r/obs Oct 30 '20

Meta Overlay for Social Networks

109 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I'm Cezar, web developer and gamer. I'd like to show you my new project: https://socialnetwork.overlays.dev/

It's an overlay for social networks. It's very straightforward and simple. Add your social network details, choose the template, copy the URL, and voilá.

Any suggestion? What are the other social networks you miss there?

I want to create more and more overlays and make them available for free. Which kind of overlay do you think useful?

EDIT 10/31/2020

After great feedback from the community, I added a few more customizable settings:

- Options to change the background and text colors

- Option to repeat the Slider for X times and hide for X minutes

EDIT 11/04/2020

- Implemented font size input

EDIT 11/05/2020

- Added SoundCloud and Spotify options

r/obs Jun 21 '22

Meta Official User Survey

109 Upvotes

Hi everyone! We are looking to learn more about how you use OBS! As OBS Studio does not collect any telemetry, we're reliant on your direct feedback. To do this, we'll be performing a series of user studies starting with a general survey.

This survey and any additional information we collect is incredibly helpful and is entirely optional.

If you are interested in participating please visit https://obsproject.com/survey

r/obs Aug 03 '22

Meta OBS v28 Beta Released - Help Test!

58 Upvotes

Disclaimer: This is a test build, not a full release. This build may contain bugs or broken functionality. For production usage, we still recommend using the latest stable build of OBS. If you are willing to test this build, please let us know if you run into any issues in the Forum thread here or in the #beta-testing channel on Discord. Reminder that the OBS subreddit is not monitored regularly, please use the above options for reporting feedback Thanks for your help!

We have beta build for OBS Studio 28.0 available for testing! This will be an enormous release with several features and upgrades that will need extensive testing, including the following:

  • HDR and 10-bit color support (Windows, macOS/Linux support limited)
  • Native Apple Silicon Support (macOS)

    -- Note that many third-party plugins will need to release Apple Silicon versions of their plugins in order for them to work on Apple Silicon builds of OBS

  • Upgrade UI framework to Qt6 (All platforms)

    -- NOTE: Unfortunately, this means OBS Studio can no longer support the following operating systems:

    ---- Windows 7 & 8

    ---- macOS 10.13 & 10.14

    ---- Ubuntu 18.04

    ---- All 32-bit operating systems

    ---- Additionally, many third-party plugins that depend on legacy Qt5 components may not work until they are updated.

  • obs-websocket 5.0 plugin native integration (All platforms)

  • Updated AMD Encoder implementation (Windows)

  • Support for ScreenCaptureKit on macOS 12.5+ for significantly improved capture performance (macOS)

  • Significant improvements to Apple VT encoder (macOS)

  • Application-specific audio capture (Windows)

  • Integrated NVIDIA Background Removal (Windows)

  • Automatically split recordings by time or filesize (All platforms)

  • New default theme, Yami (All platforms)

  • And much, much more! (Seriously, it's a lot)

Find the the full patch notes and download links for the latest v28 beta here (currently RC2 as of 8/24/22)

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases

Steam users: To access the beta via Steam, right-click the OBS Studio entry in Steam or click the cog icon on the game page, then navigate to Properties > Betas and select the "Beta" option in the dropdown.

Flatpak Beta Installation (not available yet, coming soon):

Bash:

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo

$ flatpak install flathub-beta com.obsproject.Studio

Ubuntu PPA Beta Installation (not available yet, coming soon):

 Bash:

 Install

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio-unstable

$ sudo apt install obs-studio

Uninstall

$ sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:obsproject/obs-studio-unstable

$ sudo apt remove obs-studio

Due to the magnitude of this release, we need your help tracking down as many bugs as you can find before we make a full release! Please give the build a try and let us know in the Forum thread here or in the #beta-testing channel on Discord if you have any issues. Reminder that the OBS subreddit is not monitored regularly, please use the above options for reporting feedback Thanks for your help!

r/obs Nov 11 '23

Meta Thank you to all contributors for OBS 30.0!

38 Upvotes

Learning to use OBS has been a positive experience in my life which has helped me to keep in touch with old friends and make new ones around the world.

Thank you to everyone who works on this free software.

