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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 axlee »

lvh wrote: post #20

If 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. Unt…

Does Wayland do anything better than Xorg? Every time I see it mentioned, it is about how it does not support this or that core feature of Xorg (e.g multiple displays with custom pixel densities/scaling, screen sharing apps being broken, etc...). What is Wayland's reason for existing?

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

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Post by dashesyan »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #40

Is there anyway I can make it pretend to be a webcam so I can use the output as a "camera" source for skype, teams, etc?

Yes there’s OBS Virtual Camera and there’s NDI tools

See the setup section here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebca...

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

#43

Post by RMPR »

axlee wrote: post #41
lvh wrote: post #20

If 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. Unt…

Does Wayland do anything better than Xorg? Every time I see it mentioned, it is about how it does not support this or that core feature of Xorg (e.g multiple displays with custom pixel densities/scaling, screen sharing apps being broken, etc...). What is Wayland's reason for existing?

Not an expert but it's something along the lines of security, things like keyloggers must not work, or at least have a hard time working for example.

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

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Post by Scottopherson »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #40

Is there anyway I can make it pretend to be a webcam so I can use the output as a "camera" source for skype, teams, etc?

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/

I haven't found an OSX or linux solution unfortunately.

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

#45

Post by AsyncAwait »

axlee wrote: post #41
lvh wrote: post #20

If 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. Unt…

Does Wayland do anything better than Xorg? Every time I see it mentioned, it is about how it does not support this or that core feature of Xorg (e.g multiple displays with custom pixel densities/scaling, screen sharing apps being broken, etc...). What is Wayland's reason for existing?

It does do a ton of things better. It's just that X11 was basically a giant shared buffer, so things like screenshots etc. were easy.

Wayland is a lot more security conscious, but once the compositors are up to parity, these things won't be a problem.

At least for me, Wayland is way smoother than X11 ever was as well.

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

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Post by jimhefferon »

College professor here. This software has been a big help in the current situation. Applause for the developers!

(Anyone know how to fix that it changes red to blue and blue to red, when grabbing Firefox? I'm using Ubuntu MATE, Bionic Beaver.)

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

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Post by adamfeldman »

I've been trying to find a way to easily use my green screen outside Zoom.

Have been tinkering with OBS: https://www.rightpoint.com/thought/2017/12/19/improving-your..., https://streamshark.io/blog/chroma-key-software-live-streami...

I'm looking for an actively-developed macOS virtual webcam tool, as CamTwist's website is showing a PHP error, and their Mac software doesn't seem to be notarized: http://camtwiststudio.com.

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

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Post by Derbasti »

OBS is amazing. Half our faculty just went all-out and spent thousands of dollars on some commercial screen recording software.

Meanwhile I'm doing my online courses with OBS, and it works beautifully. I have multiple scenes set up in OBS that grab different parts of my screens, and I switch between them with simple key strokes, while narrating on my actions as I do them.

It's a very simple, and very effective setup, and my students love it.

To me, it is immensely powerful to be able to switch scenes and narrate live, instead of doing these things in post. This saves a ton of time, that I can instead spend on refining my content.

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

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Post by technofiend »

LegitShady wrote: post #24
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?

Absolutely. However this isn't my code and it can fail in strange ways with an ephemeral error message. If I can't change the code, this is my workaround.

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

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Post by ShamelessC »

bnycum wrote: post #35

If you are looking for a more robust solution Streamlabs OBS[1] is more popular in the livestreaming community, it's OBS on steroids. It is also open source, and just released a beta on Mac like this week. [1]: https://streamlabs.com/

Is this a fork of OBS or another project.

If it's a fork, why not work on the OBS project to implement these enhancements there? Is there backlash to that sort of thing from the OBS maintainers?

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