plugins-and-tools

[limber sage]

Hello i Need help

i Alr Capture My Game But its Not showing, Can Help?

[oblique yew]

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

[mortal harbor]

Dormiți?

[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

[pure summit]

Greetings, could someone recommend me a plugin or integration to be able to control a 5.1 sound input?

I mean an audio Mixer plugin, in which to control the surround sound, since OBS does not control the audio mix well by default

[ruby lichen]

Hi everyone
I've created a new plugin that allows to get data from a URL (HTTP/REST API) and display it as text on the scene as a video source: https://github.com/royshil/obs-urlsource
Inviting all to beta test the plugin and provide feedback! 😄
I did this after seeing a request for it on the feature request system.
Thank you!!

[slim ember]

I'm trying to set up a move value to toggle effect filters but I don't know how to use move value

[willow spear]

Not sure if here is ok to ask but I'll do it anyways, lol

I'm streaming from a PC into a Mac via Elgato Catpure Card. I have it going into OBS but I'm trying to use the plug-in Source Record 0.3.2". When I have it record it'll record, then stop but it'll be zero size. I'll have OBS record and it'll do it, but I'm trying to not have the overlays on it as well. Any help from Mac users? Thanks

[oblique yew]

To help resolve your issue, we need to view a log file from a fresh launch of OBS Studio containing an output session. Follow these instructions to upload a clean log file:

1. Restart OBS Studio first!
2. Start your stream/recording replicating any issues (meaning having any games/apps open and captured, etc.)
3. Stop your stream/recording after 30 seconds or after the issue has occurred
4. Click the Help menu → Log Files → Upload Current Log File
5. Paste the URL into this Discord channel

[willow spear]

https://obsproject.com/logs/2VFJfeKB6NgO843P

I have 2 recordings, Really only want the Source recording but testing it now, 1 is the screen I see in OBS, the other is going to my desktop which should just be the Source Record. Thank You

[scenic cave]

https://obsproject.com/logs/GgLHnvUFw9SO2ZrU

@ruby lichen sry, i forgot to answer on the github comments, so, i set the smooth silhouette to 0, no results
so i did a fresh install of both obs studio (i was using the portable version) and your plugin, now it didnt even show up on the effects section

[glacial haven]

I don't know what plugin you tried to install, but OBS loaded only the standard ones as far as I can see in that log

the plugin dll of the plugin you installed should be here after installation: C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit\

that what you tried to load?

apparently it failed 😛

and this sounds like there is some extra redistributable you are supposed to install:

[NVIDIA VIDEO FX]: FX disabled, redistributable not found or could not be loaded.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-sdk/resources/ maybe from here if I had to guess

[obsidian agate]

!nvafx

[oblique yew]

The redistributables required for the NVIDIA Noise and Background Removal filters can be found here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-sdk/resources/

Once both are installed,

The NVIDIA Noise Removal option will appear as part of the "Noise Suppression" filter, alongside RNNoise and Speex.
The NVIDIA Background Removal option will appear as its own filter under "Effect Filters."

[glacial haven]

ah yeah, same link, looks good

[scenic cave]

using amd gpu

[glacial haven]

ok, but what I previously said, the plugin you're trying to use (I guess obs-backgroundremoval.dll, in your older log this was visible) apparently isn't installed in C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit\

so OBS is not loading it

and that's where the installer should have placed it

did you maybe change that folder during the installation process, although you shouldn't have?

for me the installer works fine and places the plugin there when run with this installation folder

just try to run the installer again and make sure you have the correct path set as shown above

[scenic cave]

i cant set a custom path on the installer

but it seems to be installing on the C: path

[glacial haven]

so you don't have a browse button there? how does the section I posted above look for you then, can you post a screenshot?

[scenic cave]

i figured it out, i needed to uninstall obs and remove settings and then install it again to be able to browse

but i still without the background removal option

[glacial haven]

then it's time for a new log from the installed OBS I guess 😉

[scenic cave]

u can see that now the dll is being loaded
https://obsproject.com/logs/NvFSSqe8gWw3CAQq

[scenic cave]

u read my mind

[glacial haven]

hehe

yeah it's loading correctly now, from this point on only Roy as the author can help I guess

[ruby lichen]

Thank you Admins for approving my new URL/API source plugin! (https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/url-api-source-fetch-live-data-and-display-it-on-screen.1756/) 🙏
Super fast this time, I appreciate it!

[subtle fractal]

Hello.. Im wondering if there are any dictionary plugins/tools that can be used in OBS .. I'm aware there is a bible one but i spoke to the developer and he let me know that its only for bibles not dictionaries

[fossil wyvern]

what would be the purpose of a dictionary plugin exactly?

[subtle fractal]

@fossil wyvern looking on words on screen in real time while streaming ..

[fossil wyvern]

easiest would be to do that in a browser and window capture the browser

[subtle fractal]

@fossil wyvern thank you

@ruby lichen congrats on the entry.. can you tell me what would be an example of good use for the plugin ?

[fossil wyvern]

mostly a direct API fetch

it's a pretty cool feature tbh. bit niche but really cool

[subtle fractal]

agreed

[ruby lichen]

I've seen a couple folks ask for it on the OBS feature requests system
Seemed like something that won't make much sense as a core feature.
And I've had the libcurl integrated in Background Removal already - so creating the API request mechanism was simple. The UI etc. was more involved

[fossil wyvern]

haven't tested it, but looking at the gif on the page, that UI seems decently nice

[ruby lichen]

Use case (that I can imagine) would be live streamers that e.g. want to show the price of BTC or a market ticker that has an API

But anything with an HTTP API (which is pretty much anything in the world today) can be fetched.

Weather? News? OpenAI ChatGPT? The sky's the limit

[mortal harbor]

pretty cool plugin, nice work

[subtle fractal]

@ruby lichen now that is interesting ..

do you have a full youtube tutorial yet ?

[fossil wyvern]

how does it interact with the OBS API?
Like I imagine that all the settings are set as data settings, but like, do you have procs to resend the request or fetch the result?
Do you have signals on request response?

[subtle fractal]

i usually use widgets in a browser source for the weather

[ruby lichen]

Not yet - working on it! 😅

[ruby lichen]

First - you can check out the source code, it's all there and not very complicated too
I've a thread that makes the libcurl calls periodically (timer) and caches the response which is then rendered async to screen

[fossil wyvern]

yee but I'm lazy

figured since you were there was probs easier to ask you directly

[ruby lichen]

Sure

I'm not using event based signals, but I do have a bit of multithreading sync going on obvs.
The meat of the work was in the UI, the requests and the parsing

[fossil wyvern]

could be interesting to have procs to pause/unpause the timer and return the response.
Have a lot on my plate rn but I'll see if I have time for a lil PR

[fossil wyvern]

from a cursory look, it seems that all the request data is actually fully internal to the source, and not exposed to the OBS API?

[ruby lichen]

I'm not sure I follow what you mean
How should it be exposed?
I've not added anything to OBS it's all within the plugin.
Can we add API endpoints to OBS? I don't even know how that works..

[fossil wyvern]

well, the easiest way to expose the request data to the OBS api would be to save those as data settings in the source's data settings object, instead of a struct of its own in the source's struct.
That way any other entity that's interacting with the obs api (typically, anything using websockets) can see them and modify them.

as for "adding API endpoints" not really, but that's hat procs are for.
By defining a proc you basically allo anything interacting ith the obs api to call that specific function on your source and get its result

[ruby lichen]

sounds very cool - how is that done in code?

[fossil wyvern]

most complete example in obs source code would be the get_metadata proc of the vlc source

it's basically just:

• define the function : https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins/vlc-video/vlc-video-source.c#L281
• add it as a proc in the source create : https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins/vlc-video/vlc-video-source.c#L1008

The proc function recieves two things

• private data defined when it's added to the proc handler (very typically the source's struct)
• a calldata object, which is what allows you to recieve and return any number of any argument type.

Calldata is basically an obscure object type that can contain pretty much anything you want
https://docs.obsproject.com/reference-libobs-callback
So the way it works is :

• When you want to call a proc, you create a calldata object and put in it all the arguments the proc needs, then pass it to the proc handler which passes it to the proc
• The proc extracts its arguments from the calldata, does what it want to do, then puts its return values inside the same calldata object
• Then the one who called it can go and extract those from the same calldata

I am a big fan of procs, they are imo severly underutilized

[ruby lichen]

this looks really cool!
i can def add a signal for when the API request is complete, then maybe other sources can use the output for rendering
not sure what a proc handler will do though..

[fossil wyvern]

well, instead of (or additionally to) firing a signal everytime the request is complete, which can potentially be a lot, you can have a proc to let other actors request the result of the api call whenever they need to

alternatively : a proc to let external actors force a new call even if the timer isn't there yet

I fucking love procs

[red pasture]

Is there any Plugin, where I can switch between 2 Setups?

Means I go from Setup 1 to Setup 2 and i can switch in OBS then?

[fossil wyvern]

no need for a plugin, that's what scene collections and profiles are for

[red pasture]

I know that

I mean switching while streaming

[fossil wyvern]

can't switch profiles while streaming but you can change scene collections

[red pasture]

I want to go from my 1st Pc to my 2nd Pc in another room and stream from there without turning the stream off

[fossil wyvern]

nope can't do that

[red pasture]

I am currently thinking of streaming to an selfhosted rtmp server or something like that

[fossil wyvern]

yup only way would be to locally send the video of one pc to the other (or of both PC to a relay server) and stream from that

but you can't change the direct source of the stream without stopping and restarting the stream

[glacial haven]

you can make one PC the streaming PC that is sending out the stream - and then this either streams the sources that are in this OSB instance, or when you switch you include the feed from the OBS on PC 1 through NDI or Teleport

it's actually not a lot more complex than a standard 2 PC setup using NDI or Teleport, just that the OBS on the streaming PC also has its own sources to use directly

[oblique yew]

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[rapid apex]

hi spigots :3

who's ready for my special surprise

[vagrant minnow]

Probably nobody.

[scenic pollen]

Hey folks, I got this error in my logs:
.../Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/blur-filter.plugin/Contents/MacOS/blur-filter' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64'))

is that a common issue with arm Macs and plugins, or can I resolve this?

[ruby lichen]

you need to get the plugin version compiled for arm (Apple silicon, e.g. M1/M2) or a universal build which supports x86_64 & arm64 in the same package

[scenic pollen]

thx! it only has macos.pkg
https://github.com/prgmitchell/blur-filter/releases/tag/1.1.0

so not sure whether it's supposed to be universal

[vapid charm]

@mortal harbor ^^^^

[ancient summit]

When the resolution is changed, bongobs-cat will not move or the graph will be confused. How to solve this problem?

[steel otter]

My audio sucks despite having a $100 microphone from the Razer, is there a plugin that can improve the audio and exclude keyboard sound or something like that?

[vapid charm]

#audio-support

[north hollow]

Any plugins for obs?

[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

[north hollow]

Themes?

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio comes with a variety of themes that change the look and feel, including the new Yami theme. See the Themes Guide for more information.

You can also download custom themes made by the community.

