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OBS Studio 27.0

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Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by 1_player »

chrisweekly wrote: post #22
zbrozek wrote: post #13

OBS is such wonderful software. It's immensely powerful yet approachable and performant. I am not a streamer, but I've found it really useful as an audio/video swiss army knife. Many thanks to the team and community behind it!

Yeah; I'm not a streamer either, but it took me all of an hour to go from "what's OBS?" to enabling use of my iPhone as the video camera for Zoom calls. Haven't had time yet to do anything interesting with OBS "scenes", but it looks similarly, surprisingly straightforward. A+!

> use of my iPhone as the video camera for Zoom calls

FWIW I've used iVcam until recently, and I'm now an happy user of Reincubate Camo

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by waymon »

fredleblanc wrote: post #27

My favorite OBS feature is that you can bring in transparent browser windows all over the place. As such, I have my work conferencing set up so my time appears in the upper-right corner. I’m on the east coast and everyone I work with is on the west coast. It’s a nice way to remind them of my current time. (It also passive aggressively animated to purple with a moon when its “after hours,” a/k/a 5pm for me.) I also ha…

...share? :)

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by cbhl »

luisrudge wrote: post #40

Obs is amazing. I’m using it to record my screen for YouTube videos. I have one unrelated issue, though. My screen recording feels super washed out. The colors are awful. This happens with obs and other screen recorders as well (even quick time), but OBS it’s a bit worse. I have no idea how to fix it, so I just compensate in post, but it feels unnatural.

Double check your color space in settings. For a screen recording you want 4:4:4 (look for "rgb" or something); often video cameras are 4:2:2 or 4:2:0.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#44

Post by singhkays »

haberman wrote: post #8
geerlingguy wrote: post #3

Excited for this release since it contains M1 Apple VT H264 Hardware Encoding support[1] — I know on my Intel Mac, OBS would massacre the CPU if I didn't have the hardware encoding enabled. On the M1 it's not quite so bad, but being able to use hardware encoding does save a lot of CPU cycles when streaming at higher bitrates! [1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4170

Wow that seems like a significant feature. I'm surprised it is not mentioned in the release notes: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.0.0

That doesn't seem like a new feature. I can access that encoder on OBS 26.1.2 on a M1 Mini under Output -> Recording -> Encoder

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#45

Post by haliskerbas »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #34
fredleblanc wrote: post #27

My favorite OBS feature is that you can bring in transparent browser windows all over the place. As such, I have my work conferencing set up so my time appears in the upper-right corner. I’m on the east coast and everyone I work with is on the west coast. It’s a nice way to remind them of my current time. (It also passive aggressively animated to purple with a moon when its “after hours,” a/k/a 5pm for me.) I also ha…

I've embedded a browser window in an OBS stream on my mac, and it just about ground my computer to a halt; the CPU was pegged at 100%, and using it with Zoom basically meant not using anything else. Is it just me?

What was using the CPU? If it was “kernel_task” an external fan will help.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by cbhl »

laumars wrote: post #39
crescentfresh wrote: post #29

> This fixes the black screen issues on laptops in particular My youngest wanted to learn how to use OBS so he can begin making videos of his gaming. I tasked him with figuring out everything, from how to download it (I closely monitored this part), install it, and use it. He watched tutorials. He got so far but got discouraged when he ran into the above issue and started the whole process over again because he thoug…

What is the black screen issue?

The mechanism of action I've seen is that sometimes OBS will start on, say, internal graphics, and you'll need to force it to run on your discrete graphics card in order to get it to screen capture your video game.

This affects computers that have both integrated and discrete graphics (say, to save power on a laptop).

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#47

Post by sosborn »

mdoms wrote: post #31

I used to use OBS to capture game clips, but it recently started capturing at shitty 5fps framerates and tanking my in-game FPS. I tried a ton of things to fix it but eventually gave up. Based on this changelist it doesn't look like the problem is solved. Oh well.

Have you filed a detailed bug report?

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by redfern314 »

pkiv wrote: post #30

If you use OBS, I would love show you our product https://www.stream.club . We're bringing OBS into the browser, making it really easy to create live video content. Our customers find that they can get setup in Stream Club much faster than they can with OBS, and they don't need a powerful computer to do it. Happy to answer any questions!

This looks like a slightly inferior version of https://streamyard.com/ (in particular, fewer participants at each price level) - do you have any value propositions above what they offer?

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by btgeekboy »

haliskerbas wrote: post #45
pavel_lishin wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've embedded a browser window in an OBS stream on my mac, and it just about ground my computer to a halt; the CPU was pegged at 100%, and using it with Zoom basically meant not using anything else. Is it just me?

What was using the CPU? If it was “kernel_task” an external fan will help.

Throttling is one thing that can cause high kernel_task usage, but you can also run ‘pmset -g thermlog’ to verify whether it’s actually due to throttling/cooling issues.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by pkiv »

phone8675309 wrote: post #36
pkiv wrote: post #30

If you use OBS, I would love show you our product https://www.stream.club . We're bringing OBS into the browser, making it really easy to create live video content. Our customers find that they can get setup in Stream Club much faster than they can with OBS, and they don't need a powerful computer to do it. Happy to answer any questions!

Question: Why would I waste more than 10 seconds on your website if I can't create an account and try it instantly?

Great question! We like to onboard each livestreamer personally to understand their livestreaming workflow and goals. Completely understand the disdain for our ambiguous website, and would be happy to send a beta invite directly to your email if you (or anyone else on here) is willing to give it a shot!
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