plugins-and-tools

[leaden cipher]

oh shit.

good to know.

thank you

amazing. that worked. thanks again!

[fossil wyvern]

👍

[restive orbit]

Hey guys, been having an ongoing issue with trying to get obs set up on a dual gaming/streaming pc set up. I’ve hit an issue where I am trying to have separate audio tracks for editing purposes, I want to be able to have game audio and my chat/discord audio separate.
It was suggested in the windows support section to get the distriav plugin and create a filter on my audio source on my sending pc and a source on my receiving pc.
So I’ve done this, I’ve managed to isolate the desktop audio and this can be a separate track in my editing software but I can’t seem to isolate my mic - am I doing something wrong here? This is my first pc and it’s been a steep learning curve trying to set up a dual gaming/streaming pc set up…

[mortal harbor]

How were you getting the audio to the streaming PC before downloading that plugin?

[restive orbit]

Everything was going through the elgato capture card as one audio source if that answers your question

[mortal harbor]

yes it does. so what exactly is the issue? you need to add a filter on your desktop audio source, a filter on your mic source, and then add them both as NDI sources on the streaming PC OBS.

[restive orbit]

Hi, okay thank you. I have done what you suggested there but when I put the recorded file into capcut and then try extracting the audio tracks I get one track that is both desktop audio, and another which mic and desktop audio combined, what I’m looking for is a track that is also mic only.

I’m going to add a couple of screen shots of first my gaming PC’s OBS and then the streaming PC’s OBS incase there is anything obvious that you can spot that I’m doing wrong. Thanks for your patience here.

First two photos are the gaming pc

Next three photos are the steaming pc

[zinc flint]

Guys do you know how to dela off this i'm tired of it. i already update my driver

[trim otter]

here problem solving of custom css for youtube livechat
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/custom-css-for-youtube-chat-stopped-working-suddenly.178495/

[fossil wyvern]

yeah, the solution has been PRed, but pretty sure we shouldn't suggest using unchecked executables from random people in here

[obsidian agate]

especially by someone who just joined the OBS discord today and has made 1 post so far

[half beacon]

Hello everyone, I have a Nintendo Switch and I just bought an HDMI Video Capture Card, from all the videos I have seen of how to connect it to stream to your friends on Discord, you plug in the HDMI Video Capture card, then HDMI cable to the Switch Dock and the Video Card. Then you make a new video capture source and vola should connect. However, I cannot seem to get the screen to stream my games, does anyone know how to get it to stream on OBS Studio? I would highly appreciate all the help or any suggestions to try.

[oblique yew]

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

[dense terrace]

is there a way to switch mics with just one hotkey? i game with others and i dont want to talk over them and i also want to talk to chat. im able to make one mic only able to be heard to chat and the other to chat and game. and dont want these to be on at the same time

nevermind i figured it out

[maiden sage]

im trying to recreate this effect https://youtu.be/1WidFdW-yNo?t=594
Ive got all the shader filters set up and everything looks fine till the fire3 filter is added and it just overrides everything else, regardless of position i put it . how do i get all the others visible

[oblique yew]

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

[wicked cradle]

How do I import my discord reactive image onto discord?

[fossil wyvern]

that has nothing to do with obs

[unborn bane]

Is there a plugin or tool that has a source that is similar to Media Source but instead of a single file, you select a folder and the source plays through the files randomly? Probably not explaining it very well but I want the end product to be when I go to the scene with this source, it plays audio files randomly (without repeating) until I leave that scene.

[fossil wyvern]

!vlc
install vlc, use the vlc source

[oblique yew]

If you are having problems with playing content created by OBS Studio in Movies & TV or QuickTime Player, this is because the media player does not have proper format support. This causes missing video, audio, or for the file to not open at all.

We recommend VLC Media Player for better, accurate format support. Like OBS Studio, VLC Media Player is a free and open source project.

[unborn bane]

Thanks!

[vestal venture]

how do i get my strem chat to pop up after i exited out of it

[fossil wyvern]

under "docks"

[surreal carbon]

i can't uninstall Teleport, i have deleted it from windows, i have deleted all the files in the obs folder with the one .txt from appdata but the plugin is still there

i have clicked on all the uninstallers in the obs folder, there is no teleport one left

[obsidian agate]

Teleport on windows is 1 file

[surreal carbon]

have already uninstall it

[obsidian agate]

was the file called obs-teleport.dll? because THAT is the plugin file

[surreal carbon]

i can see the ohers plugin installs, but teleport is not there anymore

[fossil wyvern]

C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit

[surreal carbon]

yes, i deleted that one

[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

[obsidian agate]

post a log as the bot requested and we can see whats up. When you said you clicked on all the uninstallers in the obs folder that makes me worry a bit, since not all of those are for Teleport.

[surreal carbon]

i have clicked them just to check if it says teleport cuz most of them are unnamed, i found a .dll through logs and not it doesn't say it's installed anymore, thank you, didn't think of looking at logs

also windows file explorer search is the worst thing ever, going back to install everything

[surreal carbon]

also if anyone ever checks this, on my second pc was hidden in ProgramData for some reason

C:\ProgramData\obs-studio\plugins\obs-teleport\bin\64bit

[vapid charm]

<@&715347355565817879> Yeah. Not called for.

[wintry wedge]

Is there a script to auto resize text? Or elements based on inner elements? While I can code some stuff and use a local file in a Browser Source.
I feel like native sources in OBS update much faster. But can't seem to figure a few things out...

I thought about setting a large font size, then enabling text extents. Using wrapping, and scaling to part of the bounding box. Then nesting it in a scene or group.
But can't seem to figure out a way to make the text scale to the container via the bounding box~

I was thinking if things are nested and set right. I could either force the text to grow or shrink to what it's nested in. Or I could maybe grow what in's a group. Based on the length of the text?

Anyone know of a script or maybe a method I'm not familiar with?

[fervent marsh]

I don't think text sources actually update faster. And as a bonus, text rendering stalls the render thread.

[wintry wedge]

I guess it all depends on the method maybe. I'll keep that noted! To clarify. I have StreamerBot updating text based on a variable using Set GDI Text the text updates almost instantly. Browser Sources kind of lag, and some need to be refreshed to update... So If I have it updating text in local html files. The widget that retrieves the data still needs to reload what's updated and be refreshed in OBS. So, while it's more customizable, it's a little delayed~

[fervent marsh]

Well, the right way to do that with a browser source is to have the browser source running a snippet of code that listens to a websocket connection and feed it updates that way.

[wintry wedge]

I may have to keep looking into that! Right now, I have StreamerBot using OBS RAW to press the refresh on the source via Websocket. But the rough widget I started putting together uses a HTML doc, which pulls the updated txt files that StreamerBot writes the captured variables to, which are the links it retrieves.

There's a crazy amount possible without using Browser Sources now I feel. So I'm also trying to see how I can minimize Browser Sources in OBS.
Especially since it can be annoying to adjust content in Browser Sources to fit a scene. Or even use multiple Browser Sources in one scene

Excuse my typing btw, I feel like whatever I wrote is a bit off lol

[fervent marsh]

Well, for small amounts of text (like someone's name) it's not too bad to just update the OBS source. If you're talking about a bunch of text, though, you'll probably get render lag.

[untold jay]

This is where freetype2 text sources become preferable, they cache characters they've already rendered and don't spend CPU time to render them again when changing their text contents.

[fervent marsh]

TIL. What's the benefit to GDI then?

[quiet bramble]

Probably API stability (from personal experiences with ft)

[wintry wedge]

It varies, in some cases maybe it would be would be longer. But, probably not often!
Oh well, not sure if there's much I can do about it. Still gonna develop some widgets with code, just wanted to see what else might be possible!

[wintry wedge]

I'll have to give that a look, thanks for the recommendation!

EDIT: Just realized I'm using that for the typewrite effect witht the Move Value filter. Neat! More reasons to consider previous text sources!

[glacial idol]

Hi guys does anyone have experience with the Replay Source plugin? I'd like to use it to prepare a set of small clips as a highlight reel in between tournament sets, but the plugin uses so much ram that the entire obs recording slows down to 1 fps

idea would be this but you can see how the recording starts lagging and dropping frames

i was running out of ram so i went down on encoder settings and stuff but still had the same issue

[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

[glacial idol]

https://obsproject.com/logs/oGirEj2Uk7LBpLxO

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Third-Party Plugins (13)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 3080 - OK!

[vagrant minnow]

Yeah, that can't be good.

Feel like the plug-in might need an update.

[glacial idol]

from what i can see its loading the clips to ram but just uncompressed or something, each 5s clip taking up 4gb of ram or more

i wonder if i can replicate this in the regular replay buffer?

[glacial idol]

can get around it by just having less replays which kinda sucks but it is what it is

[vagrant minnow]

How many replays you have going at a time?

[glacial idol]

currently 5

i had it at 10 because imagine wanting to clip 6 things but the limit is at 5

[vagrant minnow]

No wonder it was taking up all your RAM. :/

[glacial idol]

yeah i realized that, maybe ill upgrade in the future if i really need to queue 10 clips but at least its working as intended

[fervent marsh]

This seems like you'd be better off playing back your clips with just normal media sources or a vlc source, maybe?

[vale vine]

Or download more ram. Ez

[obsidian agate]

not an equivalent to the "Replay Source" plugin, i dont believe

[glacial idol]

yeah i was looking into it but the most important thing for me is that its automated

for example if theres a way to have something like the image slide show but for videos it would work, then id just use replay buffer

but the convenience from the replay source plugin where i press a hotkey, switch to a scene, me reel plays and then i can clear the queue for the next reel is amazing

[obsidian agate]

you also said you had a bunch of buffers running

[glacial idol]

nah i didnt

[obsidian agate]

ah, my bad. i mistook the mentions of 5 and 10 clips to be the "replay filter" aspect, where you had a number of them running at once

[fervent marsh]

What, exactly, is your workflow for this? Not quite following the exact intended behavior?

[glacial idol]

its all good

[glacial idol]

afaik im not doing weird stuff

[fervent marsh]

Didn't say you're doing weird things, just that I'm not following the full workflow. 😉

[glacial idol]

oh haha

So im running a tournament stream for my local smash bros tournament, during a game or set i want to prepare a couple 5s clips which i then can play back at the end of a game or set

[fervent marsh]

You said that. But what do you mean by "prepare a set of"? Prepare how?

