plugins-and-tools

[reef jay]

appreciate that. Are you familiar with using that Yolo just so I got someone to hit up later when im playing with it? Doing the screenshots etc shouldnt be too hard.

[mortal harbor]

you can always post here, plenty of people use the plugin.

[reef jay]

awesome appreciate that. Im sorry for the probably obvious and repeated questions. Just getting into this stuff and its very fun.

[pallid anvil]

Hey sorry to post here, but I posted a new resource on the forum the other day after someone told me there was a section there for tools that integrate/are related to OBS, however its been in "awaiting approval" for over a week, is there some process you need to carry out before it is accepted etc?

I did try to pm the mods via the forum but it wouldnt let me, but to be fair I have only made one post on there which is the one in question, so maybe its an auto deletion thing, any advice would be great, feel free to ping me or pm me.

[regal breach]

no, it just really takes a while due to the number of resources to be reviewed, along with development on OBS Studio itself

[pallid anvil]

Ah ok, should I be concerned that it says its been deleted in my post history? In the post itself it still says awaiting approval though

[regal breach]

as long as the post says waiting approval, i think that's fine. i haven't ever checked my post history when i posted resources so i don't know about the post history, but back then i saved the link to my resource and it just said waiting approval

[vale vine]

finally got this working as needed 😉

should have output preview and captured that though. would have made the video a little better ha

[mortal harbor]

now make it happen faster.

[vale vine]

thats gonna cost cpu time

[mortal harbor]

i think i came up with some creative ways to improve detection speed, i'll have to look next time i'm home.

[vale vine]

this is at 300ms

[mortal harbor]

pretty good actually.

[regal breach]

Have you tried the "reduce matching latency" checkbox?

[mortal harbor]

i think that's the CPU cost he was talking about.

[vale vine]

oh thats rather speedy

now to gauge performance

(wonder how much less of a hit this is vs that pixel match shader fork thing)

[regal breach]

Also, just in case you forgot, have you already specified the area to match?

[vale vine]

yep

otherwise it wouldnt actually match

had to really shrink down what it was looking at

[regal breach]

Oh user just wants a blood splatter effect

[regal breach]

Surely it should be fine to disappear late when the game is paused

[vale vine]

I'm not doing this for their use case, this is something I've wanted for a while for myself ha

[regal breach]

Oh okay

What does it look like with the reduce latency option?

[vale vine]

last time around just couldnt quite get it configured properly(was probably too impatient tbh)

pretty darn fast imo

now i just need to set up additional macros for any smurf accounts i'd use on stream haha

[regal breach]

Oh yeah that's very fast

[vale vine]

can macros be enabled/disabled via WS?

[regal breach]

Yes

Just create a macro ingesting the WS messages, and pause/unpause macros

[rough saddle]

is the nowplaying site for spotify on obs safe to use ?

[ancient summit]

Source icon has type OBS_ICON_TYPE_CUSTOM. It is a custom type. How can I customize the icon

[wary escarp]

You cannot do so yet

[ancient summit]

oh,why?

[regal breach]

Because it's customizing the icon is not yet implemented into OBS

[ancient summit]

Ok,thanks!Will it happen in the future?

[wary escarp]

Probably. Keep your eye out on https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/7303

[ancient summit]

thanks!

[hot seal]

hello guys

m not able to stream!

it's showing failed to connect

what should i do!

[oblique yew]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[ancient summit]

I'm looking for some open source plugins that gamers like to use. Can anyone recommend them?

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio supports a variety of plugins that provide new kinds of sources, filters, and additional features.

• For a list of plugins, see OBS Studio Resources: Plugins
• To learn how to install or remove plugins, see the Plugins Guide
• To see if the plugins you use are available for the latest version of OBS Studio, see the OBS Studio 28 Plugin Compatibility table

[wise palm]

It really depends on what you intend to do. There's an insane amount of Plugins, weather you want them or not is up to you.
I would start with checking out things from Exceldro.
Do you need a scoreboard? Whiteboard? Overlays?

[dense pike]

Question, thinking of switching from StreamLabs to OBS, is using stream elements good for using overlays.
Does anyone know of any good overlays for someone that likes programming and retro games?

[vapid charm]

Unrelated to your inquiry I would like to thank you for your idea.

[dense pike]

What idea?

[vapid charm]

retro gaming overlays/super themes for Streamelements. I know people so I just yelled it at them.

[void quartz]

Has anyone managed to install the "Multiple RTMP" plugin in OBS Studio 29 in MacOS?

[dense pike]

ok then

[heavy compass]

Mind filling me in on how you got this running? was it using advanced scene* Appreciate you

[vale vine]

I'd love to, however, just launched obs and my macros are gone

effing a BALLS

https://github.com/WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher/wiki/Activate-overlay-to-hide-parts-of-the-screen

but those are the directions I used

[heavy compass]

I appreciate you soo much you have no idea.

[harsh topaz]

Erhm, they shouldn't be. Did you update from a very old advss version, or open the wrong OBS?

[vale vine]

I installed a nightly and didnt set it up in portable properly is my guess

[harsh topaz]

It will warn you upon opening OBS that changes are made and if you wish to back up

Did that pop up?

[vale vine]

nope

but that other install didnt pull plugins either, just scenes/profiles

[harsh topaz]

That might be worth telling WarmUpTill about.

I'm guessing that also broke your SC for other plugins.

I know if you load SCs while having a lot of exeldros plugins missing; if you load the SC again with the plugins all settings are gone.

[vale vine]

nope

blur filter still going strong

[harsh topaz]

His transition plugin specifically I know breaks on that.

Transition Table

Hope you exported macros and saved them somewhere 🙂

[vale vine]

i didnt

but transition table unaffected

[harsh topaz]

If transition table wasn't broken from it I suspect another thing than "loading sc without plugins"

Oh, that's not complicated enough to have broken.. I think. It's strange so.

When you break it, it'll change all scenes to "Any ==> "

So this might just.. be simple enough that it wasn't affected?

Not entirely sure tbh.

[vale vine]

probably. i run a simple setup post most recent windows clean install

I live life on the edge and dont back up SHIT

😉

[harsh topaz]

Every time I can, I export both SC and Advss.

If I had to start over every time

[vale vine]

I'll def export ass after I set those macros back up. wasnt anything too in depth. just need to follow those directions again ha.

and im small time. rebuilding is kinda fun anyways

[harsh topaz]

That's the whole point isn't it 🙂

[obsidian agate]

Same. I always feel like i learn new optimization tricks when i rebuild my scene collection. The Source Copy plugin also helps a lot for that

[turbid flint]

Hello, I can’t figure out how to connect my JVC wireless camera to OBS. Can anyone help with this?
Thanks

[sand ginkgo]

кто может помочь?

[regal breach]

The first step would be to figure out the model of your camera and get its user guide

[sand verge]

Posted this in the general support but I think here is a better spot (after realizing this channel existed)

Anyone have any experience using Bitfocus Companion with the latest version of OBS? The latest update has broken my Companion server and it now rapidly connects/disconnects (hundreds of times a minute) and I am unable to control anything in OBS.

It was working just fine using the previous external plugin. Since the web socket plugin has been integrated, it no longer works. No settings have changed, same IP, same port, no authentication.

[regal breach]

First off, you need to verify if that app/server supports the new websocket v5. If not, you'll need to download the 4.9.1-compat websocket version.

Second, if it does support the new websocket that is integrated, you don't need to install the compat version, but you do need to update your settings, because the default port number is changed

[sand verge]

Where might I find the compat version? OBS told me that was out of date and couldn’t be loaded. I had a compatible third party plugin running.

Kind of infuriating that an integration update broke everything.

[vale vine]

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

If on obs 28+

And if something was relying on websocket to work, they've had plenty of time at this point to get compatible with the integrated websocket

[sand verge]

On the very latest update. I’ll give it a try and come back if it doesn’t work.

As a non-programmer it makes me want to strangle programmers lmao. Don’t change things. Leave it alone if you’re trying to do things between programs 🤣

[vale vine]

Couldnt

Qt6 was a much needed change/update

[sand verge]

I don’t really understand the nitty gritty

But it makes me think what would happen if someone changed the DMX lighting standard 🤣

[vale vine]

Should be one of these 2 specifically depending on your preferred method of install

[sand verge]

You’re a beautiful human being, thanks dude!

[vale vine]

👍

[sand verge]

So that is the one I installed and is incompatible.

[vale vine]

Post log

[sand verge]

https://obsproject.com/logs/eP42etDVZ3oF0c5m

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Outdated Plugins (1)

⚠️ Warning

• Non-Standard Framerate

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H2 (OK)
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (2)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40GHz - Possible bottleneck / Radeon RX 480 - OK!

[sand verge]

I’m confused. The analyzer says it’s outdated but then the compatibility page says it works..

[vale vine]

And you for sure grabbed the qt6 version?

[sand verge]

I’m positive I dowloaded it from the repository you linked to. Grabbed the windows 4.9.1 installer from

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-websocket/releases/download/5.0.1/obs-websocket-4.9.1-compat-Windows-Installer.exe

[analog ruin]

thats the wrong version unfortunately 😅

here you go: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-websocket/releases/download/4.9.1-compat/obs-websocket-4.9.1-compat-Qt6-Windows-Installer.exe

[sand verge]

That’s… maddening to say the least. The website indicates that’s correct.

[analog ruin]

How did you even find that link? 🤔

[vale vine]

Also, bitfocus added ws5 compatibility a while ago

[analog ruin]

for me its the first link on the page

[sand verge]

Well I just updated it and it’s not connecting at all now

[analog ruin]

oh 😄 If they already have support, then no need to faff with the compat 4 verison

[sand verge]

It’s not connecting at all, just showing up as “error”.

So.. if I set the port to 4455 in OBS and companion is that going to muck things up? That’s the port I told our network admin I needed open

[obsidian agate]

WebSocket 4 needs port 4444
WebSocket 5 uses port 4455

[sand verge]

So it should be working

[obsidian agate]

depending on what is trying to connect. you downloaded the 4.9.1 plugin, which would run off of port 4444. Both servers have different windows in the Tools menu

and they use completely different protocols

[sand verge]

The plug-in won’t even run

And the built in one won’t connect

I was using the external plugin in the last version of OBS because the built in one wouldn’t work

[obsidian agate]

you installed the 4.9.1 compat plugin (the correct one), and restarted OBS?

[sand verge]

I’m currently restarting companion. I’ll get the right one installed

[obsidian agate]

after you install and restart everything, send a new log

[sand verge]

https://obsproject.com/logs/7aiOnQYvnXsB7r9e

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Non-Standard Framerate

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H2 (OK)
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i5-7500 @ 3.40GHz - Possible bottleneck / Radeon RX 480 - OK!

[sand verge]

So I’ve managed to confirm that Companion isn’t being blocked by the firewall on the server or on the workstation with OBS

[obsidian agate]

and you are sure "Companion" needs to connect over port 4455 (websocket 5), and not port 4444 (websocket 4)

( i dont know what Companion is, I mostly use StreamerBot, which can connect to both 4 and 5 at the same time)

[sand verge]

Wait.. wait! I think I’ve gotten it

So for anyone else who has this issue, you’ve gotta double check that OBS itself is allowed through the firewall (duh).

[obsidian agate]

good old windows firewall, lol

[sand verge]

It was previously set that way, and I don’t remember changing the firewall settings but it’s possible the update made windows cut it off lmao

This is what I call an “ESO” problem (equipment smarter than operator)

Well, thanks to you @obsidian agate and @analog ruin for helping get it sorted and pointing out there’s an update for companion that I hadn’t installed :)

[obsidian agate]

welcome 🙂

[lusty trout]

Does anyone have experience with OBS-NDI?

trying to run 18 computers at once over a network with NDI

all wired

I have the whole system set up, just trouble getting my streaming computer to recognize the sources over network

[obsidian agate]

how fast is your network? because 18 computers over NDI probably will over-saturate a 1-Gigabit network

[harsh topaz]

It definitely will

[obsidian agate]

i want to say a single 1080p60 NDI stream for me was anywhere from 100-300 Mbps depending on the content

[harsh topaz]

5+ streams you need to look at hardware upgrades.

