plugins-and-tools

[naive flame]

The cpp toolchain is a bit ugly. And the language is a bit ugly. And the compilers can be quite ugly. Other than that it's fine though. Give it a try!

[naive flame]

Seems like the advanced masks plugin uses CPU to do its masking. I looked around and it seems like game capture can recognise transparency? I think some VTuber apps make use of that. It has to be cheaper to send a source with alpha to OBS, right?

[mortal harbor]

i don't think it is advisable to use game capture for this anymore, although i am not really privy to the vtuber scene at all i'm fairly certain most allow for and suggest sending data through the spout plugin rather than game capture now.

[naive flame]

orly? I did see that but assumed game capture would be solid. What's the issue with it, if you know?

[mortal harbor]

not sure exactly what issues people were running into but i know this change was made for a reason....at the very least it is messy to have multiple game capture hooks which would be the case in most of these setups.

[naive flame]

Hmm, I was thinking of bundling everything into one app to be captured. I wonder how hard it would be to make a new source capture that can be fed a frame with alpha information

[mortal harbor]

spout2 exists for that already though?

[naive flame]

Windoes only and also no Vulkan captures unless the OpenGL captures are compatible with that

[ocean cliff]

@calm elm Perhaps relevant to your interests
https://obsproject.com/tools/browser-drag-and-drop

There are similar problems we have with the text source and it's why it defaults to a really large font size now heh

Ultimately it's an architectural quirk of being able to have multiple scene item copies of a source

[fossil wyvern]

I remember someone making a script to change browser source size based on sceneitem size, but that's really not good UX and a very bad idea all around

[ocean cliff]

Exeldro has an open PR to add a browser js binding for it, and I'm somewhat opposed to that approach
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-browser/pull/423

[untold jay]

I think this is an issue of education, and it'd be good to have an offline HTML help file describing what each source type does upon pressing F1.

[ocean cliff]

I am in fact actively discussing alternate solutions to this problem with some other project members as we speak heh

[calm elm]

I already use this but I think most people just copy the link anyway :(

[ocean cliff]

[ocean cliff]

As a UX nit, maybe set pointer-events: none; on the iframes

The frame area isn't draggable atm

[calm elm]

Yeah it's fixed in dev

I broke it two days ago lol

[craggy drift]

hi, I'm trying to get droidcam to work with the 30.1.1 release of obs, but I can't find "droidcam" under resources.

[fierce sphinx]

So glad that you didn't delete the links, lol

[limber leaf]

Not sure if this is the correct room for this (if not I'll repost to appropriate place). I'm wondering if there's a plug-in or tool (or existing setting) for games with in-game time. I want to be able to split and pause the timer simultaneously so I don't have to type in times manually during runs. Anything like available? Or even a workaround?

[hard jay]

You mean like livesplit?

I think most people just use livesplit for that

[limber leaf]

I am using livesplit, but pausing won't necessarily split, and thus need two buttons. But mapping them the same would cause some issues with starting runs though?

Oh, damn, I'm in the OBS room, haha. I'm a dork. Nevermind.

[odd urchin]

so i haven't found much on this, but here's something I'd love to figure out how to do. In a blank scene I have my camera scene scaled down about 50% and aligned to the bottom of the frame. I have Face Tracker which does a great job at following my face in a standing position as I walk from side to side. I would love to somehow use the face tracker information and it apply the movement to the camera source (which is a scene) so it would exaggerate to the left and right as I paced side to side. Hope that makes sense. I have Move installed but not sure if they can communicate like that? Thanks in advance!

[mortal harbor]

something like this? https://x.com/exeldro/status/1648351748405227520

that is just an example, not exactly what you are saying. but the NVIDIA AR move filter sounds ideal for this if you have a 20/30/40 series NVIDIA card.

[odd urchin]

TYTYTY!

[desert plaza]

are there any good free easy to use plug ins i can use for my live streams on youtube?

[hallow vale]

It really depends on what you want them to do. Any ideas?

[obsidian agate]

plugins usually have a specific use case because the streamer has a need

there isnt any that are really -just- for a streaming service, many are used for any service, or even just for local recordings

[desert plaza]

I have a cryptocurrency channel on youtube with 42k subs i really want to get into live streaming with OBS but im still getting started

is there a good website for stream customization

[hard jay]

Typically you want to have an idea in mind what you're trying to do.

[desert plaza]

ahh so its more plug and play

[obsidian agate]

as Fen said, you have to have some idea of what you want to do with the stream first, something solid that you can ask about. Your current question is very generalized and doesnt focus on anything really, other than "what plugins are there".

if you want to have a ticker scrolling at the bottom of the screen with crypto prices, there are ways to do that, but it requires a lot of configuration depending on where the data is coming from, etc

[covert notch]

I've seen both Shaderfilter and Advanced Masks used for rounded corners of sources such as camera and gameplay. Is one better to use for it over the other?

[mortal harbor]

no

[covert notch]

Any idea if one is more resource intensive than the other? Specifically if only really using for that functionality?

[mortal harbor]

i doubt you would ever notice any difference, that is why i said no.

[covert notch]

Fair enough. I had tried using Stroke-Glow-Shadow to do drop shadows for sources that change shape in different scenes, but found it had a pretty noticeable impact on rendering. Anyone know something I might have been doing wrong with a setting or an alternative other than creating each drop shadow as a static png to match each of the forms?

[obsidian agate]

• Source Clone (plugin) -> make a clone of the source you need the shadow of. Use Source Clone to make a smaller version of the source
• Color Correction (with OBS) -> make the clone completely black
• Stroke-Glow-Shadow (plugin) -> add a little extra black border/stroke around the clone.
• Blur (multiple plugins available) -> blur the source using Dual Filtering option, not much is needed
• manually resize the cloned source in the OBS preview and place it behind the origional source

the blur filter has less impact bluring a smaller, all black version of the source, and the stroke gives the shadow more thickness than the original source if that is needed

[covert notch]

I had gotten it to make shadows easy and they looked great. Just had a noticable impact on rendering/gpu

[obsidian agate]

yeah, it can happen, since its trying to make a shadow potentially from a large source. Shrinking a clone of the source makes a blur filter not have to do as much work

ive been coming up with a ton of optimization tricks when it comes to different effects

[covert notch]

Does all this provide less impact than just the "Shadow" filter set to outer shadow?

[obsidian agate]

it can, since again, its generating a lower resolution blur that still looks good

it really depends on the overall use-case though

i have a break screen where you can still see the game capture, but it is blurred. The capture is a source clone of the original capture at 1/3rd the size, blurred, and then resized back up in the OBS preview to appear to be the original size. The blur process is low impact since it is effecting a 1/3rd the size capture instead of the original 1080p one

[covert notch]

Primarily use them for the cam and when game capture isn't full screen. I use move transition to handle moving the sources, activating rounded corners on resized source, as well as 3d effect. Drop shadow/outer shadow helps it have depth, but having a separate one for each is a huge pain.

I've been experiencing really high gpu impact recently and have been troubleshooting the cause with limited success. But trying to reduce the impact of my design decisions where possible.

[obsidian agate]

i recently rebuilt my whole scene collection from the ground up using many of the optimization tricks ive learned or came up with, and its been great so far. Portable Mode has helped a lot with that as well

[covert notch]

I'm not familiar with portable mode.

[obsidian agate]

!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.

[obsidian agate]

basically, all of OBS (minus media files you use in your scenes), is stored in a single folder, rather than being directly installed. You can move it to another drive, USB, etc.

I use it to have multiple, excapsulated copies of OBS. Production copy, Testing copy, Beta testing copy, extra backups, etc

this month i started making daily backups of my OBS portable copy before I stream. takes maybe 20 seconds, saves in an uncompressed ZIP file on another drive, and if anything happens during stream, i have multiple backups to recover from

[covert notch]

In OBS Mult RTMP, which one of the Nvidia Nvenc H.264 is the same one that is used in the output settings in obs itself?

[hallow vale]

The jim_nvenc

[vapid charm]

I'm thinking of doing some fun NDI things on Monday for the eclipse but want a sanity check to make sure what I think I need to do is it.

I've got the NDI HX app on mobile (was lucky to get that for free a while back) so I figured that may be a bit nicer to work it via NDI than trying to stream directly.

Is the only other bit I'd need is the NDI runtime on the desktop PC and only need to select the device from the source properties?

[solar dust]

If NDI Windows runtime is similar to the Linux one, libndi might want FFmpeg 4.4 libraries to enable NDI|HX.

But maybe it already installs it, idk much of the Windows side of NDI.

[vapid charm]

!ndi

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio has an NDI plugin available, which can be found here: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/528/

For additional support and discussion, visit the obs-ndi Discord

[eager jungle]

why does my recording lags when i record at over 60fps?

i used to record in 120fps in the same pc

[vapid charm]

!s

[oblique yew]

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

[valid ridge]

say

[craggy drift]

hi, I'm trying to get droidcam to work with the 30.1.1 release of obs, but I can't find "droidcam" under resources.

[knotty garnet]

can anyone help me with input overlay the overlay config keep bugging or smh

pingme if can

[hallow vale]

Are you looking on the OBS website under resources? Or somewhere else?

[craggy drift]

I looked in the OBS app on my Windows PC

[hallow vale]

Check on the website for droidcam. You may need to reinstall the plugin stuff to get their latest version

[craggy drift]

a, tanks. found it!

[knotty garnet]

can u help me?

[hallow vale]

👍

[hallow vale]

I don't know. Maybe. How is the input overlay buggin exactly?

[knotty garnet]

k so

this bit when ever i attach the file to it the overla doesnt show

[hallow vale]

The file doesn't even show in that field?

[knotty garnet]

and i have to click all files to even see the file

[knotty garnet]

it does when i click all files

[hallow vale]

Okay, then what happens?

[knotty garnet]

after i press this file to attach it with

this file

[knotty garnet]

after when i attac tht file this turns to

this

[knotty garnet]

do you think it's because the file type is wrong or something like that?

[hallow vale]

Give me a few to load mine up to check

[knotty garnet]

alr tyy :D

[hallow vale]

So the image file is correct in your screenshot, but the config file needs to be the .json from the presets zip file. You downloaded that one?

[knotty garnet]

is the file i tryna attach not json? if not can u show me how to turn it into json

i downloaded this one dk if this helps if want me to do i can find the link of the github page i downloaded it from

[hallow vale]

The one you have there is .ini.

You need the presets file. Unzip it somewhere you can find it easily

[hallow vale]

That's not the same name as the input overlay official downloads. Was it named that when you downloaded it?

[knotty garnet]

this is the one i downloaded can u show me the correct download button?

https://github.com/univrsal/input-overlay/releases/tag/v4.8

[hallow vale]

Ah, that's a pretty old version. Uninstall it.

The correct one is here https://github.com/univrsal/input-overlay/releases/tag/v5.0.4

You need both files from my picture

[knotty garnet]

k tyy

[knotty garnet]

No way tysm bro i legit spend 3 hours tryna fix and u did for me tysm it wroked :D

[hallow vale]

YW! Glad I could help figure it out. I wasn't really sure if I could haha

[knotty garnet]

lol

cya!

[hallow vale]

later!

[woeful pulsar]

hey, was wondering if the plugin obs-teleport has any malicious malware on it (as dumb as it sounds), i put it through https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0b01de2f3b9d997dabbe0655b92ca971efb5151c752cbaee2049089542695e7d, and was wondering they are just false positives, here is the link of the plugin in question https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/teleport.1445/

[untold jay]

@woeful pulsar Unsigned applications will almost always trip 2~5 detections from some a/v products, that doesn't mean they're malicious.

[woeful pulsar]

that's exactly what i thought, but i am not that deep into coding so wanted to make sure

[vapid charm]

Should also note updates are manually approved before forum visibility.

