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OBS Studio 27.1.1

227 points by bdz 5y ago

adamrezich 5y ago
> Special thanks to the developers at YouTube for working with us directly on the initial implementation of this feature [YouTube integration] and helping to make it a reality this is pretty cool to see, OBS sure has come a long way in such a short time
- adamnemecek 5y ago
  It’s essential to the well being of several very well funded companies so no surprise.
- mlex 5y ago
  Yep, not surprised to see this added when Twitch account integration already existed. Much less typo-prone than copying your stream key in, along with all the convenience features you get.
- Thaxll 5y ago
  Since YT wants to be a direct competitor to Twitch and OBS is the #1 tool to stream it makes perfect sense.
  - adamrezich 5y ago
    is OBS the number one stream tool these days? I've been out of the loop for many years and when I was keeping up with things it was the up-and-comer but not the dominant tool by a longshot. if it's #1 now that's awesome
    - kevinmgranger 5y ago
      What was/is #1? I know Streamlabs OBS is sometimes cited as a popular alternative, but that's more or less a distribution of OBS.
      - adamrezich 5y ago
        xsplit used to be popular iirc, and I think there were more too. looking xsplit up now on Wikipedia I see it's had a complicated history since I last used it
        ev1 5y ago
        xsplit not only was compromised repeatedly and collected billing details and was a pay monthly to use software, but also just kind of .. never innovated, ever. no new features, ignored requests, ignored feedback while they were "king" long ago. mandatory watermarks, inability for kids/teens that want to stream to pay for it even if they wanted to - no offline payment methods, no way to purchase a key without a credit card type of thing. was also not cheap/forgettable tier of pricing - i believe $15/m? back in the day people went off to ffsplit (ffmpeg-based free version?) and obs (before obs was as polished as it is today, but it was free)
2bitencryption 5y ago
something that always amazes me about OBS is how it is seamlessly cross-platform... and yet I assume the low-level ability to capture display output must be highly platform-dependent? Does OBS need to maintain totally distinct logic for capturing display output from different OSs? Or is there already an abstraction layer for this, maybe at the driver level? Or, third possibility - does it depend on a separate project/library for that? (I'm ready for the replies saying "read the source and find out" but I'm hoping for someone smarter than I to make sense of it for me :D)
- xconverge 5y ago
  Looks to be managed here https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins Pretty clean source tree to reference :) Seems to be unique per OS and not dependent on third party projects.
  - dodgepong 5y ago
    Indeed, all capture functionality is split out into plugins and they are platform-specific. Platform builds are handled by CMake to only include relevant plugins: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins/CMakeLists.txt https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins...
- qbasic_forever 5y ago
  It looks like they have their own library for low level stuff (https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/libobs https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/libobs), but for the most part rely on ffmpeg's library for all the platform-specific video, audio, etc. stuff (https://www.ffmpeg.org/about.html https://www.ffmpeg.org/about.html). If you browse the CMakeLists.txt files in the repo you can get a rough idea the kinds of libraries they depend on and use.
  - dodgepong 5y ago
    OBS uses FFmpeg for media source playback, some audio encoders, and specific video output contexts. Usually FFmpeg isn't used for video encoding, though -- that's handled by either a direct hardware encoder implementation or by a native x264 encoder (i.e. not FFmpeg's x264 implementation). OBS supports FFmpeg output in Advanced mode, but it's by no means the default.
judge2020 5y ago
Been using Streamlabs OBS for a while due to its YT stream management feature and remote control; this solves the YouTube problem, and it looks like remote control could be implemented via "Added a feature to browser sources to allow limited control over OBS". This will probably bring me back mainline.
- belthesar 5y ago
  FWIW, the OBS Websocket plugin makes a great remote control interface available for OBS, and can be paired with https://t2t2.github.io/obs-tablet-remote/ https://t2t2.github.io/obs-tablet-remote/ for a control surface. Bitfocus Companion can also be used with the Elgato Streamdeck, as well as a virtual remote surface and a REST interface if you'd like to roll your own interface as well (and prefer not to use WebSockets)
- m-p-3 5y ago
  Check for OBS-Websocket, personally I use Outfield (on Android) to control when to start and stop recording/streaming, as well as switching to a different scene. https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket https://gitlab.com/Hague/outfield https://gitlab.com/Hague/outfield
abalaji 5y ago
For the value that OBS provides to the “creator economy” between YouTube and Twitch alone, I’m surprised there haven’t been more events by creators to support the devs.
- pityJuke 5y ago
  You're absolutely right, but to some extent, that'll be covered by their platforms, who are pledging at least $50,000 to OBS (but I suspect much more). [1] [1]: https://obsproject.com/contribute https://obsproject.com/contribute