[ruby lichen]

OBS has built in noise filter based on RNN it's quite good at blocking noon speech sounds
But the first thing to check would be that you're actually using the high end mic as the audio source
As well as making sure any drivers that came with it are installed and working

[timber temple]

(i'm new here and unsolicited advice i know but) ALSO don't assume just bc the mic was expensive/new that it isn't having issues - if you only just got it and don't already know it works fine, definitely make sure to go record and play back some samples with it in audacity or something, to make sure it isn't damaged etc

[timber temple]

question of my own while we're at it

i'm pretty new to all this and maybe there's a way to do it with plugins that i don't know of, i've searched around all the default features and i've got streamelements set up and whatnot, i feel like that's what i need for this but:

i'm trying to set up a wdget/overlay that's a single updating line of text for alert notifications, which includes all different alert types in it

and i'm not sure how to go about doing that

i know how to make a text widget to list from the "most recent followers" "most recent subs" etc files, but i have no idea how to go about doing it all within the same list

[fossil wyvern]

things like streamer.bot or Kruiz Control, which allow you more control than SE's widget might be better fit to that

[timber temple]

ah, ty

i wasn't sure if there was a way to get [this] widget to just output to a text file or something, and make another widget to read out that text file, since this is basically what i'm looking for already, just in like a single-line list instead of a vertical block

[oblique yew]

If you need help with StreamElements products or services, please join their Discord server or submit a support ticket as we cannot provide further assistance here.

[timber temple]

and that ^^ is part of why i asked here, i do not wish to add my phone number to deal with their 2fa requirement to post in their server

i'll look into streamerbot and kruiz control though, thanks!

[hallow vale]

The second link in that blurb is an email thing, no phone number seems needed if that helps

[hallow vale]

the second link

[timber temple]

from the bot, gotcha

[hallow vale]

Yup

[timber temple]

still not quite the right thing to submit a whole support ticket to streamelements proper though it doesn't seem like 😅

[hallow vale]

Sure, but it's just an email contact for literally any reason

[bleak bough]

I'm trying to run a restream server on a linux vps using rtmp module but I can't stream to that server without vpn I can ssh to my linux server without vpn and I can load nginx website without vpn too any idea how I can fix that?

[covert wasp]

does anyone know how to fix it when it says remuxed recording but file might be incomplete

[oblique yew]

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

[high bramble]

Hey, I'm trying to use OBS to emulate a virtual cam and use it in a virtual meeting, but the virtual cam isn't appearing, only the fisical cam is appearing. Does someone know what i have to do?

[untold jay]

@high bramble Does the virtual camera appear in other applications, like obs-studio itself?

[high bramble]

Yes, but only in obs-studio

In other apps, like zoom and google, it doesn't

[untold jay]

@high bramble"Google" isn't an application, what are you using?

[high bramble]

I tested it at google meet and at a website that i need to use camera

and sorry ab my english, it isn't my native language

[untold jay]

@high bramble Does it work in Firefox? https://webcamtests.com/

[high bramble]

It works on firefox

maybe if i reset the pc it will work on google?

[untold jay]

@high bramble Open chrome://settings/content/camera , does it show up there?

[high bramble]

No

[untold jay]

Might need a reboot, then.

[high bramble]

Yep! Ok, Chiyo, thx!!

[tidal harbor]

Hello there anyone on to help me out real quick?

[spiral ruin]

Won't know if anyone can help, unless you describe the help you are looking for.

[tidal harbor]

the own3dpro plugin for obs

I downladed it after obs to try and use it but i cant get it to pop up in the obs tools menu

[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 URL into this Discord channel

[tidal harbor]

https://obsproject.com/logs/Bl1yOUdvgwh7k1LI

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H - OK! / GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU - OK!

[spiral ruin]

It doesn't look like it is loading. Was OBS running when you installed the plugin?

[tidal harbor]

it probably was i cant remember im working on turning something off in my computer settings

[spiral ruin]

You can't install plugins while OBS is running. Exit OBS, then restart it, check if the plugin is available in the Tools menu. If it isn't, exit OBS and install the plugin again.

[timber temple]

i did try this actually, and surprisingly, they responded super quickly. it didn't really help though 🙃

trying to figure out how to use kruiz control rn, but it's... a lot more over my head complexity wise than se is 😅

[tidal harbor]

i tried that and it didnt work my laptop just got done restarting ill brb

https://obsproject.com/logs/hdbrHSEJy4jFCLDA

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H - OK! / GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU - OK!

[spiral ruin]

!plugins
Check the guide, make sure you are installing to the correct folder. Otherwise, you should contact Own3d for support of their plugin.

[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

[tidal harbor]

its still not showing the plug in ima delete it and reinstall the plug in

[spiral ruin]

Check the guide I linked to you as well.

[tidal harbor]

10/4 not to computer tec savy like this gimme a min

[hallow vale]

Nice! Glad they got back to you, even if they didn't have a positive answer. Best of luck

[timber temple]

ty ✨

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 - OK! / Radeon RX 580 - OK!

[mighty cliff]

sent in the wrong channel thats my fault

[proper summit]

I cannot record hd video on OBS recording quality is too low.. Help me to batter recording

[oblique yew]

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

[gleaming mica]

Hey, Im taking on another lil challenge after my last one failed, but this time instead of doing .py script i want to try create a plugin with a dockable window, Im happy enough to go away and give it my best crack but i wondered if anyone had any documentation or links/tutorials that could help me with getting started

[fossil wyvern]

I would wait till next version because afaik the dock system is being reworked rn

unless it's purely for exercise

[gleaming mica]

Its a bit of both, while i have some coding knowledge its going to be a bit of a dip into a new language so that the exercise part. i would still like it to work Lol

[fossil wyvern]

then tbh the easiest would be to look at docks that create a dock of their own

multirtmp comes to mind but there are likely many others

[gleaming mica]

Okay ill try take a look into that, thanks

[gleaming mica]

tried looking and it not in english, but really its more the just getting started bit im not sure about and a general overview

[wary escarp]

Thats not the case, at least not actively being reworked

[wary escarp]

If you want some code to look at, you could look at Exeldro's plugins, there are a few that create docks

[fossil wyvern]

oh really?
mb, I must have misunderstood smth

[wary escarp]

We’re trying to improve our plugin developer documentation, Im hoping for better first-party docs to exist later this year

[wary escarp]

There were/are proposals, but nothing decided upon yet

[fossil wyvern]

ouki, mb

[wary escarp]

Not even clear if it’ll happen at all, might not be worth the effort and other complications

[wary escarp]

No worries!

[glacial haven]

https://github.com/exeldro/obs-source-dock that would be one of the quite obvious examples 😛

[gleaming mica]

The question i was asking was more how do i get into a position to actually code this rather than what is the code, spoke to a friend who said You can set up a dev environment of OBS using visual studio and also sent this video https://youtu.be/n1F8iPAbbHg but the template used in the video is different to the one that is online also the video mentions a ps command that doesnt work for me and im not sure why prob due the templates been different

[oblique yew]

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

[mortal harbor]

there is the plugin template. you said "actually code this rather than what is the code" which i do not understand.

[glacial haven]

I guess it's about setting up the IDE first, and get into a state where it's possible to compile some first example plugin that does something, to have a starting point

I found this so annoying and tedious (for the standard C++ environment) that I found a way to write plugins in C# instead 😄

[soft crown]

Your issue in this error's case is powershell's default execution policy, its spelled out in the link in the error message
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_execution_policies
~~https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.security/set-executionpolicy~~

[gleaming mica]

Ok i asumme there are some steps i have to do before starting to write the code. Lets say I have a brand new PC with no programs on, what would i need to do before i can actually write a line of code....... (now thats taking my question to the extreme, cos i do have OBS i do have VSC and VS (the video mentions both of them) )

[hard jay]

!devgettingstarted

[oblique yew]

To get started with OBS development, read this guide.

[gleaming mica]

thank you, i will take a really good look at that, this is what i wanted to know the "how to get start" sorry i wasnt more clear to everyone else

[hard jay]

there is also...

!build

[oblique yew]

• To learn how to install OBS Studio, see our Install Instructions
• To learn how to build OBS Studio from source, see our Build Instructions for details on the build system and dependencies, then specific instructions for Windows, macOS, Linux, or FreeBSD

[hard jay]

Click your preferred OS

for a more step-by-step breakdown rather than the high level overview of requirements.

[gleaming mica]

so i know im prob doing something wrong but

[glacial haven]

this maybe?

[gleaming mica]

Okay thats helpful but

i think ive done something wrong to start

[glacial haven]

might be this way or another, but mostly it seems to come down to some invisible formatting being wrong

or wait, did you enter that command somewhere or just click some button in VS? because then either VS would be issuing the wrong command (which might happen when it's working based on a wrong configuration), or maybe your Git version is outdated

though I'd assume you just did a fresh install of Git, when you only started with this now?

can you do git --version on a CMD or powershell window?

mine says 2.41.0.windows.3 and I keep it updated through winget, which is usually quite fast to update for this package

[gleaming mica]

Okay, So i open Visual Studio i see this

i tried press clone repos and that where the error came from

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki/build-instructions-for-windows This is the guide im following, but im stuck at the

which is pretty much the first step 😅

[glacial haven]

but that kind of contradicts of you what you said you tried earlier

either you clone from VS

or you run that command there

did you maybe try to enter this full "git clone..." command line into the URL line when VS asked which URL to clone? instead of just the URL starting with https://?

[gleaming mica]

It doesnt contridict, cos this is exactly what im asking, i wanna know how to set up...

i need to know how to get an envrioment in order to start coding this, this is what ive been trying to ask all day (sorry if it was misunderstood)

[glacial haven]

it's not misunderstood, but you said you have VS open here

but then you said you're at step 1 on that guide

which with no word says you should open VS at this point

so why are you having VS open for step 1 and what are you trying there? 😄

[gleaming mica]

Cos i dont know

i have no idea

where do i put git clone --recursive https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio.git if not VS

This is what im saying

[glacial haven]

since this is a command, I'd try a command line

like CMD or powershell

I think the problem is that this guide assumes some basic knowledge on working with git and VS

I can imagine it's quite confusing without that 😄

[gleaming mica]

imo guides shouldn't do that. I know i sound like an idiot right now. but im not i promise. This is just completely new terrority to me and if it isnt clearly stated im just going to assume and 90% of the time i will assume wrong

[glacial haven]

it's probably meant for people who have already worked on other Git based VS projects and not as a complete guide to "how to learn programming and setup up an IDE from 0"

[gleaming mica]

But if you dont have a beginner guide how are you suppose to encourage hobbists like myself to get involved in coding things

I know its not on you to do the guides, im jsut stating a POV

[glacial haven]

I think it's ok if that is not the scope of the guide, but I'd agree that it would be good if the guide would explain its scope - I often see an introduction sentence on such guides saying something about what knowledge the guide is assuming you already have so that at least you can search that elsewhere first

and both of the guides linked here just jump right into fetching git repos and running cmake

assuming you know what that is

[gleaming mica]

I do see it from your POV. i give discord support so i know how annoying some like me is 😉 but i also understand they needs to be stepping on points for all abilities

[glacial haven]

I am quite sure there are lots of guides somewhere around how to set up VS based on some Git project, it's just nothing that's in the scope of the OBS project - and I also think it wouldn't make sense that every single project that offers source code offers the same guide on how to set those basics up

also ChatGPT might be of help here btw - not for OBS specific things, it totally sucks about that, but for basic things like letting it guide you through cloning a git project through command line

also I think it would make sense if you could try to start with something smaller - like, search a really small tool that is written in C++, can be compiled on windows with VS and is on GitHub - try to clone that from Git, get it compiled, maybe do a small change to the code and see how that affects your build

it's not the best idea to start right away with such a mighty repo as OBS

that simple stuff I mentioned there? I've done a hundred times. powershell (including scripting for it), command line in general, git command line, all no problem for me

yet I failed myself trying to setup a build environment for OBS 😄

that's really not the kind of project you want to do your first steps in

[gleaming mica]

No offense to him.... If Andilippi can create a plug in I can create a plug in. I just need to know what the step are before i start trying to write my plugin lol

[glacial haven]

I get why you want to get right into the lambo and do 300 mp/h, but seriously, ride that compact car first at 30

or accidents will happen for sure 😉

the steps are to start with something smaller, seriously

[gleaming mica]

your missing the point. I could be writing the worlds most complex plugin or the simplest plug in. The XYZ before should still be the same

I just need know the XYZ

That all i want

[spiral ruin]

Do you have any coding experience at all? Doesn't have to be plugins, just anything?

