OBS is great, very intuitive to use and really lowers the barrier to entry for streaming.
OBS Studio 26.0
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Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really shows. I just switched back to Windows after 10 years of macs, and OBS was a driving factor. Can't believe how powerful and easy to use it is. I ran my high school's analog TV studio 25 years ago, and we ran a live news broadcast everyday for the lunch room. Effects that took half a room of gear and thousands of watts of power are all a few clicks and sliders away.
> OBS was a driving factor Why? OBS runs on macOS too
It runs horribly on macOS. Like a night and day difference. If I understand correctly the difference is primarily regarding the encoder.
I also switched my streaming machine over to windows recently.
Edit: ok, “horrible” is dramatic, but it was honestly shocking the first time I booted into windows and gave OBS a try there. Exact same computer that struggled with OBS in macOS produced a much better output without breaking a sweat.
Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to their website[0] their current balance is $97,012.47 USD, and their annual budget is ~ $47,327.66 USD, so they're probably not too badly unerfunded. [0] https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget
That budget appears to mean no one is getting paid for OBS. The project is huge so likely a lot of hours are committed to it.
Or no one is getting paid full time. That might be a good thing for a project like this. A full time employee might bring with it some perverse incentives (if it reaches a state where the community isn't clamoring for a full year's worth an an engineer's time, what happens to that engineer when the work is gone, or what if they find things that aren't needed to justify more work?)
If their current balance is over two years worth of their annual budget and the users are happy with the project and how its progressing, I'm happy to think they're in a good place until I hear evidence to convince me otherwise.
Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#114Just 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'm boutta up that by $100/mo. Just got 26 installed on my Gentoo box, seamless upgrade. I've only been a user for a short, short time but it's amazing.
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Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering Waylands history with lacking screen capture support and the amount of work that's gone into creating plugins like https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs to support screen capture for wlroots based Wayland compositors this really doesn't looked like something OBS can or should fix. Until there's a standard way for applications to actually do screen capture similarly to X, Wayland is going to continue to be stuc…
Discord and Peek are able to capture the screen fine.
The whole design behind Peek is that you have a transparent window that shows you what is being recorded and you can interact with the window behind it to record something useful. Passing through events to the window behind it only works on X11 (or XWayland).
Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#116Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#117Just 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
and they get 10k bounties from time to time https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568
* once ;)
Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#118I have used obs.ninja [1] to pipe phone camera feeds as video inputs to OBS. I then use the virtual cam plugin to make that my webcam feed. This works great, but what I'd also love to do is take the audio from the phone mic as a browser input and use it as a virtual microphone. I've only been successful by using a VBCable pipe and setting the monitoring device, but what that ends up doing is also playing all of the s…
I would recommend to try https://iriun.com/ - cross-platform and it streams video + audio in very low latency to OBS.
Is it open source?
Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#119Re: OBS Studio 26.0
#120Still no support for my audio interface over USB… You can add it, but no signal comes true. I know about virtual audio routing, but I'm so sad this bug hasn't been fixed after years…