  - jrockway 5y ago
    That doesn't cover even a single full-time developer, so while it's nice, it's not really meaningful. Think about how much Twitch pays for something like Slack or Google Docs. (I'm sure they have in-house alternatives, which probably make them even more expensive, actually.)
    - Hamuko 5y ago
      >That doesn't cover even a single full-time developer Absolutely does, just not in the US.
    - pc86 5y ago
      Between Patreon and the contributors page they're getting about $60k/yr, which doesn't include YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook, who are presumably donating/supporting enough to cover multiple developers each to earn that spot on the page. I'd love to see more public, vocal support of OBS too but let's not pretend that they're collecting change out of couch cushions to pay the people working on it.
- covercash 5y ago
  It would be cool if streamers had a universal OBS appreciation day where all donations get funneled to OBS, similar to the charity streams. “What we do wouldn’t be possible without amazing software so if you want to help support the team that helps me and many of your other favorite streamers do what we do, head on over to obsdonos.com” kinda thing.
marcodiego 5y ago
I've been loosely watching linux FLOSS video editor for more than a decade. At the time we joked: "stability, features, performance; choose two". But that has changed. FLOSS video tools have greatly improved in recent years. Even disregarding blender, some prosumer-like tools broke the good enough bar recently. Kdenlive, OBS, Natron, Synfig... It is becoming increasingly harder for non-paid proprietary tools to compete. Hope the professional market will soon start to benefit from these improvements.
- tombert 5y ago
  Not FLOSS, but related; I feel like the Linux prosumer video editing scene has dramatically improved. Lightworks is really nice once you wrap your head around it, and Da Vinci Resolve on Ubuntu is even pretty OK. I'm not a video editor by trade, I just make dumb YouTube videos like twice a year, so I'm definitely not "stress testing" these tools in any serious sense, but for years I had to run a VM of Windows with a copy of Vegas Pro installed. I of course wanted to work on Linux, working on a VM is a pain, but I found the existing video editing tools on Linux to be extremely buggy and irritating to use. Once Lightworks was released (and stable) on Linux, I suddenly didn't feel the need to bother with Vegas anymore.
chronogram 5y ago
That’s a very nice changelog. I hope they have the time to link to individual PRs/commits in the future, so it’s possible to see what changed in detail.
yellow_lead 5y ago
OBS is so great and permissive that entire companies are built around it.
- dimitrios1 5y ago
  Not to mention the billions in content creation revenue it's enabled.
hbn 5y ago
I don't have much of a use for OBS these days, but man it's a real game changer compared to the hoops you had to jump through for capturing your screen or external devices a decade or so ago. I'm sure many people remember all the old YouTube videos with an "Unregistered Hypercam 2" tag in the corner. I recall a time when the only decent screen capture tool was Camtasia, which had a fairly high price tag. I've played around with OBS a bit, and occasionally use it for screen captures, and it's a really impressive, feature-packed piece of software that feels like it shouldn't be free. Big props to the people who made it happen!
- nyanpasu64 5y ago
  In my opinion, the true spiritual successor to Hypercam 2 is not OBS Studio (a real-time multi-source video compositing framework) but ShareX (a window or screen recorder).
- jandrese 5y ago
  OBS is basically the Gimp or Libreoffice of video production. There are paid tools that are better but if you don't mind the quirks it does pretty much everything an amateur could want, and most of what a professional needs.
  - shados 5y ago
    I think its a step above that. For many workflows, OBS is basically the best option. I bought XSplit a long time ago, when it was in beta or something. OBS came out around that time but it wasn't what it is today. Today though? I still use OBS even though I still have XSPlit (I got a perpetual license). If there's something much better that isn't thousands of dollars, I'd like to know what it is. There's a lot of commercial editors that are nicer than Gimp, and Office IMO still beats Libreoffice and isn't that expensive. But OBS? I don't know anything much better. The plugin ecosystem and the community support is just top notch too, because EVERYONE uses OBS. If you use a commercial option, it's much harder to google up how to do some stuff.
    - noxvilleza 5y ago
HMH 5y ago
OBS is truly a great piece of software. From what I can tell it is built in a pretty modular way, especially looking at plugins. Is anyone using OBS (or parts of it) as library for their project?
a_c 5y ago
Side topic: how to create a virtual video device? I want to process camera input, e.g. cartoonizing human, embed virtual objects, overlaying myself over presentation, etc during virtual meeting. There are project like pyvirtualcam [1] that allows you create video frame, then write it to obs. But how does obs do it in the first place? What are the steps to do it from scratch? Can someone point me to some keywords/reference? [1] https://github.com/letmaik/pyvirtualcam https://github.com/letmaik/pyvirtualcam
- rjeli 5y ago
  https://github.com/letmaik/pyvirtualcam/blob/master/pyvirtualcam/native_linux_v4l2loopback/virtual_output.h https://github.com/letmaik/pyvirtualcam/blob/master/pyvirtua... https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
