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Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by cheschire »

PunksATawnyFill wrote: post #4

What's "OBS?" That would be valuable information.

OBS is probably most widely known in the twitch / mixer streaming world.

It allows you to layer your inputs and different overlays together to create a single video output that includes things such as video games, webcam feed, etc. The video output is typically either recorded straight to video file for upload to youtube, or for streaming directly to a supported streaming service.

It's not purely used for video games, mind you.

In this case I believe the idea is that you would use OBS on your local workstation to setup your own web cam and a view of your desktop / work space for the purposes of peer development etc, and then pipe that out as a virtual webcam to other software that only support webcams as inputs.

That's my guess for what's going on here. Hope someone gets some good money from this.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by bbrazil »

akerro wrote: post #18

Linux is supported with V4L2 https://imgur.com/a/BvkPfP9 What's the problem with it?

This isn't about getting input from a camera (which works fine), but making the output of OBS appear as a camera to the rest of the system.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by bbrazil »

cheschire wrote: post #21
PunksATawnyFill wrote: post #4

What's "OBS?" That would be valuable information.

OBS is probably most widely known in the twitch / mixer streaming world. It allows you to layer your inputs and different overlays together to create a single video output that includes things such as video games, webcam feed, etc. The video output is typically either recorded straight to video file for upload to youtube, or for streaming directly to a supported streaming service. It's not purely used for video games…

> It's not purely used for video games, mind you.

Indeed. I also use it to stream sports with the scores as an overlay, and to record training videos.

Basically if you're doing anything "live" with video, it's the tool you want.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by vortico »

This makes me think. Is there a service that handles crowd-sourcing and processing payments a bit like Kickstarter but on a smaller scale? Say, if someone proposes a feature and the developer says "I'll do it for $300", users could donate until the goal is reached. With the promise of payment, the developer can go ahead and spend the time/effort, and everybody wins. But setting up a Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc is too big of a deal for a $300 feature/bug fix.

GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors) already exists, but I feel that they missed the point. As a user, I don't want to throw money at a project like it's a charity, I want to throw money so issues will be solved. As a developer, I don't want to accept unconditional donations (and all the unwritten, assumed responsibilities it comes with), I want to be funded in a concrete way so I can work on the issues users want so much they'd pay for it.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by maeln »

schrijver wrote: post #9
mrlambchop wrote: post #3

For the purposes of pranking people on zoom calls, I setup a OBS / Syphon / Camtwist flow that works great for my alternative conference requirements (ranging from matrix style graphics, playing videos of me on the green screen doing things in the background, scrolling comments on the meeting on my video feed etc...). However... it is a major MAJOR PITA to get going when I want to jump on a quick call and more than o…

If you can share a view details on your setup that would be great!

FYI Syphon (which is used to link OBS to CamTwist) stop working since MacOS 10.15 since their "hack" that was making the whole thing work, stopped working.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by whb07 »

vortico wrote: post #25

This makes me think. Is there a service that handles crowd-sourcing and processing payments a bit like Kickstarter but on a smaller scale? Say, if someone proposes a feature and the developer says "I'll do it for $300", users could donate until the goal is reached. With the promise of payment, the developer can go ahead and spend the time/effort, and everybody wins. But setting up a Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc is too…

gitcoin is one i've seen.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by ekianjo »

vortico wrote: post #25

This makes me think. Is there a service that handles crowd-sourcing and processing payments a bit like Kickstarter but on a smaller scale? Say, if someone proposes a feature and the developer says "I'll do it for $300", users could donate until the goal is reached. With the promise of payment, the developer can go ahead and spend the time/effort, and everybody wins. But setting up a Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc is too…

> I want to be funded in a concrete way so I can work on the issues users are willing to pay for.

I like the concept of a utility-based market.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by bauruine »

vortico wrote: post #25

This makes me think. Is there a service that handles crowd-sourcing and processing payments a bit like Kickstarter but on a smaller scale? Say, if someone proposes a feature and the developer says "I'll do it for $300", users could donate until the goal is reached. With the promise of payment, the developer can go ahead and spend the time/effort, and everybody wins. But setting up a Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc is too…

Sounds like https://www.bountysource.com/

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by diggan »

vortico wrote: post #25

This makes me think. Is there a service that handles crowd-sourcing and processing payments a bit like Kickstarter but on a smaller scale? Say, if someone proposes a feature and the developer says "I'll do it for $300", users could donate until the goal is reached. With the promise of payment, the developer can go ahead and spend the time/effort, and everybody wins. But setting up a Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc is too…

> As a user, I don't want to throw money at a project

To be fair, GitHub Sponsors doesn't even allow you to sponsor a specific project, but only users or organizations.

I think BountySource (https://www.bountysource.com/) was the first player on the "Bounties for GitHub issues" side of things. Long time ago I actually came across a issue with a bounty though, so not sure it's actually working at the moment.

https://gitcoin.co/ is another attempt at aligning the incentives, but it's heavily involved in the cryptocurrency ecosystem and also been spamming projects in order to be setup on their platform, so I've been kind of avoiding it.

I think Open Collective seems to be the best platform for supporting projects with funding, but they don't have any "per issue" funding as far as I know. But it's a open project, someone should propose that feature!

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