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

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Post by AndrewHampton »

roel_v wrote: post #250
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?

Poll Everywhere (YC S08) has Q&A question support with voting. I'm a developer at Poll Everywhere and we use it during our weekly townhalls. Our company was 40% remote before the coronavirus crisis, and my experience with the Q&A poll as a remote worker has been great.

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

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Post by velosol »

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.

I have no association with them, but https://krisp.ai might help you.

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Post by thayne »

cycloptic wrote: post #288
thayne wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am not sure how this is relevant if you're trying to write your own compositor. If those projects want to create extra work for themselves, that's on them. I'm actually more concerned about the fact that wlroots has/had to duplicate work done by Gnome and KDE (wlroots is more recent than much of gnome and kde's wayland support). > Yes, that's on purpose. What's supposed to happen is that the portal daemon (NOT th…

>I'm actually more concerned about the fact that wlroots has/had to duplicate work done by Gnome and KDE I don't think so, GNOME and KDE have never had the goal of making a reusable and generic compositor library like wlroots. You can try to build something with their internal compositor libraries (libmutter or kwayland) but they probably won't be as nice. >The problem is that each compositor has to implement it's ow…

> This is on purpose and it's not the problem. It's the only way to do it securely. The problem is that you are trying to perform a privileged operation, which is the only way that something like flameshot can even work.

That's not true. One way is to have secure protocols that can only be used by whitelisted programs in a secure context. sway has something like this (although by default I think it is pretty open), but there isn't any kind of standard mechanism for privileged protocols in wayland.

Also, I don't see why the screenshot API couldn't take a value for the type of screenshot to take. Like an enum with values for Region, Window, Screen, Full, and Any. To hint at what kind of screenshot to prefer.

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

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

lvh wrote: post #20

If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland, and screencasts on that have long since been a complete pain in the neck with per-compositor "solutions" that mostly don't work quite right. Fortunately someone who works on Gnome wrote the obs-xdg-portal plugin that should fix this, at least for Gnome and hopefully soon for wlroots and KDE once they fully support the underlying portal API. Unt…

There's still plenty of things which don't work with Wayland. And even Gnome Shell, which perhaps has the best support for Wayland, doesn't work very well with Wayland on some of my machines (Gnome Shell is extremely slow and jerky at least on my one machine if I try to run it with Wayland).

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Post by cycloptic »

thayne wrote: post #313
cycloptic wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I'm actually more concerned about the fact that wlroots has/had to duplicate work done by Gnome and KDE I don't think so, GNOME and KDE have never had the goal of making a reusable and generic compositor library like wlroots. You can try to build something with their internal compositor libraries (libmutter or kwayland) but they probably won't be as nice. >The problem is that each compositor has to implement it's ow…

> This is on purpose and it's not the problem. It's the only way to do it securely. The problem is that you are trying to perform a privileged operation, which is the only way that something like flameshot can even work. That's not true. One way is to have secure protocols that can only be used by whitelisted programs in a secure context. sway has something like this (although by default I think it is pretty open), b…

Yes, one way to have a whitelist is to pop up a dialog asking to approve elevated permissions for a certain application. This is what mobile operating systems already do. The security implementation in sway is incomplete and has stalled, and is not going to work for all other types of desktop anyway. Pluggable security configuration should probably be added to wlroots at some point. This would allow any compositor to implement their preferred security policy and support whatever MACs or auditing they need.

The desktop portal does sort of support choosing a source, but only for screencast. See the enum here: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.htm...

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

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Post by rexpop »

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…

> "Video quality is the new presence in 1:1s".

That's the stupidest thing I've heard all day. "Presence" in terms of 1:1s should be about listening to, understanding, and empathizing with the person opposite you. Performing "theory of mind," which has nothing whatsoever to do with video quality.

This is exactly the kind of aphorism a cold, calculating executive would comfort himself with while orchestrating the hierarchical exploitation of 6,000 people arbitrarily his inferior.

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Post by bentcorner »

jsilence wrote: post #78
dashesyan wrote: post #42

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Yes there’s OBS Virtual Camera and there’s NDI tools See the setup section here: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TakeRemoteWorkerEducatorWebca...

Zoom on Windows 10 does not seem to recognize the obs-cam virtual camera. Unfortunately. If anyone has a solution for this, I'd love to get a hint.

You need to downgrade Zoom to 4.6.7: https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-virtual-cam/issues/78

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

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Post by voicedYoda »

No joke, i was working with colleagues just yesterday on real time closed captioning, and started googling for a few ideas for Google's cloud speech recognition API. OBS was the first few hits, so i started learning all about this amazing tool just yesterday.

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

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Post by voicedYoda »

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

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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

Repost this comment as a standalone so it can get more attention than a buried comment!

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

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Post by pontifier »

I started using it about 2 months ago, and I've got to say it's quite amazing.

It was much easier to start than I expected. Like copy and paste a code, then one button to start streaming on twitch.

Creating multiple views, and adding cameras was also very easy and intuitive.

It's one of the best pieces of software I've used in a long time.

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