting, hanging, etc. Much easier to rewind and grab the failure from a stream than to hang poised over a keyboard waiting to bang print screen at the precise moment needed.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by foxyv »

chirau wrote: post #14
dfee wrote: post #6

There’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?

For editing together screen/face/camera streams later probably.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by LegitShady »

technofiend wrote: post #22

I've been using it to create videos of an infrastructure provisioning product. One of the most useful things so far is being able to record a process that may take 15 minutes to fail but only has an error for a few seconds before clearing the screen, rebooting, hanging, etc. Much easier to rewind and grab the failure from a stream than to hang poised over a keyboard waiting to bang print screen at the precise moment…

...shouldnt you just log errors as you go and check the log?

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by zbobet2012 »

dfee wrote: post #6

There’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...

If you are using any of the many hardware-accelerated encoders available on desktop today the CPU is not at all limiting. Quicksync can run 9 HD h264 encodes, NVENC can run 4 to 17 depending on the card, etc.

Most OBS users don't configure software encode because of the resource issues.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by MontagFTB »

archon wrote: post #5

I 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.

A blog post about your setup would be invaluable for small churches with a skeleton/volunteer AV crew. Would you be willing?

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by stephen_g »

dfee wrote: post #6

There’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...

The main big one for me is similar - not recording but being able to stream to multiple servers.

We can do things like run nginx with nginx-rtmp-module as a proxy, but then you have to put stunnel or something in front of it for Facebook because nginx-rtmp-module doesn't support rtmps (and development seems completely stalled).

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by TehCorwiz »

gw wrote: post #11

Did 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

It looks like whenever the scene, source, and audio panels on the bottom of the window are on screen but in the background the frame times become choppy.
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