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OBS Studio 26.0

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Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by alexashka »

1_player wrote: post #2

Just noticed that the OBS project makes about 2.5k per month on Patreon. That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch and the most of the YouTube scene uses it to record and stream their videos, and they tend to use and recommend Patreon to their own viewers. They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear.

I don't know - I'm really surprised that anyone is willing to do the incremental work necessary to keep projects like these going, for free.

I guess there are people far better than I on this earth and that's excellent news if you ask me :)

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by dewey »

1_player wrote: post #2

Just noticed that the OBS project makes about 2.5k per month on Patreon. That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch and the most of the YouTube scene uses it to record and stream their videos, and they tend to use and recommend Patreon to their own viewers. They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear.

I think Patreon is just for the main guy (Jim), but the project itself is also receiving funds separately:

https://opencollective.com/obsproject/contribute

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by minimaxir »

Swizec wrote: post #5

All I want is for NVENC to work on MacOS. If I’m reading this correctly, we remain shit out if luck. My laptop comes with a beefy GPU (top line 16” mbp) and OBS can’t use any of it. Even the on-board Intel GPU is wonky

NVENC only works on recent NVidia GPUs (it's in the hardware itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC ), and there haven't been any recent NVidia GPUs that are (officially) supported by macOS.

You can technically use the Mac GPU by selecting a Video Toolbox encoder, but quality varies.

FWIW, I can steam 1080p60 without too much CPU overhead (~20%) on my iMac 2020 using libx264.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by phkahler »

Still want 2 things for OBS: 1) built in Equalizer 2) wayland support - this is dependent on other projects too, I use Gnome which doesnt allow screen capture yet.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by jjcm »

I'll be very interested to see what happens to OBS now that Nvidia is directly competing with them with Nvidia Broadcast: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-broadcast-a...

While it's community supported (though only at 2.5k/mo) I highly suspect that NB is going to outperform OBS in the coming years, just given the market Nvidia is trying to capture. Most youtubers / streamers don't need the full configuration capabilities of OBS, but rather just want something that works out of the box with the basic nice to haves (overlays, noise cancellation, basic text compositing / donation integrations).

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by choward »

sarasasa28 wrote: post #6
1_player wrote: post #2

Just noticed that the OBS project makes about 2.5k per month on Patreon. That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch and the most of the YouTube scene uses it to record and stream their videos, and they tend to use and recommend Patreon to their own viewers. They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear.

If I was OBS owner I would totally charge for it, don't even quote me

This is a good example of why I like open source. If someone decides to pull a move like that it can be forked and the project can live on.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by ihuman »

pityJuke wrote: post #8
1_player wrote: post #2

Just noticed that the OBS project makes about 2.5k per month on Patreon. That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch and the most of the YouTube scene uses it to record and stream their videos, and they tend to use and recommend Patreon to their own viewers. They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear.

Twitch and YouTube sponsor OBS as well. The tier below them has a minimum of $50k per year, so they probably pay a lot. Check the OpenCollective as well. https://obsproject.com/contribute

Do you mean Twitch and Facebook? I don't see YouTube on that page

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by gruez »

jjcm wrote: post #15

I'll be very interested to see what happens to OBS now that Nvidia is directly competing with them with Nvidia Broadcast: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-broadcast-a... While it's community supported (though only at 2.5k/mo) I highly suspect that NB is going to outperform OBS in the coming years, just given the market Nvidia is trying to capture. Most youtubers / streamers don't need the full configu…

Isn't nvidia broadcast just some tools that plug into your existing streaming software?

>NVIDIA Broadcast is a universal plugin that works with most popular live streaming, voice chat and video conferencing apps. It’s supported on any NVIDIA GeForce RTX, TITAN RTX or Quadro RTX GPU, using their dedicated Tensor Core AI processors to help the app’s AI networks run in real-time, right alongside your games.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by jpdb »

1_player wrote: post #2

Just noticed that the OBS project makes about 2.5k per month on Patreon. That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch and the most of the YouTube scene uses it to record and stream their videos, and they tend to use and recommend Patreon to their own viewers. They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear.

I interact with Jim (obs creator) pretty regularly and he definitely deserves the support. Dude is extremely talented and kind. He puts an insane amount of effort into OBS.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by ghaff »

choward wrote: post #16
sarasasa28 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I was OBS owner I would totally charge for it, don't even quote me

This is a good example of why I like open source. If someone decides to pull a move like that it can be forked and the project can live on.

That mostly works if the owner isn't also the person doing most of the work on the project.
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