Unless you drop quality of course.

[lusty trout]

In short, I run a youth esports league and am trying to stream out Fortnite POVs from different players, I got it working the other day with 3 computers and had a team play fortnite with no network problems

network right now is 1GB down 35mbps up, getting fiber soon

[obsidian agate]

the local network, not your internet connection

[harsh topaz]

NDI doesn't compress at all much, you'll overload the local max speed of transfer.

[lusty trout]

Hmm, how do I see the bandwidth of my network?

[harsh topaz]

Ctrl Shift Esc

Performance tab.

Ethernet

[lusty trout]

mm

I dont think I was supposed to send those numbers

[obsidian agate]

good, that PC has 2.5 Gigabit networking. The Ethernet Switches and Router will need to also support 2.5Gig. Even then, however, I dont thing that will be anywhere near enough bandwidth locally for 18 1080p60 NDI feeds

720p60 could maybe be more do-able, but thats still a lot of NDI feeds

[harsh topaz]

You could probably safely run 12~ depending on various factors assuming all the equipment in-between as Rob stated, can manage it.

[lusty trout]

ok, with my NDI sources, I am using the lowest quality streaming. I will have 3 screens on one source so the quality does not need to be great

if I could run 6-12 I would be fine with that

[harsh topaz]

Have the Ethernet tab open. Turn on 3 PCs, and send it.

Look how much traffic.

Adjust accordingly.

[lusty trout]

Problem im having is I cannot seem to find my NDI source computers form my streaming computer which I am on now

I turn on obs as main source and have had them working before but have tried multiple reinstalls of obs and ndi software

I have tried downgrading to obs 28.1 but no luck

[harsh topaz]

This the NDI you tried? https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi/releases

[lusty trout]

ah no, I was on NDI 4.10 (https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-ndi-newtek-ndi™-integration-into-obs-studio.528/)

will upgrade and try again

Should I get my obs back to latest version?

[harsh topaz]

Make sure to install the NDI 5 runtime, under the 2. point.

This requires 28 or over, but I'd test it on 29 ye

[lusty trout]

ok thanks, back in 10-15

[lusty trout]

what does under the 2. point mean?

I downloaded and installed obs 29.0.2, obs-ndi 4.11.0, and ndi runtime 5.5.3

[harsh topaz]

OBS ndi relies on the ndi runtime to work. I think you need it on all PCs that are running NDI.

[oblique lotus]

^^^

[lusty trout]

oh ok, yes I have it installed on all the computers that I am trying to run NDI on. I just didn't know if you meant there was a specific location to install it

[harsh topaz]

I don't believe so

[lusty trout]

I see what you mean though on the 2. install steps

ok nice, got one running.

here is load from 1 computer

[lusty trout]

Do you know if I can have the same NDI source on multiple scenes?

[harsh topaz]

Easily, just add the source to the other scene.

If you want to add designs or overlays to it that require other sources - nest it in a scene. (Make its own scene). Then pull in the Scene as a Source.

[lusty trout]

success! 3 computers running

[lusty trout]

how many do you think I'd be able to run while still being able to play fortnite at 165fps on each computer?

or are there just too many variables

[harsh topaz]

The FPS on the PCs themselves don't matter.

I assume NDI sends at 60 FPS regardless of what you have on. (Don't quote me on that) but I can't imagine it sending 165fps.

Calculate what your maximum bandwidth is. Find all the ethernet ports that have to handle multiple feeds. See what their limit is.

Figure out what router they run through and what its maximum load capacity is.

If all the numbers seem to come back within limits, turn on all PCs, send things. See what happens.

If feeds start dropping, turn down quality and try again.

[lusty trout]

sorry, I didnt mean I want NDI to send a 165fps stream to my streaming computer, I just want the individual gaming computers to have a good gaming experience

ok, I will do a lot of work today and see what I can get running

[harsh topaz]

I don't think this should affect that much if all you're running is just this.

[lusty trout]

ok bet

[harsh topaz]

It's direct output, so little processing power.

[lusty trout]

ok very good. this is what the space looks like if you are interested

[harsh topaz]

Looks good 👍

[lusty trout]

I'm only 21 with little tech experience but I appreciate you helping me out

[harsh topaz]

It's a lot of trial and error. Just how things are 🙂

[lusty trout]

hopefully can get all the kids running and have the parents be able to watch

haha true

[lusty trout]

Have 6 computers running great, but audio feeds are really spotty, any suggestions?

[harsh topaz]

Nope, NDI/SDI and audio I have no good experiences with at all.

Some people say no issues, I've had nothing but desync and delay issues.

I think OBS has some issues outputting NDI/SDI or any sort of direct output.

At least that's my experience with it.

OBS > vMix > OBS worked fine in most cases.
OBS > OBS, always audio issues

you'd have to talk to Jim about that ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lusty trout]

ok, i tried creating a seperate, audio-only source but no luck

haha alright

thanks

how much is vMix?

if I was trying to run everything im runnign right now with 18 computers streamed over

[harsh topaz]

I don't know anything about vMix, my experience is literally managing to send an NDI feed from OBS to vMix and then outputting that to an OBS on a 2nd PC.

I find the software... headscratching.

[gaunt zealot]

For NDI I'd say forget OBS entirely and just use the NDI Screen Capture app that comes with the full NDI Tools install. Don't even bother to install OBS at all on the client PCs

You'll also need a 10G or 25G uplink on the compositing PC and switch for that many PCs. 2.5G won't cut it

[lusty trout]

I do want to stream all my content out to twitch though. Does it allow for that?

[harsh topaz]

You can have OBS on your streaming PC.

[lusty trout]

so far my receiving hasnt hit over 100 mbps with 6 computers streaming over NDI on lowest quality

[gaunt zealot]

The uplink to Twitch is like a tiny percentage of the bandwidth of NDI

[lusty trout]

ohh you just mean that there is an NDI app so that I dont have to have obs on each computer

[harsh topaz]

Only issue there being if they open anything else on their screen - that will also come through to you.

Since it's Monitor capture, and not application capture.

[gaunt zealot]

Also keep in mind that NDI is both GPU-based and CPU-based, so GPU and/or CPU overload will cause source-side dropouts

[lusty trout]

ah yea, I have it set on fortnite game capture and the applicaiton audio capture plugin to get only fortnite audio

[harsh topaz]

What energizer suggested capture an entire screen.

So it wouldn't allow that setup.

[gaunt zealot]

Much simpler and lighter, however

[harsh topaz]

It may be a way to bypass sync issues - not sure. But it doesn't allow you that.

[lusty trout]

ok i see, but might reduce network load?

[harsh topaz]

Yea.

[gaunt zealot]

No, client load

[lusty trout]

ah ok

yea i have to cap my fortnite gpc and cpu pull because too much and my ndi will cut out?

[harsh topaz]

I don't think vMix allows application only capture either right?

[gaunt zealot]

Many (many...) people seem to try dual-PC streaming setups thinking NDI will fix their single-PC load issues, but if they overload the CPU/GPU, the NDI feed will just drop out at the source as it doesn't have the compute load to run.

Plus vMix is a huge, heavy pro tool. Very much designed for a dedicated box running just vMix and nothing else

[harsh topaz]

Then there's really no way to capture only application and avoid kids potentially putting unwanted content live on your stream.

Not sure if that is an actual risk in Slicknicks situation, but that'd be my first concern at least.

[lusty trout]

yea that is a risk with my setup, I have obs set to capture ONLY fortnite video and audio, and have obs set to run in system tray so the kids wont accidentally close out of it

[harsh topaz]

Not that I think anyone would maliciously do it on purpose - but a lot easier to make a mistake if its recording everything on your screen.

[lusty trout]

though obs has a problem minimizing to system tray with NDI plugin but does start in system tray on startup

[harsh topaz]

With OBS they'd have to intentionally add something.

[lusty trout]

yea correct

a kid might tab out into his discord account if he gets eliminated

dont want that happening

[harsh topaz]

Or have profanity in said discord, that he thought was private.

Never a good look.

[lusty trout]

yea true

[gaunt zealot]

With the existing NDI plugin and some design quirks in OBS, you'll never really fix the A/V sync issue, not really. There's some tweaks to make it better, but it will never really go away.

[harsh topaz]

I'd love to know these tweaks lol.

Endless hours messing with things and testing. Could never get it to work properly. SDI as well.

[lusty trout]

at this point i will probably just cut the audio and run copyright-free music with a guy casting over the top of it

[harsh topaz]

It's definitely an issue that affects multiple types of direct outputs in OBS.

[harsh topaz]

As much as it feels shitty to hurt immersion not having game audio, this is ultimately what I ended up having to do in a lot of scenarios.

It's a shame really that this isn't a priority matter - but we're a minority using this I think.

[gaunt zealot]

Real fix for now with setups like this is to do the audio outside of OBS entirely. First suggestion would be Dante Virtual Soundcard on the clients and Dante Via to control things, but then you start running into issues with Windows having no native way to duplicate audio feeds to multiple outputs

[harsh topaz]

Real fix would be OBS fixing audio / video desyncing on direct outputs

[gaunt zealot]

Timing in OBS across the board is... yeah

[harsh topaz]

It's a bad time

[gaunt zealot]

PLL fun needed as clocks are all over the place and cheap audio hardware dropping samples for added fun

A good starting read:
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4600

[harsh topaz]

@lusty trout If you want to kill way more time and feel adventurous:
https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-teleport/releases/tag/0.6.5

This plugin on all PCs. Add a source like NDI, just teleport.

See if you get a better result. Beware this is heavier on the connection than NDI, and from my experience also a lot more volatile on the connection (Spiky)

Attempt at own risk

[harsh topaz]

I remember this post, read it back then.

[gaunt zealot]

Lot more in there now, along with a workaround plugin, some patches, etc

[harsh topaz]

iirc Norihiro gave it a good shout to try and fix but ye

[lusty trout]

haha alright, I might try to run it on a few

[gaunt zealot]

OBS has no concept of genlock, wordclock, or timecode, so can't even use those. Things lack PLL too.

[harsh topaz]

Is probably a fix of Legendary proportions that would need to happen for an overhaul as huge as this.

We just got one of those from Jim recently. Think we have to wait another year for the next

It is a shame that you'd have to literally bypass OBS entirely to get proper audio.

[gaunt zealot]

Mrgregles doing stuff like Dante with Focusrite hardware last I heard, as one example

[harsh topaz]

Not really a budget solution.

[gaunt zealot]

Another fun example is that audio tracks in OBS's output will have different timing offsets depending on if there's just one source on that track or >=2

The mixed one being a frame ahead of the single-source track, IIRC

[harsh topaz]

Could some of the potential harmful issues by solved by deselecting all audio tracks but 1?

[gaunt zealot]

nope

Discussed I think in that Github issue, plus a couple of others

[harsh topaz]

The biggest issues I've come across wasn't a short audio drop out. It has been with SDI/NDI simply desyncing super hard. Like, seconds.

[gaunt zealot]

Yeah, that comes from things like cheaper interfaces having clocks being slightly off and 48,000 hz audio actually being like 47998 +/- 1 hz over time because the clock isn't accurate enough

[harsh topaz]

Im guessing its not specific to 48khz

[gaunt zealot]

Clock accuracy is one of those "you get what you pay for" features in audio interfaces

But OBS assumes it's balls-on 48 khz with no filler compensation mechanism, so if there's less samples in a second, things get further and further off with time

[harsh topaz]

[gaunt zealot]

That's the gaps you see in the waveforms. Is the audio feed coming in having fewer samples than OBS expects, so has a dropout silence

[harsh topaz]

It's not specific to 48khz though right

[gaunt zealot]

nope, not at all

all audio, all sample rates

This also happens on the video side where you'll get cheap source with lulz +/- clock jitter. I mean it's actually putting out 59.94 FPS, but the jitter is so high that OBS's "pull last frame" will sometimes duplicate or drop frames, which is where many of those "OBS isn't smooth" issues come from (outside the usual of crazy game FPS rates and GPU overload)

Things need to be more async and clock-adjusted in inputs like dshow where the source can be trusted to actually send 59.94 FPS, but don't trust that the timing of those coming in is accurate. Do something like buffer 2-5 frames coming in, ignore when they came in, but play them back out from the input buffer into the compositor at the correct 60/1.001 FPS. Only dupe/drop a frame if a frame is egregiously early/late.