[gleaming mica]

I have coding experiance

[glacial haven]

then it should be extremely easy for you to execute some commands on a CMD window

and understand an instruction like

Set current directory to obs-studio

that it translates to executing "cd obs-studio"

[gleaming mica]

Forget it i give in

[glacial haven]

like, executing commands on a command line is 100 times easier than writing code

[gleaming mica]

im sorry

Ive been here 7 hours im now very stressed, Im goign to need to take a mental break

[glacial haven]

sure

as I said, don't use ChatGPT for OBS coding itself, but for the basic stuff it can be really helpful - and you can always ask to elaborate more on a point if it confuses you

(which you can't on a written guide you find somewhere)

[spiral ruin]

I asked only because the conversation seems to have two POVs, and a lot hinges on the coding experience you actually have vs what it is expected when someone comes in looking for documentation on how to start creating a plugin for OBS. Writing a plugin for OBS means creating something that will work with another program within specific parameters. It's a lot like saying you want to make new seat covers for your car, and you have done sewing. "Some sewing" is not the same as saying you have automotive upholstery skills.

It's not a knock against you. Most people expressing interest in creating plugins for OBS often take the official OBS documentation and can run with it right away. Some don't or can't, because they don't have the experience or training that gets them started at the guide's level. And that's okay too.

[gleaming mica]

Most of my Codign is in c# and some JS/html/css but its all done in either something like codepen or the c# is in streamerbot so while i understand teh actual "code" part i can struggle with the set up stages. Ive written DLL's and both times spend best part of a day gettign VS set up to do that

I have written a c# Darts Scorer too which was built in VS but again that took a little time to set up, but the actual code wasnt too bad

[glacial haven]

oh, then maybe you missed that message of mine? since I failed I ended up not setting up an OBS build environment, yet I officially released 3 plugins until now, written in C# 😉

because for that you don't need the OBS environment

you only need VS Code and a C# project

(obviously you need OBS as a host to run and test the plugin)

the only downside is that you cannot debug your plugin step by step without such an environment using breakpoints

but you have to decide which way you want to go now

whether my guide is easier to follow would be for you to decide, so far I only know of one other person that tested it so there is not enough feedback to know - but if you want to give it a go, there is build instructions and a full example plugin that provides an output, a filter, a source and a settings window - and a guide on how to build it: https://github.com/YorVeX/ObsCSharpExample

I need to go to sleep now, but feel free to ping me if you want to follow that way and get stuck somewhere and I will answer as soon as I got time

[gleaming mica]

Thank you ill take a look at that c# would be easier since i know that (to a degree)

[oblique yew]

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[vagrant minnow]

<@&715347355565817879> looks like a Discord invite

[spiral ruin]

#macos-support is probably a better place for problem solving instablity on the Mac.

[lilac ledge]

Apologies - I was meant to and just got a bit trigger happy!

[spiral ruin]

no worries, hope you get assistance

[lilac ledge]

Thank you @spiral ruin ! Appreciate the support 😄

[ruby lichen]

hi everyone
another crazy plugin idea to run by y'all

what if, a plugin would live transcribe what you're saying (i already showed that with CleanStream https://github.com/royshil/obs-cleanstream) and then use an LLM to create a live updating short description of what's being said, e.g. over the last 1-2 minutes
like what we have in the TV news when the bottom caption is a punchy summary of what the speaker just said

this is geared towards live streamers that want a live updating caption of what they're saying
heck it can even send this caption live to twitter/X or YT or Twitch idk...

what do you think?

and along those lines - say i built this plugin, do we have any connection with OBS streamers we can pitch it to and gain their support or trial?
this seems like something OBS community would be smart to have, to further the use of the platform.

[exotic ember]

I'm curiously listening in since I've had to build this on the AWS side (live streaming via medialive rtmp feed to an ECS task that used AWS services to transcribe, save in dynamo, then hijack the hls delivery from media package and insert webvtt files)

[ruby lichen]

so much cloud.
all this is done local on the PC now, in real time and without GPU. times they are a changing...

[exotic ember]

Haha yeah, on the cloud side it's only quick (low ms delay) if you're deploying using one of the edge networks / cell tower networks. I can't say what's a future proof solution on obs but I can share how it's being done today. Normally an RTMP stream comes in and streams via UDP to an FFMPEG process that then talks to a process via a socket (so all in memory), which then shares it with an AWS machine learning model that transcribes and returns the text which is saved to whatever you want and transmitted via a stream appropriate captioning format. For obs to do it locally you'd probably have to do something similar, my best guess architecting on the fly is a process running an ML model for voice to text, return to OBS, then dynamically inserting text

[sleek lynx]

I know how to make a single adv-ss macro a dock button, but is there a way to group multiple together?

[mortal harbor]

i have no idea if it works this way as i've never done it, but can you use a macro to trigger another macro? if so, that would be an easy way if grouping isn't supported currently.

[glacial haven]

seems so

there doesn't seem to be a way to create a dock button for a macro group

if you click the cog wheel on a macro you have this

but if you click it on a macro group you only get this

there also doesn't seem a way to run a whole macro group from this macro action, you can only run single macros

[regal breach]

prolly cause no one has requested that yet

[glacial haven]

yep, I'd think so

so I guess using a macro to run a sequence of macros and create a button for that is the best option currently, and maybe request this as a feature for a future version

I mean, macro groups already exist, we're halfway there already 😉

and that adv-ss author is nothing but a magician

certainly worth asking for this feature and maybe be surprised how fast it's added 😉

I certainly was when I asked for an HTTP request feature, it was released faster than I could actually start utilizing it 🚀

[sleek lynx]

I like where you are going, but i just need like 10 buttons, I was just hoping there was a way I wasnt familiar with to group them under 1 dock, instead of 10 loose docks

maybe a dif plugin to do this then asign adv-ss hotkeys?

[regal breach]

You should request that as well

I dont think there's any other plugin that creates docks with clickable hotkeys

You could ofc make a custom browser dock with websocket

[short lark]

I'm only guessing that it's a plugin, but does anyone know the software that makes people's cameras look like they're on a dolly? It's the effect that looks like it's being moved side to side but very likely on a static tripod.

[mortal harbor]

Are you sure what you’re referring to is an “effect”? I know quite a few people who have actual metal bars that their cameras move from side to side on.

[short lark]

This could certainly be it as well. Do you know what that device might be called by chance? Just looking to understand how to achieve the effect either way.
I presumed software because they're sitting far away from their camera and their hands are busy. So I'm guessing if it's a physical device it would have some automatic motor or such.

[mortal harbor]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/camera-sliders-accessories/ci/21012

[polar shell]

Is it possible to put buttons for that on the stream deck or related tools? I know there is software that allows you to use it from your PC or phone. I haven't looked into what options they have for that yet.

[stoic crown]

need help quickly if possible, when trying to download source record it does not work how would i manually put the plugin into obs instead of using the installer

[regal breach]

what do you mean by not working?

as for putting it manually, copy the bin and data folder (and other folders if there are) from source record and copy to obs studio folder, such that the folders are merged

[stoic crown]

i use the installer and it just still wont pop up

[regal breach]

did you restart obs

[stoic crown]

yeah multiple times

[stoic crown]

just did that and it still wont pop up

nvm needed 2 update obs

appreciate uyou

[fickle cave]

Is teleport the same or similarly equivilant to ndi?

[fossil wyvern]

it does the same thing in a different way

[fickle cave]

Perfect answer, as always. Thank you.

[fossil wyvern]

it might have some slightly different kinks or issues, I've never user NDI personally so I can't say precisely, but at its core they have the same purpose

[glacial haven]

from a practical point of view: Teleport needs less bandwidth than NDI at the expense of causing a bit higher CPU load on the sender (= gaming PC)

Teleport is only for OBS, whereas NDI is compatible with other NDI servers and clients implemented both in hardware and software variants

[flat cairn]

Is anyone aware of a plugin that could write SMPTE LTC timecode into an additional audio track in the output file (for example, track 3 on a mkv), using the recording PC's time of day as a time source?

The problem to be solved is trying to sync recorded video from multiple people around the world playing a common game. Because latency, audio, skill, etc. varies it's hard/unreliable to rely on "clapboard" techniques, and I think PC time-of-day clocks are reliable to several milliseconds when properly synced to network time

[latent gull]

Hello everyone. I am looking into getting a win/loss/tie tracker that a mod can input a command, like !Win, to adjust the counter for me without having to go into OBS inbetween matches.

[fossil wyvern]

use a text source
use a chat-obs integration tool like Kruiz-Control or streamer.bot to control the text from chat

[next moss]

this isn't what you're exactly looking for (and I really want to hear answers from other people other than my own), but perhaps you'd want to use a website like https://time.curby.net, https://time.curby.net/clock, or https://syncer.live to sync recordings? This lets you (presumably, I doubt this is as accurate as NTP but I think good enough) get an accurate reference of time outside of system clocks that have drifted seconds apart.

How I'd personally implement it is via turning a 16:9 layout into 16:10 (ex. 1920x1080, extending it to 1920x1200) and put a cropped browser source inside the new 120px space. This is not perfect, this is me translating my solution for syncing stuff but over a livestream into its really basic necessities, and this also costs a chunk of CPU when the source is active, but maybe this helps?

(also if anyone has a better solution please mention it lol)

[flat cairn]

Thanks for the reply. I left out the point that LTC timecode is natively supported by my editing tools, so timecode audio would let it "magically" sync up at edit time, which would be super-nice but possibly overkill.

Actually a graphical solution does exist (https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/rtc-timecode-generator.1301/) so even if an audio option isn't possible I could get NTP accuracy using the method you suggest, just would have to do more work. But could also stick other telemetry in that area.

[random wind]

Hello. Someone knows plugin which remove lagging from fullscreen projector mode?

[untold jay]

@random windTry the help channels, it's not supposed to lag in the first place.

[random wind]

Okay, thank you

[sleek lynx]

sigh adv-ss, I have a macro, if current scene is just chatting hide a bunch of stuff... how would I start a 2nd macro to show all the crap I hid if not on just chatting scene... I actually have it working, but using it on 2 different scenes, and they are effecting each other so I must not be 100% right

(but they work when by themselves)

[sleek lynx]

ok nm, i think i figured it out

[kind sinew]

Estou tentando fazer a integração do meu drone para transmitir aovivo para meu computador, ele tem a função de transmitir para o youtube inserindo apenas o link de transmissão, alguem tem alguma sugestão de como eu posso criar um link com o mesmo padrão do link que o youtube gera para mim???