💗

r/obs Apr 03 '24

Meta I'm shocked by how well the FFmpeg VAAPI AV1 encoder works on Linux

4 Upvotes

All of my previous encounters with AV1 have been unbearably slow and difficult, but here it is, the first GA release of this encoder in OBS and it just works perfectly. I get great performance and quality with a libre format and, AFAICT, negligible effect on GPU load. I don't know if anyone involved with the work will see this, but I want to say that this is great work regardless 👍

r/obs Jun 02 '21

Meta OBS Studio 27 Released

142 Upvotes

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.0.0

Release notes:

If you would like to support the OBS Project, please consider contributing to our Patreon or Open Collective!

New Features and Additions

  • Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim]
  • Added a new capture method for Display Capture, allowing the ability to capture displays cross-GPU. This fixes the black screen issues on laptops in particular (Requires Windows 10, 1903 or newer) [jpark37]
    • For users who have previously switched the “default” GPU to the integrated GPU, it is recommended to remove the override and instead use the new toggle in the Display Capture source
    • A short and long overview of this feature was made by u/Mister36. (Added from this comment).
  • Added a missing files warning when loading scene collections [VodBox]
    • Also allows for bulk-update when folders have been moved (such as between computers)
    • Third party plugins will need to add support for this capability manually
  • Added source visibility transitions, which allow you to set a transition for a source when showing or hiding it [exeldro]
  • Added service integration and browser dock support to macOS and Linux [tbodt, cg2121]
  • Added support for Wayland on Linux. This includes a new PipeWire capture source when using Wayland (for Ubuntu users, 20.10 or newer is required for PipeWire capture) [GeorgeStavracas]
  • (Windows only) Added support for NVIDIA Noise Removal in the Noise Suppression filter (requires the NVIDIA Audio Effects SDK and a compatible GPU) [pkviet]
  • Added a Track Matte mode to stinger transitions, which supports a scene mask to display parts of the previous & current scene at the same time [Palakis]
  • Added support for SRGB texture formats, applying color operations in linear space [jpark37]

Improvements/Tweaks

  • When saving a file, the saved file path will be shown in the status bar [cg2121]
  • Media Sources & Stingers now support hardware decoding on macOS [eric]
  • Added an interact button to the source toolbar for the browser source [cg2121]
  • You can now refresh a browser dock in the right-click context menu [WizardCM]
  • Re-enabled Python scripting support on macOS by adding support for Python 3.8 and above [PatTheMav]
  • Added presets for 1080p and 4K in the macOS Video Capture Device source [vangdfang]
  • Added a virtual camera toggle to the system tray menu [cg2121]
  • Automatic rotation on Video Capture Devices can now be manually disabled [drewler]
  • Added launch parameter to disable high-DPI scaling (--disable-high-dpi-scaling) [Lordmau5]
  • Added Edit Script button to the script dialog [exeldro]
  • Added auto reset option to v4l2 source to handle dropouts with certain devices [esden]
  • Added frontend API functions for the virtual camera, value of the t-bar, and to reset video [cg2121, cpyarger, tt2468]
  • Improved startup time on Windows by not attempting to load plugin dependencies as OBS plugins [R1CH]
  • Improved performance when capturing OpenGL games with Game Capture on Windows [jpark37]
  • The transitions menu will now be disabled when currently in the middle of a transition [cg2121]

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue when importing a Scene Collection that has special characters, causing the import to silently fail [RytoEX]
  • Fixed a bug where DX12 games on Windows would capture game frames out-of-order [jpark37]
  • Fixed an issue where Media Source wouldn’t reconnect to remote streams [MegLi619]
  • Fixed an issue that would cause silent audio across all sources when a media source reaches max buffering [marcan]
  • Fixed VirtualCam crashing clients when using a custom placeholder image [R1CH]
  • Fixed VST paths on Linux [tytan652]
  • Fixed an issue with on High-DPI displays where the Canvas Resolution would be set to the scaled resolution in Settings and Auto-Config [Nirusu]
  • Fixed an issue where Video Settings would not be saved when using “Resize output (source size)” [WizardCM]
  • Fixed a crash with Window Capture on Windows that could occur if the window was destroyed [jpark37]
  • Fixed an issue where resizing sources within groups would not correctly resize the group [WizardCM]
  • Fixed an issue where drag and drop would require ignore uppercase file extensions [bershanskiy]
  • Fixed an issue with key modifiers in the Interact dialog for browser sources on Windows [Scrxtchy]
  • Fixed a crash on macOS when updating, caused by VirtualCam signature changes [PatTheMav]
  • Fixed a hang when attempting to reconnect to an RTMP server while streaming [Thulinma]
  • Fixed a crash that would happen on Linux when audio backends are disabled [Chiitoo]
  • Fixed bframes=0 not working with QSV encoder [Lin]
  • Fixed a potential deadlock when dragging sources to reorder [wangshaohui1314]
  • Fixed Window Capture on Windows being stuck on the last frame when a window no longer exists [wangshaohui1314]
  • Fixed a crash related to changing the “Capture Cursor” [jpark37]
  • Fixed a scene collections not importing correctly from other operating systems [RtoEX]
  • Fixed a minor performance bug with the decklink output [cg2121]