[harsh topaz]

Yea that sounds like a pull out the guts and replace with new guts sort of ordeal.

[gaunt zealot]

And cheap stuff like Camlink can have separate audio and video drift

Where the audio may have some extra samples, but the video drops frames some times with lots of jitter

Most of those audio breakup things you hear with OBS are from buffers running out, blindly trusting that all the samples are there, and not enough PLL

[harsh topaz]

Yea I've gotten that a few times. It can be annoying, but isn't a deal breaker in most situations.

However, desync over time makes something unusable unfortunately.

[gaunt zealot]

But if you want to test things, here's an async PLL filter for audio sources in OBS:
https://github.com/norihiro/obs-asynchronous-audio-source

[harsh topaz]

My usecase would be SDI decklink out. Would this have any merit on that?

[gaunt zealot]

Output, no, but it would correct timing issues with the audio sources coming in

Decklink has it's own A/V sync issues that are part of the Decklink plugin itself

[harsh topaz]

It's not Decklink causing it though.

I already tested that.

[gaunt zealot]

apply that filter to all the audio sources coming in and see how it goes

[harsh topaz]

I think I did SRT out from OBS, into vMix. Then SDI the vMix to 2nd PC. That worked. But OBS to OBS was 2 sec desync with SDI.

[harsh topaz]

I'll definitely give it a try, thanks. But Gf on the 2nd PC atm

[gaunt zealot]

Lots of buffering and timing fixes along the way with that path. Like SDI itself has it's own clock correction, for instance

[harsh topaz]

I just see elimination.
vMix SDI > OBS no desync
OBS SDI > OBS desync.

Maybe vmix does something to correct things, not sure, but it at least handles things without desyncing them. So it has to be an OBS issue somewhere along the way.

I don't have the desync issues when outputing in OBS through anything that also encodes similar to SRT RIST streaming etc

[gaunt zealot]

There was a simple tool I remember running across for pulling clock accuracy out of interfaces. Could try intentionally sending bad clocks into vMix and see how that goes

[harsh topaz]

It's just the direct outputs like NDI, SDI & teleport I've experienced it in.

[gaunt zealot]

In that desync OBS-OBS setup you've probably got the same drift if the original OBS instance was recording as well and you looked at the recording/stream

But something in the path has an audio clock that's off and it keeps getting later and later

[harsh topaz]

I very much doubt that, I've never had a recording or stream desync on me.

I've never honestly had major issues with OBS and audio/video outside of trying to send things from one PC to the other.

I've even had to kill the two PC setup and just stream directly because of this issue. No issues directly streaming to twitch.

I've heard an audio crack every once in a while probably due to the issue you mentioned above. But that's not a deal breaker for me.

I very much doubt that, I've never had a recording or stream desync on me.
Actually this might be a lie come to think of it, .webm files with audio tracks that were empty attached to them used to give me some weird "audio buffering increased" issue. I don't recall if it directly impacted the end output though.

But I've since started reencoding with -an to get rid of that minor inconvenience.

[gaunt zealot]

My usual "required viewing" link for people going down the timing journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUn8mMQ0JGg

And even deeper into the NDI timing rabbit hole and why there's issues
http://www.sienna-tv.com/ndi/ndiptpsync.html

[heavy compass]

Hey friend so does this work with a capture card cause i tried it on the elgato and it just doesnt seem to work

[gaunt zealot]

@harsh topaz And some more details and examples of OBS losing it's clock mind and causing sync issues in outputs:
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/6673

[harsh topaz]

😐

That's so recent as well.

[gaunt zealot]

async, resample, buffer, lag lead, pll all the things

[harsh topaz]

How'd you PLL?

Not really possible outside of external hardware from what I understand that guy in the video talking about.

But I'm trying to work and watch at same time, takes a bit

[gaunt zealot]

See the links about asynchronous sample-rate conversion from here:
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/6351

There's also still dynamic-length audio buffers in OBS as well, but I'd have to go digging around in the code again

[harsh topaz]

I knew there was something involving norihiro.

What a champ. Wonder if something like this is too advanced to ever get added though, Jim would have to prolly go through it.

Is this fix what his plugin simulates?

[gaunt zealot]

looks to be, yeah

and since you mentioned Decklink...
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/6351/commits/141bcf523f22f5d60289184b05181bf7c52791ee

[harsh topaz]

Yea saw the checked mark in "implemented but not tested".

Maybe I should be the one

Is there a build for this anywhere? I only saw the link to the macos instructions

Maybe I can get someone to compile it for me.

[gaunt zealot]

It's got the seeking testers flag on it, so should be in the latest nightlies?

!nightly

[oblique yew]

Nightly builds are available for those who wish to test new features.
Note that they may not be stable and are not digitally signed. The latter may cause game capture not to work with certain games or cause AV software to block some features.

To download the latest nightly build for Windows, click here
To download the latest nightly build for macOS, click here for Intel, or click here for Apple Silicon

[harsh topaz]

Oh, didn't realise that was implied with the seeking testers flag.

[wary escarp]

Not in the latest nightlies, no

[harsh topaz]

Oh, already downloaded

[wary escarp]

Nightly means "current master branch"

But there are PR artifacts though, which is what the Seeking Testers label does

[harsh topaz]

I'll definitely be testing out the plugin though. If I understood you right @gaunt zealot , add it to the receiving OBS's SDI source right? (if sending over SDI)

[wary escarp]

@harsh topaz On the PR, go to Checks -> BUILD (on the left) -> Scroll down to "Artifacts"

download obs-studio-window-x64-whatever

Actually no, you can do Checks -> "Artifacts" (Top-ish right) directly

seems GitHub improved that workflow

[gaunt zealot]

looks like the artifacts got nuked on that one already?

[wary escarp]

still there for me

are you logged in to GitHub?

[harsh topaz]

I dont see it either.

A permission thing?

[wary escarp]

shouldn't be

[gaunt zealot]

logged in as well, no artifacts

[harsh topaz]

Hard for people to test then

[wary escarp]

nothing here?

[wary escarp]

hmmmmmmmmm

[gaunt zealot]

same here

[wary escarp]

what happens if you follow these ^ instructions?

[harsh topaz]

Ah ye, there they are.

Odd, why is it different for you 😮

[wary escarp]

weird indeed

Either GitHub doing A/B testing or staged rollout or being broken I suppose

[gaunt zealot]

Yeah, I'm getting notably different UIs depending on how I navigate to the build page with one having the artifacts, the other none

And I'm getting this style on the one that does:

[queen zealot]

Can anyone help me figure out how to get the whiteboard script to work?

[gaunt zealot]

That, but things are probably an issue further upstream. Would be interesting adding that plugin further upstream in the workflow and see how much things get fixed. Probably even something in the originating OBS instance

[harsh topaz]

Probably even something in the originating OBS instance
From what I tried, fairly sure this is the case. Since the OBS receiving the feed desync'd based on the sender.

When you say add it further upstream; you mean from the sending OBS's audio source ye?

[gaunt zealot]

yes

There's also this bad boy for using a fixed buffer output side

[lucid pewter]

i need help

i cant see my chatbox in obs ive tried everything

[oblique yew]

Docks in OBS can be managed from the Docks menu in the main OBS window.

You can toggle docks on and off, or lock or unlock docks to prevent moving and editing, as well as add custom browser-based docks here.

You can also reset the UI from this menu to return your docks to their original state (Docks > Reset Docks).

[lucid pewter]

i did it but its the same

[harsh topaz]

@gaunt zealot You still about? I dont think this plugin works how you think. Or maybe I misunderstood something.

I can't add it to any source as a filter, it adds an extra source to the source type called Asynchronous Test Audio which is all from what I can tell. And those 4 settings "Frequency left" "Frequency Right" "Skew" and "Sampling frequency" doesnt mean much to me

So unless Im missing something here?

[dusky basin]

yes it's a plug-in for testing

it doesn't solve problems, it's there to help you diagnose and debug

it lets you output a frequency and let the samples arrive either slightly too fast or too slow, simulating an audio source with a slightly slow or fast clock

[gaunt zealot]

Yeah, it's for trying to force timings to see how things go. To actually try fixing things, you'll need the custom build from the PR

[harsh topaz]

I see, misunderstood what you meant then.

Yea trying to get that - but windows keeps deleting the file when I attempt to unzip it.

So it's kind of a stalemate at the moment. Apparently its a "virus"

[untold jay]

Try removing the virus with https://github.com/qtkite/defender-control

[harsh topaz]

Nah Im just hella confused why I got virus & threat protection on on both PCs. I can open the files on one PC, but the other one screams trojan saying there's files executing things on your PC.

Windows why you why

[gaunt zealot]

Dropping unsigned binaries into c:\program files?

[harsh topaz]

Just on the desktop.

Literally just did a scan on main PC, with the files unzipped on the desktop.

It didn't give a hoot.

The other pc, as soon as I try to unzip "DELETE VIRUS ERROR RED TRIANGELS".

[harsh topaz]

Tested this on receiving PC: Nothing
Tested this on sending PC: Slight improvement from like 1.5 to 1 sec delay. Still unusable.
Tried the 29 build from norihiro: Nothing still 1.5-2 sec delay.

Simple OBS SDI decklink output to SDI in on 2nd OBS nothing complicated.

Ah well, was worth a try.

[gaunt zealot]

@hollow stirrup ^

[hollow stirrup]

Did you mean 6492 (different frame rate decklink output) or 6351 (async SRC)?

[harsh topaz]

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/6351/commits/141bcf523f22f5d60289184b05181bf7c52791ee

SDI has not been treating me well, and Energizer suggested I tried testing that thing since it needed testers and I have a setup where it's clear that its broken.

[hollow stirrup]

The PR touches decklink source (input) but I have not touched the decklink output side.

[harsh topaz]

Ah that would explain it.

The issue I have is with OBS's inability to properly output direct sources.

Basically, anything that goes out will desync either instantly or over time. NDI,SDI etc.

SDI Decklink in this case.

If I SRT to vMix, then SDI with vMix to OBS - there's no issues.

[hollow stirrup]

tt2468 was working on the decklink output audio buffering in a PR https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/1865 but it's still draft.

[harsh topaz]

So I'm fairly certain it's an OBS output thing.

[gaunt zealot]

You got anything that can reliably underrun the audio buffer?

[harsh topaz]

Ah, doesn't look like it's a priority atm, unfortunate. Thanks though, is very complicated work you guys do. I read through a lot of these things without grasping most of it 😛

[harsh topaz]

@ me ?

[gaunt zealot]

Yeah. I think you said you may have something that drops out kinda regularly?

[harsh topaz]

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to 😮

[gaunt zealot]

Or would cause A/V sync issues even in a single instance of OBS?

[harsh topaz]

Hmm, not that I know of. I can try and do a recording local on the PC and check it now.

[gaunt zealot]

Audio gaps or where it would break up under load

[harsh topaz]

Well it's not breaking atm, I literally just turn it on and audio is 1.5~ sec behind.

Consistently.

[hollow stirrup]

If what you are suffering is the audio latency is constant 1.5~ seconds from at the beginning, not the latency gradually increase or decrease, it would be another issue than the PR 1865, 6351.

[harsh topaz]

Ah, I see. I had the delay increase happening with NDI some time back, I'd run it for 5 hrs and it'd go from sync to.. well very much not in sync.

