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Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my experience the NVIDIA filter is miles better both in detecting noise as well as suppressing just the noise but has significantly more latency and will incur a decent perf hit on the GPU (~10% FPS or so if the GPU is the bottleneck). These days if it's live is use RNNoise and if it's for a recording I use Nvidia's filter.

Interesting. I have a PC just for streaming (I encode with CPU as well) with a[n] nvidia card, so I'm not concerned about GPU usage. I'll give it a go. Slight tangent: Is it best to say "An nvidia card" or "A nvidia card"? 'An' sounds better, but 'a' is right according to my 4th grade english lessons. I think 'an' sounds better because you're really saying "(e)nvidia". I don't know if the "an before a vowel led word"…

“A” versus “an” is all about the next syllable (and its sound), not the next letter—they’re the same word, just with context-dependent pronunciation which happens to be materialised in the spelling.

My favourite way of demonstrating this practically is to observe usage of “a” versus “an” on words that have developed or lost a silent “h”.

For example, in the days of long ago, “herb” had a silent “h”, so it would be spelled “an herb” as a vowel sound followed; and in American English it still is silent, and is consequently still “an herb”: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=a+herb,an+herb.... But in British English, people started sounding the “h”, so that in the 1870s, “a herb” became more popular than “an herb”, and it has remained so ever since: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=a+herb,an+herb... (though “an herb” is still much more common there than I’d have expected).

I normally read more recent translations of the Bible, but still sometimes read the KJV aloud, so there are many cases of silent aitches that are no longer silent (a regular expression search for `\ban h` has 711 matches in the KJV, compared with only 11 in the WEBBE, which are for “honour”, “honest”, “hour” and “heir”); I decided it’s better to read “a house” rather than “an house”, given that the original spelling was only chosen because at that time they pronounced it “an ’ouse”—or at least, I think so; the ngrams there aren’t quite so conclusive, I suspect that one might have already been shifting in some parts of England, as is the case with quite a few other such words; the KJV was written in a style that was already overly formal and sometimes slightly archaic when it was new, let alone 400 years later—Tyndale’s translation from the best part of a hundred years earlier reads much more easily once you normalise spelling as was done in the KJV between 1611 and 1769.

In short: you’ve got an NVIDIA card.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#82
post #33

Having upgraded OBS before on macOS, I backed it up first, then installed the new version. As somewhat expected to me, the new version is not launching. I had to launch it from CLI to see and see there is an error: error: os_dlopen(libpython3.9.dylib->libpython3.9.dylib): dlopen(libpython3.9.dylib, 257): image not found It also changes something in the stored state on disk so that next time you try to launch an older…

Maybe check with otool on macOS and check to see where it is looking for the .dylib it can’t find. You can also update the executable with otool to use a different path to the dylib, if need be.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#83
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my experience the NVIDIA filter is miles better both in detecting noise as well as suppressing just the noise but has significantly more latency and will incur a decent perf hit on the GPU (~10% FPS or so if the GPU is the bottleneck). These days if it's live is use RNNoise and if it's for a recording I use Nvidia's filter.

Interesting. I have a PC just for streaming (I encode with CPU as well) with a[n] nvidia card, so I'm not concerned about GPU usage. I'll give it a go. Slight tangent: Is it best to say "An nvidia card" or "A nvidia card"? 'An' sounds better, but 'a' is right according to my 4th grade english lessons. I think 'an' sounds better because you're really saying "(e)nvidia". I don't know if the "an before a vowel led word"…

I think you would use an. If you pronounce the letter (like in acronyms) you precede with an.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Seeing as OBS is now ubiquitous for livestreaming, I have to wonder if there's one or more software companies out there who see all that usage as lost revenue from a proprietary solution and are kicking themselves over it.

I almost can't believe how good OBS is for being open source.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#85
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve had the same issue, it’s critical to get fans to cool your MacBook pro since they are not capable of cooling themselves under load, especially i7 or i9. I have cabinet fans under mine and it works great, just don’t ask me to use a MacBook Pro as a laptop.

And if not fans, I actually just elevated my MacBook Pro on a cooling laptop stand (with no ventilation) and that was enough to keep it cool for hours-long streaming.

Very true that helps as well. A small $2 USB fan can be enough to keep air moving but not cool

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#86

> 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…

This is a big deal for me. I really like to use OBS to capture things when I want to show someone how something is working. Until now using OBS has essentially meant disabling my iGPU which, for me, kills battery life and isn't worth the sacrifice. I have been using Windows Gaming (press Win+G) to capture videos and then manually cropping and re-compressing them using KDEnlive.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#87
post #79

Why is OBS so slow on Mac? Is there a hardware issue here, or is it a software issue with OBS? It’s fantastic, but the speed difference on Windows is so much better.

My experience is that there are all sorts of accelerations and things that may or may not enable themselves, and no way to know these even exist without trawling through a bunch of forum threads.

An "OBS performance audit/optimizer" would be an interesting add-on. Because, yeah, it can sometimes bring an otherwise-fast machine to its knees, seemingly inexplicably.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#88

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…

Very cool idea. Is the code public? I'd love to see how you implement it.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#89
post #20

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

So I've had the reverse issue. With hardware encoding on and external monitors plugged into my intel macbook, everything would overheat and I would get kernel throttling of everything. The external monitors cause the GPU to draw more power, but I'm not sure why that combined with hardware encoding in OBS caused issues. When I switched to software encoding the cpu was a bit higher but everything was fine. Apparently t…

Also refer these 4800+ posts at macrumors...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#90

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…

OBS can alter a zoom or slack stream?

Instead of "altering" a stream, you use OBS to take the camera input, then output it via virtual cam. Once you have the basics setup, you can get fancy setting up scenes, overlays, color corrections etc. Works great for green screens as well.

https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-use-obss-virtual-camera

(There are other articles that talk about using a plugin, that isn't required after OBS v25, they integrated the feature).

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