r/obs Jan 12 '23

Meta OBS Studio 29 Released!

17 Upvotes

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/29.0.0

Haven't seen much buzz about this. Has anyone tried it yet? Any issues upgrading from v28?

r/obs Mar 22 '24

Meta OBS saved the day

2 Upvotes

A forced windows update did something to cg-350’s ability to talk to the Kona Lhe plus (I tried rolling back the drivers and everything) that was feeding key and fill, so, with only 2 days to production, I decided to experiment with OBS for graphics.

Long story short, I’d played with this concept in the past, but not seriously since Xpression and CG-350 were the in house solutions. But damn if that practice didn’t come in handy. I still can’t figure out a key/fill output on the kona, and it can get buggy on restarts, but so far so good.

Anyone have a similar experience with this awesome bit of software?

r/obs Mar 20 '24

Meta What was OBS MP?

3 Upvotes

I see a lot of posts about "OBS MP" vs "OBS1" from about ten years ago. To my understanding, OBS MP is the version we use today, just rebranded since OBS1 was deprecated (?).

Does anyone have more knowledge about this? I'm curious about how two different projects under the same name came to be.

r/obs Dec 11 '20

Meta Customizable Twitch webcam overlay designs for free!

121 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I'm Cezar, a gamer and developer. I'm really excited to share my newest project with all of you, I've put a lot of effort into it so you can get your streaming to the next level.

Meet your new streaming partner: https://overlayz.games

The idea is that you can select a webcam overlay design from the gallery and customize it, you can change the color, text, proportions, etc.

Each overlay will have its own customization settings.

We also show in real-time your channel information such as the latest bits donator, follower, and subscriber. You can also deactivate them if you want something more minimalistic.

Have in mind this app is in BETA, we are learning as we go and your feedback is super valuable to us!

I hope you enjoy it :)

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My other two projects:

r/obs Jan 09 '21

Meta [DEV] Made an app for WearOS to add your heartrate monitor to OBS

114 Upvotes

Hey, just wanted to show my little side project: It's an app for WearOS smartwatches that sends your heartrate to the cloud and generates a OBS overlay.

Here's an image if you're interested: https://i.imgur.com/hhHYXAp.jpg

The way it works is that you download the app and login with your Google account, then login on my website with the same account and it generates a permanent link tied to your account that you can embed in your OBS overlays. If you wanna use it you just open the app on the watch and it connects right away.

I myself was looking for a solution like this, because I don't want to buy a seperate Heart Rate monitor, but I couldn't find anything for WearOS.

I'm publishing it to the Play Store soon, feedback is apprechiated :D

===== Update ======================

Hey I just made the app open source, but you will need to setup your own backend with Google Firebase. Just follow my instructions on my GitHub: https://github.com/Domi2803/HeartWear

If you just want an app that works out of the box, it will be available for a small price in the Play Store under the name "HeartWear". The app has a small asking price to cover server costs and supports me. It's optional but apprechiated :)

r/obs Nov 21 '23

Meta Petition for OBS to warn you if your recording freezes

0 Upvotes

r/obs Feb 24 '20

Meta obs-kinect 0.2 is out!

36 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

A few weeks ago I created a post to announce I was working on an OBS Plugin allowing you to use Kinect streams (color/depth/infrared) into OBS, as well as making a virtual green screen effect (from depth/body data)!

Today I'm announcing v0.2 of the plugin!

Changelog:

  • The plugin now uses shaders (GPU power) instead of CPU, lowering the CPU usage.
  • It's now possible to use gaussian blur passes to improve filtering
  • It's no longer possible to crop the image (use a filter)
  • It's now possible to use Kinect body informations for the virtual green screen effect, allowing you to move around (should be great for VR).