  - a_c 5y ago
    Perfect!
Buttons840 5y ago
PSA: OBS Studio is great for making videos, not just streaming.
- deleted 5y ago
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dang 5y ago
Past related threads. Others? Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274190 - Aug 2021 (24 comments) OBS Studio 27.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27360141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27360141 - June 2021 (117 comments) OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645312 - March 2021 (67 comments) Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627673 - Jan 2021 (138 comments) OBS Studio 26.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633139 - Sept 2020 (154 comments) How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834153 - July 2020 (190 comments) Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573474 - June 2020 (38 comments) Automated Work Recordings with OBS Studio and TaskWarrior and TimeWarrior - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23410503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23410503 - June 2020 (17 comments) OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404485 - June 2020 (155 comments) Share OBS output as a webcam in Hangouts, Zoom etc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804804 - April 2020 (52 comments) OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748247 - April 2020 (362 comments) Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682022 - March 2020 (99 comments) How to remove breathing sounds from your audio recordings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512199 - April 2016 (6 comments)
at_a_remove 5y ago
I wanted to stream a bunch of videos (and intermissions) to some friends "live" and thanks to this and and comments right here at Hacker News, I have a workflow I plan on trying out as soon as I get other things settled. Namely ... VLC playlist of videos pushed to an OBS source, OBS dumps out an RTMP stream, nginx will loop that to HLS by spawning a bunch of ffmpeg processes to wrap up and later be ingested by Jellyfin, and from there out to various Jellyfin clients on the Roku, Apple TV, Fire Stick, and so forth. It sounds overly complicated but my friends are not tech savvy and have a wide variety of bandwidths ... Looking forward to trying this out.
- noxvilleza 5y ago
  If you're not set on Roku/Fire Stick as clients and would be willing to use (for example) Android phones / laptops / Raspberry Pis you could consider just making a VLC playlist and sharing your screen via Discord. This would allow everyone to join the server with an invite, and join the stream with a click. Good max video quality, and handles low-bw clients well too. If you really need scene selection and stuff, then you could use OBS + (VirtualCam + VoiceMeeter) as your mixer and feed that into Discord.
  - at_a_remove 5y ago
    Discord will not let you stream movies via its Terms of Service, so that one is out. The Discord server I am on that I am considering this for is verrrrry paranoid of falling afoul of the ToS.
- belltaco 5y ago
  If there's no harm if public discover and view the content, you can just stream it to a Twitch or YouTube channel and skip all this complexity.
  - at_a_remove 5y ago
    This is definitely private. And also against the Terms of Service of either service.
stormbrew 5y ago
My big wanted feature for OBS at this point is built-in webrtc streaming of some sort. Probably the WHIP ingest protocol that's going through an IETF draft right now. It would solve a lot of problems with using obs in a 'distributed' way (aka restreaming).
nuclearsugar 5y ago
OBS + OBS Spout Plugin + OBS NDI plugin allows for so much flexibility for artists. Especially since the Spout plugin allows you to output the whole canvas, or just output a scene by adding a Spout filter (alpha channel is transmitted too). https://github.com/Off-World-Live/obs-spout2-plugin https://github.com/Off-World-Live/obs-spout2-plugin https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi
timemachine 5y ago
OBS is great software that needs more recognition as a powerful open source alternative. My user story is: I’m a hobbyist user that likes to record game matches for personal review (analysis of my strategy/mistakes for self improvement). I know that OBS is much more powerful that what I need. However, the design of the software allows me to focus on features I need without the distractions of the features I’m not concerned with. I’m able to complete the tasks I need from the software with amazing ease. It really allows me to enjoy the games I’m playing so much more.
knaik94 5y ago
An interesting idea I've seen for developers is setting up a virtual camera in obs and have overlays like time of day and weather on your screen while on camera. I haven't found a way to do desktop screen record while having a different scene setup to show my camera + overlay as a virtual camera on obs. If anyone knows if it's possible, I'd greatly appreciate it.
d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
I could not figure how to get OBS to record a zoom call when either party shares their screen. It needs to record the shared screen. Spent hours searching obscure forums to no avail. If anyone can point to a solution (MacOS) I will be grateful.
- crtasm 5y ago
  Tried capturing a specified region of the screen instead of picking the Zoom app from a list?
  - d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
    Thanks for suggesting. I will try this

