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

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Post by blattimwind »

noyesno wrote: post #331
blattimwind wrote: post #253

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Use Equalizer APO with a noise-reduction VST. This is by far the best option on Windows if you are concerned about latency×compatibility×underruns as a figure of merit. It is far superior to using "virtual audio cables" and a VST host (like Lighthost or SAVI) or voicemeeter. It's not well known, but it really works spectacularly well compared to those other options. For me it never has had any audible buffer underrun…

What VSTs would you recommend for improving audio quality of video calls?

ReaFIR works quite well and has very low latency. It's a bit fiddly to auto-generate a noise profile due to the architecture of Equalizer APO (the entire audio processing runs inside the Windows audio stack, so the VST panels in the configuration editor don't have a signal). Basically you use another VST host (e.g. Lighthost or OBS), generate your noise profile there and then copy/paste the chunk data into the APO config file.

Some general EQ'ing on the mic also works wonders for how well it sounds, but that's very specific to your voice and mic.

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Another use case of Equalizer APO where it is much better than everything else is compressing game audio. Some games simply have audio that was designed without regard for hearing safety (CS:GO is a strong contender for #1 here), and this helps immensely with it.

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

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Post by ljm »

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've just started learning how to use it and it's blown my mind how bloody useful it is, while also being open source. I've got it set up to record part of my screen and my webcam at the same time, and then I can chop it up in post using Resolve, no problem.

Until I found OBS I was basically trying to record my screen and then narrate over it after the fact, but it just didn't jibe with me as there's basically no room for improv or failure at that point. And I personally prefer to leave my less egregious mistakes in the final cut to demonstrate that you don't always get things right the first time.

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

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Post by pjtr »

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 very good software, thanks for working on it!

Recording the screen works much better than any other screen recording software I tried. For this use case the preview can be a bit confusing. If the resolution does not match (because of OS 200% scaling for example) going to the settings each time to adjust it is a bit cumbersome; the interactive resizing handles in the preview somehow never helped me. Sometimes one of the reset zoom context menus helps.

Also the "Window source" would be awesome, but is a bit cumbersome to set up every time, and doesn't capture things like menus unfortunately.

It's probably really difficult to improve these things, so they work automagically for dummies like me that know very little about OBS and use only a tiny feature set, without taking making things worse for power users, which are probably happy with things as they are.

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

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Post by rexpop »

kylemuir wrote: post #327
rexpop wrote: post #316

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> "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 hiera…

You're replying to Tobi the CEO and founder of Shopify who recently and very publically posted about 40 hour work weeks and how Shopify lives and breathes work life balance which multiple employees confirmed. I don't know him from a bar of soap outside of what's shared publically but a cold, calculating executive is about as far from the mark as you could possibly be.

Hm, I will admit I didn't realize the particular executive I was addressing, and that Shopify is off my radar in terms of executive abuses, but CEOs are all of a class, and 40-hour work weeks are still an untenable arrangement, and the Overton window for commonly acceptable work-life balance is far, far toward the wage-slavery side of things–to say nothing of the work-life balance for millions upstream of the Shopify supply chain, e.g. computer-mineral miners in the Global South. So I am not ready to give Tobi any humanitarian awards.

In truth, I have long admired Shopify for their open culture, their tech blogs, and a product that empowers small businesses. None of these things are enough, however, to convince me that he's anything more than a wealthy Libertarian seeking (primarily) personal gain through economic exploitation, managerial coercion, and authoritarian hierarchies.

> a cold, calculating executive is about as far from the mark as you could possibly be

This is an indefensible exaggeration. You're telling me Tobi is a saint? A CEO? An absolute absurdity.

Liberals love democracy until it comes to the workplace. You disgust me.

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

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Post by rexpop »

icelancer wrote: post #339
rexpop wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "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 hiera…

You couldn't have Tobi pegged worse. I don't even agree with Tobi's thoughts on the 40 hour work week and I know you're dead wrong.

> dead wrong

You're exaggerating.

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

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Post by Seirdy »

aantix wrote: post #117
aarongolliver wrote: post #106

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how are you getting desktop audio (music or whatever) to get sent to your meetings? I didn't see how to expose the audio output from obs as a "microphone" or whatever to video conferencing software. I ended up hacking my setup together with voicemeeter but it's pretty sloppy and error prone.

Loopback? https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

Pipewire [0] (the successor to PulseAudio) attempts to streamline this process for Linux. I've been messing with wf-recorder [1] for my screen+audio recordings, and might try to get it to spoof a camera input so I can get any program attempting to connect to the webcam to instead turn into a screen-casting tool.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PipeWire

[1]: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

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

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Post by dhimes »

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…

Thank you. Although I've moved away from it, it's excellent.

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

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Post by jyrkesh »

Decade wrote: post #237
jyrkesh wrote: post #128

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X11/Xorg was the default on many distros, so often it was preconfigured in a working state. I started my Linux journey around...2004? And booting into Mandrake or Slackware (or a Knoppix Live CD, my true beginning), X would work fine. But as soon as I had to install it myself (minimal Fedora, minimal Debian, or my fave, stage 1 Gentoo), I'd hit all kinds of issues with configuration and starting the X server. As a co…

Xorg has definitely become easier to configure. Back in the old days, you had to write the XF86Config file, either manually or automatically during installation, or else it wouldn’t do anything. These days, Xorg auto-detects everything and you only need an xorg.conf if you’re doing something weird.

Yeah, back then I was using one of the glorious Trinitrons at 75 Hz and 1600x1200. To work at all, I had to manually look up the horizontal and vertical sync ranges and put 'em in the XF86Config.

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

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Post by klint »

blattimwind wrote: post #351
noyesno wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What VSTs would you recommend for improving audio quality of video calls?

ReaFIR works quite well and has very low latency. It's a bit fiddly to auto-generate a noise profile due to the architecture of Equalizer APO (the entire audio processing runs inside the Windows audio stack, so the VST panels in the configuration editor don't have a signal). Basically you use another VST host (e.g. Lighthost or OBS), generate your noise profile there and then copy/paste the chunk data into the APO co…

ReaFir is amazing.
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