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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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Post by usrn »

platz wrote: post #62

I'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. Th…

> - Recording screen or window, while recording desktop audio and mic at the same time.

FFMPEG alone (well, with the pulseaudio loopback) can do this. It can also stream to stuff like twitch with no extra software. OBS is great but I feel like it's overkill for a lot of what people do.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#82

Post by imwillofficial »

sundvor wrote: post #50
reilly3000 wrote: post #39

When 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…

Please write a blog post detailing your setup.

I’d love to do something like this but could really use some hand holding for the setup part.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#84

Post by Rantenki »

jhugo wrote: post #66
platz wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's a configuration problem, and not hard to correct. Tell him to go into the audio settings, then "advanced audio settings", and add the "sync offset" in milliseconds required to bring the audio and video into sync.

Also, it's likely that his camera is mostly at fault; OBS with my Logitech camera doesn't have any significant lag. OBS itself has very little lag.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#85

Post by Pakdef »

fredsmith219 wrote: post #61

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.

Ocenaudio can probably also do that

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#86

Post by alexb_ »

usrn wrote: post #81
platz wrote: post #62

I'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. Th…

> - Recording screen or window, while recording desktop audio and mic at the same time. FFMPEG alone (well, with the pulseaudio loopback) can do this. It can also stream to stuff like twitch with no extra software. OBS is great but I feel like it's overkill for a lot of what people do.

FFMPEG also requires a command line which makes it completely unusable for nearly everyone.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#88

Post by causality0 »

platz wrote: post #59
LanceH wrote: post #58

For 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.

Tracking down what's causing lag in OBS can be quite difficult. I've seen people using the same capture hardware as me get input lag for local display down to one or two frames when I never got it under two seconds.

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#90

Post by branchysaur »

sundvor wrote: post #50
reilly3000 wrote: post #39

When 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…

How do you find the memory consumption of those apps? I found NVIDIA Broadcast and a few other streaming utils were passively eating like 3GB of RAM. Not typically a concern until you're spinning up VMs and dev environments and suddenly getting paged.

I'd love something like Broadcast but much more lightweight, but I haven't found a good alternative yet.

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