[glacial idol]

like this

so the game ends, scene switches over to an intermission scene and then i can show the replays

[fervent marsh]

But what do you mean by "prepare a set of"? How do you prepare them?

[glacial idol]

so how the plugin works, i press a hotkey which saves a clip to the ram, in my case 5 seconds

you can then press the hotkey again to queue another clip after the first clip

then when you switch to a scene with the replay source, those clips that you queued start playing

thats what i meant

its basically the replay buffer instant replay but with multiple replays

[fervent marsh]

Okay. "prepare" probably isn't the right word there, since that implies more than just "save a repay". But this seems like you ought to be able to do it in a much simpler way.

Gimme a few to finish breakfast.

[glacial idol]

sure thing

[fervent marsh]

Damn, adv-ss doesn't really have any good "wrangle local files on disk" functionality.

Hmmm. Lemme test something real quick though.

I'm assuming you're also recording at the same time?

[glacial idol]

yes

both streaming and recording

[fervent marsh]

What's kinda funny is that what you have is closer to a file management need than an OBS need. And what's kinda disappointing is that https://github.com/Penwy/adv-ff?tab=readme-ov-file could just about do all the heavy lifting, except that it can't really, until https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/8955 is merged (and who knows if/when that will happen).

I think you can manage this with a tiny bit of offboard scripting, though.

[obsidian agate]

StreamerBot could also handle this i bet

[fervent marsh]

Possibly.

So what I would do:

• Make a directory to hold the replay snippets, like C:\snippets
• Add a VLC source, and "add directory" that directory as its playlist
• Save your clips during gameplay using the normal replay buffer functionality, which with default settings should save your clips in your recordings directory (we'll call it C:\recordings) with a name similar to Replay 2024-08-11 08-17-40.mkv
• Near/at the end of each match, run a batch file, where the batch file is basically "delete everything from C:\snippets" followed by "move c:\recordings\Replay*.mkv to c:\snippets". Run this script by hand, and/or use adv-ss to run it
• Use a macro in the adv-ss plugin to do a refresh source settings (under Source) on the VLC source (this will make it refresh the list of files in that directory) (I don't know of another way to get it to do this, which is annoying. It feels like adv-ss shouldn't be required just to do this. There's not even a button in the source settings for it!)
• Enable the VLC source

You can have as many files as you want, and they can be as long as you want, and they'll use basically no RAM whatsoever.

[glacial idol]

I'm going to look into this later

Cheers!

[fervent marsh]

I am again frustrated that OBS and related tools have 95% of what is needed to make this an actually trivial problem, but has no options for the last 5%

[glacial idol]

i got around the step of having to move the file by editing the prefix of the replay buffer to ./Replays/Replay

so it auto saves to a subfolder in my recording folder

[fervent marsh]

Oh, hey, yeah, that would work! Then you just have to clean out that directory between runs, and trigger the refresh. Nice!

[glacial idol]

And since im using a streamdeck i now have this

so ill make a multiaction to include the source refresh to save me the headache haha

but this is a lot better and a lot more versatile

thanks!

[glacial idol]

the only thing i need is some way to add simple transitions between the clips

[indigo turtle]

I have a question, did you see the new obs plugin that can separate the sounds? How do I add the alert sound if I don't have the option to add the obs sound?

[fossil wyvern]

select "control audio via obs" in the properties of the browser source

[fossil wyvern]

also the plugin isn't new and it's not needed to separate the sounds anymore

[indigo turtle]

I separate them so I can get my music out of the VODs and also control the volume of each one.

[indigo turtle]

where? in the obs?

[fossil wyvern]

in the properties of the browser source for the alert

[fossil wyvern]

yeah and that doesn't need any plugin

[indigo turtle]

thankssss

[umbral flare]

I am having issues with obs-ndi. I've just done a full reformat and reinstall, and my render times are causing lag, despite CPU/GPU/Network not being heavily taxxed (cpu 50%, gpu30%, 10Gig Network). Even with reformat and full fresh install it's losing 0.2% of frames and taking 24ms+. NDI main, preview & Tallies off, using filters on 4 video and 3 audio.

Realising posting this here maybe not best route for real assistance (posting on obs discord about ndi/plugin maker issue), but maybe someone has an idea what's wrong.

[untold jay]

@umbral flare Are you observing those issues on the sending PC or the receiving PC?

[umbral flare]

sending

via obs stats

[untold jay]

Could you describe every source that's being sent? I'm interested in their resolutions and frame rates, and maybe a general description (display, 2D application, game?)

[umbral flare]

4 1080 video sources, 3 microphones, system audio all via filter. I have been doing this for some time, and it's gotten worse over time till now it's causing issues.

Dual 10Gig network

[untold jay]

@umbral flare Try this: duplicate your profile, duplicate your scene collection, remove all NDI output filters, create a scene, set the canvas resolution in settings>video to 4K (3840x2160), put all 4 1080p video sources in there, send them all using a single NDI output filter on the scene or using the Tools menu, receive the NDI feed on the receiving PC. Does this reduce average time to render frame?

[umbral flare]

It greatly reduced it. before was ~30ms, without NDI it's under 1ms... with this it's 11-16ms.

[covert copper]

hey folks, so I added advance scene switcher to OBS for the purpose or running a macro that will play a sound when I transition between 2 specific scenes. reading through the instructions and can't figure out how to add the sound.

[mortal harbor]

I am not sure if a “play media” action is built in like this but you can add the sound as a media source and have the macro play that.

[untold jay]

@umbral flare Is this good enough? I forgot if newtek's "ndi tools" has any options to send video from video capture devices, it can definitely send entire displays with "ndi screen capture" and "ndi screen capture hx".

[covert copper]

makes sense i just don't see where/how to attach the sound

[umbral flare]

Debating if it'll work. Other way allowed me to save audio channels separately from my broadcasting setup.

I'm thinking of sending the audio via filters, and consolidating the video. it's likely the issue anyways.

[untold jay]

@umbral flare Oh, right, almost forgot. You can still send individual audio sources from obs-studio using audio-only NDI filters. I don't think those ever cause issues.
I think the issue here is that NDI video filters stall the renderer, and with 4 of them, they stall obs-studio long enough to exhibit this issue. Perhaps the author of obs-ndi would have a better insight: https://github.com/DistroAV/DistroAV/issues
You could also set up additional portable copies of obs-studio to capture and send a single video source per copy using obs-ndi. This will increase total CPU overhead, but maybe reduce the likelihood of average time to render going too high.

[umbral flare]

Thank you for the help Chiyo. I think this has me on a path that'll work better. It'll take me a while to figure it out.

[covert copper]

This is what I've done so far....but I just don't see a way to attach/upload the sound byte.

[wintry wedge]

If you're enabling and disabling a source, you can change the show/hide transitions. That way every time it refreshes the source, it should have what you want

[glacial idol]

I'm not doing that though this is the VLC Source going through a playlist of clips

I actually have a show/hide transition on it already

[wintry wedge]

Are you trying to use a stinger on it? Or do you mean you're looking to add transitions in post?

Or is the VLC just going through all clips without shutting on and off between each clip?

[glacial idol]

Yes this

Doing anything in post isn't viable for my workflow

Since everything needs to be done live

[wintry wedge]

Noted! And I was asking about post, assuming maybe you were also posting stuff out after streams too.

I also assumed maybe the VLC was turning on and off between clips. So since you already have It for the source. Maybe one way you could do things is add a source above it or use something in a DSK and have it trigger per updated clip?

Depending how it works...

Though, maybe there's an easier way. Id have to double check some stuff. So I could also be wrong

[glacial idol]

yeah I wasn't able to figure it out yet, the VLC Source seems kinda broken as well

Audio cutting off for example

Which seems to be a bug since 2021 lol

[fervent marsh]

You might be able to do something with adv-ss like... if playback time remaining < 1 second, fade in a black layer on top, skip to next video, fade out black layer on top, and same with the volume of the vlc source.

[wintry wedge]

Just like @fervent marsh mentioned, I just tested something out. You could have it be
If Media Source VLC Video Source state is Ended and None or even (time longer/shorter or remaining)

LMedia Pause Source VLC Video Source
LWait Fixed durration Number of seconds for transition media clip
LMedia Play Source Media Source
L Media Play Source VLC Video Source

Then it should pause when each clips ends. May, have some audio lag. But a better video container may help? Then after the transition clip above the VLC runs with the timer. You should resume the next clip!

[leaden cipher]

anyone know the proper way to toggle docks enabled and disabled?

cameraControlDock->setEnabled(false);

this doesnt remove the dock like selecting it in the docks menu does.

i just want to undock it or toggle it as if you used the dock menu. lol

[grand spoke]

is there away to get the chat to show on one screen while I play games?

[vapid charm]

Only if you play windowed and not full screen.

[glacial idol]

cheers for the help i think this looks so sick

still want to play around with the graphics but the core functionality is there

the audio is still broken but i think its better without audio anyway since youll have people commentating over it

[sonic lichen]

Wtf wrong is with logo of this dc

[mortal harbor]

what do you mean?

[sonic lichen]

🏳️‍🌈

This

[mortal harbor]

yeah what is the issue?

[sonic lichen]

Nothing everything is okay🤣🤣✅ ❌

[minor coral]

Heyo! Have a bit of experience with OBS but am having trouble getting input overlay working with my arrow keys in particular (Every other key works fine). Some of what I have tried already: 1. Checking key codes that my arrow keys send when pressing them in google's inspect element console and applying and checking if the key codes match the .json file. 2. Changing the .json file's arrow key keycodes to match the ones that my console says I am reporting when I press my arrow keys (Didn't work)

Using the Univrsl Input overlay templates and configuration files

[untold jay]

@minor coral Does nohboard detect them correctly? https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/nohboard.44/

[minor coral]

Yes

[mortal harbor]

how do you add rounded corners on any source? all I can find is a circle

[untold jay]

@minor coral If you have a second display and/or can run your games windowed, you can use nohboard instead, it's fairly easy to configure. Failing that, you can ask https://github.com/univrsal/input-overlay/issues here, maybe.

@mortal harbor Run an image editor of your choosing, draw the corners by hand (use white on black background or vice versa) at the same resolution as the source you're adding borders to, save as PNG, then add an "image mask/blend" filter, specify the PNG file, choose "color channel", choose black or white.

