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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…
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.
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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.
I feel compelled to point out that selling software isn’t “selling out”.
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
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.
AMD has an equivalent "Video Coding Engine" (VCE) which is supported through "Video Toolbox" (an apple API) as mentioned by another commentor although there is some talk of the quality not being as high no idea how relevant that is the current AMD cards in the MacBook Pro 16".
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.
Not to mention all the other things that don't work on Wayland, like VM key capture and Peek's event passthrough.
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?
I'll say that even most modern desktop CPUs would use about a CPU core when encoding x264 even on fast preset at 1080p. It's pretty CPU intensive. That's why hardware encoders such as nvenc are popular. You most likely want to check what kind of encoder you're using. Maybe there are no other options than x264. In that case you might want to drop encoder settings and perhaps the resolution.
An amazing piece of open-source software. My colleagues keep spawning Teams meetings just to record their screens; meanwhile, I can open OBS, add a screen recording element, resize it however I like, set the bitrate, encoding type, resolution, scaling, and record beautiful 60fps demos. And that's literally the simplest scenario. The amount of stuff you can do with video compositing in this tool is insane.
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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
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.