I am trying to integrate my drone to livestream to my computer. It already has the feature to stream to YouTube by just inputting the streaming link. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can create a link with the same format as the link YouTube generates for me?

[serene echo]

Does anyone know of any good documentation for a local build process for developing OBS plugins? I've built OBS, and have grabbed the obs-plugintemplate code. I can get my plugin to build either using the github windows build script, or via cmake --preset windows-x64 . However this requires manually copying all of the built plugin files to my OBS build. Reading this comment here: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-plugintemplate/pull/21#issuecomment-1079749215 it appears that there is a way to have cmake automatically copy these files to my OBS instance. I cant for the life of me figure out how to do this. I've tried setting the OBS_BUILD_DIR value, but this doesnt seem to do what I want to accomplish. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[ruby lichen]

can you write a small .ps1 utility script that after building will copy the files to the right folder (e.g. from https://obsproject.com/kb/plugins-guide) ?
i sometime do that when i'm coding and looking to test the plugin i run a command that builds and then immediately copies the files

[wary escarp]

I think you can set CMAKE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY or something along those lines maybe?

[ruby lichen]

check if your drone has any other streaming capabilities e.g. RTSP that OBS can pick up either native or through a plugin

[wary escarp]

<@&715347355565817879>

oh well, looks like it solved itself

[serene echo]

That’s what I ended up with. Works fine for now.

[serene echo]

I tried this earlier, but it doesn’t seem to change where the built files end up.

[modern shard]

Trying to connect Mix It Up Bot to OBS Studio and did the websocket thing but port number isn't working to connect OBS Studio with Mix It Up Bot. I don't know what to do. Can anyone help?

[soft cove]

Hi, I'm trying to set up my stream after a long break, I can't get the image from my tv to show up on my computer, everything is plugged in, audio and webcam are working. I'm clearly missing something but I'm not tech savvy

[hallow vale]

!s Hi! Go to a support channel for your OS and folks can help you get all sorted

[oblique yew]

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

[potent stump]

hi, how can i set up my stream ? like what game im playing and the title ?

[ruby lichen]

You'll be best served at the #stream-setup channel

[mortal harbor]

I have a Tuna specific problem, maybe someone can help me out here. This is the extension https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/tuna.843/

Altough the plugin works fine for me, my OBS logs are FLOODED with this: [tuna] Failed to parse json response: Too many requests, Error: illegal value

Any idea how I might be able to locate and fix the problem?

[regal breach]

First, you'd want to share all your tuna settings

Screenshots

[mortal harbor]

I assume you just mean this? https://i.imgur.com/9ILQxu1.png

https://i.imgur.com/iQvBHjb.png

[untold jay]

I don't know, but "too many requests" is the exact text of a HTTP 429 error, so I'm guessing an online service blocked you. Which service exactly I don't know, but try disabling "search for missing covers" and waiting a few minutes without using Tuna.

[mortal harbor]

Once I stop tuna, the errors obviously stop too, but disabling "search for missing covers" did nothing https://i.imgur.com/36HBwJJ.png

[shy cliff]

Hi, I need advice on the podcast, I have a photo presentation made, either I put trailers for various events or maybe photos of the guests. It is made from a classic presentation and the background darkened by some percentages... I would need advice or a kick on how to do it the same way but using videos. I had the assumption that I would do it using Vlc media, but when I put all the videos there, it played one small, the other 3 times larger than the screen, etc.. is there somewhere to set the maximum dimensions and to align the videos to the center of a selection and then only on the keyboard or using streamdeku switched videos? like next video and back to previous video?

[regal breach]

select the source, then press ctrl+f

and you can assign next and previous hotkeys in Settings > Hotkeys

[shy cliff]

And should I make a presentation or solve it via VLC?

[regal breach]

vlc would work if you follow what i said. ofc you can make a presentation if you prefer. whichever you prefer

[shy cliff]

Unfortunately, I don't understand you now, I don't speak English that well. I open OBS and create a scene > then create a source > for photos there is a slideshow for video I have vlc... and should I press ctrl+f for vlc?

[regal breach]

yes. create a vlc source, add your files to it then press ok. then select the vlc source and press cmd+f (you're apparently on mac)

[shy cliff]

Ok, I will try to do it, first I do it on windows and then if I succeed, I will implement it on mac. I have the main scene on the mac but I want to have it in both. then I will let you know.

[regal breach]

btw, you could also right click the vlc source, select Transform, then click Fit To Screen (same thing as ctrl+f)

[shy cliff]

Wow, I think I have it great, thank you, I didn't know that a man could do it like that, it never occurred to me. otherwise I did everything via vlc but it threw me videos of random size... it's perfect like this... I'll finish the rest thank you

[regal breach]

great!

[shy cliff]

I have one more question, in obs I will put a full-screen preview on monitor number 2. can it be fixed somehow... Because it happens to me that when I work on monitor number 1, the full-screen preview turns off. I have it as a preview in the podcast for the guest, there are questions and so on, and sometimes it happens that the preview turns off and I have to turn it back on. I would also like to restream it via Atem to another platform, but I don't know how to do it when the full-screen projector (preview) turns off on its own from time to time. and I do not know why

[swift ruin]

teleport plugin not showing my screen on other pc any help on that

[shy cliff]

I don't know the teleport plugin?

[swift ruin]

yaa

[swift ruin]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/teleport.1445/

[shy cliff]

I'll give it a shot and see where it takes me

This is good for cross-platform Stresm when I want to stream from the other PC to another platform. but I need to have obs open on one mac and open only the image once again as a monitor on the other. I then have that on TV as a preview for the guest, there we read the news and everything that people send us on the stream... and I need that. on one PC, mac, have obs open on one monitor and send the image that is being streamed out with all overlays and so on to the other monitor...

[untold jay]

Disable firewalls on both ends, does it show then?

[glacial haven]

also make sure you have the same version of the teleport plugin on both PCs (the latest one would be 0.6.6), different versions are not guaranteed to be compatible to each other

[grave parcel]

if you put your controls in separate windows how do you get them back? i don't know what server to ask in so i will try this one.

[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).

[bright dew]

there a plugin that let's me pro-res um...encode? or did i want video format...well anyway i wanna just record straight to editing friendly codec. free if possible, i know streamfx is one and i'm thinking about buying a single month of it.

[ruby lichen]

what would be an example of a pro level editing friendly codec? maybe it can be added to OBSs internal recording codec stack

[bright dew]

i'll have to get back to that, too tired to re-learn what i'm actually talking about after a long break lol

[vivid wind]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/freefx-streamfx-fork.1754/

[bright dew]

ty

[muted pike]

https://www.twitch.tv/im_noca come and watch

[obsidian agate]

!ad remove that link please, thank you

[oblique yew]

Self-advertisement or advertisement for others is not allowed on this server unless it's directly relevant to a discussion or question. Please read the rules in the #rules channel.

[spice wing]

Hi, how can I rotate a frame in a filter? I tried using gs_matrix_rotaa4f in video_render, but it doesn't work.

[topaz finch]

I'm sure this gets asked a lot, but are there any plugins that let you quickly create a display source cropped to a specific section of the screen selected with the mouse, like XSplit?

[mortal harbor]

there is not.

[ruby lichen]

Well it looks like you're pushing and then popping the matrix without it effecting any of the rendering
Try to pop the matrix only after the effect is rendered

[regal breach]

Interesting

[wicked burrow]

why isnt win-capture-audio already an offical thing on obs??

[fossil wyvern]

because it is?

[oblique yew]

To capture only audio from specific programs:

Windows: follow the Application Audio Capture Guide
macOS: follow the macOS Desktop Audio Capture Guide

[wicked burrow]

oh. well thank you

[vale vine]

It's just not as robust as the 3rd party plugin

[untold jay]

if every "useful" plugin was shipped with obs-studio, the download size would be in excess of 500 MB, and your Sources>Add, Docks, and Tools menus would be completely packed with things you don't understand. Oh, and about 6 different popups at first launch.

Oh, and Filters too.

[silk oar]

hello

pls help im french

I have a problem with my obs

[hallow vale]

!s Hit up a support channel for your OS

[oblique yew]

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

[silk oar]

I do not understand very well I am French

[hallow vale]

Is your computer Mac, Windows, or Linux?

[lament leaf]

This server isn't the place for memes or shitposting, especially when it is not relevant to any conversation, please delete this to stay within the #rules

[solid vector]

Looking for plugins for ARM, so I can use them with obs to n an Orange pi 5

[vapid charm]

I can tell you there wont be any as the only ARM related plugins are for Mac M1/M2.

And even then OBS on that would be rather lacking in usability due to hardware "incompatability".

[regal breach]

for such niche purposes, you should try to compile the plugins you want yourself. if you were able to compile obs for pi, you are probably also able to compile the plugins yourself

[fast patrol]

Hey guys, quick question, is it possible to connect multiple media sources and have the replay buffer record only 1 of them based on the recording hot key?

[untold jay]

@fast patrol You want to run replay buffer on multiple scenes simultaneously and save them selectively with different hotkeys?

[fast patrol]

Correct

[untold jay]

I think the source record plugin can do that.

[fast patrol]

Do you have the download link for that?

[untold jay]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/source-record.1285/

Add a source record filter, rename it to something unique (important), configure encoding parameters as you see fit, set a hotkey for its replay buffer in Settings>Hotkeys, verify it actually works. Might need separate recording folders or filename formats so that files won't be overwritten.

[fast patrol]

Thanks a lot I’ll check it out 👍🏽

[heady plinth]

how do I record my screen

[mint oriole]

hey does anyone know how to make good overlays

[oblique yew]

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

[lament leaf]

You normally make one yourself, get some free ones or commission overlays from an artist.

Also this conversation is better in #stream-setup

[clear wadi]

hey so im new to obs i have a keyboard and mouse overview set up but can i see it in the game or can you only see it through obs

[untold jay]

@clear wadi obs-studio is not designed for this, but if you have multiple displays (physical or virtual, like iddSampleDriver), you could make a fullscreen projector of your composition with overlays. This is quite awkward to operate, however.

[clear wadi]

Thank you for the info i understand now

[cedar yew]

Just had defender pop up with this today

had two browser source objects pointing at https://streamelements.com/overlay/ (and their respective overlay paths) and one at https://tracker.ff6worldscollide.com

[hallow vale]

I looked up the trojan by name and found this from MS https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-defender-trojanscriptwacatachml-keeps/93ef0ec1-3170-48d6-86af-5373ff6c3cd1 Hopefully it helps you

[urban plover]

So I got the "automatic scene switcher" plugin. Any way to make sure that they switch to Google simply by pressing the app? Not having that exact window?

[digital monolith]

I keep hearing about this "replay" tool. How do I configure it?

[oblique yew]

The replay buffer is a feature that allows you to keep a rolling buffer of OBS' output for a set amount of time (known as "flashback recording"), which can be saved to disk as a recorded video when a hotkey is pressed. You can enable it via Settings -> Output.

[sonic abyss]

Is there any plugin that would allow me to autmatically change the colors under Accessibility based on certain conditions?

[digital monolith]

So start replay buffer as a hotkey starts the recording?

[fossil wyvern]

as far as I know, no. that's not exposed to the API so plugins can't change it

[fossil wyvern]

starting the replay buffer starts a "recording" except instead of saving to the disk it keeps the last X frames in ram.
Then when you press save, it dumps those frames into a video file on the disk

[sonic abyss]

damn, I don't care for it but I was hoping to use to give me a visual indicator of status while in the window its associated with..