[mortal harbor]

ayt imma try this. never tried this type of masking before coz i think it's complicated but i'll do it

@minor coral big dawg. i was succesful by just following the steps on this plugin. https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/input-overlay.552/

[harsh topaz]

Use the advanced masks plugin from FiniteSingularity

Select these settings, play around with the settings below

[minor coral]

yeah but it doesnt work with arrow keys for some reason

[minor coral]

Ah okay. Do you know how to change the look of the keys. Looks ugly af given the standard look.

[untold jay]

@minor coral nohboard ships with a few options for that, check them out.

[minor coral]

bet

[mortal harbor]

no photoshop needed. i didn't know regular polygon was available. i just use rectangle lol. thanks bro!

thanks as well to Chiyo

[harsh topaz]

Np, I didn't know this was a thing either until I came across it the other day. Super useful. Can strongly recommend any plugin by FiniteSingularity. Their Retro Effects is also really good, and strokes as well! 🙂

[teal bluff]

Why when i clip with obs this appens?

can anyone help me please?

[spiral ruin]

Wht actually happens? That's a static image so we don't know what you mean.

[teal bluff]

I can't pull the clip forward and the clip doesn't come in seconds, or minutes, it comes in a different scene

[spiral ruin]

What file format?

[teal bluff]

mp4

[spiral ruin]

Fragmented mp4?

[spiral ruin]

No, what I mean is, in OBS, is it set to record and save as a fragmented mp4?

[teal bluff]

no

[spiral ruin]

!vlc
Try in VLC Player.

[oblique yew]

If you are having problems with playing content created by OBS Studio in Movies & TV or QuickTime Player, this is because the media player does not have proper format support. This causes missing video, audio, or for the file to not open at all.

We recommend VLC Media Player for better, accurate format support. Like OBS Studio, VLC Media Player is a free and open source project.

[teal bluff]

ok

thanks, it worked

[sleek lynx]

hrmm, looking for some advice if any one is awake, setting up a png tuber for when I dont want to be on cam, hotkey changes its state from real head, to skull, ive made an animation to transition from one to the other and back, running it with adv-ss whenever the hotkey is hit, but the change happens so fast in veadiotube that the animation kinda plays over the new state so it doesnt look right... also tried hiding the vt layer and bring it back near the end of the animation... still looks a bit wonky, just wonder if anyone has any ideas how to do it better in adv-ss

[sleek lynx]

reworked it a bit, tried to kinda hide the major errors with that digi glitch retro effect plugin... still look like shit?

[stuck sapphire]

Why i don't have any filters?

[vagrant minnow]

Aren't those VST3?

[stuck sapphire]

idk

[vagrant minnow]

Because OBS only accepts VST2, which is why those won't show up.

[stuck sapphire]

So what can i do?

[vagrant minnow]

Find different VSTs.

[stuck sapphire]

k

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio supports many VST 2.x plugins which can be applied to your audio sources as a filter. For more information, see the VST 2.x Plugin Filter guide.

[quiet bramble]

I think they are all VST 2 or older, but IIRC Voxengo VSTs are all 32-bit only, which of course will not work in OBS 64bit.

I know some people a few years back used to use 32bit OBS just to use Voxengo VSTs, which then caused other problems for having 32bit OBS.

Best to avoid 32bit VSTs though, or use a VST host with a 32bit bridge. Reaper can do that, and there are some others also but not worth it IMHO. Also, Voxengo VSTs cause instability problems from my experiences with them in the past.

I just had a quick look and it depends on the specific Voxengo VST. Most of them are VST1, with many of them also having VST3. Some are 32-bit only and some are 32+64bit, so it looks like it depends on which plugins someone is trying to use.

[wintry wedge]

That's awesome! Happy to see everything working. Congrats, keep it up and keep having fun!

[arctic compass]

guys i have a window 10 can my desktop support obs

[obsidian agate]

that can depend on the version of Windows 10 you are running, as well as your PC's hardware

you could just download OBS and try it

[arctic compass]

welp i also need to buy a cam and a mic first xd because im using a desktop ._.

[wintry wedge]

Use the Advanced Mask Plugin! Much easier ❤️

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/advanced-masks.1856/

EDIT: Just saw this was already recommended, my bad lol

[obsidian agate]

you can still download it and test it out BEFORE buying anything else

[arctic compass]

what if my desktop crashes

[obsidian agate]

that would be the best route, so you know if it can capture your games, runs well, etc.

[arctic compass]

i have apps dowwloaded

[obsidian agate]

!s then go to a support channel and post the error you see or the crash log if a "oops, OBS has crassed" window pops up

[oblique yew]

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

[obsidian agate]

#windows-support would be the appropriate channel

[wintry wedge]

This reminds me so much of stuff like Celebrity Death Match, and Clay Fighter. Looks awesome, and I love how well the Retro Effects are working with it.

Quickly a favorite of mine as of late

Good job btw on this!

[obsidian agate]

The melting head reminds me of Return of the Living Dead

[old latch]

Can someone point me to a channel where I’m having low bitrate sine the enhance obs update ?

[obsidian agate]

!s the list of appropriate support channels are in the support portal channel

[oblique yew]

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

[obsidian agate]

Nvm, u found it 🙂

[bronze turtle]

I downloaded Aitum Multistream for OBS for windows, and now my webcams LED light keeps blinking on and off, and I can't get it to work in OBS. Has anyone else had this issue?

[oblique yew]

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

[mighty depot]

Hi all will Stream FX do blue screen with a Nvidia gpu ?

[mortal harbor]

you will need to clarify what you mean.

[mighty depot]

I saw a video about using the plugin to make a virtual green screen that I don't want to make a virtual green screen I want to make a virtual blue screen instead of green

[mortal harbor]

gotcha, ok well the question is clear now but unfortunately I do not know the answer.

[untold jay]

@mighty depot The streamfx plugin doesn't have any background removal features, try this plugin instead: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/background-removal-virtual-green-screen-low-light-enhance.1260/

I need to fact check myself.

Whoops, it does have that.

@mighty depot The streamfx plugin does have background removal features, https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-StreamFX/wiki/Filter-Virtual-Greenscreen
But it doesn't matter what backgruond you have, there's no need to buy any chroma keying mats, it works without them.

[fossil wyvern]

if you have a physical bluescreen, use a chroma key filter, not virtual greenscreen

[mighty depot]

why i ask is i need a Virtual blue screen green will not work

[fossil wyvern]

why not?

you are aware that a virtual greenscreen actually does not remove green?

that's just the name, it actually has no interaction with specific colors

[mighty depot]

yes I am to do something with snap cam that has a lot of green

[fossil wyvern]

right, so you understand that there would be zero difference between a virtual bluescreen and a virtual greenscreen?

they would actually be the exact same thing

[quiet bramble]

If you have a video/image source that contains green, blue or any other color that you want to remove, that is what the chroma key or color key filters are for. Color key is typically best used for removing computer generated colors that are uniform, and chroma key is typically ideal for cameras or media that are filmed with a real green/blue or other coloured screen. No other plugins or filters are necessary from NVIDIA or otherwise for this, it is all built into OBS.

[bronze turtle]

I keep getting this error message for my webcam, does anyone know how to solve this issue?
A sprite cannot be drawn without a width/height
https://obsproject.com/logs/teJORbaBfWwTVTbl

@bronze turtle ...
I keep getting this error message for my webcam, does anyone know how to solve this issue? A sprite cannot be drawn without a width/height https://obsproject.com/logs/teJORbaBfWwTVTbl

[oblique yew]

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

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Third-Party Plugins (9)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[quiet bramble]

If you are wanting to remove a background and replace what used to be the background with a computer generated color background, you can remove the background with chroma keying if using a colored screen, or software background removal as mentioned above, and then place a Color Source undernearth the source that contains your keyed out foreground.

[fossil wyvern]

is there an actual issue with the cam?

[bronze turtle]

Absolutely no issues with the Webcam (it's a Logitech BRIO). The webcam gets detected by the regular camera app on my desktop, and the LED lights stays on. In OBS though, the LED keeps blinking on and off, and this only started once I downloaded the Aitum Multistream Plugin

[fossil wyvern]

!safemode
does it happen in safe mode

[oblique yew]

In case a plugin is causing issues, try opening OBS Studio in Safe Mode. This mode prevents plugins and the built-in WebSockets server from loading which can help you identify whether a plugin is causing issues for your setup.

1. Click on the Help menu → Restart in Safe Mode
2. When you are finished with safe mode, click on the Help menu → Restart in Normal Mode

[bronze turtle]

My webcam gets detected and works properly in safe mode

[fossil wyvern]

uninstall aitum, check in normal mode?

[bronze turtle]

Unfortunately, I was hoping to set up a Vertical Stream, and Multi-Stream, but I won't be able to do that in safe mode

[fossil wyvern]

yes that's normal, safe mode doesn't load plugins

[bronze turtle]

I was trying to uninstall Aitum Multistream Plugin, but I don't think I did it properly. Should I try it again?

[fossil wyvern]

close obs, run the uninstaller, restart obs

[bronze turtle]

Well, out of all the plugins I downloaded, everything was working fine until I downloaded Aitum Multistream Plugin

OK, I uninstalled Aitum Multistream and all it's components. Let me try to restart OBS again now

My webcam LED is still blinking on and off, so it's still not working. Maybe it wasn't the Aitum Multistream Plugin. But I'm completely unsure of what to do or what to try next though.

[fossil wyvern]

send a log again

[bronze turtle]

OK, I'll send a current log. Let me just do a 30 sec recording real quick

OK, Current log on OBS here
https://obsproject.com/logs/M9prVWDgABMaRuss

[oblique yew]

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

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (8)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[bronze turtle]

I did not open up OBS by running as an Administrator, I just opened up OBS the default way (shortcut on desktop)

[fossil wyvern]

!ser
ok, same thing but remove se.live now

[oblique yew]

To cleanly remove SE.Live:

1. Uninstall SE.Live (Add/Remove Programs)
2. Uninstall OBS Studio (make sure that "User Settings" is not selected)
3. Install OBS Studio again from https://obsproject.com/
   Your settings will be saved unless you have selected to delete them during removal.

[bronze turtle]

OK, I will close OBS, uninstall SE.Live, and open up OBS again, do a 30 sec recording, and I'll upload another log file

[true atlas]

Hey guys!

[serene echo]

Just to clarify a bit. There is what is called a "chroma key" where you are taking a range of chroma (color) values, and making them transparent. This is when you're using a greenscreen or a bluescreen- you place that color behind the subject, and use a chroma key algorithm to remove it.