227 points by bdz 5y ago

> Special thanks to the developers at YouTube for working with us directly on the initial implementation of this feature [YouTube integration] and helping to make it a reality this is pretty cool to see, OBS sure has come a long way in such a short time

adamnemecek 5y ago
It’s essential to the well being of several very well funded companies so no surprise.
mlex 5y ago
Yep, not surprised to see this added when Twitch account integration already existed. Much less typo-prone than copying your stream key in, along with all the convenience features you get.
Thaxll 5y ago
Since YT wants to be a direct competitor to Twitch and OBS is the #1 tool to stream it makes perfect sense.
- adamrezich 5y ago
  is OBS the number one stream tool these days? I've been out of the loop for many years and when I was keeping up with things it was the up-and-comer but not the dominant tool by a longshot. if it's #1 now that's awesome
  - kevinmgranger 5y ago
    What was/is #1? I know Streamlabs OBS is sometimes cited as a popular alternative, but that's more or less a distribution of OBS.
    - adamrezich 5y ago
      xsplit used to be popular iirc, and I think there were more too. looking xsplit up now on Wikipedia I see it's had a complicated history since I last used it
      - ev1 5y ago
        xsplit not only was compromised repeatedly and collected billing details and was a pay monthly to use software, but also just kind of .. never innovated, ever. no new features, ignored requests, ignored feedback while they were "king" long ago. mandatory watermarks, inability for kids/teens that want to stream to pay for it even if they wanted to - no offline payment methods, no way to purchase a key without a credit card type of thing. was also not cheap/forgettable tier of pricing - i believe $15/m? back in the day people went off to ffsplit (ffmpeg-based free version?) and obs (before obs was as polished as it is today, but it was free)