[digital monolith]

and where does save exist? I dont see a hotkey for that?

[fossil wyvern]

you need to scroll down. "save replay"

[digital monolith]

got it. You the man/woman/person

[fossil wyvern]

also, make sure you've actually activated the replay buffer in settings > output

[fossil wyvern]

👍

[quaint latch]

Hello, I come to ask how do I install boung cat in OBS because I don't know how to do it plis

[vague mica]

So for the Transparent Twitch Chat Overlay how do I make it so when it's on the game and my OBS is capturing it as a windows to not show the yellow lines?

[vapid charm]

!yellow

[oblique yew]

When using a Display Capture or Window Capture source with the "Windows 10 (1903 and up)" method, you will have a yellow border surrounding the portion of the screen being captured. Unfortunately, this border cannot currently be removed on Windows 10.

You can try using another capture method in the source properties, but it's possible this will instead produce a black screen. We automatically disable the yellow border on Windows 11 as Microsoft allows us to.

It is only visible to you, and it will not show up on stream or in recordings.

[vague mica]

Oh because when I'm playing my game it just makes it hard to see

[glacial haven]

you could use this overlay only for yourself and for OBS use a separate one that only the viewers see, like e.g. jChat

then you don't need to capture it and don't get the yellow border

https://www.giambaj.it/twitch/jchat/ just configure, generate, and add the URL as a browser source to OBS

[vague mica]

So don't use OBS to capture it?

[glacial haven]

there is also another web based one that was recommended here a few times but I forgot the name

maybe someone else will remember

[glacial haven]

yeah, so you would use the Twitch Chat Overlay only for yourself without a capture, meaning only you can see it and not the stream - then of course you need a separate solution for the stream, which could be jChat or something similar

[vague mica]

So I did the jChat one and put the url in the OBS but the window shows blank for some reason

[glacial haven]

I think it only shows messages for a while, so you need actual chat for something to show up

[vague mica]

Wait it showed something now. I texted "Hey" in my OBS chat box thing and it popped up

[glacial haven]

yeah, only new messages will pop up and then automatically disappear again after a while iirc

[vague mica]

Idk why but the Overlay didn't show my message I typed

Wait now it's working. I think I had one of these settings on

[glacial haven]

hm, maybe, but good that it works now

there is at least one other similar one like jChat if you don't like the design/options it has, I just can't remember the name right now

it's a matter of taste, just test it for a while and if you like it, fine, if not, come back here and maybe then someone is there who remembers the other one 😄

[vague mica]

So from this, on the viewers end does it happen to or only on my OBS side?

[glacial haven]

since you're using the chat overlay I assume you only have one monitor so when playing you can't see the OBS preview window, right?

[lament leaf]

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

I sent Jill here, Jill is on a laptop and wanted an overlay for their chat that the viewers could see on the stream, but also one that Jill could type in when playing a fullscreen game.
I do not know if there is one that works like that, so I sent Jill here

[glacial haven]

oh, typing in it, I haven't seen one where that part is possible I think 🤔

[vague mica]

For my game I don't have it in full screen. I have it in windowed mode I think

[glacial haven]

I think for that you'd actually need 3 variants of the chat

jChat for a chat that the viewers (and only the viewers, not yourself) can see on stream, the overlay so that you can read the chat while playing (this on the other hand the viewers cannot see), and when you're windowed just keep a normal browser window with the twitch chat open that you can alt+tab to when you want to type something

or a client only for twitch chat like chatterino or chatty

if you're in a fullscreen game then this gets annoying, because tabbing in and out then usually takes quite long

can also be annoying with windowed mode depending on the game, e.g. some automatically pause or bring up a menu

[vague mica]

For me I'm doing Subnautica

For the jChat how do I make the chat start at the top and not the bottom?

[glacial haven]

I'm afraid it doesn't have any more options than those you see on the website where you generated it, and the start position os not one of them 😐

[vague mica]

Would these ones be better or?

[glacial haven]

these were meant only if you want a separate app you can switch to when you want to type something in chat yourself without the need to run the full twitch website in your browser for that or fiddle with a popout of it

chatty actually does have a little-known feature where it can show some separate window that can be captured to show on stream, but that would get the yellow border again

though I guess in this case not obstructing your game, so maybe it's still a better option

[vague mica]

This it?

[glacial haven]

yep

I think this is how you open it

then you get a separate "Stream Chat" window that you are supposed to capture

but don't ask me how and where it can be configured, Chatty is pretty mighty so it might need some searching in the options

[vague mica]

Is this something I need to do or?

[glacial haven]

depends on whether you need the "Some features", but I also don't know what they are so I can't tell you whether you'd be missing them 😄

you got the installer from chatty.github.io right?

[vague mica]

Yea

[glacial haven]

make sure you got the original one before you enter any sensible data like login credentials

[glacial haven]

looks good

[vague mica]

Is the dialog the one that shows the chat for OBS?

[glacial haven]

^ this one

and when my memory doesn't betray me you could configure it somewhere, I just can't find where rn 😄

things like how long it takes until the chat automatically disappears (and whether at all)

and maybe, maybe not, also the start position

[vague mica]

Like in the actual chatty program it shows chat activity but in the dialog it shows nothing. Does my steam have to be live for it to show something or?

[glacial haven]

oof, that part I wasn't aware of, apparently you configure it through commands o0

try to enter this in the input box:
/set streamChatChannels #yourchannel

https://chatty.github.io/help/help.html#streamchat you can see the commands here

those look helpful

[vague mica]

Oh there's a # before my channel name. I didn't put it in and nothing happened lol

[glacial haven]

yeah it's a bit chaotic in the twitch world, some tools need this prefix for channel names, some don't, some can work with or without

but when the documentation shows the # I guess it's needed

as long as you're testing I'd do this:
/set streamChatMessageTimeout -1

this way messages stay forever, which makes it easier to position the chat in the OBS preview

[vague mica]

I don't need the <'s right?

[glacial haven]

no, they only indicate that you are supposed to insert something there

[vague mica]

I texted the hey message and it popped up this time

[glacial haven]

ah, good, progress

now the bottom/top part

/set streamChatBottom 0 to have new chat inserted at the top, or /set streamChatBottom 1 to have it inserted at the bottom

I guess just try both variants and see what you like the most

[vague mica]

Like it looks like this, the dialog box I'll put behind my game since I don't need to see it

And the spot for me to type is in the left side at the bottom

[glacial haven]

I don't really use window capture myself anymore nowadays, does it work to actually leave the stream chat window behind the game so that you don't see the yellow border?

or does OBS force it to the front?

that would be bad 😄

I think OBS does when starting the capture, the question is, can you put it behind the game afterwards and it will stay there, or always come back to the front?

[vague mica]

Is there a way for me to hide the taskbar icon and only show in the clock area? Like how it is now the Chatty is on the next page of my task bar list

And no when I click on my game the game does in front of it

[glacial haven]

ok good, one point for chatty \o/

[glacial haven]

I don't think so, you can activate a tray icon, but that will show in addition to the taskbar icon

I need to go off now, just play around with the options and you'll get the hang of it 😉

[vague mica]

Idk why but when I text in the OBS chat thing it doesn't appear on chatty

[plucky ferry]

👍

[oblique yew]

Self-advertisement or advertisement for others is not allowed on this server unless it's directly relevant to a discussion or question. Please read the rules in the #rules channel.

[strong wagon]

i need help setting up own3d on my new pc

i have it on my laptop but wont work on my pc

[maiden sky]

hi i need help on puting a plugin inside an image and also a game on the same image to do a livestream

[fossil wyvern]

!sources
for the game use a game capture source
hat exact plugin are you talking of?

[oblique yew]

To learn about the various sources and how they work in OBS Studio, see the Sources Guide.

[maiden sky]

bongobs cat

[fossil wyvern]

did you install it?

[maiden sky]

yes

i installed it correctly

my problem is that i dont know how to put the plugin inside an image and same goes with the game

its shadowed and only shows the image

[fossil wyvern]

sources.
bongobs defines its own source, for the game, use game capture

[maiden sky]

how do i use game capture

it doesnt capture the game

[fossil wyvern]

which game?

[maiden sky]

roblox

xd

[oblique yew]

Due to a change in the way Roblox works, OBS Studio's Game Capture source is unable to capture it. As a workaround, please use Window Capture instead:

1. add a new Window Capture source
2. select Roblox from the window list
3. change the Capture Method to "Windows 10"

On Windows 10, you will see a yellow border around the game which cannot be disabled. This is not visible in your stream and can be ignored (use the `!yellow` command for more info).

[maiden sky]

i was using that

so how do i make my screen + image+ plugin visible at the same time

[fossil wyvern]

you put them in the canvas

[maiden sky]

how

[fossil wyvern]

you just add sources of each and them arrange them in the canvas so that they're all visible

[maiden sky]

thats the problem i cant put them

[fossil wyvern]

why not?

[maiden sky]

wait let me get a pic

[fossil wyvern]

sources that are above in the source list will be above in the preview

[maiden sky]

fixed but not totally

[fossil wyvern]

I cant read your mind. if there's an issue, describe the issue

[maiden sky]

srry

[fossil wyvern]

right, so, put the image below the other two

[maiden sky]

fixed it tysm!

[near plank]

There is a difference with the plugin, that the one with built-in obs DOES NOT capture EVERYTHING except the tab you want to dismiss.

audio win capture you have the option to capture EVERYTHING except something, that gives you more scope to do things.

On the other hand, obs, it will only capture the audio of an application that you select, otherwise I'm wrong.

For example, in the obs PLUGIN that comes in BETA, you cant select ALL AUDIO from desktop (game, windows sounds, etc..) and you dismiss the youtube music to discard the copy music.

It's the only thing missing from the plugin that has built-in obs

[agile prism]

any of you guys now how to reg obs studio?

[gentle swan]

is there any addon (or can I request one?) that:
will enable a Scene sharing into microsoft teams?
I am using 32:9 screen,
I know how to set up 16:9 scene,
however now I want that scene to be capturable by screenshare of ms teams,
I dont want to use witrtual camera for it cos it confuses ppl alot and in addition the quality is not so good

[fossil wyvern]

no, there's actually a few other things that are in the plugin but aren't in the builtin yet

[fossil wyvern]

what do you mean by reg

[fossil wyvern]

you tried making a projector and screensharing that?

[lament leaf]

I think they left the server. However Matty suspects they were wanting to "rename" the virtual camera so it could be detected on sites that block it. #ideas-suggestions message

[fossil wyvern]

yee, read that after 👍

[near plank]

do u think that will be an update soon for it?

i mean the obs plugin that built in it

[fossil wyvern]

as far as I know, there's plans to expand on it, cna't tell you when those changes will happen

[junior gate]

hello can someone help me with old obs Virtual Cable was working now i cant even add device Virtual Cable

[oblique yew]

Windows has privacy settings for microphones and video capture devices (primarily webcams and capture cards), which may block them from being used in OBS. If you are having issues capturing them, follow these steps to check that OBS is allowed to access them.

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Go to Privacy -> Camera for capture cards and webcams, and turn "Allow apps to access your camera" on.
3. Go to Privacy -> Microphones, and turn "Allow apps to access your microphone" on.