The nvidia plugins are not a chroma key, they are an AI/Machine Learning algorithm that determines what in the image is the person/subject, and what in the image is background. Calling it "virtual Greenscreen" is a bit misleading.. it really should be called "AI Background Removal," as it doesn't use color at all.

[true atlas]

So quick question about NVIDIA AR Move.
Could that be used to trigger stuff based on what you do on camera?
Say, if you put up a peace sign, you trigger things based off of that?

Or maybe AdvSS could do this... With the "recognize stuff on screen" trigger?

[fossil wyvern]

I thought it only recognised face?

[true atlas]

Yeah I don't know. What I do know is that AdvSS can do stuff based on for example, if it "sees" the youtube logo in a window

Or other image artifacts that you can determine

So if it can do that, why not a peace sign, right

[fossil wyvern]

no sorry, when I said "only face" I meand nvidia AR

[true atlas]

Oh

That one, yes

[fossil wyvern]

adv-ss could do that I think provided you have the right object files, but unsure how well it works and how intensive it is

[bronze turtle]

OK, sorry I was gone so long, I had to restart my computer after uninstalling some plugins. But here is the new Log File
https://obsproject.com/logs/rKG4eoqJxGdfXWAF
I'm still having the same issue. The LED light on the webcam just keeps blinking over and over again, so I'm not able to set up my video capture source

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (6)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[true atlas]

Right. Time for me to tinker! Will come back with results lol

[fossil wyvern]

ok, we can continue with the whack-a-mole , now yeet obs-stroke-glow-shadow

[mighty depot]

I am using a green screen now with a chroma key but if i use a snap cam lens with green it dos not show in obs

[fossil wyvern]

if you have an actual greenscreen you do not need a virtual one

[bronze turtle]

OK sure. My Webcam was working with ALL of those plugins anyway (EXCEPT for Aitum Multistream Plugin), but I'll still try what you're suggesting anyway, cuz I haven't tried it yet at least

[serene echo]

I'd make sure you do your snap cam lens after you do the chroma keying in your filter chain.

key out your background, and then apply the snap filter. That way the green wont get filtered out.

[fossil wyvern]

it working in safe mode means it's a plugin causing it, so we play whack a mole till we find the one that does it

[serene echo]

And yes, if you have a greenscreen, and can key things out well, stick with that, as the quality will be much better than the nvidia stuff.

[mighty depot]

It is an actual green screen

[bronze turtle]

My Log file after deleting obs-stroke-glow-shadow
Webcam LED is still blinking constantly, about every second. THe LED should be off, when not being used/detected, and the LED should be solid ON, when detected and in use
https://obsproject.com/logs/3ZCUZplDU3ELbTDr

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (6)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[bronze turtle]

What do you mean? What is an actual Green Screen?

[mighty depot]

The snap lens Is in a camera source so how would I make sure the key is before that?

[mighty depot]

It is a piece of green fabric hanging on a wall

[bronze turtle]

Oh OK, I see whatcha mean

[serene echo]

Ahhh. I get the conundrum now. That is tricky. In that case, if you cant add the snap effects after the chroma key, and green is what is getting in the way, you'd likely need to get a chroma blue cloth, and then use the same chroma key filter, but change the color to blue.

[mighty depot]

That's why I was asking if there was a way to have virtual one to do a blue instead of a green

[serene echo]

The virtual one doesn't care about the color at all, as its not chroma keying out a specific color. Theoretically, you could remove your chroma cloth altogether, and the nvidia background removal will work.

that said, if your snap filters are very non-person shaped/looking, the virtual background removal might remove your head as well, as it wont see you as what it recognizes as a face.

[fossil wyvern]

stroke-glow-shadow still there in that log

[bronze turtle]

Did I accidentally download it twice? Let me check that again then, hold on

The Stroke-Glow-Shadow installer is still in my downloads list, should I delete it from there too?

The actual plugin has already been uninstalled from my OBS though

[fossil wyvern]

send a log again?

[bronze turtle]

Sorry, IDK why, but I had to go in manually into the Program Files Folder and delete Stroke-Glow-Shadow. There was still something left in there.
OK, new Log File after deleting Stroke-Glow-Shadow
https://obsproject.com/logs/IjBdBgkAqZHdq2ra

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (5)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[bronze turtle]

Webcam LED is still just blinking on and off

[fossil wyvern]

ok, vertical-canvas?

[bronze turtle]

Check out the Screenshots and the Blue Highlight in the bottom left corner. OBS keeps detecting my Webcam, and then losing connection somehow, about every second. I'm not sure why OBS is doing this. It has to be OBS, because the regular Camera App on my desktop works, and lets me use my Webcam normally. But OBS is having this issue only, IDK why

[bronze turtle]

That's the one I wanted to keep the most 😭 I wanted to do Vertical Streams. But I guess I gotta get rid of it first to get things working again I guess

And yeah, the Webcam works in OBS' Safe Mode, so I'm not sure what the problem is.......The fact it DOES work in safe mode, makes me think that maybe one of the Plugins could be the problem, but the webcam was having NO problems, only until I downloaded the Aitum MultiStream Plugin

Anyway, I deleted the Vertical Canvas Plugin
Here is the new Log File
https://obsproject.com/logs/qOcPyNcosDTo0mvt

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (4)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[fossil wyvern]

yes as I said, it working in safe means the problem is one of the plugin, which is specifically why I'm having you remove them one by one

[fossil wyvern]

still same issue?

[bronze turtle]

Yeah, but I'm curious why it was working before then, that's what I don't get..................🤔

[bronze turtle]

Yes, sorry, I forgot to say, the LED light on my webcam is still blinking over and over non-stop

[fossil wyvern]

move transition?

[bronze turtle]

OK, gimme a min

[bronze turtle]

Holy crap, I think that might have done it!!
New Log File
https://obsproject.com/logs/rjmaBoW0AGqGh8yh
Now my Webcam Light is SOLID ON !!

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[bronze turtle]

My Webcam Light is SOLID ON!! It's being detected by OBS and it seems fine (so far) !!

[fossil wyvern]

right so it's likely the audio move filter either on mic/aux or BEACN Mic, which is causing fuckery and basically resetting the source everytime you speak

[bronze turtle]

Ohhhhhhhhhh, I think I know what I did.....................................

[fossil wyvern]

(and you can reinstall the others btw, sorry the whack-a-mole is always tedious like that)

[bronze turtle]

I was trying to make an outline of myself, like a shadow outline or something. Then I was going to have it move, based on my microphone volume levels. I think I set it up wrong, then gave up, cuz I was using a green screen anyway, so what's the point. Then somehow, my webcam stopped working, and I tried figuring out what was wrong for like 3+ hours before I tried asking anyone on Discord for help

[fossil wyvern]

👍

[bronze turtle]

Yes, I don't think the plugins themselves were the issue. I messed up setting something up with one of the plugins, and I didn't know it would cause things to break that badly, I thought I could just leave it alone and ignore it. I'm not gonna do that again !!

[bronze turtle]

I appreciate your time and your help, thank you so much !!

[fossil wyvern]

[bronze turtle]

I'm gonna get back to downloading all those plugins again, and setting up my Vertical and MultiStream Streams. I won't mess things up again that badly this time. Thanks again !!

[vale vine]

That was a fun game of whack a mole

[bronze turtle]

Not EXACTLY fun 😭 But, we achieved a victory in the end, so we can take that W 😂

Olympic Level OBS TroubleShooters 👑

[mighty depot]

Would there be anyother way to make it work and keep the current Green screen setup

[serene echo]

unfortunately, not that I can think of.. that is one of the big downsides to chroma keying.

[clever warren]

Hey guys i am very new to plugin development , but had a quick question i found through reading theres a way to develop plugins in C# referencing SDK assemblies obs_api.dll and obs_plugin.dll but i cant seem to find where these assemblies are or how to compile them at least.

[wheat coyote]

hi i download NDI plugin but i can't see my other PC on NDI Plugin

[sleek lynx]

thanks

[sleek lynx]

actually borrowed it from raiders of the lost ark

[untold jay]

@wheat coyote Disable firewalls on both ends and restart both copies of obs-studio, does it work then?

[hallow vale]

I'm working on trying to use scrcpy to mirror my mobile phone screen, and have it connected to my network with an ethernet adapter. I'm getting this error message, and am not sure if I am using the commands correctly. I think adb might be for USB connected devices only? Everything I can find for help has the phones using USB.

If anyone has any ideas what I am doing wrong, I'd appreciate it!

[untold jay]

@hallow vale Set up scrcpy to work over USB first, then follow scrcpy's documentation to see how to allow it to also work over wifi and other connection methods. During the initial setup, USB must remain connected.

[hallow vale]

Oooh! Thanks so much!

[untold jay]

@hallow vale The explanation was poor at first, I re-wrote it for whoever might be searching for this question in the future.

[hallow vale]

It was great anyways. I just got everything connected and working. Thank you again!

[untold jay]

yay

[vapid knot]

hi i tried to remove/uninstall a plugin from obs and i thought i did it right, but now when I try opening obs it doesn't open and gives me a pop up that says "failed to intialize service" uh oh what did i do? 😮

[fossil wyvern]

you probably deleted the wrong file. Help > check file integrity

[vapid knot]

but the program won't open so where do i go for that?

[fossil wyvern]

oh, then just download the obs installer and run it, it should repair the install

[vapid knot]

will i lose all of my settings? custom docks, other plugins and just everything I have set up

[fossil wyvern]

no

[vapid knot]

ok so just download it and install and it'll override the one i have already installed?

[fossil wyvern]

it'll replace the files that are missing yee

[vapid knot]

ok perfect thanks

[vapid knot]

so i got obs working again, how do i remove the multi-stream rtmp plugin?

[lean marlin]

is there a way enhaning virtual cam? so i can see the device show up in the device management?

[fossil wyvern]

no

[dark sapphire]

the virtual cam is not a real device so it won't appear in device manager

[vapid knot]

anyone know how to remove this plugin ?

[fossil wyvern]

tried the uninstaller?

[vapid knot]

what uninstaller?