But that's not this specific issue I have a setup for at the moment though.

[gaunt zealot]

But OBS -> BMD SDI -> OBS would drift the same way as OBS -> NDI -> OBS, right? Or different behaviors?

[harsh topaz]

I've not run it for that long, and it'd be really hard to tell I think - with it being out of sync from the get go.

I did the test with NDI, starting a video on loop that was in sync.
I'd go to sleep, wake up, bam everything out of sync 😛

[hollow stirrup]

For NDI, what I can suggest is to add async-audio-filter to your NDI source and all other audio sources such as Desktop audio and Aux audio if you have enabled them.

[harsh topaz]

I'll give it a test sometime tomorrow. This the one right?

https://github.com/norihiro/obs-async-audio-filter

[hollow stirrup]

yes.

[solid cradle]

is the obsstudio javascript api meant to work in custom browser docks, or only in browser sources? I've been unable to get anything useful from it other than the plugin version

[regal breach]

It works anywhere that uses a browser, even normal browser outside obs

[obsidian agate]

I dont think the “obsstudio” object (which is attached to the window object in browser sources) is created outside of obs.

Unless they are talking about websocket, and not the JS bindings in browser sources. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-browser

[solid cradle]

It's the global object JS bindings that I was referring to. I can get information about the project and scenes when using it inside a source. However all functions seem to just return undefined when loaded in a browser dock, and any callbacks passed in are never called

[regal breach]

I see, i thought they were referring to websocket, thank you

[obsidian agate]

np. interesting that the js bindings dont work in docks though

[quiet bramble]

That would be a security hole, allowing any website on the Internet loaded in a dock, to interact with one's OBS Studio, as well as opening up a new channel for potential security vulnerability exploit within that code.

So, no surprise to me that it doesn't work. I'd assume it doesn't work by intentional design.

[obsidian agate]

they could still do that within a browser source though. i believe browser sources can still change what the current page is via links in the Interact window. (though its been a bit since i tested that)

[quiet bramble]

remote?

[obsidian agate]

though it would be easier to click on a malformed link in a dock than it would be in a browser source

[quiet bramble]

From a security perspective, the desire would be for sensitive information such as what is available through an OBS JS API, to not be available to potentially untrusted 3rd party sites. I'd want (and hope) that such an API isn't available to a random website loaded in a browser source or dock, unless it is wrapped by a user opt-in property/setting defaulting to off.

For a locally loaded page it's a bit trickier but I could see an argument to default to allowing it for a browser source, as the convenience is high and the risk is very low. Not sure the same is true for a dock however.

Another thing that occurs to me is that the number of use cases for people even using this functionality is likely a very small subset of users, and the number of those having a use case requiring it to be usable remotely is probably even smaller. Making it not allowed by default would make the most sense to me either way. Protect the common case by default and either don't permit the other case or make it opt-in for the niche cases where someone really needs it.

[wary escarp]

That is not "intentional" afaik, it's just that all the implementation code wise is on the source side and no one wanted to port it over yet. From the privacy perspective, most information the JS API gets is opt-in anyways.

[quiet bramble]

Rather than exposing sensitive information of everyone for convenience of obscure few.

[quiet bramble]

ah so different codepaths or similar

[wary escarp]

correct

plus we'd have to invent some sort of permissions management for docks

[quiet bramble]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking for the opt-in situation

Kind of like how a general browser has a grid of permissions for mic/webcam/etc.

[obsidian agate]

you are talking about the permissions dropdown option in the Browser Source properties window, correct?

[wary escarp]

yes

or a possible equivalent such an option for docks

[lusty trout]

Anyone have time to troubleshoot OBS-NDI 4.11.0?

had my whole setup working but now cannot get NDI sources to show

[untold jay]

@lusty trout TRy disabling firewalls?

[stiff tulip]

Hello. Does anybody know how can I make my phone a camera without a big delay?

[velvet sapphire]

Have you tried DroidCam OBS?

To very low delay use an usb connection

[stiff tulip]

I will check it out. Thank you

[velvet sapphire]

Or you can use just DroidCam, it works as a general webcam, but I have some delay problems with it when streaming heavy things

[velvet sapphire]

Good luck, Dltl

[lusty trout]

got it working

[rose peak]

Hello good morning.
Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?
In obs it says that it is not there and when I enter the Stream deck app the obs application does not appear

[dire haven]

I'm having this exact same problem!

[rose peak]

bruh... 😦

i can't:sss

[oblique yew]

For help with Elgato products, please submit a ticket with them directly at https://help.elgato.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. They also have a community Discord server.

[gaunt zealot]

Yeah? End up being some multicast DNS issue on the switch?

[lusty trout]

mm I changed my ethernet settings to private network and restarted all computers and software

[gaunt zealot]

That at least got them on the same subnet so multicast worked I bet

[lusty trout]

what is multicast?

[gaunt zealot]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast

[tight pine]

hello i know it is super late, but is anyone on to help? i cant get the caption plug in to work

[vapid charm]

!log

[oblique yew]

To help resolve your issue, we need to view a log file. Follow these instructions to upload your current log file:

1. In OBS Studio, click the Help menu → Log Files → Upload Current Log File
2. Click the Copy URL button
3. Paste the link to this Discord channel

[vapid charm]

Lets do this first.

[tight pine]

okay 🙂

https://obsproject.com/logs/YxHHkqwexKbRDWB9

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Capture Interference

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i5-10400F @ 2.90GHz - OK! / GeForce GTX 960 - OK!

[vapid charm]

Ignoring the other bit it doesn't appear you have it added at all.

[tight pine]

really

ive tried adding it like 6 or 7 times

and i dont know why its not working 😦

[vapid charm]

When you installed OBS did you install it to a custom location or leave as is?

[tight pine]

i dont remember entirely but its in something called roaming

[vapid charm]

Yeah. You didn't touch anything then.

Follow this https://github.com/ratwithacompiler/OBS-captions-plugin#installation-windows

[tight pine]

I will try that again hopefully it works

that didnt work :/

[crude prism]

Anybody

PleSe help

[mortal harbor]

OBS is? it should normally be installed to c:\program files

[tight pine]

yes its in a roaming folder

[crude prism]

When ever I try to stream and review a YouTube video the YouTube video glitches

How do I fix?

[wraith hill]

hi, i just installed obsi but i don't know how to record can you help me

[oblique yew]

If you're new to OBS Studio:

• follow the Quick Start Guide to set up your first scene and get streaming/recording
• learn more about the interface in the Overview Guide
• follow the Stream Layout Tutorial series to create a stream-friendly layout, including setting up alerts and a chat box

If you prefer to learn with videos, check out:

• our OBS Studio Tutorials video series presented by EposVox
• EposVox's OBS Studio Master Class series
• Nerd or Die's How to Stream with OBS Studio series

[oblique yew]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[oblique lotus]

does move-transitions have a problem when using show/hide transitions on a source? I have a webcam scene with a mask filter, whenever I try to use the show/hide transitions with move, the mask gets turned off first then the transition happens.
The strange thing is, if I put the scene in a group and put the show/hide on the group it works fine.

[trim hornet]

I can't see my screen on obs just black how do i fix that

[oblique yew]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[lusty trout]

Hey guys, still having trouble with my OBS - NDI setup. In short I have 18 gaming computers running to a central streaming computer where I can change which monitors I'm look at at any given time.

All computers are on ethernet and have obs allowed and running on the private network. My LAN can handle 2.5GB and with all of them running I have yet to clear 300mbps throughput.

My problem is that it is very difficult to get them all running on startup. I have had the entire system working the past 2 days but have had to do a good amount of troubleshooting to get it going. I think I have to have the main streaming obs running before I turn on NDI output on the 18 gaming computers but I have to restart computers and restart obs multiple times before I can get the system running each time I want to use it.

If there is any other information that would be useful just let me know and I will attempt to provide.

Thank you

[gaunt zealot]

Does your ethernet switch have at least some minimal management features? What's the exact switch model (yes, this will matter, unfortunately...). Have you looked into multicast DNS stuff at all?

Some initial reading of where this conversation is likely to go:
https://ndi.tv/tools/education/networking/best-practices/networking-best-practice/
https://support.newtek.com/hc/en-us/articles/218109477-NDI-Discovery-and-Registration
http://www.sienna-tv.com/ndi/knowhowdiscovery.html

[lusty trout]

All of my switches are just basic tplink 8port. I have 5 of them daisy chained to cover the gaming arena. I believe this is the exact model

https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Splitter-Optimization-Unmanaged-TL-SG108/dp/B00A121WN6

I have not looked into multicast DNS

reading your articles now

[gaunt zealot]

What's the topology here? You have a central TP-Link TL-SG108 with 4x TP-Link TL-SG108 hanging off of it in a two-tier topology or are you chaining them in serial?

[lusty trout]

Here is a crude drawing, I have 5 switches, one main switch that receives ethernet from the modem, then 5 outputs from that, one directly to the streaming computer then 4 that go to the other 4 switches which then distribute ethernet to the gaming computers

S for streaming

each box is a TPlink 8 port switch

[lusty trout]

All of my ethernet cords are Cat6

varying lengths of this cable

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IQWGUDE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[gaunt zealot]

If you plug the OBS PC + 6 of the game PC's directly into a single switch, does NDI start working suddenly on just those 6x gaming PCs?

(I'm assuming 1x port on the TL-SG108 is an uplink to your campus LAN that has the DHCP server on it, so you'll need the uplink for DHCP to get IP addresses for the boxes)

[lusty trout]

Researching DHCP now. I set this up with not great knowledge on how to build out a computer lab this size. I bought 18 gaming computers, am receiving 1000mbps down 35mbps up cox business internet and then I plugged everything in.

I have no server build out (physically or digitally), nor do I have any type of admin software running on each individual gaming computer.

Will try to unplug ethernet switches now and have only the streaming PC + 6 gaming PCs going into the main switch

[lusty trout]

Ok I just looked at my setup and it looks like what I actually have is this,

my streaming computer is hooked up to one of the 4 auxiliary switches

Have had the easiest time streaming those 3 PC coming off of that switch so would make sense

Its having to back track through my switches in order to reach the other gaming computers

[gaunt zealot]

For initial testing/debugging try the following:

   |
 switch <- 6x test client PC
   |   
 Router
   |
 Internet```

See if that initial minimal setup works, then we'll expand from there

[lusty trout]

Ok, I'll go move some stuff around and run a test

[reef jay]

Is there anyone whos particularly good with advanced scene switcher that wouldnt mind answering questions for me... basically all weekend long?

[spiral ruin]

best to ask the direct questions you want to ask about Adv-SS. If someone has the answers, they will respond when they are available.

[lusty trout]

ok, I set it up like this due to me needing to buy longer ethernet cords, my main switch with

1, internet from router
2, output to streaming computer
and 3, output to a daisy chained switch that then connects out to 3 gaming computers

I ran multiple tests with different software closed an open and restarting on different computers and it all seemed to run and identify each others fine

I suppose I will now continue to connect other switches to my main switch, each powering 3-6 gaming computers, and test after each addition if the network can still identify?

[reef jay]

Appreciate that but im brand new was hoping to have someone who wouldnt mind random msgs all weekend about a specific consistent project but if thats not something thats allowed here I can just ask one at a time no big deal.

[gaunt zealot]

You can try the different network topology to see if it will work with your switches. Worth trying at least.

That said, you may be running into the switch's IGMP snooping and IGMP routing features/quirks, which is breaking the mDNS lookup stage of the NDI connections. This is why I asking about any management features on the switch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGMP_snooping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Group_Management_Protocol

[spiral ruin]

all support is done in chat, not DMs. Besides, that's a big ask for someone to be "on-call" the whole weekend for something that often can easily be answered with a google search or tutorials.

[reef jay]

Interesting way to look at it. Easy fix

[lusty trout]

Ok, let me run some tests with different topology but if that doesn't work, would I be looking at getting different switches with better management capabilities in order to help facilitate the mDNS lookup better?