[drifting pulsar]

guys how can i get stream flux tiktok?

[stuck cedar]

Still having issues when streaming using the follow & zoom script/plugin it will freeze my DSLR Video Capture Device and Shutdown stream, The Crash Log Is Blank I'm not sure what to do if anyone could help it would be much appreciated

[languid sparrow]

Whenever I record my game and I check the Radeon software to see how much performance I’m getting it shows that my vsync is off yet in the game I have it on

There’s no screen tearing and everything but it’s giving me a higher fps than my monitors refresh rate

[gaunt obsidian]

Does NDI work with the latest update?

[vapid charm]

Assuming you mean v29 it does yes

[gaunt obsidian]

Yes i do. Thank you for your quick reply.

[languid sparrow]

Is this normal for OBS?

[dusky dirge]

I have a problem
obs not detecting rfactor

somebody could help me

?

[left grail]

Hey guys! Just a quick one, I used to have streamfx but now I see it is paid for. I don’t know how often I will be using it and if it can achieve what I’m after , therefore would prefer to find free option for now. I am looking for a plug in that can create projector like effect/overlay for my camera background. But only for the background around me, not on me as well. What sort of tools would I need to achieve this? This would be with the same camera / camera source.

[vale vine]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/freefx-streamfx-fork.1754/

Not sure if that does what ya need, but saw streamfx and figured I'd at least share that

[left grail]

Thank you I’ll attempt 🤗

[covert fog]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[mortal harbor]

is there like a addon for music on spotify that you can play on obs?

[regal breach]

!ac you don't need an addon to capture audio from spotify

[oblique yew]

To capture only audio from specific programs:

Windows: follow the Application Audio Capture Guide
macOS: follow the macOS Desktop Audio Capture Guide

[mortal harbor]

its not working...

[vagrant minnow]

How is it not working?

[gentle swan]

Ive read like 10 - 15 post on that, regardles of what the projector did, teams didnt see it

[regal breach]

are you on windows?

[zealous fog]

Is it possible to set OBS to name files after the recorded game/window?

[viscid geode]

im having the same issue as @mortal harbor. no matter what i try audio will not separate and keeps coming through desktop audio

[vale vine]

You need to NOT use desktop audio source and add seperate app audio capture sources for everything you want captured

!ac

[oblique yew]

To capture only audio from specific programs:

Windows: follow the Application Audio Capture Guide
macOS: follow the macOS Desktop Audio Capture Guide

[viscid geode]

ive already tried that, it still doesnt come through

[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 URL into this Discord channel

[viscid geode]

https://obsproject.com/logs/ExdmBtLXErRzlLU4

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

⚠️ Warning

• Windows 10 20H2 (EOL)

ℹ️ Info

• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i5-12600K - OK! / GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER - OK!

[vale vine]

You are still using a desktop source

Using app audio capture sources doesn't remove it from desktop. It's creating specific sources AND still going to desktop

Disable the desktop source in settings > audio

[viscid geode]

its playing audio but doesnt make it to obs

its just not coming through for some reason, only works when desktop audio is enabled. i was thinking my external sound card is causing the issue potentially but i have no idea at this point

[vale vine]

Make sure obs isn't muted or turned down in windows audio mixer

You also have spotify quite low which will affect what level it gets

[mortal harbor]

@viscid geode are you on a modified version of windows?

[viscid geode]

yes

[mortal harbor]

that is why

[viscid geode]

ah

[vale vine]

That strikes again

[viscid geode]

i have ggOS

[mortal harbor]

yeah, those types of modifications are basically just ripping out all the stuff windows needs for stuff like this to work.

[viscid geode]

is there any potential plugin or program i could use

[mortal harbor]

you could look into splitting audio with voicemeeter, they have a discord also.

[viscid geode]

i saw something about that but didnt try it yet, wanted to try and ask about it first

ill give that a go i guess

thx for the help / clerification

[viscid geode]

Update: Voicemeeter worked like a charm

[turbid plaza]

I am using the OBS plugin on the Elgato StreamDeck, does anyone know how to take a screen shot of just a game capture without it having any your overlays on it? The screenshot feature in the OBS plugin lit takes screenshot of whatever is showing on your OBS screen, i just want screenshot of the game window. I have tried using built in Windows Snipping Tool but doesn't always work after so many uses of it while live streaming. I play a Police women in a GTA FiveM RP server and were required to take photos of 'evidence' and Windows Snipping Tool works but after so many uses it starts to not open and causes delay when opening to take a snap of my game screen. Is someone may know how to help me with my issue please @ me so i get your notification reply, thank you ❤️

[spiral ruin]

The Source Record plugin may have a screenshot (source) feature, like it does for recording a specific source.

[turbid plaza]

Where can i find this plugin/source?

[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

[fossil wyvern]

with obs' next version I'll have a script to do that

[fossil wyvern]

right click the source, then click "screenshot (source)"

[mortal harbor]

oh, so this was the goal with the PRs? cool stuff.

[fossil wyvern]

!sceneswitcher
if you need it to be on a hotkey, you can do that ith adv-ss

[oblique yew]

You can use powerful macros in OBS Studio using timers, cursor detection, window detection, and more to automate switching between scenes, toggle sources, and many other options.

To get started, install the Advanced Scene Switcher plugin and see the GitHub project wiki to learn how to use it.

[fossil wyvern]

yup, amongst others.

if you're interested : https://github.com/Penwy/adv-ff

[turbid plaza]

Thank you 😊

[native crescent]

Hi, I'm developing a plugin with GUI in QT for OBS. I have trouble when doing layout for widgets. I have a qwidget with many controls in it, placed in a grid layout. It keeps a strange padding or margin different to direct controls in the gridlayout. Like this

How can I align the left most edge in and out the "container" qwidget?

[ruby lichen]

stackoverflow is your friend https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39916895/pyqt-reducing-margins-and-spacing-in-widget-expands-layout , friend

[native crescent]

I've tried setStyleSheet but it didn't work as expected. I'll try calling the method to see what it becomes.

[gentle swan]

yes mate windows 10

[dreamy summit]

Can someone assist me in setting up a Macro for Advanced Scene Switcher?

[fossil wyvern]

what are you aiming to do?

[dreamy summit]

I am looking for it to run a video for like 1 min then chage to the in game scene.

I just cant make heads or tails of this.

Basicly, I move to the scene, then it runs then auto switches to another scene after a min with out me having to hit a button on the stream deck. The Macro is set up in the basic one, but the MS is far to short for it run the whole intro video

[fossil wyvern]

is the video 1 min long, or is it a looping video that you want to loop for 1 min?

[dreamy summit]

The video is 1 min, 11 seconds and 7ms long. So about 67000ms.

[fossil wyvern]

this way, it'll switch when the video ends

[hoary oar]

AMD Encoder for OBS Studio Where can I find the best settings for

[oblique yew]

There are no "best settings." Please understand that every setup, for every use case, will be different. Any guides or videos that claim otherwise are misinforming at best.

We recommend that you start off by using Auto-Config to get a baseline of where your settings should be; click on the Tools menu in OBS, select Auto-Configuration Wizard, and then just follow the on-screen directions. You can test and adjust from there.

[hoary oar]

Is there anything to help me set the correct settings for AMD Encoder for OBS Studio

[fossil wyvern]

1 : you're in the wrong channel
2 : read the bot's message above

[dreamy summit]

Cool, let me give this a try! Thank you very much

[hoary oar]

1.what i'm asking is about a plugin
2.what the bot says and what I'm asking is not relevant

[dreamy summit]

That worked great! THank you so much ^_^

[fossil wyvern]

-unless you're on linux then it's not a plugin (in which case you really should have mentionned that)
-the bot's message is a literal andwer to your question : there's no best settings, try the autoconfig

[dense pike]

I have a third part filter that gives a CRT effect applied on a browser sources. As a bit of a response for viewer interaction, I want to change a few values in the filter for a few seconds then change it back or disable/enable it. Is there anyway I can do this?

[hallow vale]

Add the filter to the source a second time with different settings. Then you can enable one and disable the other to switch.

[obsidian agate]

you could also trigger a Move filter that adjusts the settings of the CRT filter, and then triggers another Move filters that returns the settings back to normal. That way its more of a smooth transition between the two states, instead of a hard cut between them

[haughty geyser]

i want to set up some notification or sound when i save replay, so i would know if i did everything right. how do i do it? this doesnt work. replay buffer started/saved, nothing pops up

[ancient sigil]

I have an IP server which is sending 60 jpgs a second, is there a way I can import this live stream into OBS?

[mortal harbor]

not at my compute to check but "replay buffer started" doesn't seem right...that would be when you first press "start replay buffer". it would be something like replay buffer saved.

[ruby lichen]

my URL/API source can fetch and display a jpg from an http API request (e.g if the image URL is the response of the first API call) https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/url-api-source-fetch-live-data-and-display-it-on-screen.1756/

However what you're saying sounds like a "motion jpeg" which is a valid video encoder that's supported by ffmpeg that I believe a Media source can handle

If not that - you can most very likely build a silly html page locally hosted to show the image stream and then use a browser source to get it on OBS

[vapid charm]

You can add their stuff as a browser source and not window capture.

[vapid charm]

Which you don't need

I've not used their stuff in a few years so I can't point you where to grab the link.

[ruby lichen]

is any of that information available as API endpoint? if so - consider URL/API source to show it on screen https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/url-api-source-fetch-live-data-and-display-it-on-screen.1756/

looks like its definitely available as API from YT https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/subscriptions

[vapid charm]

You don't need go do that. They have overlay links that can (theoretically at least) show that info.

Where that link is I don't know as per mynlast response.

[ruby lichen]

hi everyone!
happy to share my recent plugin work LocalVocal https://github.com/royshil/obs-localvocal
it's a real-time local AI speech transcription (no cloud/network) and soon i'll be adding more AI/LLM features like translation, auto summarization, highlights, sentiment detection etc. which would make it a live-stream AI assistant

if you use the plugin - let me know! i'll be happy to feature your work and gather your usage feedback

tutorial and code walkthrough coming soon...

(admins plz approve plugin on OBS forums 🙏 🫶 )

[swift ruin]

is there any plugin for spotify which looks good on stream

[dusky basin]

tuna?

[haughty geyser]

Doesn't work either

[fervent marsh]

The windows installer for this doesn't work right if pointed at a portable install (it installs in a subdirectory named obs-studio inside the directory with a portable install). It would be great if there was a non-installer windows download as well (just a zip)

I also can't figure out how to actually use it -- the download page mentions that there should be settings, but I don't see anything for it under the tools or docks menu (after I've put it in the right place and confirm that it shows as loaded in the log)

[ruby lichen]

Thanks for the feedback!
I'll add the .zip for windows later tonight

This is an audio filter
Add it to an audio source and you'll see the settings

[fervent marsh]

Aha! I somehow missed that it was implemented as a filter. There it is.

[vocal trail]

are there any plans to integrate kick plugins for obs so we can have a chat to look at?

[bright sapphire]

That's up to Kick to come up with an API

[mortal harbor]

i don't think there are any plans for any more integrations, i could be wrong though. as it stands kick doesn't meet the guidelines anyways.

[regal breach]

You could add their chat as a custom browser dock, no?

[mortal harbor]

i would advise against that, kick docks can prevent OBS from starting until you manually edit the global.ini to remove them.

another thing for them to fix though.