[woeful pulsar]

even if it links to the github site?

[vapid charm]

The post more or less is "deleted" if an update is pushed.

It "returns" when approved.

But that's only what I've gathered from reading in the server.

[woeful pulsar]

alright wish me luck 🫡

[swift anchor]

my input overlay isn't showing the inputs I'm making

I ran the exe installer

[hallow vale]

Did you also download the presets file and unzip it?

[swift anchor]

yeah

[hallow vale]

Can you show me the properties of the input overlay source to check? (double click the source to open)

[hallow vale]

While in this screen, it doesn't show the inputs you make?

[swift anchor]

yeah

[hallow vale]

Interesting, it says version 5.0.5 but the latest seems to be 5.0.4. Where did you download this one from?

[swift anchor]

https://github.com/univrsal/input-overlay/releases

[hallow vale]

Try changing to the wasd-minimal.json config and see if that works

[swift anchor]

that didn't work

[hallow vale]

I was unable to get this preset working on my own system. I see you have options I don't, though. Are you using a two PC setup?

[swift anchor]

what do you mean 2 pc setups?

[hallow vale]

It means gaming on one PC and streaming with the other. Probably not in your case then

[swift anchor]

yeah

[hallow vale]

!log Let's see if a log helps

[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

[swift anchor]

https://obsproject.com/logs/VUFsQ0agePTqnJtY

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Old Version (29.1.3)
• Windows 10 Game DVR

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 3 5425U - OK! / Ryzen 3 4300G with Radeon Graphics - Possible bottleneck

[hallow vale]

Check this setting from the Tools menu input overlay settings. I found it was disabled by default. Need to be checked. Then restart OBS

The extra options were from the websockets server tab. You can uncheck that since you aren't using two PCs

[swift anchor]

I have that option enabled

[hallow vale]

!admin Try launching OBS as admin

[oblique yew]

Certain games or applications will require OBS Studio to be run with elevated privileges (Administrator) in order to be captured. Running as administrator may also improve OBS performance when gaming.

To run as administrator, close OBS Studio, then simply right click the OBS Studio shortcut and select Run as administrator.

[swift anchor]

that didn't work

[hallow vale]

Did you turn off the websocket server bit too?

[swift anchor]

that didn't work

I got it to work

[swift anchor]

I had to disable the enable input control

[hallow vale]

Nice find!

[craggy drift]

hello, I had a few questions about the pro version of droidcam.
If I pay for it, will I receive a key that I can use on the phones or is that linked to my Play Store account?
And is there a limit of how many phones I can use?

and can I record all devices at the same time? so I get multiple fidio files.

[vale vine]

Ask droidcam dev

[spiral ruin]

Droidcam support will be the best place to get answers about purchase/license questions.

[vale vine]

Pretty sure they have their own form of support and contact

[stable lava]

hi when i opened obs after i downloaded the vertical version it showed up but once i closed ite application and reopened it no longer shows up can anyone help?
it no longer shows up

[oblique yew]

For help with the Aitum OBS plugin or their tools and services, please join their community Discord server for direct troubleshooting.

[craggy drift]

ok, thanks

[sharp oak]

anyone here use 7tv?

i have questions i cant find online

[static dust]

can anyone help me on OBS I am bout to give up and do not know what else to do plz somsone dm me so we can vc and so u can help me

[hallow vale]

We don't do DM or VC support here. Go ahead and describe your issue here so someone can help

[static dust]

the quailty sucks for some reason and wont let me run 60 fps and full Resolution

idk

its only the Res

can run the same

[hallow vale]

You can type resolutions in the boxes.

!cleanlog If your quality still sucks after changing this, do a log following the steps below

[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

[static dust]

wdym

no even when I chances it sucks

https://obsproject.com/logs/MY03cvVEvhKSBFgA

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Old Version (30.0.2)
• Custom FFMPEG Output

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin

Hardware Check

Intel Core i5-13400F - OK! / Radeon RX 460 - OK!

[vagrant minnow]

😬 Custom FFMPEG Output

[static dust]

wats tat

[hallow vale]

!local Chances are your recording settings suck. We can't see them, though, bc custom FFMPEG. Use these below instead

[oblique yew]

For high-quality, no fuss recordings, use the recording quality presets in Simple Mode:

1. In OBS Settings → Output, set the Output Mode to Simple
2. In the Recording section, choose Indistinguishable Quality as the Recording Quality
3. Set your Video Encoder to a hardware encoder, if available

[vagrant minnow]

aka "shoot yourself in the foot with horrible settings".

[hallow vale]

Nuke to the toes

[vagrant minnow]

!local advanced I would stick to advanced with that RX 460. Use these settings, Speed for the profile, not quality.

[oblique yew]

For high-quality, no fuss recordings, use the recording quality presets in Simple Mode:

1. In OBS Settings → Output, set the Output Mode to Simple
2. In the Recording section, choose Indistinguishable Quality as the Recording Quality
3. Set your Video Encoder to a hardware encoder, if available

[vagrant minnow]

!localadvanced These...

[oblique yew]

For information on the available advanced recording settings for your hardware, see the Advanced Recording Settings Guide.

Note: we generally recommend most users use Simple Output mode and a recording quality preset.

[hallow vale]

For further help beyond this, head to #windows-support

[craggy drift]

I can't find the droidCam support...
does anyone know where I can find them?

[vale vine]

@craggy drift

[spiral ruin]

Droidcam's website has all the support links and information.

[torn crown]

anyone have difficulty connecting to things like obs blade to obs websocket

need help troubleshooting whats wrong and such connecting remotely

[narrow maple]

is this the place to ask about html add ons for obs ?

[vapid charm]

html addons?

[mild field]

Soo, i use OBS NDI for dual pc streaming and i just updated to newest version of OBS 30.1.2 and now I see im outputting my NDI source and on my stream PC it shows im connected to my game pc but no image will show? anyone know what happened? i then tried to go back to previous version of OBS and still wont work.

[vapid charm]

!ndi

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio has an NDI plugin available, which can be found here: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/528/

For additional support and discussion, visit the obs-ndi Discord

[floral kelp]

Hello I just bought a wired steel series nova head set compatible with PC/xbox/ps5/switch. I am using a el gato chat link pro. Has anyone had a similar set up and know how to properly set up? Needs some tips to maybe try when I get home. Any tips or tricks will help thank you so much.

I will be using OBS as well. I am trying to hear my stickers on the headset while hearing my party chats/game chats and game volume is that possible?

[jolly tulip]

Good evening i was just checking in to see if there was a plugin for like a youtube script to be put inside OBS as like a dock or something.

[fossil wyvern]

what do you mean by a youtube script?

[jolly tulip]

think of a teleprompter

[fossil wyvern]

I guess you could do it with a custom browser dock, provided you find a webpage that does it, or make one yourself, but I'd think there are programs better suited for that

[jolly tulip]

unsure of what they'd be

[spiral ruin]

Do you actually have a hardware setup for a teleprompter? Like a tablet or phone to display the script text, plus the mirror mount? That's a typical use for a teleprompter, so that it is physically in a place for you to read it while making it look like you are still looking into the camera.

[light kayak]

looking for a blur(frosted window) overlay for hide the screen from viewers and in obs?

[fossil wyvern]

https://github.com/FiniteSingularity/obs-composite-blur

[light kayak]

ok open github?

[fossil wyvern]

?

this is a plugin that adds a blur filter to obs

[obsidian agate]

yes, open github, go to where it says "Release" on the right side, and download the plugin for your OS

[light kayak]

i click link and there are files that is one of them

[fossil wyvern]

click on the latest release on the right hand side

download the installer, run it

[mortal harbor]

I miss own3d pro plugin for obs

[hallow vale]

I'm pretty sure it still exists. Did you update OBS and plugin went away?

[rapid coral]

hello im having problems with obs and websocket

[fossil wyvern]

what problem

[vapid charm]

First is you dont need the old websocket plugin.

It already comes as part of OBS.

#windows-support for context

[tired valley]

Hello guys, today I'm here to announce about a plugin my team has been working recently and we're seeking for comments and suggestion on how much this will be useful for the OBS community and what else we can improve in this plugin. ?

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/multistream-by-streamway.1882/
Multistream by Streamway plugin let's you schedule your live event across multiple social platforms and channels like YouTube, Facebook, twitch, custom RTMp and many more from a single dashboard. So you don't need to fill the event title, description and thumbnails across multiple channels, multiple times. The best part is you can add as many destination as your machine can support, only restriction is available bandwidth in your OBS machine.

Scheduling events is totally free and will always be free.
If you don't have enough bandwidth you can opt for pro plan where your machine sends a single livestream to Streamway's relay servers and than it redistribute across all social platforms. And best part is you don't have to opt for a subscription, if you use it regularly than there's monthly and yearly plans which are discounted and if you need it less frequently there are plans for 1 day, 3 days, 7 days and 15 days as well.

Here's a video explaining how to use plugin - https://youtu.be/wRDoIRKBMaM?si=yQ-fg33hMahG2seY

Seeking valuable feedbacks and suggestions from the community 🙏☺️

[mortal harbor]

hello, cool plugin! i only briefly looked but it seems like you need to schedule an event on the website and then it shows up in the plugin UI, is there a way to do this without needing to use the website each time? also i am seeing that you need to schedule an event, does this need to be done each time or can you connect your accounts once and click the button to go live without creating a new event each time?

[tired valley]

As of now you need to schedule event each time. And we are here to listen to community we can modify the functionality of plugin to make it more useful for community.

+1 this message for following features in plugin -

1. Default live stream - connect your account once and no need to schedule and event every time you go live. (Default title, description and thumbnail will be used)
2. Ability to set default title, description and thumbnail from plugin itself, without going to webui.

[mortal harbor]

i will spend a little time with this later but here are my initial thoughts:

1. despite logging in with my google account the website still defaulted to india time zone and india phone number format, maybe room for improvement here
2. the section i have drawn an arrow to in the plugin UI doesn't seem right as far as padding and UI color goes, the rest looks right
3. a dropdown for the URL box to select common services would be helpful

[weak escarp]

Why did you choose to keep the same dll and dock name as the multi rtmp plugin? this will make comparing the 2 harder as you can't have both installed

[tired valley]

@mortal harbor since this plugin is a fork of multi RTMP, maybe my team haven't changed it. If it is problem we'll get it changed. As per my understanding dock name is different. Thanks for the feedback.

[weak escarp]

Dock name is but dock id looks to be the same in code

[tired valley]

Thanks, I'll get it changed in the next release. More Suggestion and feedbacks are welcome 🙏😊

[wide kraken]

(FWIW @wary venture your messages aren't being manually removed, they're just tripping an old filter that thinks you're trying to promote a free discord nitro scam lol)

[wary venture]

Ah I see do you approve of my message or is it a bit much? @wide kraken

[wide kraken]

Maybe a bit much, at the end of the day it's plainly visible that it's a fork on github, and doesn't really do anything bad. It's just a fork with some service-specific functionality, which is whatever.

[acoustic bloom]

!obs camera

!obscamera

[hallow vale]

Are you in need of help with the OBS built in virtual camera, or something else?

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 3060 - OK!

[tiny crescent]

Hallo! Is there a plugin that lets me know when im recording, when i pause it etc without me having to tab in to check, i sometimes think the hotkey didn't register and i end up having to alt everytime im recording.

[jolly tulip]

i mean if you have system tray enabled you can see it down in the corner if that's what you're asking.

[tiny crescent]

I use display capture and while im tabbed into my fullscreen game, i press F9 to start recording

if im gonna check system tray, might as well just tab and check the tab preview like i am doing now

[jolly tulip]

i know there's a beep plugin but unsure if it's been updated.

