Does anyone have suggestions for running OBS in the cloud? I have a project that is designed to run 24/7 and it would be really nice if I could use a cloud server instead of a computer on my home network. I have it all set up... OBS in Docker with k8s templates. Just need to find an affordable online option.
While OBS will run virtualized, you will get a massive performance hit if no GPU is available and everything is done in software rendering. And GPU-enabled cloud servers are quite expensive.
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 tw…
Surely this enables them to just keep up, rather than having the freedom to innovate?
There is no log. OBS "captures" but the image is black while the game sound is there. One common attribute I found for all these games are that they are "true full screen". One example is "Tomb Raider", the series reboot from 2013. OBS 0.659 has no problem capturing my gameplay, while newer versions gives, like I said, black screen on recording. Quick question if you indulge me: Why was classic discontinued?
OBS Studio is a full rewrite of OBS, and the old version was renamed to Classic to avoid confusion. It's been deprecated for many years now, and is no longer maintained. There is no real reason to use it anymore. If I had to guess the issue here, you're on a laptop with two GPUs and OBS Studio is running on a different GPU than OBS Classic is, which is why you're running in to issues. We'd need a log file to know for…
Desktop system, only one card (GTX 1070). Thank you for the starting point.
There is no log. OBS "captures" but the image is black while the game sound is there. One common attribute I found for all these games are that they are "true full screen". One example is "Tomb Raider", the series reboot from 2013. OBS 0.659 has no problem capturing my gameplay, while newer versions gives, like I said, black screen on recording. Quick question if you indulge me: Why was classic discontinued?
If you can stream your games on a Zoom/Skype call as a test, then OBS should be able to handle it too with the right configuration.
On those pesty games, neither Zoom nor Skype, nor TeamViewer capture the screen. I have also my own, written long time ago, screen capture utility, that one fails too. PrtScr key fails too. All of them return the correct resolution in cliboard, full black. That's why my guess is a DRM problem.
> 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 bre…
Beside horrible, it's terrible, Just upgraded and can't even resize the panes. And the CPU usage is high even when not streaming or do any capture etc.
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?
On some Macs (typically Radeon equipped ones) you can enable hardware encoding. I'm not at my machine, but it should read something like "Apple hardware accelerated $FOOBAR"
I particularly enjoy that they added Mozilla's RNNoise library for AI noise suppression. It is not as good as Nvidia's RTX Voice but it does the job. This is very helpful to get some noisy microphones to behave nicely.
Or buy a $5 headset from your local gas station, so the microphone is close to the mouth and doesn't pick up the speaker...
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 bre…
Beside horrible, it's terrible, Just upgraded and can't even resize the panes. And the CPU usage is high even when not streaming or do any capture etc.
Beside horrible, it's terrible, Just upgraded and can't even resize the panes. And the CPU usage is high even when not streaming or do any capture etc.
Huh. Happy OBS macOS user here.
I guess YMMV. Used OBS a couple of times on macOS and was impressed with how smooth it ran.
8 years ago when I was a kid and I tried to record Minecraft videos, the options for screen capture where awful. The best option at the time seemed to be Fraps. I don't remember when OBS began to take off in the community, but I couldn't be happier. It's an incredible piece of software that is so powerful and very user friendly. Quality is killer too.