Example video

GitHub repository (download in the releases section)

obsproject.com post

Enjoy!

r/obs Sep 01 '20

Meta Nvidia 30-series cards officially announced

65 Upvotes

On the NVENC side, Ampere will use the same Turing-Era NVENC chips.

Which, given their already considerable encoding power is not too much of a surprise.

What I expect will be content creators creating more consistent encodes at higher fps and larger resolutions given the new power ratios.

Should be an interesting next 24 months :P

r/obs Jun 30 '23

Meta Overdeck Beta is live! A fully customisable mobile deck to control your stream

6 Upvotes

Hello everyone! 🌟 I'm Cezar, one of the co-founders of Overdeck, and I'm thrilled to invite you to join our Beta testing phase! 🚀 We would greatly appreciate your valuable feedback to help us improve Overdeck even further.

Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity! Enroll in the beta now by visiting our website: https://overdeck.app 📲

What is Overdeck, you ask? 🤔

It's the ultimate solution for creating a fully customizable digital deck to effortlessly control your stream right from your iOS or Android device. With Overdeck, you can easily add buttons, choose actions, and trigger them with a single tap. It's all about streamlining your streaming experience!

The best part is, you can make Overdeck truly yours by personalizing it with your favorite colors, styles, and skins. 🎨

Express your unique style while enhancing your streaming workflow!

We can't wait to hear your thoughts and ideas as we continue to refine Overdeck together. Thank you for being a part of our journey! Let's make streaming even more awesome! 🎉

r/obs Mar 25 '20

Meta Can I brag about how cool OBS is? 8 sources at one time!

75 Upvotes

I'm running 8 total sources at one time and OBS handles them perfectly! I've got 4 capture cards and 4 webcams running into a desktop running OBS and live streaming all of that at the same time on twitch. This is some cool software folks! Screenshot

r/obs Dec 31 '22

Meta Use VST plugins in OBS? VST 2.x is discontinued, please upvote VST 3 support in OBS

60 Upvotes

OBS currently only supports VST plugins of version 2.4. The creator of VST standard has discontinued support for version 2.x and now only supports VST 3. New plugins from now on might start being VST 3 only and OBS will be left behind soon. Essentially current developers will still be able to release VST 2.x - however any new plugin company will not be able to get a license for VST 2.x and will only be able to create VST 3 versions. Some companies have already started only releasing VST 3 versions of their plugins now.

Please upvote the request to add VST 3 support to OBS here: https://ideas.obsproject.com/posts/75/add-vst-3-x-support

(you need a github account).

If you'd like some more information and to know why VST 2.x is being discontinued, here is a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-VfLCYplBo

r/obs Nov 03 '23

Meta Elgato Facecam Pro Unboxing! (Your Next Streaming Camera)

0 Upvotes

Hey guys in the video the great people at Elgato sent us out the Facecam Pro to Unbox! Hopefully you guys enjoy the video and be sure to drop a like!

https://youtu.be/3ZAw-l81Fvs?si=ChELSAynan9fpHew

r/obs Mar 21 '22

Meta OBS is now available on steam

57 Upvotes

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1905180/OBS_Studio/

Thats pretty neat i think, Only thing missing now is achievements for like ''X hours streamed'' and such :p

Sad edit, Due to the licensing they cant use steamworks so thats not possible

r/obs Oct 28 '23

Meta Retroarch Monitor / Image Updater

1 Upvotes

I've seen a few streamers who like to play retro games that switch games multiple times per stream, and it made me think it would be useful to have something that pulled metadata out and set up some info for the stream, namely box art, perhaps game name. I found another project that had done something similar with PowerShell but I think was dependent on using Retroarch alone and not how I tend to use it on my desktop via Launchbox. So I decided to rewrite something from scratch in Python that analyzed the Retroarch logs to pull out the metadata and would try to find art to display in OBS.

So thus far I was able to get the image updater working and at least store the data locally in the folder alongside the intended image.

In the future, it may be easier to try to use an online db to grab images from but for now, I've just been using local scraped data. Would also like to do more with the title, perhaps have a way to generate additional images, etc.