Recording beep sound

[kindred snow]

Hello,
I mainly use OBS to stream to a projector in a room with non flat walls. I wrote a really simple GLSL Shader based on corner-pin from the shaderpulgin. It works but it's not user friendly since I need to move the edges manually using faders. Would it be possible to create a plugin to move the 4 corners of the video to the désired position directly in the preview pane ?
Thanks

[sand burrow]

ку

[tropic hazel]

@slate shadow i am also having a problem with Butt. did you figure it out?

[mortal harbor]

need help can anyone go quick with me in a call? dont want to write that much

[spiral ruin]

head back to the support channel and describe your issue, please. Support is only done in text channels, for moderation.

[cursive flicker]

a setup thats better

[fossil wyvern]

it's possible, it's a fair bit complex, I have a half-finished PR to do that I might get bacck onto it

(and no it can't be a plugin, it has to be a change to obs' core itself)

[kindred snow]

Yeah that's what I tought

[arctic niche]

Has anyone used a Stream Deck to control the PTZ Controls v0.15.4 plugin?

[swift atlas]

Привет

[muted hatch]

I have excellent webcam camera output when I am just going through Zoom on Windows 11.

The camera is very popular iVi (https://myivi.com)

Once I add OBS (at any startup stage), the Webcam cam no longer sends a signal to OBS.

Option 1 - Open ZOOM first, select Webcam, and it's all good to send Webcam to a ZOOM meeting.
Option 2 - Open OBS - first, then Webcam, second after Webcam is good in ZOOM

Neither gives me a Webcam for OBS, a necessary tool in my world.

What is the workaround?

[hard jay]

Cameras like that can only be in use in one application at a time, that seems very normal. If you want to use the webcam in OBS and Zoom, you'll want to use the OBS virtual camera output as a passthrough effectively to Zoom.

[elfin nova]

Why is the resolution of my chatbox inccorect? Its constantly blurry

[muted hatch]

@hard jay thank you

The issue at that point is that I have no granular control of the pan tilt and zoom from this camera when it's a source in OBS.

If I use the video setup portion of Zoom, I can manipulate the camera with the pen, tilt, Zoom, webcam control.

Once that image is moved into OBS, it loses the presets I just described in Zoom.

This may not be a simple solution.

I appreciate the continued help.

[elfin nova]

I've tried undocking, rebooting OBS, anything to make it focus, this is unreadable!

[vale vine]

Anti alias setting in nvidia control panel is the usual culprit

[elfin nova]

Which one?

[vale vine]

Dunno

Whichever one you changed to make that happen

Prob fxaa

[elfin nova]

I have no idea, I didn't change any of these. Most likely something else did it, since it wasn't built by me

Still the same

[vale vine]

Just hit the "restore" button

[elfin nova]

My bot program is also the same

Its fixed, ffs stupid settings. Thanks!

[vale vine]

👍👍

[green pulsar]

Greetings. Hopefully I can just spitball this in here.

So the Nvidia Broadcast app has a setting for Video Denoising as well as the background removal but when installing the VFX SDK, it only shows the background removal but not the video denoiser in the OBS Filters. Does anyone know why that is?

[hard jay]

Each feature has to be implemented indepedently. The short answer is that nobody has implemented denoiser for OBS yet.

[green pulsar]

Ah okay, is that something I can do manually or would I have to wait for an OBS update to implement it?

[hard jay]

I mean, if you're a developer and want to go look at the VFX SDK stuff and submit a PR for it, we'd be happy for it :)

[green pulsar]

I'd be happy to try but I can't guarantee working results haha

Thanks for the help

[hard jay]

But also to clarify: I'm not aware of it being on anyone's radar at the moment, so it probably wouldn't be implemented any time soon by any of the regular contributors.

[sinful minnow]

WebSockets - hotKeyname of multiple instances of Replay Source plugin.

Hi, Im working on Mac and am using an ESP32 to control OBS - I have had issues using hotkeys in websockets - I can send them and they are recieved but don't seem to actually trigger the action. I found hotKeyname to work really well, when I only had one instance of Replay Source ... I now want to trigger replays from three different instances of the Replay Source plugin.

When I use an actual keystroke I see how it knows which one I am using as ...

00:58:15.473: [replay_source: 'Replay Source 1'] Load replay pressed

when I had just the one instance I was using this websocket command this worked fine ...

String output = "{\"d\":{\"requestData\":{\"hotkeyName\":\"ReplaySource.Replay\"},\"requestId\":\"10\",\"requestType\":\"TriggerHotkeyByName\"},\"op\":6}";

This worked fine, but how can I refer to the Replay 'button' of either "Replay Source 1", "Replay Source 2" or "Replay Source 3"

I was hoping something like htis would work "hotkeyName":"[replay_source:'Replay Source 1'].Replay" but nowthing I have randomly tried has worked and I haven't a clue how this level of command exists in OBS - any ideas ???

Thanks in anticipation

Pete

ps for context a camera is looking at reallife activity, actions cause the recording of 3 different replays (i can do this using the keyboard with cmd1, cmd2, cmd3 - but I need the ESP32 to initiate the action) at different time and then the ESP32 tella OBS which scene to play for a specfic replay to be shown ... if that helps lol

[weak escarp]

In obs websocket you can provide a context name for trigger hotkey by name, the context name is visible in the hotkey settings in OBS.

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-websocket/blob/master/docs/generated/protocol.md#triggerhotkeybyname

  "requestType": "TriggerHotkeyByName",
  "requestData": {
    "contextName": "Source name - Source Record",
    "hotkeyName": "ReplayBuffer.Save"
  }
}```

Context name was added in a recent version of OBS, so make sure your OBS is up to date for this

[sinful minnow]

Thanks for the reply and thanks ever so much for the Plugin, I love it. I am new to OBS and don't really know the 'language' to ask the right question, so thnks for giving me the language of 'context', thats exactly what I was trying to ask, but without your example JSON I would never have got it right!! I'll give this a go as soon as I get to my computer, thanks again, Pete

[sinful minnow]

Brilliant! thanks so much Exeldro, took me a while to realise I wasn't totally upto date in a fast moving world as I was on 30.0.2 updated to 30.1.2 and it worked perfectly ... where is your preferred place for me to buy you a beer/coffee Paypal or github?

[weak escarp]

I have no preference, you can find them all on https://exeldro.com

[sinful minnow]

Enjoy your beer/coffee coming to you via PayPal - once again thanks ...

[green cobalt]

Hey, I have a question, I'm looking for a plugin where I can record in a format like Tiktok or Insta. Is there something like that? 🙂

[vale vine]

You dont need a plugin

Just change your canvas resolution to a 9:16

[green cobalt]

I don't want that because I want to record normally and 9:16^^

I have something now 😄 : https://aitum.tv/download/vertical

This is what it looks like 😄

[vale vine]

Sure I would have suggested that plugin had ya been a bit more clear on the first post wanting to do both simultaneously 😉

[green cobalt]

that's right my mistake 😄

[vale vine]

No worries. As long as you are sorted!

[green cobalt]

hehe

[ruby lichen]

whats a reliable way for a plugin to signal an external tool / avd-ss ? changing source settings are one option, saving a file is another, is there a WS event utility in the API?

[obsidian agate]

plugins/scripts can create their own "vendor events" and "vendor requests" for OBS WebSocket 5 that external tools can make use of

Exeldro's Downstream Keyer plugin makes use of this feature. You could look at their code and get ideas

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aexeldro%2Fobs-downstream-keyer+vendor&type=code

[ruby lichen]

thank you! 🙏

[obsidian agate]

welcome, happy coding

[cinder mantle]

How you do this? Made your OBS pink?

[green cobalt]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/categories/themes.10/

[cinder mantle]

legend thank you

[green cobalt]

lel

[faint otter]

does your overlay alerts work?

[gloomy lake]

Hey guys!
Back to streaming, do we not have more than those options for encoder?

Or is there a better plugin for AMD CPU/GPU combos

[spiral ruin]

Encoder selection is based on what hardware is available in your pc, and the drivers to run said hardware. You won't get different hardware encoders if you don't physically have them.

[gloomy lake]

Is that not another encoder? https://github.com/obsproject/obs-amd-encoder

[vagrant minnow]

An older encoder, yeah. That was updated in more recent versions of OBS.

[hallow vale]

What website do you have selected to stream to in OBS Settings > Stream

[faint otter]

https://obsproject.com/logs/Js5jhKy4jSZcIibs

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Browser Not Accelerated
• Windows 10 Game DVR
• Non-Standard Framerate

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz - OK! / GeForce RTX 2070 - OK!

[faint otter]

https://obsproject.com/logs/ByvVgWMDPai1BB6k\

[hallow vale]

Are you having an issue you want a hand with?

[faint otter]

Yes when I test my stream overlay alerts it works but when i go live it just doesn't show

https://obsproject.com/logs/qxnPyPMiRkxeNuZI

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Browser Not Accelerated

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz - OK! / GeForce RTX 2070 - OK!

[faint otter]

I quite litterly narrowed down all the issues to this one

idk if thats the main reason tho

went from 4 issues to 1

maybe it should work now

(The not admin one i can fix)

[hallow vale]

The bot analyzer doesn't diagnose problems, it just gives some common warnings and info.

When your alerts work while testing but not while live, then that is something that is not working on the side of the provider. You'll want to contact them for help. Best of luck!

[faint otter]

oh ok thanks

idk why i havent tried that yet

[gloomy lake]

Twitch, server automatic, whyt

[green cobalt]

yes

[hallow vale]

Twitch will only accept h264, that's why you don't see any other options like HEVC

[gilded flame]

Is there an OBS plug-in that can read an on screen event and be programmed to trigger an action?

[vale vine]

Advanced scene switcher should be able to

!advss

[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.

[spiral ruin]

Maybe if you are on a public network and people know you are using OBS. Or you have roommates who may want to hijack your broadcast controls.

[gilded flame]

Thank you very much, this seems to have what I would like and I am trying to crack the code on getting it to work for my needs.

[spiral ruin]

basically. Authentication can be broken, if someone has a strong desire to break it. But it is an extra step, so it will discourage the lazy hackers. But people would have to know to look for the websocket server on your network. If this is at home, and you don't have jokers for roommates, don't worry about authentication. Or, use it. It's not much of a big deal either way on a home network you control.

[hard jay]

Just going to chime in that if you're asking the question, yes, it is.

There's virtually no reason why you should take the risk given how trivial it is to use.

You shouldn't get in the habit of bypassing security features in general.

[fervent marsh]

It's too bad that obs-websocket doesn't have the ability to bind to localhost. Kinda best-of-both-worlds for a lot of use cases, there (no password but still pretty safe, barring malicious websites you might visit while you're streaming...)

[spiral ruin]

I have a serious question, as I do agree with you that one should use available security features. Why not make authentication mandatory? I've used a few apps that connect to OBS via websocket where having authentication on sometimes blocked communication, but not in all cases. So I'm glad it isn't mandatory.

[hard jay]

We've been brainstorming solutions to this, and have had a lot of discussion on using tokens and such.

to make things easier when it's effectively a loopback connection.

[hard jay]

no-win scenarios, breaking existing setups, genie out of the bottle, take your pick.

[spiral ruin]

10-4, appreciate the response

[hushed pelican]

anybody have this issue?

[hard jay]

Looks like your GPU driver is crashing, but you want #windows-support

[late trench]

I don't have white balance option by default , is there any plugin? I couldn't find one

[hard jay]

You're probably wanting the color correction filter, there is no specific white balance option in OBS.