[fossil wyvern]

in the windows programs list, like any program

[vapid knot]

oh. weird, i never done it that way, normally i just go in program files where the obs studio folder is at and look for the plugin folder and delete it from there but seems like that's not an option anymore

i'll try that then thanks

[fossil wyvern]

it's an option, but you have to know which file to delete, and not delete files from obs-studio itself

uninstalling properly, is a safer option

[fossil wyvern]

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[gentle olive]

hey so IDK really know what channel to go into with this. But I'm using the OBS Source Record plugin with OBS conjunction with the Source Clone plugin. My OBS setup right now has a Camera Scene with my main Video Capture Source for my webcam. I made diffrent Source Clones from that camera scene for both my recording and streaming scenes. There is a problem that I just got. I have the Source Record filter on my "Recording Webcam", for my recording scenes, ONLY. But when I'm recording my Streaming scenes, with my Streaming webcam with NO SOURCE RECORD filters on it, it still records the webcam. I don't want my "Streaming Webcam" to be recorded, thus why I don't have a source record filter on it. Also Remember these are different Source Clone filters going back to the same camera scene. But they are separate clone sources so IDK why they would be conflicting. Any thoughts?

[untold jay]

!log @gentle olive

[oblique yew]

@gentle olive

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

[gentle olive]

https://obsproject.com/logs/neNKRgseOYd85GON

[oblique yew]

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

⚠️ Warning

• Capture Interference

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Third-Party Plugins (17)
• Portable Mode

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-13700K - OK! / GeForce RTX 4080 - OK!

[gentle olive]

here

[untold jay]

@gentle olive What's the recording condition on that source record filter?

[gentle olive]

what do you mean the recording condition? The Recording Mode?

[untold jay]

@gentle olive Yes.

[gentle olive]

Here I took screenshots of all of it

[gentle olive]

MY recording webcam is set to recording

[untold jay]

@gentle olive With this condition, the source record filter will start its output whenever you start recording in obs-studio, and stop when you stop. It doesn't check which scene you are recording. You can disable this condition and manually set a hotkey to start/stop the source record output.

[gentle olive]

But I had this setup for a while and I don't think I had any issues before. Is there a way that I can do it without having a macro to turn it on or nah?

[untold jay]

@gentle olive I don't know. I'll admit I had a hard time understanding your initial issue description, but I can't see how it could possibly work differently before if you've made no changes to it. You could try asking again later, perhaps someone else knows.

[gentle olive]

maybe

[gentle olive]

but how would I put a macro to enabling or disabling a filter tho?

[untold jay]

@gentle olive Disable the filter, set recording mode to "always", then set hotkeys in settings>hotkeys for that source.

[gentle olive]

oh I didn't see that

[shut niche]

good evening im very new to this streaming lol i have obs running with an ok overlay etc also using restream for kick and twitch, but im wandering if anyone can recommend or help with bots for notifying discord servers im in and also monitoring the chat as im getting so many scammers trying to sell art for my stream or selling followers etc (i dont know if this is something i can ask in here)

[quiet bramble]

Discord's own Discord support server might be a more fruitful place to try. They likely get similar questions frequently. HTH

[true wedge]

Hello Guys, I am broadcasting the game and I want the program to broadcast the game only and not the entire computer, I mean like Google Chrome. I only want it to broadcast the game that I want and nothing else appears except in the broadcast. Thank you all, please, help me

[oblique yew]

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

[sleek lynx]

I have a window I record, anyone know of a way with adv-ss to check if that window is open on the pc, so I could make like, if window not open, dont play x

[mortal harbor]

if you are capturing a window with a window capture source, checking if the sources height = 0 will tell you if it is being captured or not . probably other ways to do this too

[sleek lynx]

hrmm, kinda works, if I only do one if statement, if I add an or for another scene it stops working

*another source

[sleek lynx]

figured it out, thanks for the help my man

[true hazel]

Can someone show me the differences to these

[hallow vale]

Those are two different extensions people use to get more emotes on Twitch. If you don't already use them, select "none"

[true hazel]

gotcha thank you

[true atlas]

Hey guys!

So here's a weird one.
DSK as a concept, is to put stuff on top of everything, right.

Is there something that lets you put stuff BELOW everything?

Like for example if you want to have the same background across multiple scenes without needing to put the BG in every single one?

[untold jay]

A nested scene manually put into every scene.

[true atlas]

Oof. So no.

Unless...

You could design your stream like, have a master scene and put every other scene inside that

So like you have 100% of scenes be nested

[untold jay]

That'll add some GPU usage overhead.

[true atlas]

Hmm. And it will mess with scene change commands in Streamer.Bot and other things, right.
Cuz you basically now would have ALL just sources. Hmmm.

[obsidian agate]

Use Exeldros “Source Switcher” plugin

Source Switcher is a source that acts as a Slideshow for sources. Scenes count as sources, so you can make complex scenes, and switch to them with the Source Switcher, while never leaving the scene you are on

I use it to cycle thru different ad blocks and social links on my starting and break scenes

each block being a scene unto themselves

[warm garden]

interesting

i always do it myself with move plugin

thats way smarter

[true atlas]

Hmmm cool ideas brewing. Thanks guys, always a pleasure hehe.

[warm garden]

very nice

[obsidian agate]

thats why i love plugins and other tools like StreamerBot.

so many different and valid ways to do the same or similar things

[warm garden]

move value is probably my most useful plugin filter

use it for SOOOO much

[obsidian agate]

same

[warm garden]

but i've started using move action to disable things

[obsidian agate]

i have 50+ plugins installed... i need to clean house again soon

[warm garden]

DAAAAMN

lol

you guys make crazy scenes?

[obsidian agate]

(about 25 of them +/- are Exeldro's)

[warm garden]

i make WILD scenes

or finite's

lol

lemme find a short clip

i need creative friends

or at least friends that WANT to be creative just need ideas hahahah

[obsidian agate]

id say best place would be in #stream-setup for more general discussion about that, but yeah

[warm garden]

oh word you right

retro effects was a SUPER WIN too

love it

much better than the shaders i had available

[next ledge]

are there any programs that overlay twitch chat on FULLSCREEN games? not restreamio

no, i don't have a second monitor. i can't do windowed because i have an ultrawide

[untold jay]

@next ledge Short answer would be "no".

Unless you count opening Twitch in a Steam overlay.

[next ledge]

idk what you mean by that

i just need something that displays twitch chat on top of a fullscreen application so that I can read it

[untold jay]

Most streamers use a phone to read chat in this scenario.

[next ledge]

the game I'm trying to play will not display properly in 16:9 windowed, it only displays borderless properly if i do native resolution windowed

yeah well i don't wanna do that

[untold jay]

Run the game through steam and use steam's web browser to sign in to twitch and view your chat from there, I guess.

[next ledge]

that doesn't display over the game tho. that's only when opening steam overlay

i won't know when a new message is sent

[untold jay]

@next ledge There's also playclaw 6, which can draw browser overlays over games, but it hurts performance severely and can crash games.

[sleek lynx]

I hate to piggy back on your convo here, but I am dealing with high gpu usage and my setup kinda describes what gm rod was describing, so I have a content scene, in that is a nested scene that contains all my sources, youtube source, xbox source, etc... is this why I use around 70% gpu?

[untold jay]

@sleek lynx A percentage by itself doesn't say anything, run gpu-z and look at both clock speed and usage. A video player can use "50%", too, but it'll be 50% at less than 10% of the nominal clock speed.

[sleek lynx]

and this is just running on my pc, not streaming or recording

[sleek lynx]

i think you are the person i was talking to before? not really sure how i see that, i do know when i was set to 60fps it was maxing out the gpu, so bad that the pc would slow

i mean i know gpuz, but not sure what graphs and such to look at

[untold jay]

@sleek lynxFirst, take note of the base speed.

Then, switch to the Sensors tab. Now I'm looking at 6% @ 607 MHz. Doing division, that'd be ~2.37% at base speed.

[sleek lynx]

im an idiot, so i dunno how you got that 😉 base = 1500, gpu clock = 1980 gpu load = 61%

[untold jay]

@sleek lynx If you create a new scene collection, how much does GPU usage and clock speed change?

[sleek lynx]

210/9

[untold jay]

@sleek lynx 210% at 9 MHz?

[sleek lynx]

gpu clock 210 / load 9

[untold jay]

!log @sleek lynx Switch back to the original collection, restart obs-studio, post logs.

[oblique yew]

@sleek lynx

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

[sleek lynx]

https://obsproject.com/logs/tfeazj1lR56DVl69

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (17)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz - OK! / GeForce RTX 3070 - OK!

[untold jay]

@sleek lynx Verify that these are not using gaussian blur, as that's very expensive.

@sleek lynx Try disabling these 2 filters, see what happens to gpu usage.

[sleek lynx]

ive been playing around disabling dif sources here and there, i gain like 1-5% at times, ill check that now

the blur on the first one is box/zoom

[untold jay]

I'm impressed you managed to get to 70% GPU usage. Most people quickly get to 100% and report performance issues, but you kept growing your scene collection to this size.

[sleek lynx]

i didnt notice an issue when i had my 1070 in

just recently bought the 3070

[untold jay]

I see some leftovers from StreamFX, too, but they're all inactive since it's not installed.

[sleek lynx]

thought i got it all 😉

[untold jay]

Maybe it's some shader filter where you accidentally typed 1920x10800 instead of 1920x1080. I'd go through every scene and evaluate their individual GPU usage with gpu-z.

[sleek lynx]

this is the blur, kinda extreme, but nothing really changes when i shut it off

[untold jay]

@sleek lynx I can't go through your scene collection and look for issues thankfully, you'll have to do that yourself. It's likely a sum of everything you have, rather than any single source, but there are plenty of expensive sources worth investigating first.

[sleek lynx]

ah come on you dont wanna get on a discord call and go through them with me one....by....one?

[untold jay]

I'd be delighted to miss out on that.

[sleek lynx]

i wish i could use the quick access util to search for rouge shit

[untold jay]

Future obs-studio updates will eventually introduce per-source performance stats, but for now, the only way is the hard way.

[sleek lynx]

but so, yeah you dont think its how i arranged things source wise, more likely a filter or something

[untold jay]

@sleek lynx You shouldn't be trying to draw too many scenes all at once, either; if you have 20 nested scenes and they're all visible, that could be 21x 1920x1080 textures being drawn.

[sleek lynx]

oh no, they are all in a group, and i have a lua script so that only 1 source can be active in that group at a time

[untold jay]

Oh no, they're all in a group.

[sleek lynx]

why didja guys make groups if you hatem so much 😉

[untold jay]

The idea is good, but we ("we" = "support voluneers") fear monger everyone into not using them, because that can have unforeseen consequences.

Half-life levels of unforeseen consequences, that is.

[sleek lynx]

i could retool it as a nest scene i suppose, but i dont think its the issue, i can goto content scene, shut everything off and still sit a 35-40%

or maybe i should just start over, and watch as i rebuild (trying to delay starting streaming further)

[untold jay]

35-40% at what clock speed?