[lusty trout]

9 gaming computers connected, system still steady]

[lusty trout]

Trying to run 12/18 computers with new topography and now running into some identifying issues

This might be a silly question but does it matter which ports I have the Cat6 cables plugged in to? The computers I have having trouble with are the ones plugged in the furthest port from the streaming computer. It might also be worth noting that the computers I am having trouble with are the furthest physically from the streaming computer.

[reef jay]

With pixel detection how hard is it to replace text with... prettier text say for example a random name detect it and then display it overlayed beveled etc?

[willow cradle]

Thank you know I made it

#obsforlove

[regal breach]

https://github.com/exeldro/obs-source-dock/blob/e99736fb63c1dfb317d07e69e9aa6b60d775c19e/source-dock.cpp#L1782
@weak escarp isn't i > 0 a bug here? since item 0 won't be removed? i was planning to try to change it to i >= 0 (maybe it's the issue why scene items docks disappear when there's a change) but i couldnt debug things yet, so I just thought you might take a glimpse at this line

[regal breach]

ah i'm doing some work on it now, well, i think that's indeed a bug, but the main issue was that DisableSceneItems hides sceneItemsScrollArea, but EnableSceneItems doesn't make it visible again

[gaunt zealot]

Given you're working with simple unmanaged switches, no. What you're almost certainly running into are IGMP and mDNS issues from having multiple physical switches, maybe even some spanning tree fun. You either need to get a single switch that's big enough to handle everything or use managed switches with controls for things like IGMP snooping, mDNS, and PTP between switches. This is why a single switch works, but things start breaking when you introduce multiple switches.

If you want a simple single 2.5G switch, this is the cheapest out there I know of, but you'd have to import one from China
https://www.servethehome.com/tp-link-tl-sh1832-review-cheapest-24x-2-5gbe-and-8x-10gbe-switch-with-a-catch/

[gaunt zealot]

With the TP-Link TL-SG1024S being the cheap unmanaged 24-port 1G option
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0779R9LJ3

[gaunt zealot]

Comedy option of starting to learn on a Cisco CBS220-24T-4X 🙂

[regal breach]

lol i had to do this, because removing just the item or just the widget still leaves the previous widget visible

dunno why i didn't see resources saying to delete both the widget and the QLayoutItem

maybe i just dont understand things

well, i don't know what combinations i tried earlier, but i tried to remove the removeItem and delete item, and it works

[weak escarp]

looks like you found some things. Are you making a pull request?

[regal breach]

Yes, i was finally able to fix the scene items disappearing issue and will submit a PR on that.

I was hoping to also fix the reversed order of the scene items, but I'm not sure yet how to do that without adding many lines, as it seems QGridLayout doesn't have an option to display rows in reverse. Wanted to pass the total scene item count (since you need to add the first scene item in the last row) to AddSceneItem, but the layout is already passed as the privated argument

[tidal latch]

Has anyone else had nothing but problems with the Streamdeck OBS plugin since update 28? I've tried all the normal troubleshooting you'd think of doing; updating, removing and reinstalling etc. The only thing I havent done is start from scratch with the Streamdeck, because it seems to only be OBS that's the issue, the plugin or the now built-in websocket causing issues with other plugins.

[regal breach]

you have to reinstall everything related to streamdeck, and make sure you set the correct websocket port (if it uses the websocket)

[tidal latch]

The only two plugins I have issues with is OBS ones and BarRaider for OBS, but Barraider relies on the websocket, which worked fine prior to v28. And I've deleted the OBS plugin completely and reinstalled it and redone the buttons its meant to control, but they only work for a couple of weeks then break again.

[regal breach]

if it works, then its not an obs issue

the plugin breaking again means that's either your configuration problem, or the plugin having a bug

[tidal latch]

And the pluin is OBS' plugin

[regal breach]

contact the author of whatever plugin that is

what obs plugin

[regal breach]

@weak escarp https://github.com/exeldro/obs-source-dock/blob/e99736fb63c1dfb317d07e69e9aa6b60d775c19e/source-dock.cpp#L1724-L1727

what is this if condition for?

[weak escarp]

gridlayout seems to always indicate it has 1 row, even when there are no items

[regal breach]

ah okay, thanks. i can remove it then, since my new code won't use rowCount, which is actually unreliable here, since the row count would just keep increasing even when the items are removed

[spare turtle]

@regal breach (sorry for the ping >///<) was hopping if you could add this feature for Source Default plugin

a way to have default source names for source types? - i had asked bout this here long back - but at the time noone was working on it but i hope whenever yu are free and could someday could look into this~ i hope its possible to bring it as a feature? it would help alot 🙂#plugins-and-tools message

thanks for making this plugin~ it has helped me save time alot

[regal breach]

what is your expected workflow for that?

because the name can be changed by the user upon adding the source

what if the user types "alerts" instead of keeping the default "Browser Source" name

[spare turtle]

so i like to keep each source types in a nested scene for example like browser sources in a browser sources scene , text sources in text scene~

so like atm i have it like this (screenshot 1)
so usually i just rename a already created source and copy paste the 「 B 」 and paste it when making a source~ so i was hoping if there was a way to automate this that would help alot~

here this scene is just to keep things organized but yea one of the purposes of this would be like when a user is adding exisiting sources , as most of everything is labeled ( here - 「 B 」 ) it would be easier for find among long lists of items or so~ ( screenshot 2 )

like this yu could do it for any type of sources~ its mainly like a placeholder label or something in front - and the user can name whatever they want afterwards so its easier to find.

oh wait i just realized yu can add emojis as a source name too wah~, so wait let's say if this is possible~ then how would you go on about to make it work for sources made by plugins? like for example ndi source, spout2 source, etc etc? cuz ig its possible to do for all sources which obs can make by default - like capture sources , text , scene etc. i hope this wont be too much to do?

[regal breach]

one way to do that is add the prefix AFTER the source is created. which means when you're adding a new source, the prefix won't be shown

[spare turtle]

ohh then like i go to the plugin and make it detect the newly made source and plugin renames it for me? to what i want / my preferred prefix ?

[regal breach]

yes

basically, when you add a new source "New Image", it will wait for the source to be added, then it will add the prefix

[spare turtle]

yea that would work~

[regal breach]

an issue here is what if the user only wants the prefix to be added when the default source name is not changed

although this change seems to be more on sorting sources, so i guess that's not a problem

but what if someone wants a different workflow for it

[spare turtle]

yea that too. hmmmm

[regal breach]

another is what if the user wants the prefix to be changed

when the prefix is already applied to a few sources

[spare turtle]

wait so the prefix stuff would it be possible to have mulitple for a source?
lets say if a user has a set of capture sources and wants the prefix to be [CAM] and a different prefix for the different sources in another scene ( wait what if its possible to set a scene as a condition for the prefix change? in rare cases? or so? ) but ahh i might needa brainstorm some scenarios for this

[regal breach]

a scene-based prefix? that would make it more complicated

currently my source defaults plugin only allows one filter for one source type

which is due to my mechanism for detecting if it's a new source

[spare turtle]

a part of me thought like this- what if the plugin showed yu the list of all sources a user has recently made /exisiting then, user can handpick and select a few and set a prefix and like that they would already see already appiled prefix if they dont like it, they could change that prefix too?

[spare turtle]

ohhh. ig scene based prefix would be too much but for now ig if we're able to come up with a v1 or something around this~ if when more users use this and have more ideas then like this prefix system could be upgraded in the future or so ig~ ah i hope someone else finds this convo and gives their take and ideas too

[regal breach]

that kind of source selection is above my paygrade tbh. i'm pretty sure what you are asking is possible, and i might take that into account when i would eventually add functionality that allows updating already existing source, but i have never tried making a plugin that creates a custom window, which means a lot of time, not to mention i built the plugin in c, but adding a window requires c++ and Qt, which means more research on how to make c and c++ code coexist and Qt api. i'm currently working on a different plugin so i'm sorry but i can't work on such complicated feature.

but I'm willing to add a feature to add a prefix to new sources

which means if you want a prefix for all source types, you need a default source for each type

[spare turtle]

ohh okie

[regal breach]

but with the Source Copy plugin by exeldro, you should be able to save your scene that contains the defaults sources, if you want to transfer it to other scene collections

[regal breach]

without the scene-based prefix for now

[spare turtle]

ohh that would be awesome~

[spare turtle]

yea that would be good yesh. hope this wont be too much to code? i've read some codes of obs plugins i still wonder how they all do it its so many lines of code ;w;

[regal breach]

scene-based prefix is a LOT of code. but general prefix won't be too many

[spare turtle]

ohh

[fierce shore]

I am wondering if anyone knows much about gstreamer, especially the gstreamer plugin for obs (https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-gstreamer)
Long story short I'm trying to (on linux) screen share my ipad and capture that as a gstreamer source in OBS. I am able to create an X window and get my ipad screen over just fine using UxPlay (https://github.com/antimof/UxPlay) which has built-in gstreamer support. However I'm not familiar with how to route the output into the Gstreamer input in obs via this plugin (https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-gstreamer).

[daring wyvern]

does anyone know if there is a way to separate game and chat audio in OBS or in Nvidia clip setting or on clipchamp?

[untold jay]

!localadvanced @daring wyvern

[oblique yew]

@daring wyvern

For more information about advanced local recording settings, including how to configure multiple audio tracks and baseline encoder settings, please see our guide:

https://obsproject.com/wiki/Advanced-Recording-Guide-With-Multi-Track-Audio

[untold jay]

!ac @daring wyvern

[oblique yew]

@daring wyvern

To capture only audio from specific programs:

Windows

• add an Application Audio Capture (BETA) source and select the program to capture
• alternatively, you can also use the win-capture-audio plugin on Windows 10 2004 and later

macOS

• macOS 13 (Ventura): add a macOS Screen Capture source, use Window or Application, and select the app to capture
• for previous versions of macOS, follow the macOS Desktop Audio Capture Guide

[vocal sapphire]

Would someone be willing to talk me through applyng a Dynamic Mask? I'm trying to use them to apply colour from a Colour Source onto some frames so that I only need to update the colour once to change all of them but I can't figure it out for the life of me lol

[gaunt zealot]

That's a question for #stream-setup

[vocal sapphire]

My bad, thanks

[untold jay]

@vocal sapphire What do your dynamic mask properties look like currently?

[vocal sapphire]

I've been trying all kinds of different values in all of them but I can't seem to get it to just pull the colour from the input source. I'm hoping I'm just missing something obvious

[untold jay]

@vocal sapphire Try changing base value to 0 and red/blur/green input values to 1.

[vocal sapphire]

Nothing happens 😅

[untold jay]

@vocal sapphire What about only setting base value to 0?

[vocal sapphire]

Nada, I can adjust the sliders to select a colour there, it doesn't pull from the input source though, just applies whatever red/green/blue mix is there

[untold jay]

@vocal sapphire TRy going the other way around, load up a media source with a video and try to mask a color source with it.

[vocal sapphire]

I could get a video working! For some reason the colour source just didn't want to work, even if I used the same settings as the video. But I figured out a workaround - I'm using the video and applying the colour-changing filters to that and then using the mask from the video to everything I want to be colour-changing. All this to save some processes lol thanks for your help!

[slow plover]

Hi all.
I don’t know exactly where to put this but, is there a plug-in anywhere that can do a video delay more than just the Video Delay built in? (about 20 seconds) looking for something that can delay for about 5 mins. Thanks.

[harsh topaz]

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find that. I think you'll have a higher chance to find input if you explain why want a 5 minute delay on a video. Perhaps there's alternative solutions to what you're trying to accomplish.

