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Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by gok »

I've been using OBS to run a trivia game over YouTube.

It's kind of a piece of shit. The Mac port is horrible. None of the widgets work properly, all the menu items are in the wrong place, and it supports essentially no system keyboard shortcuts. Like cmd+F doesn't do "Find…", it randomly resizes the thing you're editing. It's everything bad about Qt apps in one place. It also ships with its own 180MB copy of Chromium embedded because, you know, how could anyone write a desktop app without a copy of Chrome these days?

Simple things like doing a presentation of slides are unintuitive and kludgey at best, and sometimes impossible. There are features revealed in the UI that, after digging through the forums, you'll discover are actually unimplemented. The audio mixing is very lacking; there's no easy cough button and the levels indicator doesn't work properly.

So does anyone know of any alternatives?

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by r1ch »

yesimahuman wrote: post #3

OBS is really great, but beware the latest version has some serious crash issues on Catalina. Seems related to password managers and HTML forms with password inputs. Had my stream crash over and over until I stopped using my browser during the session.

This is triggered by secure input causing issues with the hotkey code. We're aware of the issue and should have a hotfix out soon.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by jjdredd »

nindalf wrote: post #99
pkulak wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm kinda new to Linux as a desktop, and thus went straight to Wayland, so these kinds of comments from ol'-timers are super interesting to me. I run a Wayland desktop, and I start it by typing it's executable from the TTY after I log in. No fuss, no muss. Everything works great, except there was this one game I wanted to try out that's a Windows .exe and needs to run in Wine and I couldn't quite get it to run in Way…

> I can't fathom how anyone puts up with X. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

I don't think it's the case. X just works for me. Had to configure it once, after that I experienced no friction using or updating it.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by jjdredd »

lvh wrote: post #20

If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland, and screencasts on that have long since been a complete pain in the neck with per-compositor "solutions" that mostly don't work quite right. Fortunately someone who works on Gnome wrote the obs-xdg-portal plugin that should fix this, at least for Gnome and hopefully soon for wlroots and KDE once they fully support the underlying portal API. Unt…

> If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland

I missed the point when Wayland took over all the major modern distros. Did supersede Xorg now? I've been using X11 forever and never thought of alternatives.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by qplex »

pkulak wrote: post #91
axlee wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Wayland do anything better than Xorg? Every time I see it mentioned, it is about how it does not support this or that core feature of Xorg (e.g multiple displays with custom pixel densities/scaling, screen sharing apps being broken, etc...). What is Wayland's reason for existing?

I'm kinda new to Linux as a desktop, and thus went straight to Wayland, so these kinds of comments from ol'-timers are super interesting to me. I run a Wayland desktop, and I start it by typing it's executable from the TTY after I log in. No fuss, no muss. Everything works great, except there was this one game I wanted to try out that's a Windows .exe and needs to run in Wine and I couldn't quite get it to run in Way…

There used to be all kinds of nice rules. Like that X would run on tty7.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by aantix »

aarongolliver wrote: post #106
jameshe wrote: post #89

I use OBS Studio with OBS-VirtualCam [0] to attend virtual lectures & hold meetings for my team. I've found it to be incredibly convenient because you can control nearly everything with scenes and the audio controls. Before meetings start, I can broadcast music and display announcements, and then without having to hit a jarring "End Screenshare" can switch to my webcam and start a meeting. Live demos and presentation…

how are you getting desktop audio (music or whatever) to get sent to your meetings? I didn't see how to expose the audio output from obs as a "microphone" or whatever to video conferencing software. I ended up hacking my setup together with voicemeeter but it's pretty sloppy and error prone.

Loopback? https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by Macha »

grawprog wrote: post #105
m4rtink wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wayland by default prevents applications from accessing other application display, input and output, while on X it is basically free for all. Any application can see what any other application is displaying, read it's input & send it it input events. This might have been fine in the past, but is not really OK any more with efforts to make things more secure (eq. to prevent a malicious application to read you password…

>Wayland by default prevents applications from accessing other application display, input and output, So it breaks the entire linux philosophy of using input and output streams to pipe data between different modular applications? >This might have been fine in the past, but is not really OK any more Says who? Personally I like my computer being able to access other things on my computer. It kind of makes it more usefu…

Arguably the end state planned for Wayland in this regard (having access to specific applications provided) is conceptually closer to streams than the current situation with X (one big shared ball of global state).

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by marksomnian »

grawprog wrote: post #105
m4rtink wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wayland by default prevents applications from accessing other application display, input and output, while on X it is basically free for all. Any application can see what any other application is displaying, read it's input & send it it input events. This might have been fine in the past, but is not really OK any more with efforts to make things more secure (eq. to prevent a malicious application to read you password…

>Wayland by default prevents applications from accessing other application display, input and output, So it breaks the entire linux philosophy of using input and output streams to pipe data between different modular applications? >This might have been fine in the past, but is not really OK any more Says who? Personally I like my computer being able to access other things on my computer. It kind of makes it more usefu…

> So it breaks the entire linux philosophy of using input and output streams to pipe data between different modular applications?

Not really. To use your analogy, the way that X works - every application being able to read the framebuffer of any other - is the equivalent of every application running as root and being able to read and modify any file on the system. When you consider that applications running under Wayland may include e.g. banking details, any app being able to read that is like anything being able to read /etc/shadow.

If your computer is perfectly secure, with no untrusted code running, that's great - and also far more secure than 90% desktop computers out there.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by ShamelessC »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #107
rgoodwintx wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ManyCam is an option, though I'm not really sure how reliable/performant.

You can try out the free version, seems ok. I was worried about it being sketchy, but it looks like it's from a team in Canada.

I'm not sure if it's true but I love the notion that Canadians are inherently better developers than the rest of the world.
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