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OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by vanous »

r1ch wrote: post #129
alpb wrote: post #123

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Thanks for maintaining OBS! Any timelines for OBS Virtualcam to be available on macOS? It seems like several software like Snap Camera are integrating with users in this mode, OBS could be really helpful this way in webinars that don't happen over Twitch/YouTube.

We're hoping sooner than later thanks to Tobi's bounty on this. You can follow the design spec at https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15 if you're interested.

It is really awesome and fast development. I am hoping it ends up cross platform (Linux) and not only OSX specific.

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Post by jcelerier »

mappu wrote: post #214
AbuAssar wrote: post #10

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Telegram is the best Qt cross-platform app i used

Although Telegram is QML, not Widgets - I think they should be compared as different categories.

Nope, Telegram is widgets (https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/search?q=qwidget...)

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

Even though OBS was initially aimed at streamers, it's also what I use to record all the YouTube videos I make for https://alchemist.camp

It's surprisingly flexible and there are plugins for almost everything. If you want to display keypresses, you can. If you want to add a layer and have both your video camera and screen incorporated, you can. If you want a layer to show keypresses, like I did when recording a video on VIM, you can do that, too.

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Post by StavrosK »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #223

Even though OBS was initially aimed at streamers, it's also what I use to record all the YouTube videos I make for https://alchemist.camp It's surprisingly flexible and there are plugins for almost everything. If you want to display keypresses, you can. If you want to add a layer and have both your video camera and screen incorporated, you can. If you want a layer to show keypresses, like I did when recording a video…

By the way, if you want to pre-record keystrokes for demos/presentations/etc and still make it look like you're live-typing, I made a thing:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/itsalive

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Post by dodgepong »

timClicks wrote: post #157

I'm curious how large the development team is. There is an impressive community around OBS but seems to be many more requests for help rather than helpers.

There's one full-time developer, about 5-10 regular free-time developers, and about 5-10 free-time support helpers.

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Post by dodgepong »

deathanatos wrote: post #32
gw wrote: post #11

Did anyone report that bizarre OBS bug that Jon Blow ran into while streaming a week ago? It was pretty entertaining... https://www.twitch.tv/videos/575151695?t=00h00m25s

I wish they would have explored what some of the commenters noted: does it happen when you position OBS such that it has to recursively capture itself? (The feed contains a picture of the feed which contains a picture of the feed which …) It seemed like some positions, it would handle 2-4 recursions okay, but the positions where it had to do infinite recursions were the ones that the frame-rate plummeted.

Recursion would have nothing to do with it. Recursive capture does not add any load, it just looks weird.

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Post by sitkack »

Biganon wrote: post #183
loa_in_ wrote: post #130

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JACK audio or ALSA monitor device

Tip: zoom doesn't list pulseaudio monitors in the available sources, and trying to set zoom's input to anything manually from pavucontrol fails silently (even if zoom is set to "use system default" or whatever it's called). The only way I found to stream audio to zoom is to use a pulseaudio module that lets you use a named pipe as a source. You can then output your sound to said named pipe, and set it as the micropho…

Are there any "virtual usb" devices, something like a software usb gadgets to emulate a webcam so that software will have to special knowledge of these alternative sources?

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Post by gok »

fenrirthviti wrote: post #209
gok wrote: post #111

I've been using OBS to run a trivia game over YouTube. It's kind of a piece of shit. The Mac port is horrible. None of the widgets work properly, all the menu items are in the wrong place, and it supports essentially no system keyboard shortcuts. Like cmd+F doesn't do "Find…", it randomly resizes the thing you're editing. It's everything bad about Qt apps in one place. It also ships with its own 180MB copy of Chromiu…

Hey there, OBS team member here. Want to get some clarification on these issues, as they are not really things we hear commonly, outside the lack of desktop audio capture. First, for clarity, the macOS version of OBS Studio is not a "port". It's a native application designed to run on macOS. The mentioned audio issues are not unique to OBS. Apple does not feel that applications need to directly capture desktop audio,…

> It's a native application designed to run on macOS.

It's a Qt app that happens to compile and run on macOS.

If you want a few really obvious example of how the UI works wrong, try scrolling any of the lists with a trackpad. It won't bounce properly. It also won't autohide the scrolling indicator correctly. You need to repurpose cmd+F, ehm, ok, but why did you remove cmd+W to close a window entirely?

It get much worse when you get into accessibility. Turn on keyboard navigation in the system (in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> "Use keyboard navigation…"). Now open a dialog box, like, say, the Add Image source sheet. Hit tab. It won't actually move between the widgets properly; it cycles between the radio buttons, text fields, and checkbox, but can't highlight the push buttons. This is catastrophic for people who depend on this functionality.

Re: OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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Post by Osiris »

xal wrote: post #193

I randomly learned OBS a while ago for doing some twitch streams in the evenings. I'm so glad I did. I run a 6,000 people company during the day and have OBS setup to push into Google Meet. I've done townhall with live on-screen Q/A voting, hosted podcast discussions, done PIP product reviews. I use its video record feature to react to figma prototypes and post the MP4s in the respective channel for discussion. OBS i…

Can you recommend any resources for learning OBS?

My daughter wanted to record some videos of her playing a web-based game. I found the interface to OBS unintuitive. I managed to figure out how to capture a specific area on the desktop, but it was unexpectedly difficult to resize the output to match the input. I found some way of doing it that I can't remember.

A few months later I had to do it again and that time I couldn't find the option to resize the output to match the input.

I'd love to find some resources to help her learn how to setup OBS for recording or streaming.

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