2bitencryption 5y ago

something that always amazes me about OBS is how it is seamlessly cross-platform... and yet I assume the low-level ability to capture display output must be highly platform-dependent? Does OBS need to maintain totally distinct logic for capturing display output from different OSs? Or is there already an abstraction layer for this, maybe at the driver level? Or, third possibility - does it depend on a separate project/library for that? (I'm ready for the replies saying "read the source and find out" but I'm hoping for someone smarter than I to make sense of it for me :D)

xconverge 5y ago
Looks to be managed here https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins Pretty clean source tree to reference :) Seems to be unique per OS and not dependent on third party projects.
- dodgepong 5y ago
  Indeed, all capture functionality is split out into plugins and they are platform-specific. Platform builds are handled by CMake to only include relevant plugins: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins/CMakeLists.txt https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins...
qbasic_forever 5y ago
It looks like they have their own library for low level stuff (https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/libobs https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/libobs), but for the most part rely on ffmpeg's library for all the platform-specific video, audio, etc. stuff (https://www.ffmpeg.org/about.html https://www.ffmpeg.org/about.html). If you browse the CMakeLists.txt files in the repo you can get a rough idea the kinds of libraries they depend on and use.
- dodgepong 5y ago
  OBS uses FFmpeg for media source playback, some audio encoders, and specific video output contexts. Usually FFmpeg isn't used for video encoding, though -- that's handled by either a direct hardware encoder implementation or by a native x264 encoder (i.e. not FFmpeg's x264 implementation). OBS supports FFmpeg output in Advanced mode, but it's by no means the default.

judge2020 5y ago

Been using Streamlabs OBS for a while due to its YT stream management feature and remote control; this solves the YouTube problem, and it looks like remote control could be implemented via "Added a feature to browser sources to allow limited control over OBS". This will probably bring me back mainline.

belthesar 5y ago
FWIW, the OBS Websocket plugin makes a great remote control interface available for OBS, and can be paired with https://t2t2.github.io/obs-tablet-remote/ https://t2t2.github.io/obs-tablet-remote/ for a control surface. Bitfocus Companion can also be used with the Elgato Streamdeck, as well as a virtual remote surface and a REST interface if you'd like to roll your own interface as well (and prefer not to use WebSockets)
m-p-3 5y ago
Check for OBS-Websocket, personally I use Outfield (on Android) to control when to start and stop recording/streaming, as well as switching to a different scene. https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket https://gitlab.com/Hague/outfield https://gitlab.com/Hague/outfield

abalaji 5y ago

For the value that OBS provides to the “creator economy” between YouTube and Twitch alone, I’m surprised there haven’t been more events by creators to support the devs.

pityJuke 5y ago
You're absolutely right, but to some extent, that'll be covered by their platforms, who are pledging at least $50,000 to OBS (but I suspect much more). [1] [1]: https://obsproject.com/contribute https://obsproject.com/contribute
- jrockway 5y ago
  That doesn't cover even a single full-time developer, so while it's nice, it's not really meaningful. Think about how much Twitch pays for something like Slack or Google Docs. (I'm sure they have in-house alternatives, which probably make them even more expensive, actually.)
  - Hamuko 5y ago
    >That doesn't cover even a single full-time developer Absolutely does, just not in the US.
  - pc86 5y ago
    Between Patreon and the contributors page they're getting about $60k/yr, which doesn't include YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook, who are presumably donating/supporting enough to cover multiple developers each to earn that spot on the page. I'd love to see more public, vocal support of OBS too but let's not pretend that they're collecting change out of couch cushions to pay the people working on it.
covercash 5y ago
It would be cool if streamers had a universal OBS appreciation day where all donations get funneled to OBS, similar to the charity streams. “What we do wouldn’t be possible without amazing software so if you want to help support the team that helps me and many of your other favorite streamers do what we do, head on over to obsdonos.com” kinda thing.

marcodiego 5y ago

I've been loosely watching linux FLOSS video editor for more than a decade. At the time we joked: "stability, features, performance; choose two". But that has changed. FLOSS video tools have greatly improved in recent years. Even disregarding blender, some prosumer-like tools broke the good enough bar recently. Kdenlive, OBS, Natron, Synfig... It is becoming increasingly harder for non-paid proprietary tools to compete. Hope the professional market will soon start to benefit from these improvements.