[gloomy lake]

aww

[gleaming raptor]

I recently got my internet upgraded.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/982650989616189450/1227575234190770256/Capture.PNG?ex=6628e787&is=66167287&hm=bbcd481f553e0ef2f66430174229d13147a5ba6a8b2ee59b4616e6516e4a8dfa&

Before I couldn't use multi RTMP plugin to stream simultaneously to Twitch and Youtube because my upload was poor but I'm guessing I should be good now to push 15Mbps to Youtube and 8Mbps to Twitch 1080p/60.

Is Chatty app and the multi RTMP plugin still recommended or is there something newer? Thanks

[loud echo]

Hello, I am wondering why I can't see the owned pro plug in to change my overlays? I've uninstalled/reinstalled and I'm not sure what happened to it or how to get it back I'm not the most technically inclined person and I just want to change my overlays lol

[hallow vale]

You will want to check with Own3d support. This happens sometimes

[glacial pollen]

Hey I can't seem to unistall Aitum plugin, the one where you can multistream

any help?

[oblique yew]

For help with the Aitum OBS plugin or their tools and services, please join their community Discord server for direct troubleshooting.

[mortal harbor]

Hello, I'm new here today and I have a question for you: I would like to control OBS via my stream deck but the message is always waiting for OBS. Does anyone else have the problem?

[bright sapphire]

!elgatosupport The plugin is provided by Elgato. Head over to their support discord. This is a known issue. They have the quick answers.

[oblique yew]

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

[mortal harbor]

thanks

[rapid idol]

I'm trying to do the virtual background in OBS

[rapid idol]

Can someone help me with that please 🙏🏾

[oblique yew]

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

[limpid crag]

Hello!

I am having issues with the Websocket Server and absoluetly nothing working with it.

[hallow vale]

!log Maybe a log will help

[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

[limpid crag]

https://obsproject.com/logs/lXvDCHv7WVo5XC2v

[oblique yew]

Log contains debug or verbose error messages (browser/ftl/directshow/etc), for a filtered version click here

🛑 Critical

• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 3900 - OK! / GeForce RTX 4090 - OK!

[limpid crag]

I did change the hardware accelerated GPU scheduler just havent restarted my pc yet

[limpid crag]

https://obsproject.com/logs/ltGxrEmoHHxZnEHK updated one after restarting

[oblique yew]

Log contains debug or verbose error messages (browser/ftl/directshow/etc), for a filtered version click here

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 3900 - OK! / GeForce RTX 4090 - OK!

[hallow vale]

Try setting the Websockets to use 4455 instead of 4444.

What are you trying to connect to it?

[limpid crag]

its called Noalbs

well i guess that worked

thank you lol

wait

nvm

failed to connect to the obs-websocket plugin

[hallow vale]

Do you have a password set for authentication?

[limpid crag]

yep and i have it set in the program

[hallow vale]

Hm, I am not sure where to go from here, but they have a discord linked on this page. Probably something simple

https://github.com/NOALBS/nginx-obs-automatic-low-bitrate-switching/blob/v2/README.md

[warm oriole]

Are there any plugins that can display the time left playing on a media source? Im using a nested scene with a media source and i cant see how long is left since im not directly on the scene..

[limpid crag]

this isnt an issue just to noalbs. its anything trying to access the websocket.... obs blade etc

[hallow vale]

Are these all on the same network as the OBS PC?

[limpid crag]

yes

[hallow vale]

Checked your firewall yet? Make sure OBS is let through

[limpid crag]

yep

[mortal harbor]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'm trying to get the virtual camera project to my discord camera but it's not even showing up as an option is there any specific thing I could try to fix this?

[hallow vale]

!log Maybe a new log will help

[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

[hallow vale]

Try exiting and restarting Discord

Make sure it doesn't just minimize when you close it too

[limpid crag]

https://obsproject.com/logs/nkOBr8QivhzBROwP

[oblique yew]

Log contains debug or verbose error messages (browser/ftl/directshow/etc), for a filtered version click here

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 3900 - OK! / GeForce RTX 4090 - OK!

[hallow vale]

Oh, did you change port in the app you're trying to connect? (it's been while, but I think that's a thing there too)

[limpid crag]

I did

[hallow vale]

Have you tried using the websockets without a password?

[limpid crag]

I have not. Could it be because it’s not binded to an IPV4

[hallow vale]

Give it a shot. And you can try that too.

[limpid crag]

‘’’
20:22:39.160: [obs-websocket] [WebSocketServer::Start] Not locked to IPv4 bindings
‘’’

Idk how

lol

[hallow vale]

Oh, I thought it was a suggestion you had found elsewhere haha.

If it's not an option in the Websockets settings, it may not be changeable by us mere mortals

[limpid crag]

Ok lol

[mortal harbor]

thank you it worked

but now its just showing a grey screen when I turn my camera on I'm not sure if i did something wrong when setting it up but the virtual camera is on and the media i want to project is playing

[limpid crag]

Did you click start virtual camera in obs?

[mortal harbor]

yes

[hallow vale]

Does the virtual camera on Discord show the same thing as the OBS preview, or different?

[mortal harbor]

I actually just fixed it I had it on the wrong file

sorry this is my first time using obs

[hallow vale]

Oh, great! Glad you found it

[mortal harbor]

thank you for your help guys

[limpid crag]

well im gonna try a fresh install

[hallow vale]

Why? Websockets is functioning properly

[limpid crag]

"troubleshooting"

[hallow vale]

Just not able to connect to whatever you're using

[limpid crag]

didnt change anything

lol

but i tried

[quasi compass]

@wary wasp yo can u help me with obs studio i need help with somehting

[wary wasp]

Don't ping staff members

[quasi compass]

can u help me tho???

[fossil wyvern]

• he literally just said not to ping him
• you won't get help if you don't explain what you need help with

[novel heron]

Hi everyone, I developed with my team a tool to stream pc screen to TikTok with Obs. Do you know how I can contact Obs Team to propose them my tool ? Thank you (ps : je suis français s'il y a des francophones !)

[fossil wyvern]

you can submit the tool as a resource on the forum

[novel heron]

Even if it's a tool you need to buy ?

[fossil wyvern]

otherwise, if you need to exchange with yhe obs team directly, a few often hang out in the #development channel often, or you can mail [e-mail]

[fossil wyvern]

there are options for non-free tools to be listed in the forums

[fossil wyvern]

but before distributing it, I'd advise you make extra sure you're not breaching the obs licence

(which in most cases would mean you'd need to have it open source, but I'm no expert on copyright law)

[novel heron]

Not at all. It's a key stream provider that's compatible with Obs. Because Stream Labs launched its own solution, we develop something for Obs users.

Thanks a lot for your help !

[novel heron]

Thank you 🙂

[cobalt quarry]

@here can somone help me with my obs thing

[fossil wyvern]

you'd need to explain what you need help with

[weak escarp]

This might be interesting for the Aitum Vertical plugin

[novel heron]

Oh yeah, why not!

[south dome]

Alright I need some help guys, I don't know what happened but sound just stopped sending to my stream PC. I see my game capture and windows capture works so I get image sent over but all audio sources seem dead and I haven't changed anything. There was a windows update but I did that after this happened, I also updated OBS after it happened so I don't think it's that.

I use NDI and it worked so well up until yesterday, I looked over my inputs and outputs and they all seem in order.

[mortal harbor]

whos know where is virtual camera?

[spiral ruin]

Control dock

[mortal harbor]

and where?

[spiral ruin]

Looks like you may not have it installed correctly, one sec

[mortal harbor]

i installed on a steam

[obsidian agate]

!portablevc go to the OBS directory and follow these instructions

[oblique yew]

To install the OBS virtual camera when running OBS in portable mode, navigate to your <your obs-studio folder>\data\obs-plugins\win-dshow and run virtualcam-install.bat as Administrator.

[spiral ruin]

Thanks, I couldn't remember that one

[obsidian agate]

welcome 🙂

[mortal harbor]

whos help me?

[obsidian agate]

follow the instructions i had the bot link to you

[mortal harbor]

i am Ukrainen i dont know what is a text

[obsidian agate]

use google translate

or, install the non-Steam version of OBS

[mortal harbor]

but of i am donwlanding a google obs version is a have?

[obsidian agate]

there isnt a "google version" of OBS

!download

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio can be downloaded:

• directly from the official OBS Project website: https://obsproject.com/download
• Microsoft Store (Windows)
• Steam (Windows, macOS)
• Flathub (Linux)

[upper zodiac]

I've been tasked with setting up the stream for a fishing tournament from scratch and I'm curious of the best way to pull in the live video from each angler. Gonna be 5-6 anglers out on their boats fishing at the same time, each one with a cell phone to capture video. How can I patch in the video/audio of them all in at once and switch between them? I've considered a plugin to connect to them all in a big Skype call, and I've looked into VDO.Ninja a bit but that seems less reliable.

[mortal harbor]

i would've said vdo.ninja, what makes you say it is less reliable?

[upper zodiac]

I tried testing it with my own phone and struggled to get it to connect, eventually finding the workaround of adding "&codec=h264" to the end of the url. I won't actually be on location at the tournament so I'll have to rely on the fishermen to figure out how to get their phones set up from my instructions, so I'm looking for the most streamlined simple solution that I won't have to troubleshoot much.

[mortal harbor]

Hm interesting….that is not the same experience I have with it.

Not sure what would be easier for them, maybe a Skype call I guess if the NDI stuff still works with Skype

[vapid charm]

@upper zodiac @mortal harbor As someone who has "poked" the mobile app I can give a base 2 cents of how things can work.

Out of box each of those fishing can set a streamID, room name, and a password to both easily identify whose link is whose. The docs link below also gives additional URL variables that can be used by you to tweak/customize information that can help you in your streaming software.

https://docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settings

[fair shard]

hi guys! is there anyways to get the downstream keyer to be a permanent fixture in obs like the scenes and sources tabs?

i tried dragging it in but it is nto working

[vapid charm]

Should also note if they have issues and their stream crashes that the details are saved.

Only thing you'd need to instruct them to do is put in predetermined info from above. Everything else afterthat is handled by you.

[turbid oak]

Im having issues usinf my stream arlerts it keeps saying connecting to websocket server but then nothing happens can someone help plz

whats the new port for the websocket stuff

[fair shard]

nevermind finally got it! thanks guys have a wonderful saturday!

[turbid oak]

whats the new port system for websocket

[gleaming raptor]

I've removed the directories of the OBS Multi RTMP plugin from the OBS folder, but when I install it again it remembers the old settings.
How do I prevent this because it's remembers old settings which are incorrect everytime I load the plugin

Edit
Fixed, had to delete inside C:\ProgramData (which is a hidden folder) not ProgramFiles.
HTH

[limpid crag]

love the name

[sharp canopy]

Hey guys can anyone help me get my elgato virtual background to transfer to OBS? It was there one day and then gone the next , the virtual background shows in elgato just not in OBS.

[timber ginkgo]

Hey I have a Question about Tuna Plugin
I managed to get it working with Youtube music but can I also let it run on Spotify at the same time or can I just use one audio source for this plugin and what can be an alternative to capture interpret and title for both?

[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.

[wild wyvern]

so my plugin related to pngtubing, isn't adding a new option (image reaction) what am i doing wrong, i don't know what i am looking for. following a tut on youtube and it isn't working

[turbid oak]

Can someone help me my alerts are not working for my stream

[oblique yew]

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

[west pine]

Hi, someone have compatibility mode on live studio dm me pls

[ruby lichen]

plugin devs, a Mac codesigning question:
my CI script fails on what seems to be a codesigning issue

  [obs-localvocal] Write Auxiliary File empty-obs-localvocal.plist
  [obs-localvocal] Write Auxiliary File Script-5AAF5B3EF7D247EA5C3289FC.sh
  [obs-localvocal] Running script CMake PreBuild Rules
  [obs-localvocal] Processing empty-obs-localvocal.plist
  Error: Process completed with exit code 2.

this is during a master push run (PRs are fine b/c they don't codesign)
i had other master push runs that completed fine.
on my local build, with codesigning enabled (and cert info provided), it does build and codesign fine but invokes the "unlock" popup of the keystore.
i have an external .dylib being used but it's signed by the authors (msft)

does anyone have a clue on how to resolve?

