One thing to note about OBS, as much as I love it and use it all the time: if you're using it to record/stream just one source, you're likely wasting a lot of r

One thing to note about OBS, as much as I love it and use it all the time: if you're using it to record/stream just one source, you're likely wasting a lot of resources. I see many people using it to record/v4loopback their screen or camera, which OBS is not particularly efficient at. Not something you're likely to notice on a modern workstation, but on an older machine or laptop the overhead is definitely noticeable. Dedicated recording apps for cameras and screens will give you better performance and occasionally a marginally better image since there are fewer steps in the pipeline. For v4loopback, a short gstreamer pipeline (for those willing to use the CLI) will perform better and give you noticably lower latency - even if some basic cropping is required, like if you're using a capture card with a camera that you can't hide the UI on.