[undone rover]

i keep getting "[obsscript.lua] Error running file: C:/Users/<>/Desktop/PY/obsscript.lua:1: attempt to index global 'obs' (a nil value)"

[undone rover]

here is the script if anyone cares

local text_source = obs.obs_get_source_by_name("subtitles")
local settings = obs.obs_data_create()
obs.obs_data_set_int(settings, "font-size", 72)

function update_font_size()
    local text = obs.obs_source_get_text(text_source)
    local text_length = string.len(text)
    local font_size = math.max(72 - (text_length * 2), 12)
    obs.obs_data_set_int(settings, "font-size", font_size)
    obs.obs_source_update(text_source, settings)
end

obs.timer_add(update_font_size, 500)

i have a source called subtitles n wna change the font size depending on how big the text is

[untold jay]

@undone rover Add obs = obslua on line 1

[undone rover]

yh just figured it out, thanks

[undone rover]

obs = obslua
local text_source_name = "subtitles"
local settings = obs.obs_data_create()
obs.obs_data_set_int(settings, "font-size", 72)

local function update_font_size()
    print("updating font size")
    local text_source = obs.obs_get_source_by_name(text_source_name)
    if text_source == nil then
        print("text source is nil")
        return
    end

    local source_id = obs.obs_source_get_id(text_source)
    if source_id ~= obs.OBS_SOURCE_TYPE_TEXT then
        obs.obs_source_release(text_source)
        print("text source is not a text source")
        return
    end

    local text = obs.obs_source_get_text(text_source)
    if text == nil then
        obs.obs_source_release(text_source)
        print("text is nil")
        return
    end

    local text_length = string.len(text)
    local font_size = math.max(72 - (text_length * 2), 12)
    obs.obs_data_set_int(settings, "font-size", font_size)
    obs.obs_source_update(text_source, settings)
    obs.obs_source_release(text_source)
end

obs.timer_add(update_font_size, 500)

i hve text GDI source called subtitles but for some reason it gets stuck on "text source is not a text source"

[untold jay]

@undone rover

source_id = obs.obs_source_get_unversioned_id(source)
			if source_id == "text_gdiplus" or source_id == "text_ft2_source" then

[undone rover]

so i change this part:

 local source_id = obs.obs_source_get_id(text_source)
    if source_id ~= obs.OBS_SOURCE_TYPE_TEXT then
        obs.obs_source_release(text_source)
        print("text source is not a text source")
        return
    end