[spiral imp]

Hey, just a quick question, how long does it take on average for a resource post to be accepted on the OBS forum?
Definitely not expecting a fast review since this is a community forum, but i'm kind of curious

[mortal harbor]

i need someone help with something

[oblique yew]

Welcome to the OBS community support channel. If you have a question, go ahead and ask it, and if someone is available to help they'll respond. Try to be detailed, and provide a log if you are having issues with streaming/recording (Help -> Log Files -> Upload Current Log). Please be patient if someone doesn't respond right away!

[mortal harbor]

yea why is my obs showing 400 bad request

[inland kernel]

Hola, alguien sabe de algun script que este actualizado para las ultimas versiones de obs para poner un timer pomodoro?

[mortal harbor]

i ahvee a quuestuon

whenn i streeam

i dont see mmy chat

with my game

like i doont knowhoow to explllain

but can someone help mme

pleaaase

[distant fulcrum]

I think I've got a stroke reaading that

[normal acorn]

Hello! I'm trying to make a plugin that adds a dedicated source for rendering PNGtuber frames, and I need to be able to determine the volume of audio coming through the mic. I'll even settle for getting raw samples at this point. Any chance someone can give some advice on how to do this?

[vapid charm]

Just because it was the first thing I could think of that contextually interacts with audios osources you might wanna look at this https://github.com/dimtpap/obs-scale-to-sound

Might not be of help but just an idea.

[normal acorn]

Well it means that I now know how to add an audio source selector to the properties, so that's definitely helpful!

I'll give it a look over.

[vapid charm]

And that's about as much ad I can help with as I don't know 💩 about OBS internals.

[fossil wyvern]

I actually already have a script that does that if you want

[visual citrus]

So I have a question. I just purchased the Shute MV7 +. I also purchased the Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen. when I connect the mic to the amp with the XLR cable and set the gain to about 80 , I can hear the noise in my headphones. When I open OBS and use any type of filter, there are no changes what so ever in the headphones which is also connected to the amp. So if I use a filter to cut down on the noise there is no change at all. I tested it by applying filters and then turning the filters on and off while listening and there were no changes at all. What could I be doing wrong?

[true epoch]

@visual citrus Are you actually monitoring the audio that's being processed through obs or are you monitoring directly through your interface?

[visual citrus]

To be honest im really new to this, what do you suggest i check?

[true epoch]

Turn off the monitoring on the Focusrite Scarlett itself and see if you still hear yourself

If it's already turned off and you turn it on, you'll probably hear yourself double

[visual citrus]

if i turn down the monitoring volume on the amp i hear nothing

[true epoch]

Yeah so you're not hearing any filters because you're not monitoring the output of obs, you're just hearing whatever is being put directly into your interface.

[visual citrus]

what would be the correct way to connect it?

i have a headphone input on the mic and the amp

I disconnected everything

[true epoch]

In the Audio Mixer of OBS, press the gears icon, find your audio source of your microphone, under audio monitoring, change the settings to one of the options. Don't know which from the top of my head.

You were just not listening to yourself after OBS was done, you were listening to yourself straight from mic > interface > headphone, skipping your pc entirely.

[visual citrus]

This is how I had it

[paper sierra]

Have you set Focusrite USB Audio to be the default speaker in Windows sound setup so Windows actually send the audio to the amp?

[visual citrus]

i dont belieave i did that

[true epoch]

You plug your headphones into the Focusrite, where the headphones icon is.

[true epoch]

Can you make a screenshot of the recording devices?

[visual citrus]

ok so i only hear myself on the left channel

[paper sierra]

yeah under Advanced Audio Settings in OBS Studio you need to put a tick in the Mono for the mic so you get stereo

[visual citrus]

ok so now i hear myself on both channels but there is a bad delay

[paper sierra]

Well I always have my headphones plugged into the computer. Can test real quick and see how it sounds for me.

[true epoch]

Perhaps the filters are causing a delay? Not sure if you still had those on.

[visual citrus]

ok let me turn off all the filters

well i can say that now the filters are working but now i have a delay

[true epoch]

I can only imagine the filters causing a delay, tried monitoring myself through OBS just now and it seems to work fine, no delay, but also didn't apply any filters.

[paper sierra]

Had no delay at all when I tried using it hmm lemme see what filters I have

[paper sierra]

I got some filters and it worked fine with some noise supression, noise gate, compressor and limiter

[true epoch]

Direct monitor will just monitor your microphone directly skipping your pc entirely.

So you just get to hear the raw input of your microphone as the interface receives it.

[visual citrus]

I’m not too sure what could be causing the delay even though it’s directly connected to the amp is there any settings on windows that I should be looking at or maybe an OBS that I’m not seeing

You guys got me to the point where I can hear the filters now I just gotta get that one thing done and I’m golden

[paper sierra]

Make sure you got the same sample rate setting on all audio settings, in windows audio for Focusrite USB audio, for your amp(the little Focusrite icon in the bottom right in windows) and in OBS studio under settings/audio. Try a different USB port if you got many USB devices hooked up. If you got like a usb 3.0 port it could help.

[visual citrus]

The amp is USB-C

[paper sierra]

ahh ok

[visual citrus]

Let me check what you were saying about windows

[oblique yew]

How to take a screenshot - http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/

[visual citrus]

not too sure what else to do

When I connect the mic to USB with the USB port that it has, there’s no lag whatsoever

But that’s not using the XLR cable

[paper sierra]

What is your Focusrite settings?

This is how mine looks.

[visual citrus]

damn never even opened it

[paper sierra]

Seems like all looks correct

May I ask why you have the headphones connected to the amp and not the pc?

[visual citrus]

i thought that was what it was meant for

am i suppose to connect a different way?

[paper sierra]

the amp is more to give power and to use the xlr connection for the mic

[visual citrus]

i can try to connect to the pc's input

[paper sierra]

I mean I would try and connect your headphones to the pc and see if it doesn't work better

[visual citrus]

ok now i hear nothing

[paper sierra]

You have to change in Windows to set your pc audio speaker to be the default speaker now instead of the Focusrite USB Audio

[visual citrus]

ok let me try

[true epoch]

If that is the issue, then the focusrite is pretty terrible in processing sound from the pc

[visual citrus]

no matter what i choose in windows i dont get sound on the headphones

[paper sierra]

Well did you plugin in the headphones in the correct plug on the pc?

Just to make sure

[paper sierra]

and in the Windows audio settings did you make that one the default audio device instead of the Focusrite?

[visual citrus]

Yes

[paper sierra]

make sure in obs it has the correct audio devices

[visual citrus]

ok windows and OBS is the same

i could see ther desktop audio DB moving just cant hear it

[true epoch]

Makes me wonder if front panel audio is even connected on the motherboard

[visual citrus]

yea i have used it before

[paper sierra]

under settings/audio is the monitoring device set to default or?

[visual citrus]

on OBS?

[paper sierra]

in obs

[paper sierra]

that one doesn't show it. It is just under Advanced.

right where it cuts off

[paper sierra]

thats why

it is trying to send it to your amp

[visual citrus]

what do i do?

[paper sierra]

change it to default

[visual citrus]

ok i changed it to defualt

[paper sierra]

and click apply and then see if it works

[visual citrus]

still dont hear anything

[true epoch]

Playback is still on Focusrite?

[visual citrus]

i believe so

i can see desktop audio DB moving when i talk including mic

[paper sierra]

desktop audio is also set to send to your amp it needs to be your headphones. Try and set the monitoring device to your headphones device too.

since the default didn't work which is odd

[true epoch]

Default would just fall back on the focusrite now since that's still set as the "default"

[visual citrus]

ok i set audio on windows to headphones and now i can hear myself but i still have a delay and the audio volume is lower

[true epoch]

Yeah I got nothing at this point, the lower volume is either a setting or just actual power being lower.

[visual citrus]

the wierd thing is if i connect the mic with the usb i dont have any lag at all

[true epoch]

The interface is probably introducing some lag, combined with your pc having to process it.

[visual citrus]

what could I do?

[paper sierra]

If you do a recording with it is there an audio delay then? I know the monitoring can have its issues.

I mean a delay in the recording not the monitoring.

[visual citrus]

i dont think so

but it would be so hard to talk and hear the delay

[paper sierra]

You would have to make a recording with obs studio and either just type something in a document or move the mouse when saying something and then play it back to yourself and see if it is all good.

[true epoch]

Time to do the abc's

[paper sierra]

hehe

[visual citrus]

lol copy

would another amp help

[true epoch]

Another amp?

You mean interface?

[paper sierra]

Well I use the same amp just one generation older and works fine.

[visual citrus]

yes interface

just my luck lol

[true epoch]

I've never used the scarlet, so I can't say anything about the quality

[paper sierra]

but I never use monitoring to listen to myself. I just tried it today and it worked fine.

[visual citrus]

slapping my head

[true epoch]

Same, but with a GoXLR instead, was instant when monitoring on obs.

[visual citrus]

yea dont know this stuff was not cheap

so when i made a recording it sounds wierd like two voices overlaping

like an echo

[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

[visual citrus]

im so confused now if i play the file through discord it sounds fine but if i play the file on my computer its an echo

[true epoch]

Probably monitoring your desktop audio

So you hear it double

At least, that's my best bet.

[visual citrus]

yea if i play it through my pc speakers it sounds fine

i should start from scratch

ok lets say i just got all this in the mail and i just installed OBS what would be my steps for instal?

[true epoch]

Connect everything up, set the focusrite as recording device, add it to obs as a mic, keep everything else the same if you're using headphones straight in the pc.

[simple holly]

when I launch OBS this is the message it gives me I don't know what to do

[vale vine]

Probably reach out to streamlabs since it's their plugin

!sld

[oblique yew]

As Streamlabs Desktop is not maintained by the OBS Project, we are unable to provide support for it. For help with Streamlabs Desktop, visit the Streamlabs Support Center.

Note: You can also use Streamlabs wide selection of on-screen widgets directly in OBS Studio. To learn how, follow Stream Layout Tutorial 2: Alerts & Chat Box.

[true epoch]

There's a streamlabs plugin for obs?

[vale vine]

Yep

Fairly newish

[true epoch]

Seems a little ironic

[simple holly]

how do I remove the plugin

[visual citrus]

is there a way to set obs to its defaults?

[vapid charm]

Create new profile from menu.

[visual citrus]

thank you

[vital river]

Does anyone know how to display a full vertical capture using aitum (there’s a blank space at the top or bottom and I don’t want to use a webcam)

[oblique yew]

If you see black bars on your stream/recording, see the Aspect Ratio Guide for information on how to select the best aspect ratio for your content.

[normal acorn]

Just now seeing this, yeah plz send it to me if you think it'll help!

[kindred elk]

Hello, I hope this message finds you well.
There's something i don't quite understand in Bitfocus Companion when trying to use the Custom Vendor Request with obs-websocket vendor requests for Downstream Keyer.
I try to select the dsk "MX" with a vendor request but it doesn't work.
Anyone 🆘 ?
Thank you in advance.

