I have Google Fi as my phone service, so I can make and receive calls from my PC. I use OBS to record my important calls with big companies. I always smirk when I hear "this call may be recorded". You bet your ass it's being recorded. The recordings have saved me money and aggravation more than once.
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#62I'm not a streamer, but I find OBS is great for other uses.
The main things I use OBS for is:
- Recording screen or window, while recording desktop audio and mic at the same time.
- routing master windows audio through a compressor/limiter when listening to videos or streams that have poor leveling (though you need to install a virtual audio output in windows to do this - I found something called CABLE that works. Then windows outputs to CABLE, OBS reads CABLE into desktop audio source, and then you monitor that on you speakers/headphones, so you can now add audio filters to desktop audio source.)
- adjusting gamma/contrast/brightness of webcams (but not during face to face video calls; OBS does introduce lag which limits the usefullness of this)Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm normally one who vastly prefers function over form and UIs that get out of the way of someone who knows what they're doing instead of catering _strictly_ to the use cases of the lowest common denominator. But even I think the Calibre UI is pretty awful.
This is why we need more design expertise in FOSS. Your form/function dichotomy is incorrect. You have software domain knowledge and experience working with spaghetti interfaces assembled by developers rather than designed by experts. You find them more functional because it fits your existing mental model of an interface. However, these interfaces are vastly less functional to everyone else. An interface that only f…
> This is why we need more design expertise in FOSS.
The secret probably is having well defined roles: whoever writes the code shouldn't be involved in interface design and vice versa, unless they prove themselves good at it, as the two tasks require very different sets of skills. This is easily accomplished in commercial software writing where roles are defined and salaries paid, but in the FOSS world where everyone and their cat want to be the famous developer, the UI designer role is rarely recognized for its importance.
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#65OBS 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
what do you use Spout for
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#66For 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.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. I have a colleague who uses an OBS virtual webcam setup like this, and it's really disconcerting having a conversation with them, compared to others who don't use it, because of the additional lag. Their setup may have some specific problem though.
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#67I have Google Fi as my phone service, so I can make and receive calls from my PC. I use OBS to record my important calls with big companies. I always smirk when I hear "this call may be recorded". You bet your ass it's being recorded. The recordings have saved me money and aggravation more than once.
Depending on where you live, this can backfire on you if you don't inform the other party that you're recording them. (IIRC, in some locations, "at least one" party needs to know the call is being recorded — so since you know, it's fine. In others, all parties need to be informed.)
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'd say that it works very well. So well in fact that as I reinstalled windows and watched F1 on Sunday I was surprised to see that Ferrari had managed to remove the engine sound from the drivers microphone, but at some cost to the clarity.
Turns out the background noise removal was turned on for my output too.
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#69I'm curious. What is the point of reposting this?
For today's lucky ten thousand.
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#70For 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?
Depends on what you're looking for. I know on Linux it's pretty straightforward to pipe any audio source into another, so for example you can send music coming out of your own Zoom microphone.