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…
Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS
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#62> I personally use obs-virtual-cam on windows but most of my company and most of the tech world lives on mac for work. I was wondering about that some days ago that how many "high profile" CEOs are outliers in their company using Windows or Linux
its just because my home office is a gaming PC. But now it turns out its significantly better because of the obs-virtualcam plugin working well on windows. This should be a default feature, hence the bounty.
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#63Earlier 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.
But my point was its not a quick half day fix for some minor formatting on a website - which you can out source offshore.
Your talking windows audio /video internals which is not a common skill
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#64Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use OBS for things like compositing a video of your face over a video of your computer screen, and allowing output to a loopback monitor interface (i.e. virtual camera / microphone) would allow you to share that view via generic video conferencing software like Jitsi or Zoom.
This. It's currently impossible, AFAICT, to use OBS to composite/produce a stream that is fed into video chat software like Zoom, Hangouts, Bluejeans, etc.
Using a plugin for OBS (Windows at least), you can absolutely output to a virtual camera, and use all of the compositing, filters, scenes etc in OBS. You don't get audio output, but you could probably solve that with a virtual audio cable. I do the video thing with Workchat and Bluejeans without issue, and just use my headset for audio.
I currently composite a view of my local harbour, my webcam, and a chroma-keyed nyancat gif, with a second scene for full-sized webcam. Works a charm, and actually uses less CPU that Chrome does when Chrome is routing that video to the VC.
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#66Sounds interesting, what are the common use-cases for this?
Yesterday (actually 3h before that bounty was posted), I wanted exactly that feature, but I couldn't get it soon enough (I did find obs-virtual-cam at the same time as the bounty was posted, what are the odds).
A bunch of friends and I were listening to a live quiz, on Facebook and we were in a Messenger video calls together to solve it together. The issue was that it was quite hard to watch it together while being live together, so I just pointed my phone at my computer screen, but it was far from ideal.
Essentially my goal was to screenshare on my computer and then the sound quality would have been much better. Messenger does support screenshare but it's weird and doesn,t seems to works if someone is on his phone (which we all were).
So essentially the use case is to share your screen, but also be able to add stuff to it, like your own webcam, and use that on ANY streaming software. Many does support screensharing, but not all of them, and even if they do, adding a camera on top of it is most probably not possible.
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#67On 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,…
OBS can do all of that except nativley output a virtual camera. I use windows and the virtual cam plugin works well for that, though it doesnt do the audio. I think you can set it up externally to obs using a virtual audio cable driver but I haven't really needed it.
> OBS can do all of that except nativley output a virtual camera.
Right, that's literally the title of the article we're commenting on: OBS can't do that thing that we need.
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#68Re: Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS
#69Linux is supported with V4L2 https://imgur.com/a/BvkPfP9 What's the problem with it?
Your example is (from the looks of it) using V4L2 as a source, the linked bounty wants to use V4L2 as a sink.
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#70Wasn't the title 10K Bounty ... before?