[fossil wyvern]

this is a very rough version from a while ago, I'm currently working on a refresh of it with things I picked up since, I'll share it here too once I'm done

[normal acorn]

Cool! Thanks

[gleaming fulcrum]

Hello everyone, I'm having problems with my OBS websocket. Server IP (Estimated) is an eternally long "address". I use the Streamer Bot and would like to connect it to OBS again, but this is absolutely not possible with the address from the web socket. Do you have an idea? thanks first of all

[visual citrus]

So is there anything that I can purchase that would allow me to use the headphone monitor without a delay? I

[hard jay]

There really shouldn't be a major delay, but you probably want #tech-talk or #audio-support

[visual citrus]

Thank you

[buoyant granite]

how do i uninstall plugins

also, how do i determine what causes obs to keep disconnecting and dropping streams

[quiet bramble]

Assuming that you are using Windows, if you installed a plugin using an EXE or MSI installer file, you can uninstall it like you uninstall any program through Windows Settings/Apps. If you downloaded a zip file and copied the contents of it into your OBS directory structure by hand, then the only way to remove it is to hunt down each individual file that got copied into the OBS directory by hand, and remove them one by one in file explorer manually.

[cedar storm]

Would anyone have a more recent version of virtual cam 2.0.12?

[vale vine]

https://github.com/Avasam/obs-virtual-cam/releases

[drowsy moss]

Any news on the RTMP plugin working with the latest version of OBS?

[vale vine]

Multi rtmp does work with latest obs

[obsidian agate]

yep, i was just running it myself streaming to Steam as a test

[drowsy moss]

Thanks, I was seeing online that folks were struggling with it.

Any good guides out there for setup of RTMP? Just getting started and need some guidance.

This is what I have been viewing so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79a3iUyvVJ4&ab_channel=ScottFichter

[drowsy moss]

Am I on the right track for settings?

I'm looking to multistream to Twitch and YouTube, to start.

Do I need one for both Twitch and YouTube? Or just Twitch since YouTube is my primary?

[obsidian agate]

YT should be primary, since you get the Manage Broadcast interface in OBS with it as primary.

Twitch can be secondary, and you can add the chat docks and such from its Dashboard to OBS

[drowsy moss]

Gotcha.

So I only need a target for twitch (for now). Settingslook ok?

[obsidian agate]

should probably be using the jim_nvenc instead of the ffmpeg one in the Encoder dropdown box

[drowsy moss]

Ok, I have a bunch of those!

[obsidian agate]

NVIDIA NVENC H.264 [jim_nvenc]

the one just under "Get from OBS"

[drowsy moss]

Ok, switch both my primary and the new target to this one?

[obsidian agate]

NVIDIA NVenc h.264

[drowsy moss]

Do I need to be concerned that my audio is the ffmpeg encoder?

[obsidian agate]

the ffmpeg audio encoder is default. CoreAudio AAC encoder would need iTunes insatlled, or just the CoreAudio addon (which is included with iTunes, but not the Windows Store version of iTunes)

[drowsy moss]

Understood. So no worried on ffmpeg.

[dusky basin]

(coreaudio is better but there's nothing particularly wrong with the ffmpeg one)

[drowsy moss]

Changed to the NVEC, now have these settings, matched to the twitch target

Let's give it a go. Anyone free to pop by Twitch?

[native crescent]

Which operation system are you using? I only tested on my Windows 11 laptop

[native crescent]

What does it be now?

[drowsy moss]

We're on update 30 I believe

Doing my tests now

Twitch is saying I'm live, but on my preview I'm Offline.

[native crescent]

Which operation system are you using?
Or maybe I can just update the OBS dependency to 30.1.2 and push another release

[mortal harbor]

working fine

[drowsy moss]

Huh, I wonder why it says offline and gives no preview

[mortal harbor]

you probably just need to refresh.

[drowsy moss]

Thank you!

That worked!

Ya'll are awesome. I'll try to type up a short guide to provide to the community

[native crescent]

Ah sorry it's my mistake

You said it "does" work... not doesn't

[dusky basin]

it's ok many people misunderstand matty

[mortal harbor]

awesome work on the plugin SoraYuki 🙂

[drowsy moss]

I'm sorry for being unclear, haha! My brain is in overdrive.

Thank you so much for your hard work!

[native crescent]

Just some UI codes. And I'm bad at controlling over UI stuff.

[drowsy moss]

Guides for Setting up RTMP in OBS: Multistreaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79a3iUyvVJ4&ab_channel=ScottFichter

https://youtu.be/s_yGyzD5geQ?si=SrlNlMlVHyAQICGv

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/multiple-rtmp-outputs-plugin.964/

For encoding, select NVIDIA NVenc h.264 jim_nvenc.
In your settings, adjust for your primary platform and add additional platforms as targets.

Thank you everyone for jumping in to help. You are invaluable. ❤️

Next project is separating my camera feed from my footage feed. 😭

[dusky basin]

there's a plugin for that

[drowsy moss]

Oh??? 😮

[dusky basin]

source record

[drowsy moss]

This is what I'm looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO0VX1qxZOA&ab_channel=DeSynkro

[mortal harbor]

mutliple plugins, really.

[vale vine]

Source record, vertical canvas

[drowsy moss]

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

Install, copy to plugins folder...

[mortal harbor]

i'd always recommend using the installer for any plugin rather than copying files manually on your own.

[drowsy moss]

Gotcha. I had some issues with OBS failing to intialize when installing the rtmp from the installer

Alrighty... opening OBS. Adding Source Record filter to my camera feed.... And add the same for my display and game screen capture?

I suppose I would need to add that filter to all footage sources? In my case, display, game cap, and my capture card (nintendo switch)

[fierce warren]

hi

im boykiser

im gay

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im gay

[drowsy moss]

If I already have audio separated, should I still follow the guide above's direction on audio?

[mortal harbor]

this is all up to you. if you don't want the separate source record video to have it's own audio then no reason to do so.

[drowsy moss]

Ok, so if I follow the guide, the audio per track goes with the associated video; currently I have all my audio sources to one video. Right?

[drowsy moss]

Guides for Separating Footage for Editing in Davinci

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEHgNa49f6c&t=4s&ab_channel=Andilippi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO0VX1qxZOA&ab_channel=DeSynkro

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

[drowsy moss]

Do I need to have a alert box source per target source when multistreaming?

[dusky basin]

if you want to separate alerts between services that's rather difficult

[mortal harbor]

not very difficult, the vertical canvas plugin handles this very easily.

[drowsy moss]

Oh, I need another plugin?

There are simply some alerts that youtube and twitch don't share

[mortal harbor]

yes but you are sending the same video to both of them so there can be no separation currently.

you would use this in place of the multi-rtmp plugin, and it only will stream to two separate places though so if that works then it is a good option.

[dusky basin]

and you want to ensure that the twitch audience doesn't know that the youtube audience did something?

[drowsy moss]

I'm confused, pardon me as I think this out

I want alerts for Twitch and Youtube to celebrate new followers/subscribers/cheers/raids

[dusky basin]

yes

but why do you care if one side sees the other side's alerts?

[drowsy moss]

I don't

[dusky basin]

then there's no problem is there?

[drowsy moss]

I'd like both sides to see the alerts

I don't know how to add the alerts per platform- do I just add a alert box source per target?

[dusky basin]

unless you're asking a different question than we think you are

[drowsy moss]

Like, I want my stream to see all those alerts regardless of the platform someone views from

[dusky basin]

then just use an alert service provider that supports both

like such as streamelements

[mental rose]

has anyone ever figured out how to get a source to have a continous rotation??? I have been messing around for hrs and all it does it go back and forth

[drowsy moss]

That's what I have, so how do I combine them?

[dusky basin]

they should be combined by streamelements

[mortal harbor]

ah i think i misunderstood the question

[drowsy moss]

I have two separate accounts- I have to choose which to edit, my YouTube or Twitch

[dusky basin]

you should be able to link them in streamelements

[mortal harbor]

you could add two alerts sources if you want, they just might conflict if you were to get alerts on both platforms at the same time.

[dusky basin]

so you have one streamelements account

because -^

[drowsy moss]

Ok, so I need to figure out linking.

[mortal harbor]

but combining would be better, yes.

[dusky basin]

if you have them linked it should queue them appropriately

[drowsy moss]

uhhh. ok, looking.

[dusky basin]

this is more of a streamelements question than an obs question though

!se you could ask there for how that works

[oblique yew]

If you need help with StreamElements products or services, please join their Discord server or submit a support ticket. The StreamElement's support team is better positioned to help with your issue.

[drowsy moss]

Right. My apologies.

Since it was related to rtmp, I figured I'd rack your brains.

Chatted with some folks there, apparently they cannot be combined into one alert box.

[mental rose]

so thats a no right?????

[mental rose]

can you not use botrix for your alerts. It does em all??

[drowsy moss]

I have no idea, I was told here that Streamelements offered that feature

Do you use botrix?

[mental rose]

i did when i streamed on kick and twitch

it works for both

[drowsy moss]

Could you share a link to botrix?

[mental rose]

https://botrix.live/

[drowsy moss]

Thanks so much!

[mental rose]

streamer.bot i believe does it too

[mental rose]

are you trying to have different alerts for 2 diff platforms??

botrix will use the same alerts in both places

[drowsy moss]

Same alerts everywhere 🙂

[mental rose]

botrix or streamerbot

[drowsy moss]

Cool beans. Thank you so much for helping me out!

[mental rose]

no prob. i mean i came into here for something else lol. Glad i can help. streamelements is broke. i only use it for one thing now.

[dusky basin]

unfortunately twitch's alerts don't let you use javascript

or I'd use those

[mental rose]

Welp i figured out how to make sources rotate after about 3 hrs and alot of testing

[mortal harbor]

heh, fairly easy with the move plugin.

[mental rose]

Is it??? Thats awesome. So if i have been wasting my time how about you tell me what you do. Cuz whatever i do it goes one way then back the other

[mortal harbor]

should just be able to set up 4 move filters on the scene pointed at the source you want to want for the 4 different positions (upright, then rotate clockwise, then rotate clockwise again, then again) and set their "next move" to be the next one that needs to happen in order for it to spin.

i haven't ever needed to do that.

[mental rose]

O i agree with you. but it doesnt work like that. That is exactly what i have been doing the whole time. What happens is when you go from 4 to 1 it rotates back the other way.

Everyone i have talked to has the same issue. I wish it was that easy. I got it figured out though

[mortal harbor]

you sent me down the path of wanting to figure this out

[mental rose]

Have fun with it lol. I hope you get it

[mortal harbor]

yes, already done with 2 move filters in the video i sent.

[untold jay]

@mental rose If you want to rotate 360 degrees cw or ccw, you have to make 2 filters, 180 degrees each.

[mental rose]

i have it figured out. I appreciate it

Im curious on how he got it to just move without it rotating back with just the move source

[mortal harbor]

the first move does the full spin over the duration you want, the 2nd move resets rotation to 0 with a 0ms duration so it is instant

the result is a smooth rotation 🙂

[mental rose]

yea that was the mistake i was making then. was the duration

[mortal harbor]

you are right, it goes back the other way but when it happens instantly you cannot see that.

[mental rose]

so i did it a diff way

wtf hang on

this way it never goes back.

its basically the same exact thing you did but i used another plug in

you cant see the image wanting to go back. So yes its all about the duration. which i have mine set at 10ms

[mental rose]

see the difference between what i did and what you did is you used a scene filter. i used a source filter so that i can use it in any scene without having to nest the scene. Because this source is already in all my scenes. it made it easier to do nothing but make it work

[mortal harbor]

yes you can do the same with a move value filter rather than a move source.

seems like you got it, i just wanted to try for myself because i was under the impression it was fairly easy.

[mental rose]

how did you get it to stay put though. see mine is rotating all over the screen when i only use the scene filters

[mental rose]

see the difference between the 2. the first one is source filters and the other is scene filters. how the heck did you get it just using the source filters

[true epoch]

Curious is there some way to set variables in obs? Want to somehow save if the chatbox is hidden or visible, since I'm using the move plugin, I don't want to actually toggle the visibility.

