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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by corobo »

jve wrote: post #146
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.

What is the issue you had?

Not op but my setup would be webcam on screen, in the audio mixing (right click, advanced maybe) put each audio feed onto its own track for later editing

I can't picture anything wrong with a quick setup other than maybe the audio tracks all being mashed into track 1 by default. Would need more information

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by Beltiras »

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 remember having been stymied by my US Amiga being NTSC so I couldn't do PAL video (living in Europe), otherwise I could have done some work for advertising agencies. Would have changed the trajectory of my life back in 1986.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by corobo »

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.

I'd love to see the one liner for ffmpeg that actually does this. You could probably publish it as a novel, haha

I love ffmpeg as much as the next nerd that tinkers with video but.. it's video. It's so much nicer to interact with it using a GUI.

Not to mention if you did something wrong you could just change it in OBS rather than kill the stream and tinker for half an hour

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by movedx »

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 haven't had the same experiences as you regarding "the old way" of doing things, but I can provide my take as a content creator today.

... wow! It's simply always amazing to me that I can turn on a cheap mirrorless camera and get sharp, clean footage. That footage is fed into my PC. I feed in a "cheap" USB microphone and get crisp audio. OBS takes all of this, and every other asset I throw at it, and combines it all into a live stream of video and audio... in real-time.

And then I stream it to the rest of the planet in less than 100ms.

A friend of mine is learning Unreal Engine 5 right now. Meta Humans are just crazy good. The real-time lighting in the engine is f-ing bonkers! And the fact there are tens of thousands of high poly, free models as well as high-res scans for materials (textures) just blows my mind.

What a time to be alive.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by southerntofu »

josteink wrote: post #155
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 jugg…

> 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.

I don't entirely disagree with this criticism, but it's interesting to note that in the past years the GIMP project has received significant contributions from ZeMarmot project so the artist-developer feedback loop is shortening.

There's been major advances lately and given more time/resources i believe the actual team (and new contributors?) could really make GIMP even better.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by amai »

Daunk wrote: post #150
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.

But you have to first create a such a mask with some image software: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Filters-Guide#image-maskblend

This costs a lot of time and generates questions, for example what resolution should my mask image be? OBS doesn't offer even the simplest default shapes like a circle. This is annoying and makes OBS not suited for beginners and simple tasks.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by mkl »

Akronymus wrote: post #60
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...

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?

Equalizer APO: https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/

Runs audio filters at the Windows driver level, before applications get the data. Good for adding noise reduction etc. to applications that don't support it natively.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by jve »

corobo wrote: post #161
jve wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - 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.

What is the issue you had? Not op but my setup would be webcam on screen, in the audio mixing (right click, advanced maybe) put each audio feed onto its own track for later editing I can't picture anything wrong with a quick setup other than maybe the audio tracks all being mashed into track 1 by default. Would need more information

AH now I see. The microphone output IS SO QUIET I can barely hear it. Google Meet doesn't have this issue.

Moreover, I was adding audio output capture and Desktop Audio mixer was hidden. So I adjusted output volume for 1 instance only and it was always so much louder (thinking mixer doesn't work), that I cannot hear mic. I figured the latter out that I don't have to add Audio Output Capture source explicitly and I can adjust that volume.

But my mic output is unusable.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by rg111 »

godelmachine wrote: post #123
rg111 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A huge learning curve is needed to understand OBS. A big no. You can start streaming or recording with OBS within twenty minutes of installing it. I did. Never used it before. I wanted a simple coding set-up where the whole screen is the main source and my webcam feed is in the corner as a box. > Secondly, whenever I connect an external monitor to my primary laptop, the audio is not recorded. Doesn't happen with me…

I connect to the same external monitor everyday in my office and both are restarted daily - my primary laptop as well as the secondary monitor. Never has the audio been captured in this setup.

Can you capture audio otherwise? I mean, without OBS?
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