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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by amai »

411111111111111 wrote: post #151
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

I worked several weeks with OBS. I also evaluated a lot of different software. E.g. Powerpoint offers also live video, but it allows only to show your webcam in one corner next to your presentation without any customization. A lot of other software on the market wants you to upload your video to some cloud first, before you can do anything.

I'm sorry to say that, but Apple Keynote hit the sweet spot between customizability, usability and price ( it's free on Apple ) for my purposes. If that sounds like flame bait for you, then be it. Others might be thankful for a different point of view.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by godelmachine »

rg111 wrote: post #170
godelmachine wrote: post #123

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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?

Yes, all the time.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by godelmachine »

rg111 wrote: post #120
godelmachine wrote: post #102

Have been using OBS for over a year coz Grabilla is not supported on my new company laptop. A huge learning curve is needed to understand OBS. For ex - I have still not been able to figure out how to record audio using AirPods Pro Secondly, whenever I connect an external monitor to my primary laptop, the audio is not recorded. Some challenges I face while using OBS. Many a times it's really frustrating

> 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.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by ghaff »

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…

When I was in school I was interested in film--and was part of a film (watching) crowd that I still stay in touch with. I even went so far as to sign up for a film course once.

But things were just moving past casual amateurs shooting on Super 8 film--which in addition to low quality got expensive in a hurry. Video cameras were huge things with big battery packs. I quickly decided the whole thing was more trouble than it was worth and just stuck to 35mm still photography.

"Just" an iPhone and modern editing software would have been a revelation.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by sph »

reilly3000 wrote: post #57
sundvor wrote: post #50

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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…

Oh man that sounds like an awesome rig. I didn’t realize Nvidia Broadcast can reduce background noise like keystrokes until you mentioned it here. Does that really work? If so I now have a reason to buy a new GPU and finally use my cherry mx blues again.

OBS ships with rnnoise, which is like NVIDIA Broadcast, but works on any CPU. See also NoiseTorch and EasyEffects if you're on Linux.

It's pretty great, works decently, but the sad thing is the author put it out a few years ago, trained it on proprietary datasets, wrote a paper and then moved onto something else, never to be seen again. Now it's pretty much unmaintained since it requires some very specific ML and DSP knowledge to hack on.

https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise

NVIDIA Broadcast in my opinion is better, but rnnoise will do if you can't run it.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by Jistern »

DrewADesign wrote: post #99
squarefoot wrote: post #63

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> This is why we need more design expertise in FOSS. The secret probably is having well defined roles: whoever writes the code shouldn't be involved in interface design and vice versa, unless they prove themselves good at it, as the two tasks require very different sets of skills. This is easily accomplished in commercial software writing where roles are defined and salaries paid, but in the FOSS world where everyone…

And the main barrier to design work being integrated into FOSS is usually the attitude of project maintainers. I know plenty of designers who’ve worked as developers and all of them contribute to FOSS… just not as designers. The attitude of the post to which I responded is a perfect example of it— the way developers do it is the advanced way to do it but designers just want to make the Tonka version for idiots. It do…

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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by Jistern »

DrewADesign wrote: post #91
squarefoot wrote: post #63

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> This is why we need more design expertise in FOSS. The secret probably is having well defined roles: whoever writes the code shouldn't be involved in interface design and vice versa, unless they prove themselves good at it, as the two tasks require very different sets of skills. This is easily accomplished in commercial software writing where roles are defined and salaries paid, but in the FOSS world where everyone…

There’s definitely some utility in separating roles— as an experienced designer and developer I can assure you that making the right design decision is a lot harder if it’s going to be a pain in the ass for you to code — but the most important factor is having the right expertise for the task. We’ve all seen the cargo culted loopdy loop code written by non-experts armed with tutorials, and having one of them do the d…

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Post by Jistern »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #100
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #73

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While I'm sort of rephrasing what DrewADesign said, I think, it's not a matter of "form over function" as much as the difference between a UI designed around the tasks to be done versus one designed around the underlying data/function models. The latter can be very "functional," but that doesn't necessarily make it a good interface. Calibre's UI isn't illogical or nonsensical, and it can do everything you probably wa…

I think the classic design phrase "form follows function" best describes the ideal. That is, when designing something, and especially when there's nothing to yet dictate what the form should be, let function guide you to it. If you were to ask "how should a table lamp be designed", I would point to its function -- to give diffuse light and allow switching it on and off -- as the primary guide. Make that work well. Do…

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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by stavros »

sundvor wrote: post #115
Karrot_Kream wrote: post #95

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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…

Nice setup! OBS scenes is the killer feature for me, so it just works well. In addition the AFK one I've also set a couple of zoom levels that frame me better if I decide to slide my seat back a bit. I even have scenes for sprint planning estimation sessions. 1-3-5-8 etc superimposed over my picture. :D (they are numbered buttons on the Streamdeck).

What's the latency like?

Also, do you know what keystrokes the Stream Deck actually sends? Is it some ctrl-alt-whatever combo, or MIDI, or what?

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by Suzuran »

sundvor wrote: post #118
ketzo wrote: post #92

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Wow, that’s… kind of insane. Cool. I’m gonna have to check it out.

It also completely eliminates screaming cats and babies. It's worth the price of the GPU upgrade alone. I know that Slack and Google are slowly baking these features in, but NVIDIA are in a league of their own. AMD not having them made my GPU brand choice easy last time I upgraded.

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