[sleek lynx]

everything off... clock jumping between 1400 and 1800 clock, 38 gpu load

shit i do have firefox open, thats im sure causing some of that

[untold jay]

I'm guessing some filters remain active in the background.

[sleek lynx]

hrmm, no change closing ff, heh

i think i know what it is

i have a gta video i downloaded from YT, i have it as a background so i could see how my overlay looks on a gamescreen.... i just noticed when i turn it on and off it just continues playing, no pausing or anything

so even though its off, its still playing in the bg

😦 not it

[glossy skiff]

i cant get the video to come on my monitor elgoto on ps5

[thin tangle]

anyone know why my obs says im streaimg but twitch says im offline?

[quiet bramble]

<@&715347355565817879> #plugins-and-tools message

[short garden]

is there any plugins/script that allows HLS(similar to rtsp maybe) as a source for OBS? I tried gstreamer but it will crash my stream after 5-10 mins. VLC is unreliable

[hard jay]

did you try media source?

[short garden]

unreliable as well

vlc and that wouldnt autorestart when it loses signal

[untold jay]

@short garden Does it have to be HLS? If not, there are some other options, like https://vdo.ninja.

[short garden]

yeah I have a link that acts as a video(another stream), its also in m3u8

[hard jay]

As a note, if the stream is unreliable in every source type you're trying, maybe the problem isn't the source in OBS, heh

[untold jay]

@short garden Try using mpv (https://mpv.io) to play this stream, does it properly time out during disconnections?
mpv --network-timeout=2 http://127.0.0.1:5000 where http://127.0.0.1:5000 is your HLS server IP:port, and 2 is 2 seconds.

If it times out and quits, you can create a forever-looping batch/sh file that'll create a new mpv instance after the one that's currently running terminates.

[short garden]

known issue in VLC is that it sometimes freezes, media source just pauses every 2 seconds for some reason, and for gstreamer its maybe the pipeline im using but it just crashes after streaming OBS

[short garden]

tysm!

[harsh topaz]

Hasn't there previous been issues with media source not reconnecting if a connection drops? Something deja vu in my brain seems to recall having heard this discussion before.

[vapid charm]

I'm leaning towards yes and I'd like to say it might've been addressed in the previous release.

Could be wrong but CBA to google.

Or search here.

[short garden]

is there a way to separate the audio sources if I want to add 3 different mpv open? Or do I have to just rely on game capture with desktop audio

[untold jay]

@short garden Indeed, mpv is one of the very few video players that can be captured with game capture with no issues. And no, there's nothing more convenient for this than window or game capture with "audio capture" ticked.

@short garden Oh, and if you want specific window titles for obs-studio to reliably distinguish, add --title="window title". I can answer most questions about mpv, but if I'm not around, you can try the documentation: https://mpv.io/manual/master/ or IRC.

[short garden]

ooo tysm, didnt see the audio capture thing since I havent updated this month (or last month)

[true atlas]

Hey guys!
Quick one about Composite Blur.
I'm trying to have this bar underneath my webcam blur what's behind it.

So the webcam and that bar are in a group so they move together.

I've put Composite Blur on the group, and have this:

Why is it not working?

[untold jay]

@true atlas Source don't know what's beneath them, you'd have to apply blur filters to the source(s) beneath.

..or the entire scene.

[true atlas]

RIGHT. Doh. Thank you

[true atlas]

Hmmm. Nope, not working. Weird.
Supposedly, if I blur the entire scene and have the source below the webcam as a mask it'll work right? (But in this case it'll also blur the webcam)

I can't do it to the GROUP that contains both because OBS sees groups as scenes so it'll blur fullscreen

[untold jay]

@true atlas Apply a composite blur filter to the scene, not to sources or groups.

[true atlas]

Yeah I tried that. Not doing it.

I'll show you

So this is the scene filters

[untold jay]

did you play the same video?

[true atlas]

Right now it's blurring everything

So

[untold jay]

Does the source that's used as mask have an alpha channel?

[true atlas]

No, it's a color source

I'm trying to do it all inside OBS

ROUNDY BOY there is the source that's beneath the webcam

Now if I change to Greyscale value, then nothing gets blurred

[untold jay]

Disable the filter, take a screenshot of the entire scene, post the screenshot here.

[untold jay]

No, I mean right-click the scene and choose Screenshot(scene).

[untold jay]

@true atlas You want this rectangular bit, yes?

[true atlas]

yes

[untold jay]

@true atlas Add this as an image source, then under "source mask properties" select this as the mask source, set "mask using" to "grayscale value", see what happens.

[true atlas]

Nope. Cuz it needs to be transparent, right.
So I need to add color correction to it

[untold jay]

@true atlas What if you set "mask using" to "alpha channel", then click "invert mask"?

[true atlas]

Ah HA. It works but without the invert. If I invert it'll blur everything EXCEPT the square

But ughhhh this is like... You need an image source.

I was trying to avoid that

Isn't this why Finite made it?

[untold jay]

Image sources don't eat extra CPU time after the initial decoding, if that's your concern here.

[true atlas]

Partially. This is me helping a friend set up his stream, And I was trying to make my own job easier 🙂

Also images need to be backed up too, it's more stuff that can go wrong. But alright this works.
Thank you !

[languid shadow]

Hello hope all is well. Im very new to OBS and trying to install the automatic scene switcher. I followed the download istructions running the installer.exe aswell as confirming I have the files in the plugins and data folder. It still does not appere for me in the tools area in my OBS. Maybe im missing something?
https://obsproject.com/logs/7DId0hOOL8kceTAv

[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

[mortal harbor]

update OBS

[languid shadow]

How do I do that?

[mortal harbor]

help>check for updates

[languid shadow]

Nothing happens when I do that

[mortal harbor]

!download download and run the installer again

[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)

[languid shadow]

is there a way to re install and save all my scenes and transitions?

[hallow vale]

!export They will be saved. If you want to be extra careful you can do backups

[oblique yew]

To export OBS settings to back them up, go to Profile > Export (to export streaming/recording settings) and Scene Collection > Export (to export scenes).

[mortal harbor]

not necessary though, running the installer has no impact on your scenes and settings.

[languid shadow]

thanks so much!!

Is anyone an expert with Advanced Scene Switcher? Trying to find a tutorial but they all seem to be with the older versions

[mortal harbor]

you'd want to be more specific with your question.

[languid shadow]

Im trying to get my scenes switching every 45 seconds. Trying to find a menu to do that. Im trying messing with Macro right now. Am I on the right track?

[mortal harbor]

https://github.com/WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher/wiki/Switch-scenes-randomly

lots of guides on the plugins wiki

[languid shadow]

thanks sm

[languid shadow]

Is there any way to loop a macro for it to go and go?

[mortal harbor]

in a way

[fossil wyvern]

you can have the macro trigger itself, no?

[mortal harbor]

if you want to switch between 3 scenes every 45 seconds for example you'd make one macro that says

wait 45 seconds
switch to scene 2```
then 
```if scene = scene 2
wait 45 seconds
switch to scene 3```
then 
```if scene = scene 3
wait 45 seconds
switch to scene 1```

and then boom, your scene is switching every 45 seconds

[fossil wyvern]

one note is that rather than a "wait 45 seconds" action, you should rather do a "if scene = scene 3 for at least 45 seconds" condition, otherwise you might not be able to get out of the cycle

[languid shadow]

Thanks yall

[turbid dock]

is there something like a plugin list or something for new user like me?? like i want to use tools and plugins but idk where to find it😩

[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

[scenic bane]

my teleport's dropdown doesn't show at all, i hope anyone can help me this. Really stressed at the moment

[cedar leaf]

It is. Took me a while to figure out how finite did it. I create mine by making an Output Source in the scene and adding the filters to the Output Source.

I add mine to DSK

[true atlas]

So you're basically duplicating everything that OBS is outputting to do this.

Isn't that a resource no-no?

[cedar leaf]

I don't know about duplicating but this is how finite does it. Resources don't seem to be an issue for me.

[wet estuary]

@fossil wyvern your plugin Advanced Filename Formatter doesn't work for me, in the sense that it just doesn't add the new variable to the file name. It works fine in the preview (when I click on "Check formatting"), but it doesn't actually do the thing. I have OBS 30.2.3 and Python 3.11 on Win11 23H2. I also have OBS-Hadowplay installed in my OBS, in case that could cause issues

[fossil wyvern]

not impossible that obs-hadowplay is conflicting with it

can you remove it and check again?

[wet estuary]

just to make sure, it only is an issue on Replay files, it works fine with normal recording files (forgot to test that aha)

[fossil wyvern]

you're using my custom build for rplay files?

[wet estuary]

for OBS?

[fossil wyvern]

yes

[wet estuary]

ah I just misundersoood what that meant, sorry

how do I install it?

[fossil wyvern]

click on the here link, scroll to the bottom of the page it brings you to and you'll find installers for it (you need a github account to download them)

the current linked build is based on 30.2 RC1, I'll probs make a new one based on 30.2.3 tonight or tomorrow

[wet estuary]

ah ok, would it make sense for me to just wait until then? (aka check back in a few hours/tomorrow)

also logged into GitHub now, but I still don't see a clickable download link, only this

[fossil wyvern]

can always install it rn to check whether it works and come back when I'll have redone it

[fossil wyvern]

you sure you clicked on the right link?

should have brought you to https://github.com/Penwy/obs-studio/actions/runs/9666407620

[wet estuary]

ah, the one in the readme brought me to https://github.com/Penwy/obs-studio/actions/runs/8305149038, that'd be that issue

I'll try to install it now

[fossil wyvern]

that's weird, the readme brings me to the right one

[wet estuary]

huh, yeah idk

ok it works, thank you!

I'll just check back later then for the new version, I know how to do it now

[fossil wyvern]

can ping you when I do it if you want

[wet estuary]

that'd be nice yeah

[fossil wyvern]

👍

[true atlas]

Hey guys!
Does Tuna have shortcuts? Just your basic play/pause and stuff?

[manic mesa]

Hi guys I tried the plugin dynamic delay
but it eats a lot of memory
any solution to fix it?

[hard jay]

That seems expected, as it's almost certainly buffering in RAM.

There's not really any other way to do it.