to

local source_id = obs.obs_source_get_unversioned_id(source)
    if source_id ~= "text_gdiplus" and source_id ~= "text_ft2_source" then
        obs.obs_source_release(text_source)
        print("text source is not a text source")
        return
    end
```?

[untold jay]

@undone rover I don't speak Lua, but countdown.lua that obs-studio ships with is doing that, so I would assume it'll work.

[undone rover]

i see i see

[undone rover]

still doesnt work but idk im tired lol

ill try to fix it tmrw

[mortal harbor]

hi

i'm having a problem that the obs studio effects don't leave an impact on my mic

for example, if i'm using the noise suppression to reduce the noise in my background it won't work

tho the effect is been added

[quiet bramble]

Might want to try #audio-support, although it is 4:40am EST currently so there might not be many people around.

[mortal harbor]

thanks

[slow plover]

(This is mainly for IRL streaming)
It’s there just in case there’s a tech difficulty to the show happens and we can just skip past the part and go on

[vale vine]

Video delays are expensive in vram use. 5 minutes is gonna be a lot

[harsh topaz]

I'm failing to see how you'd be able to seamlessly "skip past" technical issues as well.

If you have dropout, you'll have dropouts. If it happens now or in 5 mins...

If you're afraid of technical issues bringing the stream down - you could set up a middle machine that does nothing but keep the stream live, with minimal technical setup (reducing chance of it going down or crashing). Then stream a clean feed directly into that, and send it to twitch from there.

• NDI
• SDI
• Teleport Plugin

And so forth.

[slow plover]

i’m streaming on the macbook but i’m not sure how much vram it has

[slow plover]

oh i’m streaming to like vimeo/youtube

[slow plover]

cut the delay down? i just assumed that would work

[harsh topaz]

Doesn't really matter where you stream to. It'd just go
Composition PC => Encoding PC => End-point (Twitch/Vimeo/Youtube - where ever)

If Composition PC crashes, or has plugin error, the feed goes black.

You change Encoding PC to "Technical Issues" or such, while you fix. Get Composition PC back up and running, then switch back.

[slow plover]

Oh, okay. I understand now

[soft pagoda]

I am trying to use teleport for dual pc stream and all i am getting on my streaming pc is a black screen. Any ideas how to fix this?

[harsh topaz]

Did you install Teleport on both PCs?

It's a fairly straight forward plugin;

1. Install Teleport both PCs.
2. Enable it in its settings panel on 1st PC OBS.
3. Add a source in 2nd OBS, and refresh to see your feed.

If that doesn't work you might be having network blocking connections.

[soft pagoda]

Yup did all of that. I am leaning towards firewall issues but not sure.

[harsh topaz]

All it says about it is here:
https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-teleport#notes

If you attempted that, you could ping Tuna and ask for help if he has time.

[soft pagoda]

Thank you

[idle fractal]

is there a plugin or something where I would be able to turn my webcam? like I want to tilt in/out like opening a door

[harsh topaz]

move transition in combination with exeldro obs-shaderfilter using the corner pin shader that comes with the plugin.

[idle fractal]

yeah, corner pin does the job but a pain. I was hoping for something to move the entire window at once

[harsh topaz]

Not sure what you're trying to do exactly with that explanation, but move transition will move between two settings of Corner Pin.

[idle fractal]

I don't want my cam flat on the screen. I want the whole thing twisted in a little bit

sorry, not sure how else to explain it

[lusty trout]

Ok thank you, I got it running yesterday but I had to unplug ethernet cords to isolate individual switches then introduce more switches to the system until each computer could identify itself... definitely not a long-term solution. I will most likely look to get one unmanaged, 24 port 2.5GB or maybe 1GB switch then buy a bunch of cat6 or cat5 and run each PC into that single unmanaged switch. With my extremely limited knowledge I feel like I might be in over my head if I get managed switches and try to configure the network myself. I appreciate all the help though, especially in a chat for OBS plugins haha.

Like I said I'm only using 300MB of throughput on my 2.5GB controller so I don't believe I would need a 2.5GB switch

probably depends on the quality of video I want to send from each computer

[regal breach]

Check if this does the job https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/corner-pin.1474/

Ahhhh my bad, didn't back read

[placid spear]

hello to you all. i was wondering if there is a filter or something that can help me make my cam blowup (explode)?

[lusty vapor]

Is there an docker image avaliable for building plugins for the official flatpak release of OBS?

[hard jay]

no

!plugintemplate

[oblique yew]

A template for new OBS plugins including boilerplate code and CI scripts can be found at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-plugintemplate

[hard jay]

This has all our current documentation, but I believe that flatpak is a current blind spot at the moment.

[mortal harbor]

can somone help me pls

i think i downloed like 3 of theobs things and i can find it in tools if somone can help me i whould be more then happy

its like the plug in thing

[regal breach]

You'll have to say what plugin that is

[mortal harbor]

idk what u mean

can i just show you

[sterile marlin]

What's the checksum for obs 29.0.2? I'm gonna try to make a plugin that integrates css and javascript procedural animations.

[wary escarp]

I don't believe we publish them anywhere, you'll have to download the app yourself to get them

That said, I struggle to see what you'd need the checksums for for your plugin

ah, the plugintemplate?

If you do need it for the plugintemplate, you need the git hash, which is 0fb8bb4b1e18ee1c870c48d35ab5b598af3b59e9 for 29.0.2

[sterile marlin]

Thank you!

Are there any OBS plugins that implement procedural animation?

[quiet bramble]

It can be done using shaders

Or javascript in browser source

[timber ember]

can somebody help with the websocket pluggin please?

[quiet bramble]

Best to describe what problem you are having so that someone familiar with the particular issue might be able to help.

[tardy veldt]

Any plugins for adding timestamps?

[quiet bramble]

Yeah, there are a couple. One writes them to a text file, and another one copies the finalized MKV file and inserts timestamps into it as chapter markers. Don't remember the names of them off hand but not hard to find in the resources site.

Not sure if they've been updated to OBS 28/29 yet or not though so be sure to doublecheck

[sullen forge]

whats tools like streamlabs are available for OBS on Linux?

[regal breach]

stop crossposting

[wary escarp]

<@&715347355565817879>

[fleet fractal]

HELLO STREAMGODS!!! MAY I ASK, HOW DO I TURN MY OBS PREVIEW WINDOW SIDEWAYS?

[oblique yew]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[brittle nimbus]

Hello

OBS

I hate that app

@oblique yew

[mortal harbor]

hola como encuentro los efectos y como instalo plugins?

[oblique yew]

Welcome to the official OBS Community Discord server! Unfortunately, our support volunteers can only provide support in English. Most of our support documents and guides are also only in English. If you feel comfortable using a service like Google Translate, feel free to use that to send messages to us. We'll do our best to understand your intent, and we'll try to help you as much as we can. Translate

[simple finch]

I have trouble getting the streamdeck plugin to work with my OBS, any tips?

[oblique yew]

For help with Elgato products, please submit a ticket with them directly at https://help.elgato.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. They also have a community Discord server.

[daring hearth]

Does anyone know if Move Source works with a nested scene? I could of sworn it did but I can't seem to get it to work.

[obsidian agate]

you use the Move Source filter on a Scene, and within the filters options, you select the Source that you want it to effect. That Source can also be a Nested Scene

Scene <- add "Move Source Filter" to this
-- Image Source (can be effected by the filter)
-- Nested Scene (could also be effected by the filter)
-- Media Source (same as the above)

You just choose the source within the scene you want the filter to effect

[warm pier]

Hey folks, Very new to OBS, 15 min new lol
anyways.. gonna be streaming Call of duty,, seen someone that has like a magnifying zoom over the top right corner where it shows kills, People remaining and such, Anyone know what im talking about?

[mortal harbor]

that is just someone cropping the capture source to only be those areas of the screen, and then putting them on top of the capture source.

[compact dragon]

Hey guys! has anybody worked with "source record"? It's creating an infinite loop and dropping frames like crazy. And it won't allow OBS to close after using it. Have anybody encountered this issue and manage to solve it?

[hard jay]

MODERATOR ABUSE: I'm advertising this because it's fuckin' rad and I'm gonna use it. https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/3d-effect.1692/

[mortal harbor]

Exeldro going through the most used streamFX features one by one and I love it 😄

[hard jay]

heh

[mortal harbor]

@minor thistle i know you asked about this recently ^^

[minor thistle]

umm yes! thanks for the mention 🙂

i would have run into it in an hour or so but this is a whole extra hour worth of mentioning it to people haha

[solar stratus]

Hi folks. I've noticed that using the OBS Video Source or VLC Media Source takes up a lot of CPU, is there any reason for this? A Fix? When I play the video on VLC without the usage of the plugin, it doesn't take up as much CPU.

[weak escarp]

3D Effect was one of those cases I was thinking how hard can it be and the answer was not hard at all

[mortal harbor]

blur next? 🙂

[weak escarp]

I have made a blur shader in my obs-shaderfilter fork, but more options should be better

[vapid charm]

Were you the one who made that "fork" of that shader or was that someone else?

[mortal harbor]

i just complied the streamFX blur filter on it's own.

[vapid charm]

Yeah. That's what I was thinking.

[obsidian agate]

Havent downloaded it yet, but does it change the color space of the source like the streamfx one does? If not, most likely switching to your plugin. (Was gonna do that anyway, but still, lol)

[weak escarp]

it tries to keeps the color space, but have not verified it myself

looking at it again the code can use some improvement with the color space

[obsidian agate]

just tested it, and it probably wasnt color space that I was remembering. Both your 3D Effect and the SFX 3D Transform seem to change a source if applied after a Color Correction that adjusts the Opacity.

Your filter doesnt seem to effect it as much, but it was still a noticeable shift when toggled. @weak escarp

Source
-- Color Correction (set opacity to something like 75%)
-- 3D Effect filter (toggle on and off, even with default settings, to see the shift)

Not sure the specifics on why it does that, but it was something that i noticed over my course of using SFX's 3D Transform and would have to compensate for when building nested/composite scenes

[quiet bramble]

I never looked at the source, but isn't it just manipulating the vertex shader more or less?

[weak escarp]

calling gs_perspective, gs_matrix_translate3f, gs_matrix_scale3f and gs_matrix_rotaa4f

[quiet bramble]

Ah, sounds simple enough. Nice to have different options. I'll have to try the new filter soon. 🙂

[harsh topaz]

@weak escarp Tested the update to source clone, and so far I haven't seen any issues with the scene audio. So well done 🙏

[quiet bramble]

Oh, that's another one I need to grab now that I'm on 29.0.2.

[compact dragon]

hi @weak escarp , sorry to ping you directly, is there a way to prioritise the bugs related to m1 max in the source record plugin?, without the encoding being overload, sometimes it won't finish the files created by source record, and it may crash obs. This is using HEVC hardware encoders

[weak escarp]

I don't have a Mac, so fixing bugs for that is shooting in the dark for me.

[pallid scaffold]

IS there any tool or plugin that allows you to say connect all your LUTs to it and then you can just cycle through them ? Instead of manually having to change the file through the browse meny every time

[weak escarp]

3D effect has now some changes for the color space, first I tried to copy from the render delay filter, but that seems to be broken too, after copying some code from the crop filter it seems to work for me now
You can download a test build for 3D Effect when logged in on GitHub from: https://github.com/exeldro/obs-3d-effect/actions/runs/4446225250

[random carbon]

Anyone work with stream fx in obs? I can't seem to make it happen. Have an m1 on Monterey

[vale vine]

The current stable streamfx is only compatible with an older version of obs

To get the current alpha/beta streamfx for current obs, you'd need to compile yourself or financially contribute to streamfx

[mortal harbor]

What specific features from streamFX were you trying to use?

[random carbon]

Blurring

[mortal harbor]

I think Exeldro mentioned this could be done with his shaderfilter fork?

[random carbon]

On a mac? He's not on mac is he?

[mortal harbor]

He’s not but the release still is

https://github.com/exeldro/obs-shaderfilter/releases/tag/1.21.3

[random carbon]

Ty. I'll check it out.

[quiet bramble]

No, but I think in theory it might be possible for someone to make such a plugin. It'd just have to load a list of LUTs to show in a combobox or something and then dynamically update the properties window and activate the currently chosen LUT any time the user cycles to the next one.

[gaunt zealot]

I'd imagine that to be possible via websocket or Lua/Python scripts

[quiet bramble]

Dynamically changing it via a StreamDeck or other app/script yeah probably. Would just need someone to whip it up. I imagine the built in plugin does not do it that way because it can load LUTs from anywhere on disk, rather than a fixed dir.

Might be nice to extend it, but perhaps that's too niche and an external thing might make more sense and be more flexible.

[obsidian agate]

I would imagine you would just use the StreamDeck WebSocket plugin, and have the request change the path of the LUT file

[quiet bramble]

Yeah, I think if I were wanting something like this I'd be inclined to make a LUA script to have it built into OBS in a way one could just hit up/down arrow to cycle through them.

[elfin lynx]

I asked on Reddit but becuase it’s such a specific feature I thought I’d ask here, I’m looking to see if I can toggle or update sources based of text in a excel document or any text editor? I’ve seen a simile feature in Vmix where they had a drop down menu within excel with a list of team names that update on stream depending on what one is selected?

[gaunt zealot]

Only thing that comes to find would be a custom Excel macro that somehow talks to obs-websocket for a scene change? That vMix solution is probably doing something very similar

For generic applications like Notepad that lack an API and/or advanced scripting for such things, would anything less than trying to OCR a captured window via DXGI/WGC even work? Assuming Windows anyways

Which is why the above thing is using Excel would be my guess

[elfin lynx]

Isn’t that very resource heavy?

[gaunt zealot]

Yeah, it would be

[gaunt zealot]

The bigger question here being why on earth would you want to use Excel for this? This seems high on a "Don't use Excel for the following..." list.

[elfin lynx]

It’s for a college project, we’re studying production behind sports and been tasked within groups to make a sport type live stream for our college, due to our limited team size we thought that having a document we could easily update fields on might be easier than trying to toggle sources individually, everything has to be done as if it was live, so no editing after the fact (we don’t have to have a perfect live stream but we thought we’d see how hard it would be to make it look as best as possible)

They don’t care what software we use and most of us have had past experience with OBS so thought we’d chance our luck

[gaunt zealot]

So a TD (technical director) role doing live video switching?

You can do that with keyboard hotkeys and/or websocket in OBS for changing between scenes

But even in big live stuff it's basically down to one TD at a big board...

Some examples and more info from the broadcast side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4jIlh9JoB8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO4zQM7nzEQ

[elfin lynx]

I guess, this isn’t our course main focus, it’s a unit we need to get to pass, our college thought it would be a fun idea to try merge units with departments, so we have 3 departments working together, I’m just here to make graphics n thought OBS might be a good option 🤷‍♂️

[gaunt zealot]

If it's what it sounds like it is, you've got a bunch of sub-groups with their own producer/TD sending feeds upstream to a master producer/TD for the main live feed?

I guess it's a question of how close to that first video I linked are you trying to get

That will determine how complex of a setup in OBS you need

Plus this is really more a question for #stream-setup anyways 🙂

[shut token]

so im using Own3d for my overlays and stuff since im not good at making them and cant afford to pay someone at this time, but the chat bot isnt working? is anyone able to help?

[minor thistle]

do you have anyone in your group that knows how to program? your use case is a good fit for NodeCG: https://www.nodecg.dev/

[quiet bramble]

@weak escarp Want to thank you for Source Clone. I was trying to duplicate an audio input and wasn't finding an easy way to do that. Wanted to preserve original audio for post-processing while ducking it for the live mix. Source Clone just saved the day with maximum chocolatey awesomesauce. 🙂

[elfin lynx]

What language does it use?

[minor thistle]

JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

[shut token]

if its something in excel its more than likely VBA instead of JS, HTML, CSS but i could be wrong

[minor thistle]

I was referring to NodeCG which I mentioned above.

[shut token]

oooh i missed that one lol

[minor thistle]

I'm suggesting an alternative to using Excel. With NodeCG you could have a dashboard where updating the data updates the sources. It's a really good fit for this use case if they have someone on the team that could learn how to use it.

Does require web programming skills though.

[gaunt zealot]

My worry beyond the coding skills would be if updating a web page would be fast enough. I don't see that being faster than just hitting a key on a keyboard that activates OBS's scene change

They where talking about sports coverage, which screams to me having somebody physically sitting at a keyboard/controller doing the live cuts

[minor thistle]

You might be misunderstanding the role of the tool. From what I'm reading they likely need to input scores and team names and such that show up as they are edited. NodeCG is perfect for that aspect of this. It also updates near instantaneously. (Fun fact: NodeCG is what they use for GDQ.)

They still need to operate OBS as usual for scene changes and things like that. This doesn't really change that need but it does allow someone on the team to solely focus on updating scores and stuff like that. (even so far as to have different people updating different parts of the data at the same time)

[gaunt zealot]

Something like a node-based web page for scores and whatnot would be recommended, yeah

