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

Post by rcxdude » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 3:09 PM UTC

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?

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 3:11 PM UTC

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/

Post by eropple » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 3:13 PM UTC

abecode wrote: post #39

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...

I wasted a good chunk of a day looking into this. If you start multiple instances of OBS (you need to do this on the command line otherwise clicking will just foreground the current instance) then "multicording" should work fine, though perhaps using lots of system resources (the fan goes nuts). This was on macos. Overall, I realized it's better to just use OBS and have it mixed into one file/stream. You trade off a…

Post by eropple » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 3:14 PM UTC

zbobet2012 wrote: post #25

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.

Post by somehnguy » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 3:17 PM UTC

AdrianB1 wrote: post #64

It may be just me, but I don't find the project's main page clear and intuitive; the first screen capture looks scary and there is nothing in that page that suggests (shows) the software is easy to use. Maybe it is easy to use, it's just not showing it.