OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

Post by hammycheesy » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:47 PM UTC

nodja wrote: post #138

unlog wrote: post #130

I do not understand the five-second minimum delay I got..... nginx and obs paired at a 1s key frame interval still gives a five-second delay on football matches, which is very annoying because you heard your neighbors before actually watching the footage, and no, this is not solved by any streaming service.

I've tried to deal with this many years back, I think the latency is inherent in the protocols, there's layers like 2/3 layers of buffers that by the time the frame reaches the client several seconds have already passed. When I was researching this back then, there was only one protocol in OBS that was fast enough, but it was proprietary. It was called FTL and was what Mixer used (twitch competitor, now dead). Mixer…

Post by feetstv » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 5:32 PM UTC

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> 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 yo…

Post by cdelsolar » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 8:01 PM UTC

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Do tell? I need to be doing that. Have a million VHS from my parents.

I use a roughly $6 HDMI capture dongle <- a $10 RCA to HDMI adapter <- an old VCR, and OBS is the capture software I use. Comes out pretty well, though you do basically end up watching each tape doing it.

Post by jamescampbell » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 1:04 AM UTC

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jhugo wrote: post #66

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Not sure why this is being downvoted. I have a colleague who uses an OBS virtual webcam setup like this, and it's really disconcerting having a conversation with them, compared to others who don't use it, because of the additional lag. Their setup may have some specific problem though.

That's a configuration problem, and not hard to correct. Tell him to go into the audio settings, then "advanced audio settings", and add the "sync offset" in milliseconds required to bring the audio and video into sync. Also, it's likely that his camera is mostly at fault; OBS with my Logitech camera doesn't have any significant lag. OBS itself has very little lag.

Post by southerntofu » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:56 AM UTC

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> GIMP will never be mainstream, because it's made for specifically trained "expert-users" only, without any easy path to glide into for new users. I don't entirely disagree with this criticism, but it's interesting to note that in the past years the GIMP project has received significant contributions from ZeMarmot project so the artist-developer feedback loop is shortening. There's been major advances lately and giv…

Whether GIMP becomes mainstream or not is moot but from my own experience and those of colleagues it is definitely harder to use than Photoshop - perhaps more awkward and clumsy would be a more apt description. For years, GIMP was much slower than Photoshop especially so when loading and processing large 100MB-plus .tif files and such, so much so that I considered it unusable on all but the very fastest machines. To…