tombert 5y ago
Not FLOSS, but related; I feel like the Linux prosumer video editing scene has dramatically improved. Lightworks is really nice once you wrap your head around it, and Da Vinci Resolve on Ubuntu is even pretty OK. I'm not a video editor by trade, I just make dumb YouTube videos like twice a year, so I'm definitely not "stress testing" these tools in any serious sense, but for years I had to run a VM of Windows with a copy of Vegas Pro installed. I of course wanted to work on Linux, working on a VM is a pain, but I found the existing video editing tools on Linux to be extremely buggy and irritating to use. Once Lightworks was released (and stable) on Linux, I suddenly didn't feel the need to bother with Vegas anymore.

chronogram 5y ago

That’s a very nice changelog. I hope they have the time to link to individual PRs/commits in the future, so it’s possible to see what changed in detail.

yellow_lead 5y ago

OBS is so great and permissive that entire companies are built around it.

dimitrios1 5y ago
Not to mention the billions in content creation revenue it's enabled.

hbn 5y ago

I don't have much of a use for OBS these days, but man it's a real game changer compared to the hoops you had to jump through for capturing your screen or external devices a decade or so ago. I'm sure many people remember all the old YouTube videos with an "Unregistered Hypercam 2" tag in the corner. I recall a time when the only decent screen capture tool was Camtasia, which had a fairly high price tag. I've played around with OBS a bit, and occasionally use it for screen captures, and it's a really impressive, feature-packed piece of software that feels like it shouldn't be free. Big props to the people who made it happen!

nyanpasu64 5y ago
In my opinion, the true spiritual successor to Hypercam 2 is not OBS Studio (a real-time multi-source video compositing framework) but ShareX (a window or screen recorder).
jandrese 5y ago
OBS is basically the Gimp or Libreoffice of video production. There are paid tools that are better but if you don't mind the quirks it does pretty much everything an amateur could want, and most of what a professional needs.
- shados 5y ago
  I think its a step above that. For many workflows, OBS is basically the best option. I bought XSplit a long time ago, when it was in beta or something. OBS came out around that time but it wasn't what it is today. Today though? I still use OBS even though I still have XSPlit (I got a perpetual license). If there's something much better that isn't thousands of dollars, I'd like to know what it is. There's a lot of commercial editors that are nicer than Gimp, and Office IMO still beats Libreoffice and isn't that expensive. But OBS? I don't know anything much better. The plugin ecosystem and the community support is just top notch too, because EVERYONE uses OBS. If you use a commercial option, it's much harder to google up how to do some stuff.
  - noxvilleza 5y ago

HMH 5y ago

OBS is truly a great piece of software. From what I can tell it is built in a pretty modular way, especially looking at plugins. Is anyone using OBS (or parts of it) as library for their project?

a_c 5y ago

Side topic: how to create a virtual video device? I want to process camera input, e.g. cartoonizing human, embed virtual objects, overlaying myself over presentation, etc during virtual meeting. There are project like pyvirtualcam [1] that allows you create video frame, then write it to obs. But how does obs do it in the first place? What are the steps to do it from scratch? Can someone point me to some keywords/reference? [1] https://github.com/letmaik/pyvirtualcam https://github.com/letmaik/pyvirtualcam

rjeli 5y ago
https://github.com/letmaik/pyvirtualcam/blob/master/pyvirtualcam/native_linux_v4l2loopback/virtual_output.h https://github.com/letmaik/pyvirtualcam/blob/master/pyvirtua... https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
- a_c 5y ago
  Perfect!

Buttons840 5y ago

PSA: OBS Studio is great for making videos, not just streaming.

