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OBS Studio 26.0

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Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by tyingq »

dewey wrote: post #12
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

I think you left off the bit that shows the contributors. Here's the budget and contributors: https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget

Another comment mentioned Facebook and Twitch contribute elsewhere.

Of course, it seems very widely used, so the point that it's under funded stands.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by concernedctzn »

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.

Pretty interesting how streamlabs managed to capitalize off OBS

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by Rebelgecko »

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

I wonder if that would require Nvidia webdrivers to be un-discontinued?

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by worldmerge »

If you haven't just used OBS you definitely should check it out. It's an incredible piece of software. I can screen cap multiple browsers and get a webcam feed and be at ~4% CPU usage. To put that in perspective I just made an app with OpenFrameworks (C++) that just gets my camera and it uses ~6% of my CPU.

OBS is amazing.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by chrisseaton »

gruez wrote: post #18
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.

Can't you describe any software as 'just some tools'? If the tools do what you want and achieve the same things as OBS then isn't that what you want?

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by mikece »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #3

virtual camera will be fun to abuse

I wonder if it can take one person's video feed from MS Teams and use that as an input... which is the background subbed in via green-screen.

And then re-injected into an MS Teams call via virtual camera.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by jjcm »

gruez wrote: post #18
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.

It's a bit of both. It can configure itself to be a virtual camera (similar to OBS), which could then be consumed by OBS. It also has built in features for directly streaming to twitch/youtube/etc and skipping OBS entirely. Likely an embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy on their part.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by anonymfus »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #3

virtual camera will be fun to abuse

The plugin with similar functionality called OBS Virtual Camera is quite old, I use it since end of March for Zoom improv and I noticed that many other improvisers do too.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by choward »

ghaff wrote: post #20
choward wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Even then though, you can continue to keep using it as is and not have to worry about them doing some shady updates now that they sold out.
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