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Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

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I'm curious. What is the point of reposting this?

Agreed, I thought this was posted already within the past six months or so.

Edit: Found it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103

"TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS"

(1545 points, 521 comments, 6 months ago)

p.s. thanks for the overeager downvotes, I've stopped downing any threads on HN unless they're aggressive or otherwise egregiously bad intent. Ymmv

Re: OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

#9

OBS is an awesome app. Its interface is a bit "awkward," but not too bad. It has many tools that are not available elsewhere.

I came here to say the same. My son (10) uses it a lot, he's figured it all out by just trying things.

The other day he had an issue with a slight echo in the audio. He mentioned it when we were out of the house. When we got home I had the idea that maybe he'd added the Audio Input Capture twice ... but I couldn't think of why that would happen.

When i mentioned it to him, he'd already figured it out and solved it. He had added two audio inputs when he was trying to capture his headset mic and his desktop mic (with phone taped to it, playing music) ... I dunno what the point of this story is ... OBS has a weird interface, but it reminds me of the good old days, when you just made it work and the users just figured it out.

I think the polished UI/UX we have these days makes us complacent. Afraid of poking and prodding.

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