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dang 5y ago

Past related threads. Others? Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274190 - Aug 2021 (24 comments) OBS Studio 27.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27360141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27360141 - June 2021 (117 comments) OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645312 - March 2021 (67 comments) Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627673 - Jan 2021 (138 comments) OBS Studio 26.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633139 - Sept 2020 (154 comments) How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834153 - July 2020 (190 comments) Show HN: OBS-web – Control OBS from the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573474 - June 2020 (38 comments) Automated Work Recordings with OBS Studio and TaskWarrior and TimeWarrior - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23410503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23410503 - June 2020 (17 comments) OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404485 - June 2020 (155 comments) Share OBS output as a webcam in Hangouts, Zoom etc - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804804 - April 2020 (52 comments) OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748247 - April 2020 (362 comments) Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682022 - March 2020 (99 comments) How to remove breathing sounds from your audio recordings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512199 - April 2016 (6 comments)

at_a_remove 5y ago

I wanted to stream a bunch of videos (and intermissions) to some friends "live" and thanks to this and and comments right here at Hacker News, I have a workflow I plan on trying out as soon as I get other things settled. Namely ... VLC playlist of videos pushed to an OBS source, OBS dumps out an RTMP stream, nginx will loop that to HLS by spawning a bunch of ffmpeg processes to wrap up and later be ingested by Jellyfin, and from there out to various Jellyfin clients on the Roku, Apple TV, Fire Stick, and so forth. It sounds overly complicated but my friends are not tech savvy and have a wide variety of bandwidths ... Looking forward to trying this out.

noxvilleza 5y ago
If you're not set on Roku/Fire Stick as clients and would be willing to use (for example) Android phones / laptops / Raspberry Pis you could consider just making a VLC playlist and sharing your screen via Discord. This would allow everyone to join the server with an invite, and join the stream with a click. Good max video quality, and handles low-bw clients well too. If you really need scene selection and stuff, then you could use OBS + (VirtualCam + VoiceMeeter) as your mixer and feed that into Discord.
- at_a_remove 5y ago
  Discord will not let you stream movies via its Terms of Service, so that one is out. The Discord server I am on that I am considering this for is verrrrry paranoid of falling afoul of the ToS.
belltaco 5y ago
If there's no harm if public discover and view the content, you can just stream it to a Twitch or YouTube channel and skip all this complexity.
- at_a_remove 5y ago
  This is definitely private. And also against the Terms of Service of either service.

stormbrew 5y ago

My big wanted feature for OBS at this point is built-in webrtc streaming of some sort. Probably the WHIP ingest protocol that's going through an IETF draft right now. It would solve a lot of problems with using obs in a 'distributed' way (aka restreaming).

nuclearsugar 5y ago

OBS + OBS Spout Plugin + OBS NDI plugin allows for so much flexibility for artists. Especially since the Spout plugin allows you to output the whole canvas, or just output a scene by adding a Spout filter (alpha channel is transmitted too). https://github.com/Off-World-Live/obs-spout2-plugin https://github.com/Off-World-Live/obs-spout2-plugin https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi

timemachine 5y ago

OBS is great software that needs more recognition as a powerful open source alternative. My user story is: I’m a hobbyist user that likes to record game matches for personal review (analysis of my strategy/mistakes for self improvement). I know that OBS is much more powerful that what I need. However, the design of the software allows me to focus on features I need without the distractions of the features I’m not concerned with. I’m able to complete the tasks I need from the software with amazing ease. It really allows me to enjoy the games I’m playing so much more.

knaik94 5y ago

An interesting idea I've seen for developers is setting up a virtual camera in obs and have overlays like time of day and weather on your screen while on camera. I haven't found a way to do desktop screen record while having a different scene setup to show my camera + overlay as a virtual camera on obs. If anyone knows if it's possible, I'd greatly appreciate it.

d4rkp4ttern 5y ago

I could not figure how to get OBS to record a zoom call when either party shares their screen. It needs to record the shared screen. Spent hours searching obscure forums to no avail. If anyone can point to a solution (MacOS) I will be grateful.

crtasm 5y ago
Tried capturing a specified region of the screen instead of picking the Zoom app from a list?
- d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
  Thanks for suggesting. I will try this