[real gate]

hi chat -

[obsidian agate]

Welcome

[real gate]

sorry i pressed enter too early BAHA

[real gate]

hi chat -

trying to record my gameplay and my webcam. i have my gameplay at 1440p on the indistinguishable quality setting, because ive been getting really good results with it. I'd like to know how to source record my webcam so that way i can just have a full display of gameplay, and then my webcam outside on a different clip so i can edit it in post production. it seems like each time i activate it on the filter tab, and press the "record" setting so it does it when i record, it hasnt been doing it. any way i should go about performing it? thank you!

should i remove the webcam from the same scene and try putting it on another scene instead?

[hallow vale]

!cleanlog Grab a log made following the steps below and we can try to see what's up

[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

[real gate]

will do

[real gate]

obs restarts just by closing the tab right? or do i have to do it another way

[hallow vale]

Yup, close and reopen

[real gate]

roger

https://obsproject.com/logs/ZA4yxUysb363RzvA

[oblique yew]

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

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording
• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X - OK! / GeForce GTX 1080 - OK!

[real gate]

I have the webcam running in another scene but it doesnt source record

does it have to be on the same scene to achieve the results desired?

[hallow vale]

So the source record filter is writing the exact same filename as the normal recording is. In the settings for the filter, write the word Camera before the symbols in the filename

It currently uses time and date for the name, and they both start at exactly the same time

[real gate]

gotcha i did it ill restart again

[hallow vale]

Hopefully that fixes it all up

[real gate]

at the moment its only recording whatever scene i click on

even if im on the game scene it wont spit back the webcam video

[hallow vale]

Likely from the file name mixup. It shouldn't matter which scene you're on

[real gate]

does it need to be on the same scene for it to work

oh

ok

https://obsproject.com/logs/OXIrpS7ET4KLE68C

[oblique yew]

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

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording
• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (3)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X - OK! / GeForce GTX 1080 - OK!

[hallow vale]

Looks like it recorded a separate file! All good now?

[real gate]

interesting

does it go in a different path?

at the moment im only getting back whatever scene is currently clicked on

[hallow vale]

Hm, this might be a relevant error message

17:43:40.909: [ffmpeg muxer: 'Source Record'] os_process_pipe_write for packet data failed
17:43:40.909: [ffmpeg muxer: 'Source Record'] ffmpeg-mux: Couldn't find an appropriate muxer for 'C:/ALL RECORDINGS/Camera2024-08-16 17-43-40'
17:43:40.909: Couldn't initialize muxer

[real gate]

hm

whats a muxer

[obsidian agate]

In the simplest of terms, its a process that makes the final video file or stream. Something is going wrong with that process for you

(Aint no way im going down the rabbit hole of explaining the full extent of multiplexers, lol)

[real gate]

LOL

[real gate]

does it say anything else besides that or im sure youre probably looking nvm

[hallow vale]

Having trouble finding a good idea for what is needed to fix this error message.

Hang around, maybe someone else will have some good ideas

[real gate]

👍

[real gate]

would it not hurt to try reinstalling it?

[hallow vale]

The plugin? Sure, go ahead

[real gate]

or just the whole thing lOL

yeah i tried redownloading the plugin it didnt do muhc

much

[hallow vale]

Can reinstall OBS, sure. I don't think it's related here at all, but why not?

[real gate]

ill try

yeah didnt work

https://obsproject.com/logs/ut1Bm3yRxfbeOCBl

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording
• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X - OK! / GeForce GTX 1080 - OK!

[tiny wasp]

https://obsproject.com/logs/n12pOSapjvudex2X

uh...

https://obsproject.com/logs/n12pOSapjvudex2X

bot?

[obsidian agate]

The bot doesnt analyze crash logs

That needs a human touch

[tiny wasp]

oh

[fallen elm]

hey everyone, this may have been asked before, but I can't find it anywhere, I stream on Twitch, but in the obs chat box at the top you see a symbol of a man, is that where you should normally see how many people are watching live? are to my stream??? I never get a number of how many are watching, or do I have to do something else to see this in my obs? a big thank you in advance. greetings

[obsidian agate]

No, that isnt where the live viewer number is located

Its in a different Twitch dock

I believe in the Twitch Stats dock (not the regular stats dock)

[fallen elm]

ah ok, thanks mate

i will try

🙏 🙏

[dull zephyr]

https://obsproject.com/logs/fOTyu9w6eVmS9vOK

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Max Audio Buffering
• 30.0% Dropped Frames

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Third-Party Plugins (2)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-11700F @ 2.50GHz - OK! / GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - OK!

[dull zephyr]

FAWK\

[silent osprey]

I wanna do shadowcast genki 2 support share screen inside the capture card yes or no ?

[lusty folio]

Gm

I have issue with droidcam plug in. 🙏

[silent osprey]

Do genki shadowcast support screen share yes or no please answer back ?

[restive nacelle]

imagine an illegal obs plugin that allowes obs to capture netflix and other protected media

[vale vine]

Obs, nor plugins, have anything to do with those services having protection

[serene echo]

LUL if HDCP and other copy protection algorithms could be defeated by a simple software plugin, they wouldn't be very effective.

[bronze turtle]

Does anyone know why my OBS game capture audio sounds so garbled and warped?

https://obsproject.com/logs/B45OTBZrbbvKb0BY

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Max Audio Buffering

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• Third-Party Plugins (7)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[hallow vale]

Please don't crosspost. This channel is not for capture cards or audio issues

[bronze turtle]

Oh, my bad. I always get ignored in the proper support chat, and I managed to get help here last time. I'm sorry, my bad

[hallow vale]

It can take time to get a response, you waited like 3 minutes LOL

[bronze turtle]

I'm trying to troubleshoot myself, WHILE hopefully finding help, or solving the issue myself, whichever comes first lol

[bronze turtle]

True !!

Maybe I should've waited a bit longer XD

[hallow vale]

This channel is still not for that. Are you going to send a log in the windows channnel like I asked for?

[bronze turtle]

Oh, sorry, I didn't check that channel for a couple min, hold on...

[true atlas]

Hey guys!
So confused.
Finite said I should be able to run OBS with QAU now... but no, I'm still crashing, doesn't even let me open OBS.
And I forgot how to uninstall it. Ugh.

It's not in the plugins folder, where the hell is it? 😄

Oh. Yes it is.

[serene echo]

Did you grab the latest pre-release? or the latest CI/CD build? I'll be releasing a new pre-release today.

[true atlas]

The man himself!
I do see some commits in the git from yesterday!
I stupidly took the .exe

[serene echo]

Ahhh.. yeah.. that is the old version.

Give me about 15-20 minutes, and I'll cut a new pre-release that you can grab and try.

[true atlas]

Amazing. Thank you

[serene echo]

(which I think should fix your issue)

[true atlas]

We'll find out 🙂

While I got you, I'm sure this is the type of stuff you'd know:
I'm surprised that I don't see Tuna in the OBS hotkeys...
Surely there's a way to have hotkeys for play/pause forward/back music inside OBS, right.

(I'm using TIDAL, so my NowPlaying widget is 100% made by me lol)

[serene echo]

Thats up to the plugin dev.

I still have to add hot keys to toggle off/on several of the filters in my plugins. Not sure if the TUNA author has added it.

[true atlas]

Oh. I thought you'd have maybe wanted to do this and found a way. Dang. I'll go bother them in the forum hehehe

[serene echo]

Its something that would have to be added to the plugin code (registering, and reacting to a hotkey)

[true atlas]

Gotcha yeah.

Thank you 🙂

[serene echo]

@true atlas https://github.com/FiniteSingularity/obs-quick-access-utility/releases/tag/0.0.2-alpha7

I'll be in and out for a couple hours, so please let me know if it fixes your issue.

(This was essentially a complete rewrite of QAU's core, so it likely breaks other things.. alpha alert!)

[tribal hornet]

Hi I'm trying to set up advanced scene switcher for a couple of things and I have a question, is it possible to detect a hotkey being pressed no matter what software I'm using instead of only when I'm in OBS? Idk if that makes sense but hopefully it does 😅

[loud wedge]

The advanced scene switcher is mostly relying on the hotkey API provided by OBS.
Thus you might be able to achieve it by changing the OBS hotkey focus behavior:

[tribal hornet]

I think I already tried that but give me a sec and Ill try again

[fossil wyvern]

also, if obs is run in admin, you can't send aa hotkey to it from a prograam thaat isn't run in admin

[tribal hornet]

Ok so

It actually does work with other softwares just not the one I want it to

The same hotkey runs an AutoHotkey script would that cause any issues?

[fossil wyvern]

check for admin stuff

[tribal hornet]

Would autohotkey need to be admined?

[fossil wyvern]

is obs running in admin?

[tribal hornet]

No

[fossil wyvern]

then make sure the programs you want to send the hotkey from isn't admin either

[tribal hornet]

They're not

[fossil wyvern]

then it should work normally

[true atlas]

O-SOME. Let's see
Thank you!

Eyyyyy it WORKS now. Thank you ❤️

[sonic flume]

Saw that OBS has been updated a couple times, and it mentions multi stream encoding and RTMP. Is the RTMP plugin to simultaneously stream to Twitch and Youtube redundant now?

[tribal hornet]

Could AH be causing issues?

[vale vine]

No. you still need either the multi rtmp plugin or the new multistream plugin from aitum

[sonic flume]

Good shout, I’ll check out the new one. Had trouble with the old one even with the GitHub version

Thanks for that

[vale vine]

👍

[tired slate]

why cant i see the aitum plug in box in my OBS?

[eager herald]

@weak escarp I've been currently using markdown version 0.2.2 and it has been working pretty well for the most part. I have to use "http:/absolute//{path}" to get pictures to show in the table in version 0.2.2 however sometimes images don't appear after scene transitions. I wanted to upgrade to 0.2.4 as I see a patch note saying images have been fixed. But 0.2.5 crashes my OBS and I can launch OBS with 0.2.4 but tables don't load. So I had to downgrade back to 0.2.2

Specs:
OBS: 30.2.3
Mac Mini M1
OS: Ventura 13.5.1

[clear ledge]

Hi Goodmorning anyone can help me to fix my OBS: 30.2.3

trying to live once human in obs but BLACK SCREEN in my obs apps

anyone can help me about this.

[oblique yew]

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

[maiden sage]

anyone know why some features were removed from @weak escarp 's freeze plugin

[oblique yew]

A crash log is required to investigate the cause of your issue. Please upload the most recent crash log.

