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Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by sbarre »

antocv wrote: post #31
cheschire wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OBS is probably most widely known in the twitch / mixer streaming world. It allows you to layer your inputs and different overlays together to create a single video output that includes things such as video games, webcam feed, etc. The video output is typically either recorded straight to video file for upload to youtube, or for streaming directly to a supported streaming service. It's not purely used for video games…

Doesnt Microsoft Teams and other conferencing tools call this feature "screen sharing"? Also, for development, why dont people ssh into a shared server and multi tmux together? Thats a kind of screen sharing.

This is about having OBS' output appear as a video source on the operating system.

You're solving the wrong problem. :-)

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by BrentOzar »

songshuu wrote: post #42

I'd like the audio input to be able to pick up desktop sounds on MacOS the way it works on Windows. Is there a bounty on that?

> I'd like the audio input to be able to pick up desktop sounds on MacOS the way it works on Windows.

Even paid apps like Wirecast are having a hard time figuring out a workaround for that. I ended up using Loopback from Rogue Amoeba ($99), and it does the job absolutely beautifully. You configure your Mac's audio output to point to Loopback (which shows up as an audio output device), and then you use your broadcasting tools to use Loopback (which also shows up as an audio input device). You can do mixing, too.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by diggan »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #32
vortico wrote: post #25

This makes me think. Is there a service that handles crowd-sourcing and processing payments a bit like Kickstarter but on a smaller scale? Say, if someone proposes a feature and the developer says "I'll do it for $300", users could donate until the goal is reached. With the promise of payment, the developer can go ahead and spend the time/effort, and everybody wins. But setting up a Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc is too…

$300 just buys you a half day of developer time, I suspect the sponsor wants a proper professional job done that works with and is tested with a range of hardware.

With 300 for a half-day, it would be 600 for a full day and 12000 for 20 days of work.

In most parts of the world, that's an extremely high level salary and could easily fund most peoples month, granted they live outside of Silicon Valley.

I'm sure many people would be more than happy to receive 300 or much less for half a day of work.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by BrentOzar »

schrijver wrote: post #10

Not exactly the same scenario, but I just wanted to share a neat little hack I discovered yesterday… I work with a team who now meet in Google Hangouts but it doesn’t work over the company’s internal network yet… so I couldn’t share my screen to do a demo of an internal app. Instead, I got another computer which was on the internal network, plugged the HDMI output into an Elgato Camlink, which made it show up as a We…

> plugged the HDMI output into an Elgato Camlink, which made it show up as a Webcam

I love this solution too, but just making a note for folks who use GoToWebinar: the max webcam output resolution is still just a miserable 720p, so this approach doesn't work as well for sharing apps & desktops there.

You can have a higher-resolution webcam (like this trick), but GoToWebinar still only sends your webcam stream out at 720p, so it looks terrible on the other end.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by haywirez »

BrentOzar wrote: post #43
songshuu wrote: post #42

I'd like the audio input to be able to pick up desktop sounds on MacOS the way it works on Windows. Is there a bounty on that?

> I'd like the audio input to be able to pick up desktop sounds on MacOS the way it works on Windows. Even paid apps like Wirecast are having a hard time figuring out a workaround for that. I ended up using Loopback from Rogue Amoeba ($99), and it does the job absolutely beautifully. You configure your Mac's audio output to point to Loopback (which shows up as an audio output device), and then you use your broadcasti…

Blackhole[1] is a better, newer and free solution for these kinds of internal OSX audio routing issues.

[1] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by BrentOzar »

On the Mac, Telestream Wirecast ($599) [1] does this.

Not saying Wirecast is better or worse than OBS - although for me, on the Mac platform, Wirecast was way better. I can capture a desktop or app window, overlay my webcam on top of it in the bottom corner, use chroma key to remove my background, and then I float on top of apps. That video feed can be outputted as a webcam stream that works with GoToWebinar, Skype, Hangouts, etc.

You can see examples of what it looks like to attendees via my blog: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2020/03/free-fundamentals-...

One drawback is that some webcasting apps (GoToWebinar in particular) have a max webcam output resolution, like in GoToWebinar's case, 720p. That means you have to be really careful about which apps/screens you try to share as a webcam.

[1]: https://www.telestream.net/wirecast/

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by pulse7 »

diggan wrote: post #44
C1sc0cat wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$300 just buys you a half day of developer time, I suspect the sponsor wants a proper professional job done that works with and is tested with a range of hardware.

With 300 for a half-day, it would be 600 for a full day and 12000 for 20 days of work. In most parts of the world, that's an extremely high level salary and could easily fund most peoples month, granted they live outside of Silicon Valley. I'm sure many people would be more than happy to receive 300 or much less for half a day of work.

$300 is gross. You have to pay taxes on this. In many developed countries this would be $150 after taxes.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by vortico »

pulse7 wrote: post #48
diggan wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With 300 for a half-day, it would be 600 for a full day and 12000 for 20 days of work. In most parts of the world, that's an extremely high level salary and could easily fund most peoples month, granted they live outside of Silicon Valley. I'm sure many people would be more than happy to receive 300 or much less for half a day of work.

$300 is gross. You have to pay taxes on this. In many developed countries this would be $150 after taxes.

Can we stop talking about $300? It was a random number used as a variable that can be replaced with any dollar amount.

Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS

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Post by bjonnh »

wdroz wrote: post #19

I'm using the v4l2sink plugin to stream into v4l2loopback and tell google Meet/zoom/whatever "hey, dummy 0x00002 is my webcam".

same here it works well and I use it to do share screen with my video on it and stuff like that. the only thing is that many video places are degrading video so much that text is impossible to read (zoom for example). I wish they would allow the use of the same encoding they use for share in these cases... another way is to have a single virtual window shared but it doesn't work well with wayland for example which made me wish about the ability to have a virtual screen managed by OBS.
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