[minor thistle]

If they don't have a web programmer, this won't be a good fit. But if they do, it's an awesome tool.

[obsidian agate]

From the web programming side of things, ive been very impressed with the BroadcastChannel API for getting browser sources to communicate with eachother without the need for a server. The sources need to come from the same host for it to work, but the communication is instantaneous

[minor thistle]

Yeah that's pretty cool too.

[dusky basin]

@elfin lynx https://github.com/GrandyB/SheetsIO

nodecg is the more capable way but requires programming knowledge, this updates things from a google sheet

[minor thistle]

That's pretty slick. Hadn't seen that, thanks for sharing!

[feral fiber]

hey guys i was just wondering if anyone happens to know if its a plugin that people use to split their screen to show both half camera and half their game play usually used in like a just chatting segmet where they fade into each other??

[obsidian agate]

The “Image Mask” filter is applied to one of the cameras. The image used as the mask is usually a gradient that fades from black on one side to white on the other

[scenic patio]

ive been trying to seperate my desktop audio and using individual tracks for each application when streaming audio to OBS but nothing I try results in what I want. has anyone figured this out or is there no workaround to getting individual audio sources? a plugin perhaps?

[spiral ruin]

Please don't crosspost. I replied to you in #audio-support the best place for audio questions.

[digital summit]

do someone know why my plugin dont work?

[oblique yew]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[feral fiber]

Thank you so much! ill give this a try 😄

[pallid wadi]

Can someone help me with the move transition plugin?
I made a "Fade In" and "Fade Out" filter with Move Value. When I use one of them on activation they work, but if I both use them the fade out doesnt work and instead of fading out it just disappears instantly

[mortal harbor]

VLC m3u8 playlists are looping when they are not set to loop

[graceful ermine]

hi im new here , i want asking something ,now my latest obs, ndi and runtime version, when i + ndi source i hearing got audio stuttering from 4k untility , i roll back ndi, runtime and obs studio old version still same, how?

[spark coyote]

StreamFX plugin fails to load... help?

[oblique yew]

If you are looking for more information or support for the StreamFX plugin, please visit the forum resource page.

[rough saddle]

is there any tool or smthing able to show on my main monitor if im muted or not in discord or should i just stick with push to talk

[mortal harbor]

isn't this something that built in discord overlay shows?

[opaque geyser]

The problem I have with my obs program, even changing the version, keeps giving me errors. Today I have been doing a live stream and at minute 45 the live has frozen, giving an error in the twitch stream. I don't know what to do anymore, the only solution I have left is to uninstall the obs and switch to another stream program and give up OBS as lost

[rough saddle]

ye but discord is on my second monitor with my obs. what i did as a " workaround " was to put my obs slightly above so i can see the mic icon but then my chatterino is on there too setup as always shown so if becomes bit annoying when trying to use discord since it covers a part of it. atm im just trying this or just using push to talk

[oblique yew]

If you need help or have questions about OBS, check out our #support-portal first!

[mortal harbor]

hello, i just wanted to let you know i have posted the streamFX blur filter for macOS on my github
https://github.com/prgmitchell/blur-filter/releases/tag/1.0.0

[vapid charm]

NGL thats pretty pog

[vapid charm]

#audio-support

[regal breach]

lol that non-nvidia background removal plugin is finally updated to obs 28+

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/background-removal-portrait-segmentation.1260/

[mortal harbor]

still destroys your CPU, most users cannot actually use it + game.

[regal breach]

i see

[fluid shadow]

are plugin like if ? in text_file; do smthng exists?

[regal breach]

no, not that simple

what are you trying to accomplish?

[regal breach]

ahhhhh i understand now, yes there is one

[oblique yew]

An advanced scene switcher plugin, with options for timed switching, cursor detecting, and further automation options, is available for OBS Studio on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Download links and installation instructions can be found here: http://obsproject.com/forum/resources/395/

[fluid shadow]

thanks

[mossy lintel]

Guys could you please refresh my memory. Was there some kind of plugin which could take random picture from given folder and show that as a image source?

[obsidian agate]

Image Slideshow

That is a source already in OBS, no plugin needed

[mossy lintel]

But that's just slideshow which randomises list of pictures and plays them as slideshow. I remember something being like if you enable source it picks random pic and keeps it shown until you hide it. Next time it picks another etc.

And there seems to be issue getting all pictures. From 64 I have in folder it shows only 49. despite all being exactly in same size and format.

[twilit dawn]

hi im looking for help connecting my phone as a capturing device with obs can some one help

[spiral ruin]

What do you mean "as a capturing device"? Do you want to use camera as a source, or do you want to capture the screen?

[twilit dawn]

i want to use my phone as a video cam

with a website

[spiral ruin]

VDO.ninja is a browser based option to use on the phone, as well as mobile apps like Droidcam.

[twilit dawn]

so what happens is i use my phone as web cam on a site but i want to add other things and the other things are used in obs so how do i get them to show up on the browsers website

it works fine on the site normally , i just added a new devce and now that device has tools you can add to the screen but i can get obs to see my phone

the other tools come from obs

[spiral ruin]

If the site is accessing your phone's camera, you can't use it in another place like OBS.

[twilit dawn]

sp dpes pbs become your browser

so does obs become your browser

[spiral ruin]

The camera is accessible by only one thing at a time, so either a website, or another app on the phone allowing it to be accessible by OBS over your network, but not both at the same time.

[twilit dawn]

ok so will obs stream on the site i designate

[spiral ruin]

I believe so. I have never done that before, but there are ways to set up the Stream Output from OBS to go to a private location or an embed in a website. Is this a site you have control over?

[twilit dawn]

no i dont have control over it but i can broadcast on it and a new device i bought allows me to add animations to the screen but i couldnt figure out how to use my phone as thevideo device

on obs

is there a tech 3 for obs

is there a tecj number for obs

tech

[spiral ruin]

VDO.ninja is a browser solution that allows using your camera on the phone in OBS. Droidcam is an app that does basically the same thing. Both have lots of tutorials for how to set them up.
There is no tech support number to call.

[fathom pivot]

Can someone tell me where the plugins folder on mac is?

[mortal harbor]

!plugins

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio supports a variety of plugins that provide new kinds of sources, filters, and additional features.

• For a list of plugins, see OBS Studio Resources: Plugins
• To learn how to install or remove plugins, see the Plugins Guide
• To see if the plugins you use are available for the latest version of OBS Studio, see the OBS Studio 28 Plugin Compatibility table

[mortal harbor]

~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins

[fathom pivot]

thanks

[velvet cloak]

is their any kind soul who has a dev environment setup that can build a plugin and give me the output of a function

code for the module load only needs to be this

    uint idx = 0;
    string id = null;
    
    while (libobs.obs_enum_input_types((UIntPtr)idx++, out id))
    {
        if (id != "scene")
        {
            blog(LOG_INFO, "ID: %s", id")
        }
    }
    return true;```

[regal breach]

That can change depending on the plugins a user installs

[velvet cloak]

yes i know i only want the base ones

just vanilla install sources

[regal breach]

You could add all sources in your scene collection, restart obs, then check the log. It will have the source types next to the source name

[velvet cloak]

oh it logs that by default?

[regal breach]

Yes

[velvet cloak]

now i just need to look where the log ffile is lol

assuming appdata or something

found them

[oblique yew]

To help resolve your issue, we need to view a log file. Follow these instructions to upload your current log file:

1. In OBS Studio, click the Help menu → Log Files → Upload Current Log File
2. Click the Copy URL button
3. Paste the link to this Discord channel

[regal breach]

!manuallog

[oblique yew]

Please manually upload your log file.

(Windows)

1. Press WinKey+R to open the Run dialog
2. Paste the following into the box and hit OK: %APPDATA%\obs-studio\logs
3. Find the desired log file (usually the latest) and drag/drop it into this channel.

Linux logs: ~/.config/obs-studio/logs
macOS logs: ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/logs

[velvet cloak]

@regal breach Thanks for your help yet again

[regal breach]

Welcome

[woeful junco]

so i have 2 problems. After a debacle of trying NDI and that not working, I discovered teleport, which I also couldn't get working until I disabled windows firewall on gaming PC and stream pc. After this, I tried a test stream and it froze the teleport on that screen and cut out the audio. Now, this morning, the teleport isn't even coming through, no video, no audio.

[peak vector]

sounds more like network issues instead of software issues

especially if two completely different solutions have similar problems

[woeful junco]

could be

[peak vector]

how are the computers connected to each other?

[woeful junco]

well I assume the NDI was because of the firewall

WLAN for now

but i'll be wiring it today

[peak vector]

yeah wifi will probably choke on the required data

1080p60 NDI is around 300 mbit/s

LAN is very very much recommended for this usecase

[woeful junco]

i downscaled it to 1900x1600 and put the quality down to 60 but if that's the issue I can just line it in

i mean it wasn't running slow like i'd expect from network bottlnecking

it just stopped and now it's not working at all

[peak vector]

NDI has no real quality level

it either works or doesnt

it does not adjust quality to the available bandwidth, it assumes you have enough

same probably with obs-teleport

these are solutions made for hardwired networks, not wonky wifi connections

[woeful junco]

I mean i have gigabit/s router for my internal

[peak vector]

yeah that's fine, its just that wifi is very inconsitent

re-try with ethernet cable, make sure firewalls are set to "home network" or off (if you're on Windows)

[woeful junco]

understood. I just wanted to prove the concept would work in my situation before I committed to putting a line in (Broke my spine in january and it's a bit of a pain to get around and under things right now)

[peak vector]

can just pull a quick'n'dirty line for POC

past showed that wifi does not work well with NDI so it's probably easier to just get it out of the equation early

[ember grail]

Somewhat, the receiver can request NDIlib_rec_bandwidth_lowest

[obsidian agate]

teleport doesnt automatically adjust AFAIK, but it does have a quality slider to manually change it.

[harsh topaz]

It starts at 90, yes.

[regal breach]

lowest bandwidth lowers the resolution

i just tried it and it turned 720p into 360p

it is available as an option in the ndi plugin

of course there's a tradeoff

otherwise the highest bandwidth wouldnt exist

[ruby ferry]

is there anyone here who knows and understands how to install OBS plugins? I would gladly pay someone for their time to help

[mortal harbor]

which plugin?

[ruby ferry]

this is a specific plugin that adds a hotkey to add Chapters while recording

[mortal harbor]

link it here.

[ruby ferry]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/chapter-marker.1323/

I've been looking for a way to break down recordings I make into different sections, without having to constantly stop/start recordings. This plugin seems to be a solution, but it seems very complicated to install.

[mortal harbor]

seems easy enough...copy the file from the download obs-chaptermarker.dll to C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64-bit

[ruby ferry]

I can't seem to find that file

[mortal harbor]

it is the only file in the zip that you download.

[ruby ferry]

i dont see any dll file in there

oh i see, i had the wrong download

[ember grail]

@regal breach correct. also the color_format can be changed (if its not already UYVY) to reduce the texture size to half of RGBA/BGRA.

although I'm not sure if ndi actually sends that over the wire as such.

[hushed matrix]

Hey i was wondering if the mediashare tool would work on youtube?

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work just don’t know how to set it up for youtube all the tutorials are for twitch

[obsidian agate]

MediaShare?

[hushed matrix]

Yeah dw i found a vid finally lol

[obsidian agate]

Guessing a StreamLabs or StreamElements thing? (Based on some searches)

[willow lion]

Anyone have a fix for getting the reastream plug in to show up in OBS? Trying to get my ableton audio onto obs using reastream. I already made sure that its installed into the correct "obs-plugins" folder in my program files

[dim saffron]

hello friends i am old man

i am new member

my filter no have plug in i need installer reaplugins for stream

thanks for all

[mortal harbor]

ReStream is installed by installing reaper plugins suite https://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/

it isn't added as a plugin in OBS, it is seen for what it is (a VST) and you can add a VST filter to an audio source to use it.

[rapid pond]

quick question does anyone know how to put in an alert box

[willow lion]

Oh forsure so I installed reaper last night when I get back home I'll check if its the suite version, do I need to Uninstall reastream and re-download now that I have reaper ? Also thats what I mean when I try to look for it in my vst filters to put it on an audio source it doesn't show up

I tried to copy it to the obs plug-ins folder but still no luck

[mortal harbor]

as i mentioned, it is not a plugin. you wouldn't be adding to/removing anything from your plugins folder.

[willow lion]

It shows up in ableton for me to put it on my master track but thats all

[willow lion]

Well then how do I get it to show up in the vst filters menu

[mortal harbor]

here is information on where OBS looks for VSTs: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki/Filters-Guide#vst-plugin

[willow lion]

Also most vsts are called plug-ins so thats why I'm saying that

Gotcha so that link shows to have it downloaded to my commonfiles/vstplugin folders which im pretty sure I copied it there too but ill double check when I get home thanks

[cloud saddle]

Hey guys how do I get chat to pop up in my stream?

[bright sapphire]

https://github.com/baffler/Transparent-Twitch-Chat-Overlay

[cloud saddle]

@bright sapphire thanks !!!

What ???

[hollow crescent]

Hi Everyone, I would love some support if possible. I'm using the OBS Google Captions plugin but for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to function. I have checked all and any microphone settings, youtube etc. and I have it all setup. Other captioning software like the websocket DO work. It's just the OBS Google Captions that dont.

Any suggestions or anyone else had this issue?

[elder hemlock]

restart (i have no idea what you should do)

[humble spear]

Hello how do i get the chat feom twitch to pop out in obs?

[bright sapphire]

If you want it to display "on screen" - https://github.com/baffler/Transparent-Twitch-Chat-Overlay

[humble spear]

i dont want it on screen so viewers can see it

i actually already have that working

i meant thtet chat pop out box from twitch to the side of my screen on obs

so that why i dont need to get on twitch to chat to people if that makes sense ?

i had this before btu its gone

[bright sapphire]

It should be in your DOCKS menu at the top of OBS

[humble spear]

yes !

thats what i was speaking about

[bright sapphire]

Is the dock not there?

[humble spear]

it wouldnt load

[smoky saddle]

I'm trying to give OBSS one more chance, but the problem is that a few of the plugins and such were part of Streamlabs, & thus Streamlabs Desktop. Can y'all think of a ticker-like plugin that I can insert things manually or pull from a news feed?

[oblique yew]

Docks in OBS can be managed from the Docks menu in the main OBS window.

You can toggle docks on and off, or lock or unlock docks to prevent moving and editing, as well as add custom browser-based docks here.

You can also reset the UI from this menu to return your docks to their original state (Docks > Reset Docks).

[humble spear]

ok it worked BUT

how do i get it to reside next to the stream ?

the capture card screen.

[bright sapphire]

#macos-support might be a better place

[humble spear]

thanks

i dont want it to be a seperate chat box

[tawny hearth]

Hello, I got a Razer Ornata for my birthday. I was trying to find an overlay for obs so I can show my keyboard light with the games that I Play. I used this one from the microsoft store and it doesn't work. It tells me to log in and it doesn't complete. Are there any suggestions for how I can show the keyboard on my stream ? i saw some overlay ideas online but i really want my keyboards lights to show. feel free to tag me. Thank you

[white wave]

i am looking to do something similar to Scale to Sound plugin, but ONLY for the low-end frequencies. as it stands, Scale to Sound ends up making assets look excessively jumpy since there is no way to EQ out high or mid or low frequencies, so the entire frequency spectrum causes images to move (you can only filter outu sonds based on how loud they are).

does anyone have an idea of how to get the values of each frequency somehow? i know the values can be split by frequency because of plugins like Equalizer, which show different peaks and dips based on low-end or high-end sounds.

[mortal harbor]

i've never used the plugin but couldn't you make a separate audio source and put an EQ on it to only pass through those lower frequencies, then set that as the device scale to sound listens to?

[white wave]

thats a great idea, i will give it a go!

[tepid inlet]

Hello. Does anyone have any ideas how could I prevent inactive scene sources transmitting audio when using the Teleport plugin filters?

[harsh topaz]

They.. shouldn't? I've never experienced that - you probably would need to clarify what you're doing for anyone to help.

[tepid inlet]

I have multiple filters to separate them and prevent music from going into the vod on twitch

But for some reason switching scenes doesn't stop the filters from actively transmitting audio over

(even blank scenes for example without the music source and the teleport filter play music on the receiving pc)

[limber leaf]

Hi! I've been messing around with the Audio Move Filter. I have a twitch redemption that plays some music clips, and I'd like to add some motion to my sources via this filter. It works great when it's on, but when turned off, how do I get the sources to return to their original size and position? As of now, if I turn the filter off, the sources just stay where the filter left them.

[terse narwhal]

yo

so