[mortal harbor]

sounds like a job for an advanced scene switcher macro

[cinder wagon]

https://github.com/exeldro/obs-shaderfilter/blob/master/data/examples/rotating-source.shader

[upper island]

Can I delete ANY of these, asides from Source record and Vertical canvas?
Whenever I'm not in safe mode my computer gets pretty hot but I really need to use source record

[analog ruin]

no, not really 😅

vertivcal canvas and source record will of course use more resources than not using them. Their primary job is essentially do 2x or more the amount of work your computer has to do

maybe you need some better cooling, or you could try to reduce the settings of those plugins

[upper island]

Yeah but like

It's still running pretty poorly

even when I'm not using them

[analog ruin]

if you want, you can run in safe mode, and post a log in one of the support channels, and we could have a look to whether there is anything obvious that can be done to reduce the load on the system 🙂

[upper island]

alright uno momento

I'll do one in both

[low laurel]

I've just setup OBS-NDI and was wondering If there's a way to control it - or rather, just another OBS without having to directly go to the other system and using the mouse etc?

[untold jay]

@low laurel No, but you can install software KVM, like Input Director.

[low laurel]

I came across a helpful page on the forums, managed to find a plugin that allows control of multiple OBS instances and more. https://obsproject.com/kb/remote-control-guide

[safe jolt]

I'm writing a shader effect. Is there some way to get the scale of a the source in the shader code? From the docs, I would have assumed that the scale must be stored within the ViewProj transform (mentioned here: https://docs.obsproject.com/graphics) but I couldn't figure out which components of it are the scale. My naive try was to get the length of the matrix rows.
(please ping on reply)

[dusk crane]

Does anyone know a plugin that is able to copy a value from one source to another?
f.e. there is a text object ( reading from file) and the background graphic should get the same value for width + x

[crystal stone]

you could you use an extra cooling fan another than your laptop or desktop

[paper jay]

guys pls dm me

i need to know how to use obs

[oblique yew]

✨ If you're new to OBS Studio:

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

🎞️ If you prefer to learn with videos, check out:

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

[vagrant thistle]

Hi Jivan, I have been using this plugin and love it, only having one issue and I have no idea if it is an OBS or plugin issue. Twitch is my main so I go and connect youtube then reconnect to twitch. Sometimes it works but more often than not I get a unable to stream on youtube error. Is this something you have come across?

[wintry wedge]

Maybe use a nested scene or group? Assuming you want all those items in a container the same size?
If you just want to copy a source completely, you could use the source clone plug in.

Mind clarifying further what you have in mind?

~~Anyone know what issue might be causing Advance Scene Switcher to crash? Anytime I try to add a macro it freezes and crashes OBS. I can use anything else in tab mode, but not Macros. ~~ Edit: Just figured out I didn't add the additional folder in a necessary area.

I'm also trying to set up a game and photoshop triggers... But once photoshop is open. Even if I have things set to" if focused." The scene stays on photoshop. Despite switching to a game or something else Edit: NVM, just figured it out lmao. Before switching to macros, I had a pause function set in the tabs that I forgot to delete.

I was so frustrated nothing was working. I thought maybe it wasn't exactly possible or I needed to add some odd variables

[wintry wedge]

Does anyone know if you can use the Advance Scene Switcher to update a file?

I was thinking maybe using it to help add scenes on the fly for a client.

Currently I have it set up like such
ClientSceneCollection .json < Symbolically Linked > SceneCollectionUpdater .json in Google Drive

That way maybe the client could use the following macro

If File - SceneCollectionUpdater .json - Contents Changed > File - Write to - ClientsLocalSceneCollection .Json.
Which would maybe update their Scenes?

I knows I can send them the exported .json, but I was wondering if I could maybe update it remotely if ever need be

[twilit pebble]

Hello, I've searched all over the OBS forum and haven't found any answers to my question.
Is it possible to change the color space of a source, for example my capture card, using a command in StreamDeck or some button that is easy to access in the OBS interface?
My scenario is this: I have a capture card plugged into my Xbox and my Playstation, normally I stream in SDR, but I use the Rec. 2100 PQ color space for HDR content. I would like to change this color space with a button on StreamDeck or something that would be simpler than going into the capture source properties every time to be able to change it. It would be great for me to be able to select these color spaces with the push of a button.
Is there a plugin or something like that that can do this for me? Thanks to anyone who can suggest a solution.

[wintry wedge]

If it's changed in source properties, you could probably do it with the Advance Scene Switcher I think.
Let me double check something real quick. I'll get back to you in a short moment!

[wintry wedge]

So here's what I've been able to test so far. It would probably have to be set up like this, and have a hotkey in OBS set up to connect with the StreamDeck I believe. But that should work!

You'd just have have to set up to version I think. Or maybe there's a way to set a toggle. But I'm still fairly new to it. So for now it might just be two separate macros you have to make. But you will be able to control it that way I believe!

I'm gonna see if I can set up my StreamDeck Mobile to make sure now

[twilit pebble]

Thanks, Josh! this should work, I will test it immediately. Thank you very much for your help with this.

[wintry wedge]

Glad to help, and anytime! If you figure it out before I do. Let me know.
There's also things like Aitum, and I think Streamer.bot which could probably help

[wintry wedge]

Got it to work, and there's a toggle option. So far the way I think it's best to do it is use Hotkey Switch in StreamDeck, and set the states to the two color profiles you wanna use!

Then boom, you're all set!

[warm sparrow]

heya! sorry if wrong channel. I kind of need help from people that know obs studio.
My idea was to have a detective or find this item on the screen game with viewers. Have one layer reveal a piece of clue ( a little circle on screen would reveal it) on the screen with a flashlight while rest of the screen in covered black. (hope it makes sense).

Is something like this possible to achieve? What plugins do u recommend for an idea like this?

[wintry wedge]

I'm sure it's possible, but might might require a bit of work. Depending how you wanted it executed.

(mind someone made doom run within OBS itself lol)

Mind expanding on the details on how you want the viewers to be able to interact?

[warm sparrow]

viewers dont have to interact, i want it to be more of a reveal situation but use this idea. Let me explain with a screenshot. I just dont know how to execute it properly ://

again sorry if wrong channel lol

[wintry wedge]

Noted, just making sure!

Hmmm... Maybe it would have to be a self hosted site used in a browser source? Assuming you want real time reveal sort of like one of the Discord builds. One sec

[warm sparrow]

i think stuff this advanced is out of my league like hosting a website...

[wintry wedge]

Lol no worries, I'm sure there's a easy way to do it. You could probably get stuff from code pen, and host it on neocities maybe? It would be free, and probably easy to set up.

If anything, I might be able to test that out later.

Give me a sec, there might be some other options I can think of

[warm sparrow]

thank you for trying to help me!

if u know anything about vtubers, i wanted it to be creative way for a reveal by slowly revealing small parts with that circle and keeping the rest of the screen black

[wintry wedge]

I'm friends with someone who knows a lot about Vtubers and works with people around them often. So totally get you!

Okay, so I might be on to something else. Which would use the zoom and follow mouse script for OBS.
I'm thinking maybe you can keep the spotlight fixed, but as your mouse is followed it will make the bottom image move. Making it look like the light is focusing on the content.

I'm still thinking of how to make it more legit. But I feel like maybe you could use a filter or mask to also help (still need to figure out out)

[warm sparrow]

my scuffed idea is having a 4k black image and a tiny dot that could be my spotlight to reveal the layer underneath

your idea sounds super cool but what would be the way for setting this up?

[wintry wedge]

If you mean the top part, it should just be what you have above.
Which is top layer is the circle. Then below is the image.

Then the OBS script you should be able to toggle on and off, and I think only affects the bottom layer.

This is the current one, and below is a video from Andilippi who does some decent videos!
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/zoom-to-mouse.1823/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvQMRLUhhM

Also as I'm watching this again, I think maybe you can do something with the top layer.

I think I might try it out in a moment!

Okay so I'm remembering more things that are possible. Using the mouse follow script with the Advanced Mask may help! You can use other sources as a mask.

Sooo... Maybe it can be a zoom effect on a white layer? Then use the advance mask on the black layer and maybe feather it so it's a light shape. Then the bottom image can be static. Which might make it look like you're using a flashlight. I just have to test it

[wintry wedge]

OKAY! SO I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU!

You only need the the two things I mentioned above. I'll try to record a video in a sec.

But use a color source and make it black, then use Advance Mask and do the following.
After set the source mode to multiply!

Then in the script play around with the following!
You just need the right zoom, speed and sensitivity and you'll be all set! Stoked to have found this out. Hope this helps!

@warm sparrow Here it is!

[warm sparrow]

omg thank you!!

THATS INCREDIBLE O:

i have to save this all and try it out when i have time!

this is seriously what i been looking for omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wintry wedge]

Absolutely and thank you for having asked. This helped me learn something really awesome! Glad I could help with this super neat trick!

[wintry wedge]

Take your time! If you need help, ping me later. I'll try my best.
I'm also sure there's many more fun things you can do with sources later to really add to the immersion maybe!

Quick edit: I'm likely going to bed soon. So heads up, it might be a while before I can probably reply. But this was super fun to make!

[true epoch]

That looks cool, really nice work

[wintry wedge]

Greatly appreciate it! Glad I could figure this out! Super fun and simple. Also made me realize maybe a lot more can be done with just OBS

OH! I also forgot, I adjusted the follow settings, so this might work better

[wintry wedge]

@warm sparrow later when you see this, on the color source layer. I just figured out. You may want to do the following to make it feel more natural.

Transform > Rotates 180 degrees. When you do that, the tracking will almost line up with your mouse or at least follow it more naturally. Without doing that, you have to angle things. Like you're actually holding the light, which might be annoying

This is what it looks like with the color source layer rotated.
I also added a color layer underneath and I'm also using a shader filter for added effect

[harsh cave]

can i get some help connecting obs to a streamdeck

[oblique yew]

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

[serene echo]

Very cool!! So fun to see people using the adjustment mask option of Advanced Masks

[wintry wedge]

Thanks! I just downloaded the plugin last night. Thanks for making it, works like a charm.

I remembered seeing something about this a while back and knew I should be able to find a solution with it.

Happy to have installed it. Definitely gonna have to keep playing around with it!

I bet there's a bunch of fun stuff one can create!

[vale vine]

Finite is a LEGEND. And one of the nicest dudes around

[whole spade]

@wintry wedge are you related to general Shepherd from cod by any chance

[true epoch]

With Advanced Scene Switcher, how do I specifically use a scene transition between two scenes, but still use the regular ones for all of the other ones?

I want to use the move transition when swapping between these 2 scenes, but the normal ones for every other one, including switching from one of these scenes to another one.

This works for forcing the move transition on these scenes, but it will also apply when you switch to them

[mortal harbor]

There is a transition table plugin that can handle that part of things probably

[true epoch]

Solved it, just had to switch it back for the activated scene

[civic heath]

Has multi-rtmps been causing anyone issues? Recently when i started using it my entire stream goes unusable, from 25k bitrate usage on a 35mbps upload speed, down to 200kbps and im looked at everything and its pointing to the plugin

[fossil wyvern]

if you try streaming without the plugin but with an equivalent combined bitrate, does it do the same?

[serene echo]

I'm glad you're enjoying it! Would love to see anything you create. 🙂

[wintry wedge]

Glad to hear! Seems to be true so far! Lol

[wintry wedge]

Definitely not lol. People usually always bring up General Shepard from Mass Effect haha

[wintry wedge]

I'll definitely ping you in the future if that's alright with you? I'm sure I'll come up with more stuff as time goes on!

