I'm still looking for a backend/headless tool that works like OBS that can run on servers.
OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
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I remember when you had to use Fraps to record your game, and a shitty proprietary webcam software to record that, then somehow mix them together like you said. Honestly mind boggling that there was not really a solid way to capture screen and webcam before OBS. It makes creating videos so much easier. OBS is honestly probably the greatest open source software out there in terms of quality and value.
Fraps was awesome lol, that iconic FPS that most people left on just to flex.
I don't know, it really degraded the performance of whatever you were playing compared to today's hardware solution (that comes with basically all GPUs) for recording stuff, directly from the GPU without any performance impact.
I mean, it worked at the time, but so frustrating when you wanted to show off 60fps in Crysis or whatever, and the recording ended up being less than 30 fps.
Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you capture audio otherwise? I mean, without OBS?
Yes, all the time.
I'm not a dev. For me, OBS has generally been a confusing hassle to deal with because of its laughably bad UI/UX.
The UI/UX needs simple English with pull downs so that users can form, gasp, simple English sentences which, of course, OBS would interpret as commands. The user would pull down stuff like, "I want to record 10 minutes of low quality video with high quality audio that is not larger than 50 megabytes in size which I will upload to YouTube."
Then OBS would translate that English into "coding magic." This sort of UI/UX is obviously worthwhile, and would be easy to implement.
In the past I have employed some kludgy workarounds which kind of, sort of worked. But I don't really need OBS for much. Therefore, to me, OBS is a typical FOSS "problem child" which I use despite disliking.
Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
If you haven't looked into this already, I'd recommend checking out how to write a udev rule for your USB devices. There's probably a way to lock them down so OBS identifies them consistently.
The Arch wiki has fairly in-depth instructions for understanding how udev rules work https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/udev
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#185I 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.
If an other party on the call states they are recording afaik you can record without the disclaimer.
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#186For 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...
unfortunately it does add a bit of lag which I find makes the technique somewhat untenable.
I haven't upgraded my Mac for a while and been wondering about what the measured range of delay might be for M1 (or M2) over 1080p video at 24fps.
My experience on an older Mac (late 2014) was that even at 320x240 I'd get non-negligible delay. I ended up getting a Magewell Capture. As far as I know Magewell and Blackmagic are the only HDMI to USB devices that perform hardware h.264 encoding. It works perfectly and even has configurable video processing options, but I can't currently use it with OBS without introducing a delay.
Regardless of whether newer machine might make OBS encoding delay negligible, I wonder if a layered approach might work: I'm not well versed in video streaming technologies, but perhaps _layered streams_ approach which I think is supported in some video formats could allow OBS to work faster as a tool that combine multiple encoded video streams into a single video. One such stream for example might be the main video camera + additional say keyboard facing camera and finally a text layer which should be much faster to encode than having to re-encode the entire output.
Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 customiza…
> 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.
You're misunderstanding the point. It's great that you're happy with keynote. It's likely a great choice for what you want to do.
> I worked several weeks with OBS
And yet you say it can't overlay a round camera cutout over the screen, which is just wrong.
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#188When 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 $$$$$ software. This all took place in a shared lab at my college with stuff I co…
I might be about 3/4 your age and I’m just in awe that within a few years, streamers went from needing a whole other computer to, uh, transcode their stream, to being able to easily do everything they need on one machine, while playing demanding games and or doing other tasks on their machine.
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#189You can disable the preview once you've set up your scene and make it a bit faster.
Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#190When I was half my age, OBS was unfathomable. I was shooting video on digital 8, editing in Final Cut Pro 4 which was the new hotness, and trying but failing to use DSS on my college network. Actual streaming at scale required a massive server and a massive license from RealNetworks. If I wanted to do anything with animation, it was all $$$$$ software. This all took place in a shared lab at my college with stuff I co…
> When I was half my age, OBS was unfathomable
I'm assuming you're a little younger than me. When I was a chunk less than half my age I was shooting video on a (very expensive) Sony VX2000 and editing in (very expensive) Premiere 4, and streaming using very clever SMIL and a (very expensive) RealNetworks server licence.
Now I still shoot on a Sony PD150 (high-end version of the VX2000) because I just love shooting SD DV, or on a Canon HD camera, and edit in DaVinci Resolve (free, unless you buy Studio which I haven't yet). I can upload to Vimeo or Youtube, or just fire up a Docker container on my server to run Peertube.
I use Kicad pretty much every day, which again is Free as in speech and free as in beer.