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

Post by fenrirthviti » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 10:24 PM UTC

jjeaff wrote: post #231

r1ch wrote: post #121

I'm one of the core contributors for OBS. Our website traffic has more than doubled over the last couple of weeks due to the COVID-19 situation - when we released the v25 update we accidentally killed our site due to a cache stampede after purging the CDN (oops). We're seeing all kinds of new uses, especially users who are integrating the OBS Virtualcam plugin to do presentations and other content sharing with apps t…

OBS is awesome. I love being able to switch scenes on the fly. But I have one suggestion that would save a lot of embarrassment for a lot of people. Tldr; There needs to be a master audio level display or at least some sort of master indication whether a stream is getting an audio signal or not. Or at the very least, audio sources should be muted by default in new scenes. We have an Intro screen scene that just displ…

Post by alpb » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 10:26 PM UTC

peterburkimsher wrote: post #256

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.

Check out CamTwist in the meantime - that has a virtual camera on Mac, and I enjoy using it to flip my video upside down (because I live in New Zealand). Also for typing large-text subtitles over the image, which was great for my late grandmother. I'm not affiliated, and it's free. http://camtwiststudio.com/

Post by pzmarzly » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

mkl wrote: post #249

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.

    pactl load-module module-null-sink \
        sink_name=Device_Name \
        sink_properties=device.description=Device_Name

    pactl load-module \
        module-virtual-source \
        source_name=VirtualMic \
        master=Device_Name.monitor \
        source_properties=device.description=VirtualMic

Post by 2ion » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 10:38 PM UTC

cycloptic wrote: post #88

ezoe wrote: post #75

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Wayland won't be a thing until they agree on the common API for the real time capturing of the screen. I've read some Wayland developers said screen capturing is not a priority and I can't understand it. The screen capturing demand is higher than ever now we have ubiquitous live streaming sites everywhere and people earn the money from it. Besides, the easiest way to explain how to use GNU/Linux desktop for the compl…

The common API is the desktop portal and pipewire. The major projects (GNOME/KDE/wlroots) all agree on this one. Take a look at the links in the GP comment more info.

Post by fenrirthviti » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 10:41 PM UTC

sorryitstrue wrote: post #133

One thing I wish you could do is have two different copies of an input - in my case, I wanted a video stream input (webcam) where I apply one set of filters to it for one scene, and a different set of filters to another scene. Seems like filters are globally applied to the instance, and you can't have two different scene elements with the same video input device.