[regal breach]

Welp

[vapid charm]

If you just need to see chat this works. https://kick-chat.corard.tv/

Granted I modified the background to black since I forgot the stroke option but still

[old merlin]

Hey everyone, not sure if it's the best place to post this question, but I'm looking for a way to add an artificial delay to the stream and apply an effect to both the live feed and the delayed frames by pressing a button or some other trigger.
One specific use case is to have an emergency censorship feature when something unwanted unexpectedly shows up on the screen, so for example you have a 5 second window to press a button and blur the feed.
I've found this plugin to be close to what I want, but as far as I can tell it can't apply effects to already recorded delayed frames https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/dynamic-delay.1035/
Any advice on how to achieve something like this? Maybe there's already a plugin I'm missing.

[wraith kayak]

anyone know where i can get a overlay like this where it alway displays exact price

[glacial haven]

I think I don't understand a few points there

• you say in the recorded part, but why not just "fix it in post" if it's a recording anyway?
• wdym by "both the live feed and the delayed frames", how would they be separated? either you have a delayed feed, then you get the chance to apply a blur filter in time, or you have a live feed, no chance there whatsoever

unless you have some sort of time machine, permanently delaying the live feed is the only way to achieve this

if this situation can only occur when a certain program comes up (e.g. KeePass.exe) there was recently a discussion about a script that could automatically apply a privacy filter when such a window becomes the active window

this might be fast enough to require no delaying

but for manual intervention that gives you time, only a delay would give you that time

[mortal harbor]

I’m trying to get notifications for this https://powerchat.live/snoh to pop up on stream. I can’t figure out a way to do so. Anyone here got any ideas by looking at it how I can get it to pop up on OBS for notifications.

[ruby lichen]

You could use my URL/API source https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/url-api-source-fetch-live-data-and-display-it-on-screen.1756/ and point it at e.g https://docs.cloud.coinbase.com/sign-in-with-coinbase/docs/api-prices
I actually show this exact use case in my tutorial vid
https://youtu.be/E_UMNIfgR5w

[ruby lichen]

See above

[wraith kayak]

appreciate it

[old merlin]

By "recorded part" I didn't mean that it's a recording, this is still required for a live stream. By recorded I meant that to achieve an artificial delay, OBS needs to buffer N seconds of the live feed before sending it to the streaming service. I suppose "buffered" is a better word than "recorded" in this case. I also indeed assume that this delay will be on for the entire duration of the stream.
To make what I want to achieve a bit clearer, let's consider an example where we have a 5 second delay at 60 fps. This means that 300 frames will be buffered before being sent to the server. What I want to do is to apply a blur to these buffered 300 frames, and to all following frames which get buffered afterwards from the live feed. So basically blur everything in the buffer until the filter is turned off.

[glacial haven]

just as a little side note, if that is 4k60 stored with internal RGBA format that will need roughly 9 gigs of memory 😉

[old merlin]

Yeah, that's also an issue with existing delay/record plugins as well it seems

[glacial haven]

I don't know how to do it within one OBS, maybe someone else has an idea, but since I am working a lot with OBS2OBS transfers my idea would be to run 2 OBS instances - delay everything on OBS 1 before sending it out to OBS 2 - and then your panic key toggles a filter/source hide/scene switch on OBS

that's how I have it set up and it's working, but I had a setup with multiple OBS instances anyway so didn't really have to think about other solutions

[old merlin]

I considered that it's fairly straightforward to do with 2 PC streaming setup, but can you actually run more than one OBS instance on one PC?

[glacial haven]

I am quite sure there is no plugin for that - such a plugin would need to buffer the frames (just like the existing delay filters), but when the panic key is toggled apply an effect retroactively to the frames that are already in the buffer

technically can be done, but I think it doesn't exist yet

[spiral ruin]

Sounds like the TV version of a 'dump' button.

[glacial haven]

yes you can, but it will have a considerable resource usage impact on the PC

[glacial haven]

yeah, that's pretty much what it is

I'm actually surprised that noone has written such a plugin already, I am sure there is demand for it

but maybe same problem like me, no time 🤷‍♂️

(which means other priorities 😛 )

[spiral ruin]

It seems to come up as a desire/request once a or twice a quarter. Short of having two pcs dedicated the original stream and the other being a delay buffer... Just not sure how else to do it.

[glacial haven]

as I said, can also be done within one PC with 2 OBS instances, but the machine needs to be beefy enough to run that

[alpine nexus]

hello, good, a query, download the audio-monitor 0.8.3, and with Norton Security marks me as dangerous, is it safe? and if it is, how do I download it?, is that it does not let me

[old merlin]

Well, it can be an idea for someone for the future. In the meantime, I'll try the 2 OBS approach and see if my PC explodes

[glacial haven]

I guess for programming/art or other streams that are not gaming content and need to squeeze out as many fps of a game as possible that's a viable solution, but for gaming streams not so much

[glacial haven]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/audio-monitor.1186/ as long as you got it from the official source here it should be fine, AV solutions tend to have false positives

[old merlin]

The need arose from streaming retro games where you don't know the adult rating without playing through the entire thing beforehand, so games in question are not that demanding

[glacial haven]

ah, in that case you might be lucky that it works out

[alpine nexus]

Yes, I download it from there, but the problem is that the antivirus does not let me install it, is there any solution?

[glacial haven]

that would be a question for your AV solution support - usually the solutions have an option to add exceptions

I'd say scan their help & support pages for an explanation on how exceptions can be added

[alpine nexus]

Okay, thank you very much :D

[glacial haven]

since its on topic I guess that little self-advertisement is OK, I am actually the author of a plugin that can do a raw transmission between OBS instances through named pipes so unlike with NDI or Teleport you don't need to waste CPU resources on compression (which also loses a bit of quality, albeit usually not visible)

Spout can also do this, but it is video only so you'd need to find a separate solution for audio

you could use spout, delay it by 5 seconds on OBS 1, and capture audio on OBS 2 and delay it by 5 seconds there, but I am quite sure that won't get you a stable A/V sync

[old merlin]

Is your plugin available somewhere? I'd love to try it

[glacial haven]

just click my discord profile here

it has a link to the stuff I released

[old merlin]

Cool, will check it out tomorrow, thanks

[glacial haven]

sure, feel free to ping me when you got any issues

for retro games I'd also assume you don't need it to be 4k60, so the memory footprint for buffering the frames should be lower 😛

also 5 seconds sounds long, I guess 3 might also give enough time to react to "surprise nudity" 😛

and for the 2 OBS setup in general, you probably want to run one of the instances or maybe even both in portable mode

I wonder...

!portable

[oblique yew]

Portable Mode allows the program to save and access configuration data from the program's base folder. To enable portable mode:

1.) Install/unzip to a custom directory outside of "C:\Program Files (x86)" or "C:\Program Files"
2.) Then either modify its shortcut with the --portable or -p command line parameter, or create a blank text file named "portable_mode.txt" in the base installation/unzip folder.

[glacial haven]

ah, there it is

[haughty geyser]

What does "system tray notification" does? Mine doesn't work

[alpine nexus]

A question, that version of the audio-monitor, serves for the latest version of OBS?

[obsidian agate]

the latest version of Audio Monitor, v0.8.3, was released on August 8th. it works with the latest version of OBS, which is v29.1.3 (released in June)

[feral fiber]

Hey Everyone 😄 i was just wondering if anyone might know any good videos for how to set up the dramatic zoom effect? ive got one set up but it doesnt stay there it pans back out.. maybe there is a way i can modify it im not too sure 😄 thanks in advance

[pseudo tangle]

to Hi everyone, can you share any documentation on how I can add a payment gateway to OSB ? to be able show the donations during the streaming ?any best practices? I mean to add a custom payment channel or gateway. to

[analog ruin]

There isn't really any way to do this. OBS has nothing to do with payment processing or servers. What you're looking to make does not really integrate in any way with OBS besides just a web browser showing some text. Existing services like streamElements or streamlabs have server solutions and deals in palce with payment processors etc.

So yeah, not much we can provide there. Once your solution is complete, you can provide users with a way to show a webpage (browser source) in OBS that contains the information you want

[pseudo tangle]

@analog ruin thanks for reply. much appreciated. just to double-check. if a streamer is using the OBS software how they show the different progress bars or ongoin chats or some popup during the streaming? this is not related to OBS , can you give me a more details plzzz.

[severe grove]

I'm having an issue with a source in a nested scene. I have my webcam scene and it have some images on it with a move transition filter on those sources. When I enable the visibility of the filters they move just fine, but in my streaming scene, where the webcam scene is a nested source, the images don't show up when the filter is made visible. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just not something that can be done?

[vale vine]

You'd use an existing service like stream elements, which can handle things like donations and provides overlays(the tracking bars, etc) that get inserted into obs as browser sources.

[pseudo tangle]

@vale vine thanks

[haughty geyser]

how to rename audio tracks?

[regal breach]

https://superuser.com/questions/834244/how-do-i-name-an-audio-track-with-ffmpeg

[haughty geyser]

ok, thanks

seems like there is no way to do it inside obs

[vale vine]

Renaming them in obs doesn't translate to all programs reading the tracks

VLC I believe reads properly how they get named in obs

[untold jay]

Settings>Output>Audio, not all applications will show the track names you type in there.

[haughty geyser]

oh, that helped, thanks

[zinc yarrow]

I cant find the download for StreamFX anywhere, can anyone direct me to where the download link is?

[hard jay]

The author doesn't provide public builds at the moment, you have to subscribe to their patreon to get downloads. There's a fork available called FreeFX

[zinc yarrow]

I would have purchased it but I really dont want to subscribe to patreon

[vale vine]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/freefx-streamfx-fork.1754/

[zinc yarrow]

Nice got the blur plugin I needed so I can properly create a chat blur/

[haughty barn]

does anyone know a compatible version of bongocat plugin to obs?

cuz i tried the 2020 one, and it simplu doesnt work with it

[wraith kayak]

why when i run the installer it doesnt pop up in my obs

[ruby lichen]

There could be many reasons. First - are you running OBSv29+? Do you run portable or regular OBS?

[wraith kayak]

how do i tell

[ruby lichen]

Are you looking for the source in the right place? Also let's see the !logs

[wraith kayak]

should be here right?

[ruby lichen]

Yep. It's not there so the install wasn't successful.

[wraith kayak]

then what do i do

[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 URL into this Discord channel

[ruby lichen]

Running Windows?

[wraith kayak]

yeah

https://obsproject.com/logs/aduoefyI3YJRPluO

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

⚠️ Warning

• Old Version (27.1.3)

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 - OK! / GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER - OK!

[ruby lichen]

Let's have a look at the logs

Alright you're running OBSv27
This plugin needs v29+

[wraith kayak]

how 2 update

[ruby lichen]

https://cdn-fastly.obsproject.com/downloads/OBS-Studio-29.1.3-Full-Installer-x64.exe

Just install the latest

[wraith kayak]

ahh

i see

@ruby lichen do you know if there is a way to get rid of the decimal

and change the font

[ruby lichen]

That was a quick turnaround! 😄

You can send the results to a Text source and there it's easier to control fonts etc
The built in rendered can be control with CSS so font-family can be used to change fonts

[wraith kayak]

ah got the font

[ruby lichen]

The decimal.. unfortunately I don't think there's a very simple way to get rid of it... Let me think a moment

[wraith kayak]

wait i have an idea

just looks weird though

and if the number changes it cuts it off

[mortal harbor]

hi

[ruby lichen]

🤔
This is a tough one.

