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Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by ThatPlayer »

deathtrader666 wrote: post #31
worldmerge wrote: post #25

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.

As a counter anecdote - my 2015 MacBook Pro stutters within 30-40 seconds of OBS streaming a 1080p feed to YouTube. Is there anything to tweak? Or is my machine too old?

Make sure you're using hardware encoding if you can. Using the CPU encoder can be higher quality, but it can't beat the dedicated hardware on your GPU for encoding in terms of performance.

Even a first-gen Raspberry Pi 1 is able to encode 1080p30fps video with its hardware encoder.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

worldmerge wrote: post #25

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.

Last time I checked it didn't support Wayland which makes it impossible to use on most modern linux systems.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by TylerE »

deathtrader666 wrote: post #31
worldmerge wrote: post #25

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.

As a counter anecdote - my 2015 MacBook Pro stutters within 30-40 seconds of OBS streaming a 1080p feed to YouTube. Is there anything to tweak? Or is my machine too old?

Most newer gpus can encode video on the gpu. This helps tremendously.

A 2000 series NVidia GPU can encode 4K/60 at less than 5% load (and that’s gpu loaf, cpu loaf is essentially zero)

The MacBook can do none of those things, it’s old school cpu encoding.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by wegs »

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…

This seems like crap. It adds virtual every crappy Google Meet feature which makes it unusable for any sort of serious remote learning or remote work.

If you set up your cameras and microphone correctly, you don't want or need any of that stuff. And you can get adequate cameras and microphones for a fraction of the cost of even a basic NVidia RTX card.

I guess it's helpful if you're rich, stupid, and incompetent?

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by gitgud »

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.

> "They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear."

Well it's an open-source project right? Anyone can pick up where they left off.

Side note: Has an abandoned project of this size ever been forked and continued by another team?

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by mciancia »

TylerE wrote: post #43
deathtrader666 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a counter anecdote - my 2015 MacBook Pro stutters within 30-40 seconds of OBS streaming a 1080p feed to YouTube. Is there anything to tweak? Or is my machine too old?

Most newer gpus can encode video on the gpu. This helps tremendously. A 2000 series NVidia GPU can encode 4K/60 at less than 5% load (and that’s gpu loaf, cpu loaf is essentially zero) The MacBook can do none of those things, it’s old school cpu encoding.

In macbooks you can use igpu for encoding, imo works pretty well. Not sure if OBS supports that, but I was able to use it with ffmpeg

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by closeparen »

gitgud wrote: post #45
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.

> "They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear." Well it's an open-source project right? Anyone can pick up where they left off. Side note: Has an abandoned project of this size ever been forked and continued by another team?

Gogs -> Gitea?

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by microcolonel »

gitgud wrote: post #45
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.

> "They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear." Well it's an open-source project right? Anyone can pick up where they left off. Side note: Has an abandoned project of this size ever been forked and continued by another team?

OpenOffice maybe.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by patmorgan23 »

minimaxir wrote: post #13
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.

Well 'recent' is since 2012, which I suspect the vast majority of Nvidia gpus out there are newer than that.

Re: OBS Studio 26.0

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Post by Warchamp7 »

jjcm wrote: post #28
gruez wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> It also has built in features for directly streaming to twitch/youtube/etc and skipping OBS entirely.

This is not true lol

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