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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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What on earth is an "iHue fill light"? I don't get any hits on Google for this term.

There's an app called iHue https://www.reddit.com/r/Hue/comments/46irji/introduction_ne...

Cheers, yes I mixed the app name in there in my post - thanks. They are Phillips Hue Play Light Bars; love them.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Haven't done any blog posts in decades, but if I was to start again it would be a good topic to cover. It can be a bit costly, but found it well worth it now that it's done. I'll send you an email in case you have any specific questions.

Is it possible for you to share a video of a sample broadcast so that we can see this amazing quality and all the benefits compared to, say, a nice 4K webcam alone?

Sorry I don't really post in public. There's plenty of YouTube videos that detail the impact of good studio lighting on a regular webcam.

Logitech StreamCam is one of the better webcams. I have it on a flex stick that I pull down in front of my 32" - I have 3x of those plus a smaller above.

I'd love to upgrade it at one point but there's not really a large number of compact cameras with good optics. I might look into GoPros, but am not really to keen on spending much more as I'm happy with the current results.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Can you submit a formal bug report?

For which issue? AirPods Pro or the external monitor one? And will you please guide me as to how can I submit a formal bug request? Would it be via GitHub or their website?

Sorry for tge late reply.

But, instead of reporting a bug right away, I suggest posting in one of their support forums [0], in the section of your platform. Let the community know your issue, and someone might solve them.

[0]: https://obsproject.com/forum/

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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> Gotta check recording laws, of course! There's a weekly online meeting for work that I record, and the first thing on every recording is me saying, "Right, so I've started recording." Probably overkill, but it takes almost no effort, and prevents just about any possible misunderstandings. The only thing that's a bit of a pain is that the meeting app (understandably) doesn't reflect my own sound back to me; so I hav…

i think there's Loopback or something similar from Rogue Ameoba that does the sound reflection. have yet to try it myself.

Prompted by this discussion, I downloaded the trial version of Rogue Amoeba and played around with it yesterday. It looks like it is possible to set up some routing where there's a single button that will mute things to both. Now the question is whether it's worth it (to me) to pay for the full license.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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> No telemetry makes it difficult to get an idea of which features users actually use or find important. Beyond the survey, are there usage logs we can share or limited telemetry we can opt into?

Nothing else at the moment, even as opt-in. We're considering this in the future, but want to make sure we do it right.

Personally, if there is telemetry added, I'd prefer it to be plugin.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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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 am of the opinion that the defaults importance is WAY underrated.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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> 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 ov…

> And yet you say it can't overlay a round camera cutout over the screen, which is just wrong. How do you change the radius of the circle in realtime? You can do that in Keynote, but you can't in OBS, because that would mean uploading a new mask image for every new radius. Also if you switch to another camera resolution you have to recreate your mask, because your new camera has a new resolution. So technically you c…

OBS is a streaming tool, and you clearly don't need one. In OBS you create whole scene sets with animated changes in-between the switches. It's not really meant to be adjusted mid stream, as you'd generally create whatever kind of scenes and their transitions beforehand and just execute them live. Usability and feature discoverability are in my opinion very lacking in OBS, and there would've been no controversy if you'd just said something akin to "I much prefer Keynotes simple interface to create my presentations"

Your whole goal and critique just shows that you're not the target audience for OBS, which is fine and it's fantastic that you found a new tool which fits your usecase much better. Just like it's needlessly troublesome to make a picture slideshow with adobe premiere, using OBS for what you wanted was simply overkill and came with unneccessary complexity

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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For which issue? AirPods Pro or the external monitor one? And will you please guide me as to how can I submit a formal bug request? Would it be via GitHub or their website?

Sorry for tge late reply. But, instead of reporting a bug right away, I suggest posting in one of their support forums [0], in the section of your platform. Let the community know your issue, and someone might solve them. [0]: https://obsproject.com/forum/

Oh that.

That I have done last week itself, no response →

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/does-not-record-audio-w...

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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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.

> As far as I can tell none of the products you mention are free or run on Linux. Linux is a distant outlier in the overall streaming space. If you’re narrowing scope down to “free and works on Linux” then OBS is your go-to, of course. But Linux streamers are a tiny subset of the streaming target audience and anyone doing this professionally should at least consider some of the paid alternatives.

I thought we were just comparing, but if we scope it in such a way that leaves out Linux, then you can add a ton of other software to the comparison yes. Same goes for macOS, or any cross-platform package.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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As an outdoor streamer, I love OBS! It's hosted in the cloud [0] for me, so I don't have to leave a PC running at home when I'm out streaming. I can control it through NOALBS [1], which basically means I type !start in my chat and my OBS starts streaming for me.

[0] https://antiscuff.com

[1] https://github.com/715209/nginx-obs-automatic-low-bitrate-sw...

PS, I have no affiliation with either of these companies / projects - I just use their services and wanted to praise OBS.

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