Can you, for argument sake, try a html template like: <input type="number" value="{output}" />

[wraith kayak]

idk what that means 😭

im a little dumb

[ruby lichen]

On the bottom in the source settings there's a place to put the render template inHTML

[wraith kayak]

paste that?

it crashed my obs

[ruby lichen]

🤣

Beta plugin... Thanks for testing!

[wraith kayak]

it removes everything overall

[ruby lichen]

Yes I doubted it would work. The input element... I'm not sure it can render it

[wraith kayak]

so theres nothing i can do?

[ruby lichen]

If you're going for BTC price - maybe a different API would give it with less digits?
At least until I bring up a way to parse floats

[wraith kayak]

where can i find the api

cuz i need one for eth aswell

[ruby lichen]

There are probably dozens of BTC ticker APIs.. let me find an option

[wraith kayak]

alright

[ruby lichen]

https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json

But also 4 digits..

[wraith kayak]

thats the one i used b4

for some reason

its not working all of a sudden

[ruby lichen]

Any edits to the API request or the CSS/HTML?

[glacial haven]

I guess the next feature request would be RegEx support to be able to do some parsing 😉

[ruby lichen]

regex parsing already supported! just.. not after the JSON parsing
it really would never end won't it, chaining parsers
there may be another more generic way like setting the "output type" to e.g. "string", "float", "int", etc. and then the array[] variants of these primitives
but that's a lot of work

[glacial haven]

it would make sense after the json parsing though, it's a use case more common than you would think, e.g. I use it a lot in Rainmeter for similar things (actually in one case even for the exact same thing, I got some bitcoin widget here where I also wanted to get rid of decimal places)

[ruby lichen]

That's a solid feature req.
I can add it fairly easy

[glacial haven]

yeah I would think so, especially when you say you already have it before the json parsing

[wraith kayak]

nah

[meager river]

if i start streaming to kick from twitch is there a way to reset the over lay or do i need to re do it entirely?

[vapid charm]

That depends on how the overlay was made.

If it includes certain things (like alerts) designed for a platform specifically then yes.

Otherwise it makes no difference.

[haughty geyser]

my "system trayt notification" argument doesnt work at all, what that could be? how it should look?

[vapid charm]

Sounds like something for #support-portal

[haughty geyser]

but its macros for plugin isnt it?

[vapid charm]

No....?

[haughty geyser]

yes?

i thought its a plugin

[vapid charm]

that is a plugin yes.

However your wording was like the OBS startup option which is totally different.

[haughty geyser]

so, im talking about that

[vapid charm]

And that would be a thing for this channel.

I'll leave it for those that understand it more than I do.

[haughty geyser]

i just wanna know when i saved replay, maybe there is another way to do it?

[mortal harbor]

hi, i'm trying to apply a image mask on droidcam but it doesn't work even though the preview works. i want to mask the webcam so the corners are rounded and can fit in my overlay. how should i go about doing this?

masking works in droidcam obs preview and other sources work except for droidcam obs

[wraith kayak]

@ruby lichen do you know where i could get an eth api aswell?

[ruby lichen]

Yes one moment

[wraith kayak]

i found one

but idk how to set it up

this pops up

and it also has like 10 numbers after decimal

[ruby lichen]

Setup JSON parser
Use /data/amount

[wraith kayak]

do you think theres any way to get rid of decimal

its way to long

[ruby lichen]

I'm have to implement something.. not a big project..

[wraith kayak]

alright

[ruby lichen]

i'll have a test version of the plugin ready in a few moments

[wraith kayak]

thanks :3

[ruby lichen]

please try the artifact from https://github.com/royshil/obs-urlsource/actions/runs/5883293219 for windows you get a .zip and an installer

i've added a "post parsing" regex formatter

[wraith kayak]

wait wheres the new download

im bad at github

[ruby lichen]

this for example is what i used to get just 2 digits after the decimal pt

[ruby lichen]

look down at the "artifacts" section

[wraith kayak]

theres no download button anywhere

im confused

[ruby lichen]

here's windows: https://github.com/royshil/obs-urlsource/suites/15162087102/artifacts/866443152

this will download a .zip and inside it you have a .exe installer

[ruby lichen]

wtf

i think you must be logged on to GH to get this.
but i can make a new release and make the artifacts downloadable publicly

it should only be a few minutes and the new release will publish

[wraith kayak]

yeah i dont have an acc

ok i got it

what do i change to get rid of the decimal

[ruby lichen]

in the "output regex formatter" i used somethign like ([\d,]+\.\d{2})
but if you want to zap the decimal at all ([\d,]+) would suffice

[wraith kayak]

works

thanks a lot

@ruby lichen another question how do i do a specific font from a font family?

oh and everytime i restart obs it turns into random signs do you know how to fix that?

[glacial haven]

this should work, but you need a tray icon to begin with - so in OBS options:

I would make a nice red circle around the [X] Enable checkbox, but I am using this cutting edge beta software called windows 10, which in the last update broke the embedded screenshot feature so that it only works once per session

also, if you didn't have it enabled before you need to restart OBS before the icon appears

[jaunty night]

hi, i found this cool shader on shadertoy that i would love to use on my stream as i'm looking to have a VHS aesthetic i downloaded it using the Shadertoy Plugin but it downloaded as a JSON file

is there a way to use shadertoys shaders on OBS using Shaderfilter Plus or User-defined Shader ?

shader link : https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tsfXWj

i dont want to use an overlay as i'd like an authentic effect and this one is really close

[haughty geyser]

i have all 3 checks here

icon is here, but there s no notification

[glacial haven]

then I don't know, works fine here as long as the tray icon is there - are you sure your Condition is actually triggered?

like, use a run action instead with notepad.exe and see whether that is opened when you would also expect the tray notification

[glacial haven]

afaik there is no way to use them 1:1 in OBS,a little conversion is always needed - there was someone here who did this from time to time with various shaders, but I forgot who 😛

I also have a mate who converted some for me, dunno whether the VHS shader was one of them, there might be a slim chance, if I don't forget I can check tomorrow

also not all of them can be converted

actually, I should have them on my cloud storage accessible via Smartphone, gimme a sec

I think that one is for the original shaderfilter plugin, not the plus one, also got not the slightest idea whether it is want you were looking for, i can only go by the name of the file and not test it myself right now, use at your own risk

others I don't have anyway

[jaunty night]

it's a glitch / chromatic aberation shader

[glacial haven]

well, sorry then, found only this in the folder

[jaunty night]

not what i'm looking for unfortunately

with some experimentation i manage to get this result but it's more of a CRT effet than a VHS one :/

[glacial haven]

hehe, but also looks quite nice

[civic heath]

Does anyone know if you can teleport the vertical plug in layout to vertical plug in on another computer

[viscid patrol]

Multiple RTMP outputs plugin not letting my stream to twitch and kick at the same time

[haughty geyser]

this should work?

[pulsar breach]

I was able to install the ndi plug in for obs, but it's not showing up in the drop down menu. Any ideas as to why?

[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 URL into this Discord channel

[pulsar breach]

https://obsproject.com/logs/tBigSOMQJIDerFkp

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• macOS 12.6 (OK)
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (1)
• No Scenes/Sources

Hardware Check

Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz - OK! / Intel Iris Xe - Possible bottleneck

[pulsar breach]

I did try to install these

[regal breach]

https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi/releases

Get the latest here

That ndi runtime is outdated

[pulsar breach]

Still not showing up

[regal breach]

Did you install both the one in the assets and the runtime?

That's two installers

[pulsar breach]

I installed the package for MacOS

Is there something else I should install?

Sorry I'm not the most literate when it comes to this

[regal breach]

https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi/releases/download/4.11.1/obs-ndi-4.11.1-macos-universal.pkg
And this
https://github.com/obs-ndi/obs-ndi/raw/d462e9f83f0e06837a83331b1f71053b2132e751/runtime/libNDI_5.5.3_for_Mac.pkg

[subtle crown]

i need help with the advanced scene switcher

to download it

any hel?

help

[pulsar breach]

Okay great. I got the first one installed but my Mac won't let me install the 4.11

[subtle crown]

im trying to install the pkg but i cant find it

[pulsar breach]

Never mind got it

[subtle crown]

do you think you could help?

@pulsar breach

[pulsar breach]

Sorry I cannot

[subtle crown]

do you know who i can sk?

[bright sapphire]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/advanced-scene-switcher.395/

[subtle crown]

idk where i can find the pkg to download

it

[pulsar breach]

Woo it works now. Thank you so much!

[bright sapphire]

Click on the **Source Code URL
**

[subtle crown]

click the link ok

im there now

what do i do next

[bright sapphire]

on the right hand side

[subtle crown]

ok

[bright sapphire]

Follow the steps provided then select the appropriate installer

[subtle crown]

ok

but how do i know which one i need

[bright sapphire]

what OS are you using?

[subtle crown]

ventura

[subtle crown]

13.4.1

[bright sapphire]

The MAC OS .pkg then

[subtle crown]

theres so many

advanced-scene-switcher-linux-x86_64.deb
84.6 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-linux-x86_64.zip
153 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-macos-arm64.pkg
20.6 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-macos-arm64.zip
24.5 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-macos-universal.pkg
30.2 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-macos-universal.zip
38.5 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-macos-x86_64.pkg
35 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-macos-x86_64.zip
52.8 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-windows-x64-Installer.exe
41.4 MB
last week
advanced-scene-switcher-windows-x64.zip
68.9 MB
last week
Source code
(zip)
last week
Source code

[bright sapphire]

Either
advanced-scene-switcher-macos-universal.pkg
30.2 MB
or
advanced-scene-switcher-macos-x86_64.pkg
35 MB

I'm not that familiar with MACOS

[subtle crown]

oh ok i will try

it doesnt let me open it

it says it dangerous

[bright sapphire]

That's a false positive from your AV

[subtle crown]

what is that

[mortal harbor]

this is normal. you need to right click the file and click open.

[subtle crown]

omg tysm

i thought i just had to doubble click

[bright sapphire]

Thanks Yolo - was at the end of my MAC knowledge 🙂

[subtle crown]

but idk what to do next i downloaded something

delete or no

[wary escarp]

Doesn’t matter

[wary escarp]

In case you’re interested, this is because the plugin isn’t properly signed and/or notorized (doing so required a 100$/year Apple developer account so not many OBS plugin devs do it). macOS really doesn’t like non-signed or non-notorized executables and installers, which is why you need to go through those hoops.

[subtle crown]

what do i do next after

[wary escarp]

You close and reopen OBS

[subtle crown]

ok ty

[subtle crown]

ok its opend now what

@bright sapphire ty for helping me too

[wary escarp]

The plugin should be loaded. You can check under Tools

[subtle crown]

im supposed to have more tabs

[subtle crown]

right?

[wary escarp]

You're not, everything in the plugin is a "macro" now

[subtle crown]

ok

how would i switch the scenes

[wary escarp]

You create some sort of macro. This is where my knowledge of the plugin ends, someone else will have to help you there (or you check some up-to-date guides on the internet)

[subtle crown]

oh ok

ty for helping me

@wary escarp @bright sapphire @mortal harbor ty for helping

[regal breach]

Welcome!

[jaunty timber]

are there any plugins that can fix this? it seems to be a color issue and not a setting issue

[jaunty timber]

scratch that accidently had chroma on