Does it have a freaking equalizer yet? Seriously. I don't want to research plugins or pay for one of the most fundamental signal processing blocks.
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#22As a note, OBS is a really solid capture tool for... anything. I do a lot of old VHS conversions and found OBS is vastly superior to the in-box garbage with most capture devices.
Do tell? I need to be doing that. Have a million VHS from my parents.
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#23An oldie, but a goodie. I recently dusted off my install after ManyCam re-wrote the definition of "lifetime" and screwed over a bunch of its most loyal customers.
Oldie? Goodie? OBS is currently the defacto standard in streaming software. There is no real alternative. Any alternative is a reskinned OBS. Streaming aside, it's a (the?) category leader in screen recording and audio manipulation.
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#24Does it have a freaking equalizer yet? Seriously. I don't want to research plugins or pay for one of the most fundamental signal processing blocks.
Reaper provides a stand-alone bundle of plugins they distribute with their DAW.
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#25I'm sure most people who would benefit from this software have heard of it.
I can guarantee that all of those people at some point in their lives hadn't heard of it. People have to learn about it somewhere, why not here?
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#26An oldie, but a goodie. I recently dusted off my install after ManyCam re-wrote the definition of "lifetime" and screwed over a bunch of its most loyal customers.
Oldie? Goodie? OBS is currently the defacto standard in streaming software. There is no real alternative. Any alternative is a reskinned OBS. Streaming aside, it's a (the?) category leader in screen recording and audio manipulation.
There are plenty of real alternatives. I'm partial to vMix for live-streaming; I ran Demuxed 2020 and 2021 through my vMix deck from the comfort of my office and through 2020-21 ran about sixty high-production fighting game tournaments off of the same. I like vMix because its audio mixing is excellent and WebRTC-integrated chat comes out of the box, plus data-driven lower thirds and good remoting solutions and MIDI controls for script/function control.
Other folks quite like VT-X and TriCaster setups. Or Wirecast, or XSplit (itself notably big in some circles). The only "reskinned OBS" I know of is StreamLabs OBS, which, yeah, isn't great, but there are quite a few alternatives.
On the audio front, I'm not sure calling it "the category leader in audio manipulation" holds much water, given that OBS's audio facilities are notably its weakest point. (Not entirely their fault. The licensing around ASIO is weird.) Voicemeeter plus your DAW of choice come to mind. Or, for live mixing directly in your video mixer--well, vMix and NewTek both are pretty good choices there, too.
This is not to take anything away from the OBS project or team; it's quite good at what it does, and if your needs are in their crosshairs or you're willing to expend as much effort as necessary to build what doesn't exist around it you can put on a great show using OBS. (And in particular I think their game-capture logic is best-of-breed; when running events I still use OBS as an ffmpeg frontend on my satellite systems because I don't have to think about game capture.) But the idea that there are no "real alternatives" isn't correct, particularly when you have more moving pieces involved and you don't want to--or, for less programmery types, aren't able to--spend your days writing duct-tape code around your video mixer.
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#27OBS is an awesome app. Its interface is a bit "awkward," but not too bad. It has many tools that are not available elsewhere.
We need to find a way to better integrate UI/UX designers into open source.
first time i showed my wife calibre (she had to convert some amazon ebook format to epub), she was scared. so many buttons, so many labels, so many options. nothing makes sense unless you understand the developer that did it.
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#28OBS is an awesome app. Its interface is a bit "awkward," but not too bad. It has many tools that are not available elsewhere.
We need to find a way to better integrate UI/UX designers into open source.
We have actually just launched a user survey[1] today hoping to get some feedback about how people use OBS, with the goal of improving UX. No telemetry makes it difficult to get an idea of which features users actually use or find important.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oldie? Goodie? OBS is currently the defacto standard in streaming software. There is no real alternative. Any alternative is a reskinned OBS. Streaming aside, it's a (the?) category leader in screen recording and audio manipulation.
There are plenty of real alternatives. I'm partial to vMix for live-streaming; I ran Demuxed 2020 and 2021 through my vMix deck from the comfort of my office and through 2020-21 ran about sixty high-production fighting game tournaments off of the same. I like vMix because its audio mixing is excellent and WebRTC-integrated chat comes out of the box, plus data-driven lower thirds and good remoting solutions and MIDI c…
It may be that it’s more of the defacto to the casual audiences. I’ve heard of and have used OBS many times for streaming and screen recording. Never heard of the other solutions you listed and never felt the need to search for alternatives as OBS and it’s reskins satisfied my needs and as a casual person to the streaming community the only program I had heard of to use was OBS.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oldie? Goodie? OBS is currently the defacto standard in streaming software. There is no real alternative. Any alternative is a reskinned OBS. Streaming aside, it's a (the?) category leader in screen recording and audio manipulation.
There are plenty of real alternatives. I'm partial to vMix for live-streaming; I ran Demuxed 2020 and 2021 through my vMix deck from the comfort of my office and through 2020-21 ran about sixty high-production fighting game tournaments off of the same. I like vMix because its audio mixing is excellent and WebRTC-integrated chat comes out of the box, plus data-driven lower thirds and good remoting solutions and MIDI c…
As far as I can tell none of the products you mention are free or run on Linux. That does of course not mean that they are not real alternatives if you aren't using Linux, but if we scope OBS to include "free, open and cross-platform", there really aren't a lot of alternatives.