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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by wsinks »

rb666 wrote: post #137
sundvor wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've come an incredibly long way since Genlock on the Commodore Amiga! I use OBS Studio with my Streamdeck, a Logitech Streamcam, NVIDIA Broadcast, a condenser microphone via a Steinberg XLR audio interface along with Elgato Key lights and iHue fill lights for my working from home office Google Meets. Startup and shut downs of the entire stack including launching into Google Meets are automated with the deck (one bu…

What on earth is an "iHue fill light"? I don't get any hits on Google for this term.

A fill light refers to what the light is doing - it’s making the shadows of your frame a bit brighter so the camera can pick them up.

(As an example, a hair light is an overhead light that’s typically used to give hair more depth and detail. The poster talks about a key light, which is the strongest light in a standard 3 light setup)

I imagine ihue is the brand of light. Or maybe just a misspelling of Hue’s brand.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by Angostura »

rb666 wrote: post #137
sundvor wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've come an incredibly long way since Genlock on the Commodore Amiga! I use OBS Studio with my Streamdeck, a Logitech Streamcam, NVIDIA Broadcast, a condenser microphone via a Steinberg XLR audio interface along with Elgato Key lights and iHue fill lights for my working from home office Google Meets. Startup and shut downs of the entire stack including launching into Google Meets are automated with the deck (one bu…

What on earth is an "iHue fill light"? I don't get any hits on Google for this term.

A Fill light is the counterpart of a spotlight

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by traxmaxx »

rb666 wrote: post #137
sundvor wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've come an incredibly long way since Genlock on the Commodore Amiga! I use OBS Studio with my Streamdeck, a Logitech Streamcam, NVIDIA Broadcast, a condenser microphone via a Steinberg XLR audio interface along with Elgato Key lights and iHue fill lights for my working from home office Google Meets. Startup and shut downs of the entire stack including launching into Google Meets are automated with the deck (one bu…

What on earth is an "iHue fill light"? I don't get any hits on Google for this term.

There's an app called iHue https://www.reddit.com/r/Hue/comments/46irji/introduction_ne...

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by ciberado »

Cu3PO42 wrote: post #76
Akronymus wrote: post #60

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That is indeed good to know. It didn't even occur to me that thats possible. Do you by chance know of something similar but for audio?

On Windows, VoiceMeeter may do what you need. Of course, OBS also mixes audio and if you add a loopback audio device and set it as output in OBS, you can also use that as an input elsewhere. On Windows or macOS, you can use VB Audio Cable. On Linux, it should be pretty straight forward with most audio stacks, as well.

I used to work with VoiceMeeter, but I replaced it with Audio Monitor Plugin[1] and the setup is much much simpler[2] now :)

[1] https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/audio-monitor.1186/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhXaC1f9QwQ

(edited to correct the format, I hope)

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by unlog »

nodja wrote: post #138
unlog wrote: post #130

I do not understand the five-second minimum delay I got..... nginx and obs paired at a 1s key frame interval still gives a five-second delay on football matches, which is very annoying because you heard your neighbors before actually watching the footage, and no, this is not solved by any streaming service.

I've tried to deal with this many years back, I think the latency is inherent in the protocols, there's layers like 2/3 layers of buffers that by the time the frame reaches the client several seconds have already passed. When I was researching this back then, there was only one protocol in OBS that was fast enough, but it was proprietary. It was called FTL and was what Mixer used (twitch competitor, now dead). Mixer…

Thanks for the info I will check it out!

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by jve »

platz wrote: post #62

I'm not a streamer, but I find OBS is great for other uses. The main things I use OBS for is: - Recording screen or window, while recording desktop audio and mic at the same time. - routing master windows audio through a compressor/limiter when listening to videos or streams that have poor leveling (though you need to install a virtual audio output in windows to do this - I found something called CABLE that works. Th…

> - Recording screen or window, while recording desktop audio and mic at the same time.

Can you show what sources you setup for this scenario? I haven't put much effort into it, but slamming my mic and audio output in there didn't produce satisfying results.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by prmoustache »

Shared404 wrote: post #127
LanceH wrote: post #58

For those who haven't tried it, you can mount the output of OBS as a camera, which can be used as input for something like Zoom. So you can add graphics, multiple angles, switch between different views, etc...

This can also be used as a workaround for Teams on Linux not being able to get video input from a laptop's built in webcam. Also, a bit off topic but has anyone had any luck getting the Windows version of Teams running in Wine? The Linux version is missing a few features I would really like to have (together mode, camera support, being able to view more than 4 participants at a time).

Since it is a webapp running on electron, I chose to install microsoft Edge for Linux and use the web version of teams. It also handle output/microphone devices changing much better than the app and is more stable than the windows app.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by amai »

Sorry to spoil the party, but my experience with OBS for creating a webinar video was not good. OBS is powerful, but it lacks decent defaults. Creating a simple overlay of my webcam in circular form over the presentation was not possible. But even a rectangular side-by-side of my webcam next to the presentation didn't look good ( the position was always wrong by a few pixels) because you have to position everything manually. It would be very nice if one could position things by selecting say top left corner, center, bottom right corner and also simply select shapes for the video view.

For doing webinars I'm now using the functionality built into Apple Keynote, which is great and simple to use: https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/add-live-video-tan6a...

Also - in opposition to OBS - Keynote will not use 100% of my CPU to render the live presentation.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by linker3000 »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #95
sundvor wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've come an incredibly long way since Genlock on the Commodore Amiga! I use OBS Studio with my Streamdeck, a Logitech Streamcam, NVIDIA Broadcast, a condenser microphone via a Steinberg XLR audio interface along with Elgato Key lights and iHue fill lights for my working from home office Google Meets. Startup and shut downs of the entire stack including launching into Google Meets are automated with the deck (one bu…

Unless OBS (or FFMpeg or GStreamer) is giving you something you need (maybe correction on your camera or some touch up filters or whatever), I'm not sure if you (the royal "you") really need OBS for this setup. I also have a very similar setup. High quality webcam, high quality headset, and a few lights pointing into my face to offset the lighting in the room. I have Zoom configured to use original audio and turn off…

I do technical pieces to camera for training material and also live work at STEM shows (Raspberry Pi Jams, Arduino chats and other tech stuff), and have a three monitor setup.

Screen 2 will be running any apps I need to show (coding etc.) and screen 3 is at the back of the workbench, which has a downward facing camera so I can show me working on the boards and other electronics.

Switching scenes from main cam to what's on screen 2 to the workbench is very handy, even without a dedicated key pad.

The only hassle is that under Linux, OBS sometimes forgets the camera device designations on startup and I have to pull out the USB connections, re-plug and then go into both camera definitions and re-select the right cameras.

I have device video and audio sink definitions behind he scenes so that the video and audio can be fed to virtual devices inside Zoom or Teams etc.

Edit: Oh, and I have a client plugin which allows me to use my Android phone camera as a roving webcam to highlight things on the workbench such as a scope screen, power supply current reading etc.

All works quite well.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by Daunk »

amai wrote: post #148

Sorry to spoil the party, but my experience with OBS for creating a webinar video was not good. OBS is powerful, but it lacks decent defaults. Creating a simple overlay of my webcam in circular form over the presentation was not possible. But even a rectangular side-by-side of my webcam next to the presentation didn't look good ( the position was always wrong by a few pixels) because you have to position everything m…

You can absolutely have your webcam take a circular form. Just apply a mask to your webcam as a filter and use any image you want to make it take that shape.
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