OBS is quite useful for recording Spout or NDI video streams. I use these two OBS plugins often -
https://github.com/Off-World-Live/obs-spout2-plugin
https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi
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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#52I remember having a subscription to xfire back in 2012, apparently the same year that OBS 1.0 was released.
Having such a high quality piece of open source software as the defacto standard for video recording/streaming is quite nice alongside Audacity for audio recording.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Open OBS, add a window capture, maybe add your webcam in the corner, go to settings, put in your stream key for Twitch/YouTube/whatever, maybe tinker with the quality settings (bitrate/encoding/etc), click start streaming.
Even better, OBS now supports directly logging into Twitch, which then also gives you windows to set stream description and see user chat, all within OBS.
I don't see that in my OBS and I'm on the latest version, is it yet to make it to a tagged release or is that in one of the OBS forks like Streamlabs?
EDIT: Looks like it's in the source for a long time but my distro doesn't compile OBS with the built-in browser, which I'm guessing is a requirement
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thanks. I have several high quality older Hauppauge cards, will try those with OBS. Thanks.
If you're just doing one conversion, I'd honestly just engage a professional.
I just got some mini-dv tapes converted to dvd and mp4 for $AUD60 per tape.
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#55OBS is an awesome app. Its interface is a bit "awkward," but not too bad. It has many tools that are not available elsewhere.
We need to find a way to better integrate UI/UX designers into open source.
I would love for this to happen. I’m no designer, but I enjoy thinking about design and tinkering in Figma. The reasons I don’t try to help on this front are because (a) I’m not a professional, (b) I doubt anyone appreciates a drive-by “design upgrade” without data pointing to why it would be better, and (c) I rarely have deep enough context into the application to make more than superficial helpful changes.
By the way, as a community we should look at the changes Blender landed in 2.8, which were (I think) considered a major UI/UX redesign that increased accessibility to the broader public.
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#57When I was half my age, OBS was unfathomable. I was shooting video on digital 8, editing in Final Cut Pro 4 which was the new hotness, and trying but failing to use DSS on my college network. Actual streaming at scale required a massive server and a massive license from RealNetworks. If I wanted to do anything with animation, it was all $$$$$ software. This all took place in a shared lab at my college with stuff I co…
We've come an incredibly long way since Genlock on the Commodore Amiga! I use OBS Studio with my Streamdeck, a Logitech Streamcam, NVIDIA Broadcast, a condenser microphone via a Steinberg XLR audio interface along with Elgato Key lights and iHue fill lights for my working from home office Google Meets. Startup and shut downs of the entire stack including launching into Google Meets are automated with the deck (one bu…
Oh man that sounds like an awesome rig. I didn’t realize Nvidia Broadcast can reduce background noise like keystrokes until you mentioned it here. Does that really work? If so I now have a reason to buy a new GPU and finally use my cherry mx blues again.
Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#58For those who haven't tried it, you can mount the output of OBS as a camera, which can be used as input for something like Zoom. So you can add graphics, multiple angles, switch between different views, etc...
Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#59For those who haven't tried it, you can mount the output of OBS as a camera, which can be used as input for something like Zoom. So you can add graphics, multiple angles, switch between different views, etc...
unfortunately it does add a bit of lag which I find makes the technique somewhat untenable.
Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#60For those who haven't tried it, you can mount the output of OBS as a camera, which can be used as input for something like Zoom. So you can add graphics, multiple angles, switch between different views, etc...
That is indeed good to know. It didn't even occur to me that thats possible.
Do you by chance know of something similar but for audio?