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

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

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

StavrosK wrote: post #224
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

Thanks, but I like to just type and talk as I go.

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

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Post by julianlam »

Osiris wrote: post #230
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…

Instead of streaming the entire desktop (or a portion of it), you'll actually want to set up the ["Game Capture" source](https://obsproject.com/wiki/Sources-Guide#game-capture), and configure it to automatically attach to any fullscreen application.

Then add an audio stream, and you're good to go.

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Post by fuball63 »

ehsankia wrote: post #187
fuball63 wrote: post #2

OBS is commonly used for video game streaming, but it's a great tool for any scenario where you need to take live audio and video from different sources and display them at the same time or transition between them. I've been using it to make a corny music interview show with my local musician friends during the coronavirus shelter in place. Whereas a lot of my fellow musicians are streaming from their phone, I'm able…

The B in OBS hints at streaming, but it's also fantastic for purely recording. It's honestly surprising how lacking that space was before OBS. I remember using FRAPS/Taksi a bit, and stuff like Camtasia, but there were all pretty awful to be honesty and definitely not free or open source.

I really like using the recording feature to do sound checks. We go through all of our checks, then I watch the video locally in VLC. That way I'm certain when it goes live it'll sound the way it's supposed to.

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Post by tomphoolery »

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…

I was just thinking about this, but mostly to route the audio through OBS so I can play my teammates some sweet synth music while we wait for others to join the standup.

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Post by fralewsmi »

flyGuyOnTheSly wrote: post #233

Is this a brand new service or did they release recently because of COVID? Never heard of them before. I have been searching for open source projects to help bring my local yoga studio online for the past few weeks and this looks promising!

OBS has dominated the livestreaming working for a while now (e.g Twitch)

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Post by zelphirkalt »

I must say, I had a rather mixed experience with OBS. I've used it before to do some streaming too, but it definitely has some issues with instability.

The example (anecdote, if you will) I remember right now: There is apparently a way to mess up your settings, so that OBS crashes. No error or anything in the UI visible. But then your config is messed up, so when you restart it, it immediately crashes again. You cannot fix it, unless you delete the settings files or reinstall the application.

It should not be possible to ever reach a situation, where you can make an application crash, by only accessing the settings it provides. It should warn about invalid settings or disable settings, which cannot be used, because of settings or reset the settings to something valid or ... But in OBS it's possible to basically mess up the whole application using its own settings UI.

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Post by zahrc »

Osiris wrote: post #230
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…

The official obs website has a wiki and a forum, that’s probably the best place to go.

I can also help you set it up if you want!

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Post by gempir »

dodgepong wrote: post #219
jordigh wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OBS is amazing and I love everything about it. Thanks for maintaining it. Are there any paid developers working on it? Does the project make money?

Currently the lead developer (Jim) is the only paid developer, and he's able to work on the program full time thanks to a few large sponsorships. That said, we'd really like to be able to pay more people, as the program has many development needs that could really use attention. More detail about sponsorship/donation opportunities can be found here: https://obsproject.com/contribute

This makes me so sad. Thousands of streamers make millions of Euro from their great software and so few of them contribute back.

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Post by mkl »

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…

Are there any existing plug-ins for virtual microphone?

I want to use OBS'S realtime noise suppression and noise gating in another app (mainly online lecture platform Echo360). I got it working using VoiceMeeter in what seems like a hacky way, but only with high latency so far.

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Post by roel_v »

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…

How do you do q/a and voting?
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