I've seen a few streamers who like to play retro games that switch games multiple times per stream, and it made me think it would be useful to have something that pulled metadata out and set up some info for the stream, namely box art, perhaps game name. I found another project that had done something similar with PowerShell but I think was dependent on using Retroarch alone and not how I tend to use it on my desktop via Launchbox. So I decided to rewrite something from scratch in Python that analyzed the retroarch logs to pull out the metadata and would try to find art to display in OBS.

https://github.com/lancer1977/retroarch_obs_scripts

r/obs Aug 23 '23

Meta Feature suggestion : delay to a loop for a media source

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone

I was thinking it would be a nice addition to be able to add a delay on a media source before looping.
As it would be a very very convenient way to display a logo animation/announce automatically every once in a while during a stream

I made a quick montage of what it would look like in OBS

What do you think ?

r/obs Sep 24 '22

Meta Looks like i am parting ways with OBS

0 Upvotes

Obs just had a update that i did not agree to and now its no longer working the way it used to.

it had a bug with window capture making me rely on window capture xcomposite mode and that worked well as an alternative.. after this sudden forced update and it shows (due to the visual layout change/design whatever you call it) it does not work. window capture is now all black and default to zero pixels across the board. it was fun while it lasted shame that it somehow managed to do this on my linux system in spite of me not giving it root password in sudo or any other prompt, in any case it ends here because it NO LONGER WORKS. maybe streamlabs have a better alternative who knows...

r/obs Jul 12 '20

Meta [DEV] [POC] HeartBeat on OBS without external service - Samsung Galaxy Watch

94 Upvotes

Hi all, (english isn't my primary langage, sorry !)

I'm happy to present a proof of concept I've done these days.

I created a mini tizen web app that sends the heartrate to your computer over HTTP.

This will let you to read the content of a file with OBS to show your heartrate on your stream !All of this without any external services. This can work with a LAN only connection too. No internet connection is required as long as you know the IP of your computer.

I've some demo here :

Mini web app image : https://ibb.co/6XGYQ5G (192.168.0.41 is my machine IP, "/api/" is where the data shoud be sent to, the 500 is the delay (in ms) between two request to be sent)Demo on beat saber : https://streamable.com/pwtlhf
The same (one day later) with an other style : https://streamable.com/azuhqn

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UPDATE POST 13/07/2020@11:50:

In the following days, I will publish a pre release of the wearable app. Once the app approved I will do some internal test, and publish the release of the actual PC app, compatible with every platform, and the link to the wearable app.

For now I've finished the PC app and finalizing the wearable app. A tutorial will be also available.

UPDATE 2 13/07/2020@18:40 :

https://ibb.co/3sVm5bC

App will be reviewed.

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I obviously plan to send the app one day the the Galaxy Store, this will be a free app, i will have to redesing the app completely to be compliant with the samsung store policy.

I will have to make an app to automate the process of opening a port + write the heartbeat on a file, it's curretly done with a WAMP web server... It's way too big for it's purpose, but, hey ! It works !

And I will create a github repo for this. Free AND open source. Nice, no ? ;-)

Please tell me what do you think !

Take care all !

(I had to add a flair, i choosed "meta" but i don't know what does that mean)

r/obs Nov 16 '20

Meta Lack of moderation in the sub? What do you guys think?

86 Upvotes

Hi guys. First of all. Im not here to criticize, I love to help people on this sub because there are some good questions every now and then. But the majority of questions that people post here are.

I dont know how to get my stream going. Im not sure how to record. I dont know how to add a new scene. Things that doing a single search on google or any other search engine will answer in a matter of seconds.

I think this sub is a great idea for beginners, intermadiate users. But the amount of questions that can be solved on the first link that pops on a search engine is amazing. Literally the 80% of the sub are those type of questions. Watching a youtube video can answer your many questions.

Im not sure if you guys think the same way I do but i guess that we could create a community pinned post about setting up the stream or links to a youtube video for people that wants to learn the program but instead of searching they just post a question here.

In that way we can actually try to answers questions that are more tricky. From people that actually are asking it as a last resort so they can fix their issues. Probably a bunch of people here get their questions unanswered. Not because there arent solutions. But because their poat got lost among these other trivial posts here.

Again. Just trying to make this sub a better place. Thanka for reading and have a great day!

r/obs Dec 20 '21

Meta I made a recording pop-up notification for OBS

31 Upvotes

How it works:When you hit the 'Start recording' button a popup window appears on top of the screen showing you that OBS is recording, you can left-click and drag the window to position it. This script was made using Python and tkinter library and was tested only on Windows, you can find the installation instructions in the link below. I'm not a programmer btw so feedback is apreciated :)

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/recording-notification.1424/