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Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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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.

I have the same issue. How do you know if it's throttling and if so what is the action to take? My fairly recent Mac is completely failing at doing video, while my 2012 I dragged out of storage has no issue.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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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+!

Which software did you use on the iPhone side to get this to work?

EpocCam has been working great for me, we're using the iPad as a mobile camera for various remote workshops. It's fantastic. OBS is a treat.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Note that Apple Silicon (arm64) support is still in progress and all the builds released to date have been amd64 only.

Any idea when it’s coming? I know no one likes that question, but... well, I have an M1 Air, and I’d love to stream some coding sessions or tutorials. So arm64 support would be tasty. Is there some way we could help with the arm64 patching?

I actually managed to build OBS for M1 Mac. All the dependencies do have arm support. I only had to make small changes in the cmake file for arm64. Right now I am stuck at the part of signing the OBS app package. Without code signing Mac cannot open it.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Any idea when it’s coming? I know no one likes that question, but... well, I have an M1 Air, and I’d love to stream some coding sessions or tutorials. So arm64 support would be tasty. Is there some way we could help with the arm64 patching?

My smoothbrained take is that it'll be a little bit, since optimizing it for ARM is going to take a little effort. Like GP said, it's really about the encoders slowly being updated to better support the hardware.

I was able to build OBS from source for M1 Mac. I don’t know how optimized it is. But with few changes to the cmake files you can build it without errors. The only part I am stuck is with code signing. You need to code sign, if not it crashes.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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* Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim] Wooooh! That's going to turn so many instances of "Oh I've just deleted 30 minutes of filter tuning" into "whoopsy, undo" also: * "(Windows only) Added support for NVIDIA Noise Removal in the Noise Suppression filter" Nice! I wonder how that compares to the old RNNoise option...

Undo/redo would be me :). I put in a lot of effort and spent months working on it to get a basic workable version. I am only just a you g student, so over the last several rcs, Jim refined it and made improvements and bug fixes. I love the team and everyone involved is just a great person.

Doing god's work

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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OBS is great! Microsoft Teams broke virtual cam support a couple of months back on windoss. Has anyone found a workaround to maybe fake OBS virtual cam as a physical one? I would be grateful!

For windows: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.949/

The CEO of Shopify put up a bounty last year to support similar functionality on macOS, I’m not sure if it was ever completed.

EDIT: looks like OBS officially supports it for Mac and Linux since 26.1 - https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/26.1.0

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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> 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

(which will appear as a camera source on its own, no OBS required. I was for a while a happy Camo user too, but eventually bought a webcam so I didn't have to hook and unhook my phone; it's good software)

I'm an iPhone webcam user because commercial webcams are incredible worse in quality than modern day smartphones. I regret purchasing one of the better rated Logitech ones and appearing like a washed out zombie on video calls.

Meanwhile we walk around with a quasi-DSLR in our pockets.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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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.

I have the same issue. How do you know if it's throttling and if so what is the action to take? My fairly recent Mac is completely failing at doing video, while my 2012 I dragged out of storage has no issue.

The command’s output is pretty straightforward. It tells you the percentage of CPU you have available to use. Leave it running and try something super intensive. It’s much easier to get my Intel MBA to throttle than my work-provided 16” MBP.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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OBS and VLC have made everyones lives better. And they have been doing it for a long time now. There should be a global fund, funded by tax payers, globally managed, like the UN, that helps developers who develop software that is used in every nook and corner of earth. A strong incentive like that, and we could see a revolution in open source software.

Some of the companies/people I know are quite happy sending portions of their revenue to e.g. Blender for its use in their commercial pipeline. As a hobbyist I do the same (not a portion of revenue, but I chuck a monthly coffee towards whatever I'm learning, at least.) That global fund? It's not the UN, it's HN. That strong incentive? It's the feeling that moved your comment. We can send that money to developers right now. Hopefully a lot of us already are. tl;dr: buy WinRAR.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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OBS is great! Microsoft Teams broke virtual cam support a couple of months back on windoss. Has anyone found a workaround to maybe fake OBS virtual cam as a physical one? I would be grateful!

For windows: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.949/ The CEO of Shopify put up a bounty last year to support similar functionality on macOS, I’m not sure if it was ever completed. EDIT: looks like OBS officially supports it for Mac and Linux since 26.1 - https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/26.1.0

Yes that is what I am saying, teams broke virtual cams unfortunately
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