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OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#11

I'm sure most people who would benefit from this software have heard of it.

I found it on my own, but I had to do a bit of digging.. I wanted a way to capture my screen and didn't want to run any non-FOSS software if I could avoid it

As of a few years ago, anyway, there were a LOT of half-assed apps out there to do a bad job of the same thing, and they were dominating the search results

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#13

OBS is an awesome app. Its interface is a bit "awkward," but not too bad. It has many tools that are not available elsewhere.

I came here to say the same. My son (10) uses it a lot, he's figured it all out by just trying things. The other day he had an issue with a slight echo in the audio. He mentioned it when we were out of the house. When we got home I had the idea that maybe he'd added the Audio Input Capture twice ... but I couldn't think of why that would happen. When i mentioned it to him, he'd already figured it out and solved it. H…

I think "polished" UX usually requires a dumbed down interface and is otherwise exceedingly difficult for necessarily complex workflows such as broadcasting.

If your product isn't quite opinionated on the one right way to do things (and only a specific kind of thing) you can create a really shiny UX. If your product needs to be many things to many kinds of people, stuff ends up a bit messy but only to the detriment to extreme beginners.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#14

OBS is an awesome app. Its interface is a bit "awkward," but not too bad. It has many tools that are not available elsewhere.

I came here to say the same. My son (10) uses it a lot, he's figured it all out by just trying things. The other day he had an issue with a slight echo in the audio. He mentioned it when we were out of the house. When we got home I had the idea that maybe he'd added the Audio Input Capture twice ... but I couldn't think of why that would happen. When i mentioned it to him, he'd already figured it out and solved it. H…

I adamantly disagree.

The problem is explained in...

Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

https://bothsidesofthetable.com/design-for-the-novice-config...

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#15

I'm sure most people who would benefit from this software have heard of it.

I found it on my own, but I had to do a bit of digging.. I wanted a way to capture my screen and didn't want to run any non-FOSS software if I could avoid it As of a few years ago, anyway, there were a LOT of half-assed apps out there to do a bad job of the same thing, and they were dominating the search results

Try this Google search...

"Most popular FOSS software for recording your screen"

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-lm&q=Most+p...

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#16

Does it have a freaking equalizer yet? Seriously. I don't want to research plugins or pay for one of the most fundamental signal processing blocks.

> Does it have a freaking equalizer yet?

> Seriously. I don't want to research plugins or pay for one of the most fundamental signal processing blocks.

It’s amazing how often I see this “I am owed feature X” attitude… and I don’t get it. If it isn’t useful for you, then just don’t comment.

OBS is a VST plugin host, so there are probably a million equalizers, but you seriously don’t want to research plugins.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#17

OBS is an awesome app. Its interface is a bit "awkward," but not too bad. It has many tools that are not available elsewhere.

I’ve always compared it to Audacity (though not quite as crash prone/unwieldy haha). Mostly because it’s 1) free and 2) far more robust than it has any right to be.

I’ve been in media production for about a decade. You’d be surprised how many high budget projects use OBS for live streams. It really does get the job done.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#18

Does it have a freaking equalizer yet? Seriously. I don't want to research plugins or pay for one of the most fundamental signal processing blocks.

VST plugins are a really standard way of doing things, I'm not all that surprised that OBS doesn't want to reimplement something which is done much better many times over.
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