Since I haven't really seen a response here yet regarding my recent question. Does anyone know if it's possible to use Advance Scene Switcher to update another file?

[fossil wyvern]

should be, what do you mean exactly by "update"

and based on what?

[wintry wedge]

@fossil wyvern so this is what I have set up and in mind. Because I wanted to see if I can maybe update some stuff remotely without constantly sending over new files

[fossil wyvern]

you can use adv-ss to run executables, so maybe making a .bat file that does what you want could work here

[wintry wedge]

Noted, so would I have the .bat file on my side or their side? Or would it have to be both?

[fossil wyvern]

their side if they're the one running adv-ss to update their sc

[wintry wedge]

Gotcha, I'll keep that in mind. I was just trying to see if I can avoid using certain things like that, just in case a client wouldn't feel safe with it. Which would be fair.
Thanks for the info!

[midnight drum]

I have OBS sending out an NDI signal and it can be seen using NDI studio app. I have a birddog PLAY decoder, that can see other NDI streams from my network, but it cannot decode the OBS NDI stream. any ideas???

[quiet bramble]

A common problem with NDI is having a firewall blocking its traffic on either end point or in the middle.

[worldly fjord]

hello, i'm relatively new to messing with obs. are all plugins written in C? (my C is very rusty, want to know what i'm getting into before i try my hand at authoring a plugin)

[wary escarp]

Most plugins are written in C or C++

There are exceptions but you’re pretty on your own with that

[worldly fjord]

guess it's time to pull out my stroustrup book

[civic heath]

It does not do the same, it seems to only happen when all 3 are going off at the same time, but if it was going over my cap (which it should be far off from my upload speed) then wouldnt it happen immediately?

[rigid forum]

Hi I don't know if this is the right place to ask but when I make a chatbox in streamelements the chat messages are black but when on the stream it's gray

[cedar timber]

Hey, are there any plugins for M1 Macs here, thanks in advance!

[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

[delicate field]

Hello, I am in the process of updating a OBS theme that I use for compatibility with OBS 30.1.1 (not my creation, just making my own edits since creator stopped supporting), and was wondering what I need to modify to remove the text from these buttons in the scene/source docks, as well as the audio mixer dock (where it says add, remove and the ellipses).

apologies if this is the wrong channel.

[barren grail]

Hi!
I know there is an option when you stream via twitch to show the Viewer count in a Dock.
But I can't get it too work with both my streams when I stream via YouTube and youtube shorts with vertical. How can I do that?

[dusky hemlock]

Are there any free or low cost virtual studio templates that will work with OBS around? They all seem to be for Adobe products.

[vapid charm]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

[daring dagger]

Anyone know of a plugin that's similar to Droidcam but free ?

[spiral ruin]

The Droidcam plugin for OBS is free. The Droidcam app for Android is also free.

[daring dagger]

It is free yes but has a watermark and only for an hour the unlock cost is 12 quid

[spiral ruin]

Then perhaps you should have added that in your post. Because Droidcam is still free, and really the plugin is not what you are looking for. You want a mobile app to send your camera to OBS. Correct?

[daring dagger]

thats correct, apologies, one that is free without either a watermark or limitations

[spiral ruin]

!smartphonecamera
You may find that there will always be some kind of limitation with free use. This guide covers several options to look at. Yes, it includes apps that have paid versions, for those who want full use. The last one in the list, vdo.ninja, is one I like to use because it is browser-based.

[oblique yew]

To use your iPhone or Android phone as a webcam, follow the Smartphone Camera Guide.

[untold jay]

@daring dagger Try droidcamx, too.

[solid vale]

Does anyone know the normal turn around time for plugin resources to get approved on the forum?
Seems a bit annoying that posting an update had to be approved + deletes the resource for other users

[mortal harbor]

no there is no set time frame, they are reviewed when time permits.

[storm tusk]

Anyone know of a visualizer plug in other than the waves one?

[mortal harbor]

you mean waveform? are you having issues with it?

[wintry wedge]

VDO / OBS ninja. Works really well. Plus you can tune your camera via the controls

[wintry wedge]

Browser source via Youtube I think or use Stream Elements

[wintry wedge]

This would be a better question normally for those in the SE Discord.

My guess though is it's just the sizing of the text via the browser source. It may become washed out if it's too small or sized down.
Even the purple text is lighter

[barren grail]

no a dock and i contacted Stream Elements and they say they dont work with 2 youtube streams

[wintry wedge]

Oops, yeah I forgot. I meant dock via a link. Have you done the custom dock?

2 Youtube streams, wild. Um, one sec!

[barren grail]

one is for youtube and one is for youtube shorts https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vEldXEcAbE0?t=1

they also let you do it on obs with the vertcal plugin

[wintry wedge]

Wow, interesting to see the new update. I wasn't aware of the new option. When live streaming vs desktop. Does it give you two options?
Btw I'm still looking for something I just saw recently that might be useful but can't seem to find where I discovered it just yet

[barren grail]

i have to have 2 dashboards open for the viewer count and then i use casterlabs to combin the chats but i talked to the casterlabs team on there discord and they said they can get youtube viewer count working for the muilt streams but only twitch

but i still need to find a differnt way to see my viewer count

[wintry wedge]

Just login and borrow the widget and this should work as a custom dock
https://streamlabs.com/desktop-widgets/viewer-counter

Just saw you commented on Reapers Video which led me to this...

[barren grail]

what video was it so ik what ur talking about?

[wintry wedge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJIzHfwXRts

[barren grail]

oh that one got it and also thats a good choice but i dislike using that as a dock becs it gives me a white background in the dock and changing the background in stream labs dosent do anything in obs/obs docks becs of this note under background colur "Note: This background color is for preview purposes only. It will not be shown in your streaming software."

[wintry wedge]

If you know how to use the console. Right click and inspect the dock in OBS and change the background color there

I'll show a video in a sec maybe

[barren grail]

wouldn't i have to do that every time i open obs? idk how to console but know how to use a tutorial + chatgpt to do the code

[wintry wedge]

Possibly, I'm not 100% certain. My guess is yes though since custom docks are normally refreshed?
You don't need code. You can just use a color picker

[barren grail]

is there a plugin for custom css in docks? i found one video but he nerver linked the plugin https://youtu.be/tQUEz2gGCfo

[wintry wedge]

That's because it's a mod to OBS via Github. Which is an option, but I'm sure there's something else you can do. I'm still testing some stuff

[wintry wedge]

Okay, so you can add the custom CSS on the widget in the page at the very bottom. Enable custom code.
Then just input the following the CSS section

html{
background: #000000;
}

Here you go

[barren grail]

ok only thing is it shows the old yt logo

[barren grail]

nvm i had to set it to ```<!-- Include Font Awesome stylesheet -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.4/css/all.min.css">

<!-- All platforms will be added to this container -->
<div id="platform_container">
</div>

<!-- Platform item template -->
<script type="text/template" id="platform_item">
<span style="font: {font_weight} {font_size} {font}; margin:20px" id="{platform}_container">
<!-- Use the new Font Awesome class for the YouTube logo -->
<i class="fab fa-{platform} platform-icon" style="color:{platform_color};"></i>
<img class="platform-img" width="{font_size}" height="{font_size}">
<span style="color:{font_color}" class="{platform}-count"></span>
</span>
</script>```

[wintry wedge]

Thats all on Streamlabs. If thats what they use, then you might be stuck.
Unless you can target the image and use an external image via a wiki.

html{
background: #000000;
}
.fa-youtube::before {
display: none;
}
.fa-youtube{
background-image: url('https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/YouTube_Logo_2017.svg/320px-YouTube_Logo_2017.svg.png');
background-size: contain;
background-position: center center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
width: 100px; 
height:  31px;
}

This works, but you may want to use a full red or the white and red version

[wintry wedge]

Didn't see this till now since I was trying to mess around with the above code lol. Cool, whatever works. Glad I could help. Best of luck

[barren grail]

ok thanks

[cedar leaf]

Droidcam is worth the $10 or so but you can use ipWebcam. I used it before I purchased DroidCam. You have to do a Window Capture because it sends the video feed to your browser. If you have Android 14 you can just plug in your Android device and select camera in USB mode. I saw a comment about VDO.Ninja, haven't used it but the Dev has really improved on the simplicity of it.

[rugged hazel]

Stream one scene, Record separate scene

[spiral ruin]

Is there a question there? Need more context for why you posted that in this channel.

OBS Studio apps uses hardly any resources. It's the scene collection and additional plugins that will eat up the RAM and CPU.
And, it's spelled "instead".

[pure pivot]

oh yeah 20% of cpu usage

not much

[spiral ruin]

It's your current scene collection.

[pure pivot]

[spiral ruin]

If you think your OBS install is using too much CPU, head to a support channel for assistance.

[rigid geyser]

😆

[bronze cave]

Trying a dual-pc setup, where the gaming and streaming PCs are using 'teleport'. Just chatting, everything was smooth. Game play on Fortnite was choppy. I have streaming FPS and game FPS set to 60. What's the rule of thumb here, stream in 60 FPS and lower the game to 30 FPS, or lower streaming to 30 FPS? I'm also seeing something new in the OBS forums called "Beam". Have any of you tried that? Is Beam similar to Teleport where the "Streaming PC" OBS is very simple, no scenes, other than what's needed to mirror the Gaming PC?

[spiral ruin]

Usually, the rule of thumb is to do what works best with your setup. Better place for this topic is #stream-setup as this channel is more specific to the plugin dev and use.

[bronze cave]

I did not scroll down far enough to see that channel! Thanks. Do you want me to delete my post here after I post there?

[spiral ruin]

Just leave it

[drowsy moss]

I'm still struggling with implementing source record into my OBS setup. Is there anyone available to help?

I currently have figured out to separate my camera and my mic to one recorded track, and my gameplay items to different tracks (by source- PC or capture card), but the gameplay recordings show my camera feed. How do I remove my camera feed from these, but also be able to stream?

For set up, I followed this guide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEHgNa49f6c&t=4s&ab_channel=Andilippi

GOAL
I'd like to separate my webcam and mic into a separate recording from what I see on my "Recording" scene (includes my capture card, display, and game capture). I'm also concerned about audio tracks. I also want to make sure when I switch scenes during streaming that everything is captured.

LOGS
https://obsproject.com/logs/QZE3Wmc79sDnViCj

[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

[drowsy moss]

Logs added to original post.

[mortal harbor]

14:26:25.561: User added filter 'Source Record' (source_record_filter) to source 'Recording'

it says you have a filter on your recording scene

[drowsy moss]

Yes, should I get rid of that?

Sometimes the Game Capture does not work, so I suppose I would have to have another filter for Display capture?

I'm honestly so discombobulated. I'd like to separate my webcam and mic into a separate recording from what I see on my "Recording" scene (includes my capture card, display, and game capture). I'm also concerned about audio tracks. I also want to make sure when I switch scenes during streaming that everything is captured.

[heavy pivot]

HI speak espanish

Help please

[hallow vale]

Yes. Becuase the filter is on the scene, it records everything in that scene. You would want the filters on individual sources instead.

To find it, right click the scene name and choose filters

[drowsy moss]

Ok, removing. Removed from Recording Scene

[hallow vale]

Cool. Everything is how you want it now?

[drowsy moss]

Noper captain- the first file there would be the stream (i guess?) but I have no footage of gameplay (display, game capture) only.

Do I have to do a filter on Game Capture, and a filter on Display?

[hallow vale]

The first file is likely not a source record filter, but just the regular OBS recording.

You would need a source record filter on the game capture source, yes

[drowsy moss]

I have one on game capture, but I am getting the same as before. Is that because I have no game open...?

[drowsy moss]

No changes

[heavy pivot]

Hello, I wanted to know how I could upload the recording controls, etc. in obs