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It's not about recording so much as managing a broadcast. You can configure many inputs which include external video (e.g. a webcam), media on the machine (reco
by greggyb 6y ago
It's not about recording so much as managing a broadcast. You can configure many inputs which include external video (e.g. a webcam), media on the machine (recorded video or images), and screens on the device, and outputting this as a unified stream. This stream may be passed on as a virtual video device, which other programs can use, or to a stream host (e.g. Twitch), or be recorded.
These various inputs can be arranged into "scenes" for easy management and switching among them.
If all you need to do is record the raw video from a video device, you don't need OBS.
- duskwuff 6y agoGame streaming (like Twitch) is an extremely common use case for OBS, and it's a great demonstration of what's possible. A lot of streamers will broadcast a composite of their screen, their webcam (often with green-screen masking), a feed of their chat, and various other graphics. All of this is pretty straightforward to do with OBS, and would be a significant effort to build otherwise.