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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by 411111111111111 »

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…

Spoken like a true apple user. Judgemental about missing features despite not actually taking the time to get to know the software. It's literally just a right click on the input to apply a filter.

OBS has issues, feature discoverability being one of them... But the way you've phrased the critique is borderline flamebait

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by prmoustache »

usrn wrote: post #81
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. FFMPEG alone (well, with the pulseaudio loopback) can do this. It can also stream to stuff like twitch with no extra software. OBS is great but I feel like it's overkill for a lot of what people do.

Well most obs users like the facility of composing scenes without having to check how to identify each window/input/source. I tend to favor cli tools but we are talking about video software and the ability to have immediate preview is really comfortable. Also I don't think ffmpeg can switch scenes comfortably. I am using obs to create some video tutorial at work. I could record different rushes but I find it more convenient to record a single rush with different scenes and cut the hesitations or repeated moments due to bad prononciation or cough or whatever afterwards with avidemux.

However this give me an idea about a tool that would export scene composition and video output settings to ffmpeg argument for easy reuse. It is true that if you don't have an usecase where you switch scenes it could be handy to start a record/stream from a command line. For example I have been ripping some videos from my streaming services so that my daughters can watch the movies on a plane, works great for that. Didn't bothered using ffmpeg because the preview allowed me to be sure I was recording the correct window without realizing 2h later I had recorded trash. Surely there are better ripping tool but at least this way probably do not attract attention from said streaming services as you are recording in real time.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by jka »

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).

Re: video input - does the same problem occur when using the (unofficial, in maintenance-only mode) teams-for-linux[1] client?

(I haven't tried using the Windows version under Wine, sorry)

[1] - https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux/

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by Diris »

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…

> - routing master windows audio through a compressor/limiter when listening to videos or streams that have poor leveling

If anyone wants to do this on linux, there's easyeffects[0]

[0] https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by josteink »

reilly3000 wrote: post #39

When I was half my age, OBS was unfathomable. I was shooting video on digital 8, editing in Final Cut Pro 4 which was the new hotness, and trying but failing to use DSS on my college network. Actual streaming at scale required a massive server and a massive license from RealNetworks. If I wanted to do anything with animation, it was all $$$$$ software. This all took place in a shared lab at my college with stuff I co…

> I hope we see Godot achieve world domination in gaming, GIMP in graphics, and Libra Office + Collabra in productivity. The people who have given us these tools deserve the highest accolades.

What has hindered GIMP from mainstream adaptation is its clunky UI, and that has not really changed in any significant way, or at least not significantly for the better.

I'm a programmer, sysadmin, devops "ninja" and I can juggle just about any stack. And I can use any painting-program you throw at me, without training. But GIMP I still have to look up basic stuff, like how to draw a rectangle.

GIMP will never be mainstream, because it's made for specifically trained "expert-users" only, without any easy path to glide into for new users.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by ben174 »

sundvor wrote: post #50
reilly3000 wrote: post #39

When I was half my age, OBS was unfathomable. I was shooting video on digital 8, editing in Final Cut Pro 4 which was the new hotness, and trying but failing to use DSS on my college network. Actual streaming at scale required a massive server and a massive license from RealNetworks. If I wanted to do anything with animation, it was all $$$$$ software. This all took place in a shared lab at my college with stuff I co…

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…

Where does Scala fit into all of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imh2cH4CnaA

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by gwd »

lovehashbrowns wrote: post #129
fredsmith219 wrote: post #61

I have Google Fi as my phone service, so I can make and receive calls from my PC. I use OBS to record my important calls with big companies. I always smirk when I hear "this call may be recorded". You bet your ass it's being recorded. The recordings have saved me money and aggravation more than once.

Gotta check recording laws, of course! But I’ve done the same. I recorded a transaction between me and another person using OBS. OBS made it easy to add in the discord chat overlayed with our zoom call. It recorded everything to disk in one file, audio video and the chat overlay. All in real time. OBS is just an amazing product.

> Gotta check recording laws, of course!

There's a weekly online meeting for work that I record, and the first thing on every recording is me saying, "Right, so I've started recording." Probably overkill, but it takes almost no effort, and prevents just about any possible misunderstandings.

The only thing that's a bit of a pain is that the meeting app (understandably) doesn't reflect my own sound back to me; so I have to send the mic separately to OBS and to the meeting app, so that both the recording and the live meeting can hear my voice. That in turn means I have to mute in two places separately if I want neither one to (for instance) hear my crying toddler come into the room. That's not OBS's fault, and could probably be solved with yet another layer of software... but probably not worth it to me to set up at this point in time.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by gwd »

oneepic wrote: post #2

I'm curious. What is the point of reposting this?

I've known of OBS for a while, but I still enjoy reading the commentary from the HN crowd; you have a chance to learn of competing (possibly better) software, interesting setups or uses you hadn't thought of, "adjacent" software or hardware that is useful in conjunction with it, or gotchas or tricks where the software is rough or tends to shine. Having "current" commentary is also useful, so having it reposted every year or two is good even for those who have read previous discussions about it.
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