1. Open Console.app (Located in /Applications/Utilities).
2. Navigate to the Crash Reports view along the left sidebar, then sort the table by date to find the most recent crash with the OBS process name.
3. Drag and drop the selected crash onto the Discord window to upload the file, or copy-and-paste the report text here.

[tribal hornet]

Ok so right now I have the advanced scene switcher set up so that when I click my hotkey it changes the scene to a different one, how would I now set it so that if I clicked that hotkey again it would go back to the scene that was originally active?

[fierce breach]

do anyone know how to fix the glitch where the replay buffer crashes OBS while playing a game - warzone

[fossil wyvern]

you get a crash report?

[fierce breach]

how do i find the crash report

[oblique yew]

A crash log is required to investigate the cause of your issue. Please upload the last crash log.

1. In OBS, click the Help menu
2. Select Crash Reports, and then Upload Last Crash Report
3. Copy the URL, and paste it to the chat here.

[fierce breach]

https://obsproject.com/logs/A09pBoLeqlTHUeX4

i got

it

[fossil wyvern]

what do you mean exactly by "obs crashes"

[fierce breach]

if OBS is open in the replay buffer isn't enabled my game and OBS will be fine but as soon as I enable the replay buffer my game and OBS will crash and if I reopen OBS it will ask me if I want to run in safe mode

and this only happens if the replay buffer is enabled

[fossil wyvern]

!llog
make it happen, send a log

[oblique yew]

To help resolve your issue, we need to view a log file from your previous OBS Studio session. Follow these instructions to upload your previous log file:

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

[fierce breach]

https://obsproject.com/logs/Y6Bjot7dRrV5Y2vj

[oblique yew]

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

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording
• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

⚠️ Warning

• Multiple Game Capture

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• 0.5% Rendering Lag
• 0.5% Encoder Overload
• Third-Party Plugins (4)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-14700K - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[fierce breach]

how do i fix

[fossil wyvern]

are you actually using vertical-canvas

[fierce breach]

yes

[fossil wyvern]

does it still happen in safe mode?

[fierce breach]

I haven't tried it in safe mode because safe mode doesn't give me my plugins i need

[fossil wyvern]

try in safe mode

[fierce breach]

ok

i tryed it in safe mode and it still crash crash

hello?

[fossil wyvern]

send a log of it

[fierce breach]

https://obsproject.com/logs/wybFD3ggSqKzpsdd****

[loud wedge]

I would create two macros:
One to handle the scene switch to your "special scene", when you are not currently on that scene.
And the second one to handle the case when you press the hotkey and you are already on your "special scene".
("special scene" is of course just a placeholder for whatever scene you want to use in your macro)

[tribal hornet]

Ill try that out once I get home thank you 👍🙂

[rotund copper]

I need help with my video quality

[oblique yew]

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

[true glade]

chat im tryna stream vert and horizontal on yt but aitum vertical seems to make my horizontal stream lag while the vertical stream is perfectly fine, even when im only streaming horizontally. i have a good pc and 500/500

[oblique yew]

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

[remote badge]

Hey, are there plans on implementing VST3 support? That would be really great since many Plugins are not available as VST2 anymore.

[vale vine]

There was a bounty for vst3 implementation, unfortunately, it didn't fully work out

The obs team would like vst3 support, but I don't think anyone is actively working on it atm

[remote badge]

ok thank you 😕

[vale vine]

In many cases you can utilize a DAW to use your vst3s and pipe that audio into obs

[remote badge]

Yes, that is what I do now, but it could be easier and cleaner to put it directly in OBS and since there are discussions and requests since multiple years I wanted to if there are any updates about this topic.

[vale vine]

For sure. Native integration would make things a touch easier

[mortal harbor]

it is complicated and there are licensing hold ups but it is still being worked on in some capacity...I would love to see it happen too.

[tribal hornet]

I got it working to a point I’m happy with btw 👍 Thank you everyone for all the help 😁

[subtle flint]

CHROME KEY MASK QUESTION: I have a logo on my tshirt with yellow on it and it's getting transparent due to chroma key with my green screen. I've tried the various settings in the mask to try to keep it, but it doesn't work. is there a mask, or some other way to keep the logos color while maintaining chroma key with greenscreen?

[copper jay]

I’m using video ninja. I’m trying to bring in multiple. Guess I have an electron capture app, but I don’t know how to bring in the other guest.

[untold jay]

@subtle flint If your chroma keying mat is green, and yellow is being affected, your chroma key filter settings are too aggressive, change them until yellow remains visible. Or perhaps you need to change your lighting.

@copper jay You can run more than 1 browser source of vdo.ninja.

[subtle flint]

I'm certain it's a lighting issue but I don't have any more control of the lighting unfortunately in my basement. Was hoping there might be some type of mask that I could work with

[untold jay]

@subtle flint You can use the source clone plugin. Create 2 source clones of the camera source, chroma key one of them, then draw an image mask for the other to hide everything except the bits showing your logo. But then you won't be able to move around as much.

[tiny crypt]

hello. I'm using the Audio Move plugin to animate a simple "vtuber" avatar and although it works just fine, there's one problem. I cant figure out how to stop the mouth from moving when my microphone is muted. I can't just simply adjust the threshold more because I have a young child and 3 cats so there's inevitably going to be times I need to simply mute my microphone, and I have had viewers comment about the fact that my mouth is still moving at this point which confuses them thinking I am muted unintentionally. Does anyone know how I might prevent the plugin from animating my avatar while I have my microphone muted? EDIT: solved by using advanced scene switcher to adjust visibility of mouth open source image depending on mic muted or not

[subtle flint]

Thanks for replying. That's the problem I was running into as I could barely move

[quiet bramble]

Do you have an NVIDIA RTX GPU?

If so, then I would recommend trying the NVIDIA RTX Broadcast software, and using its background removal feature, which is colour neutral although often being called "green screen" as a laymen term, even though there is no green anything going on with it.

[subtle flint]

Sadly not on the pc I'm recording with

But I did want to look into that because I want to find a way to fix eye contact and it looks like it can be done with that software

But not with any other plugins that I can find with obs

[quiet bramble]

An improperly lit green (or other colour) screen used with chroma keying however will result in various artifacts/problems and there isn't anything that can really be done about it other than getting proper lighting and having an evenly lit screen.

!greenscreen

[oblique yew]

For an in-depth overview of greenscreens and how they work, and how you can improve your own, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH8TWTt51W8

[quiet bramble]

This video is pretty rock solid when it comes to setting up a green screen properly.

[quiet bramble]

Yes, both NVIDIA and AMD have software for keeping the eyes on the camera digitally while looking off screen. Haven't used it, but it can work well depending on how one uses it.

At the rate ML/AI is progressing, I wouldn't be surprised if green screens become obsolete within the next 10 years though. The tech is not quite there yet, but improving rapidly year after year.

I'm curious how Meta's SAM2 model would work for this use case.

Would be awesome to have a SAM2 OBS plugin.

[royal thunder]

Hello, please help me. I do live streaming on YouTube, and the screen captured by the Window Capture device in OBS appears very blurry. Are there any options to fix this? Please let me know.

[main burrow]

What is your YouTube bitrate and Resolution you're streaming at

[royal thunder]

bitrate is 25000kbps and resolution 1920x1080

[main burrow]

What is your internet's upload speed

[royal thunder]

In my OBS Studio, the screen also appears blurry. I don't know why.

[royal thunder]

100mbps

[main burrow]

Sounds like you stretched a source to fit that isn't large enough. Make sure the source is the correct resolution

[royal thunder]

I’ve added a Window Capture source in OBS, and even though I can see the window, it still looks blurry.

any suggestions what to do?

[oblique yew]

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

[cinder prism]

Wondering if someone can clarify exactly what the Active Clone, Video Buffer & No filters options actually do in the Source Clone plugin and when they should be used?

I've read through the whole plugin discussion thread on the OBS plugin forum but it's still unclear for me.

[weak escarp]

• Active clone makes the the source that is cloned active when the clone becomes active.
• Video Buffer allows you to save resources by making it smaller resolution or save resources when rendering the original takes up much resources and is used multiple times.
• No filters allows the clone to not have the filters that are original

[cinder prism]

Cheers for the reply.

Maybe I'm not understanding exactly what "active" refers to in this case.

If I make a new white colour source, deactivate it in the scene and then source clone it; by that definition I was expecting the source clone to show nothing without active clone. Instead, the clone shows the white colour regardless of whether Active Clone is enabled or whether the cloned source is visible in the scene.

[weak escarp]

for media source you have an option 'Restart playback when becomes active', this is when the source becomes active in the output, with the 'Active clone' you can also make it happen when the clone becomes active in the output

for browser sources you have 'Refresh browser when scene becomes active'

[cinder prism]

Ah, that makes sense. Needed to grasp the distinction that activating is a separate event from enabling the source within the scene that can be triggered independently.

On the video buffer, is there much resources saved using the Full buffer compared to None?

[weak escarp]

full takes 1 extra render step to none, but it can save resources when it is used multiple times

[undone yew]

AMD? Which one?

[marsh spoke]

Hi There! I need help with the OBS-MIDI-NG Plugin and my Korg nanocontrol Studio

[last forge]

not working cuz i dont see this funciton

function

[vale vine]

Wut

[quiet bramble]

You need to go to NVIDIA's website and download RTX Broadcast and install it.

[wide talon]

guys I have a question, I have a dedicated mini pc I will be using for recording and streaming, I have a gaming pc. both of these are wired connections at 1gb at my router level. I would like to use an old android cellphone as my camera, connected via wifi. Would that impact the speed of my streaming? I am considering using it usb or buying a chep camara for the setup any recommendations?

My second question, am I to do the video transitions/edits on my obs in the gaming pc and just have the host recording? currently my recording pc is headless and I am using remote desktop to log into it

[untold jay]

@wide talon Use scrcpy, it can serve video from the smartphone's camera as a window you can capture.

[wide talon]

thank you, Ill look into it

but will wifi affect my network bandwith for streaming? or will it not since its just using internal bandwidth?

[untold jay]

@wide talon Most streaming services have very tight bit rate limits, Youtube being the highest at 51 Mbps, everything else only accepts up to 8. If you have gigabit ethernet, you have 1000 Mbps to work with, of which the camera might use anywhere between 10 and 300.

[wide talon]

internally I have 1000, externally I am at 300/50

so should be good

what can you tell me on the second question? Should I be doing scene transitions from the recording machine or can I use the gaming machine?

since my recording pc is headless

I do have dual monitors, so recorder can be on second screen

[untold jay]

@wide talon Could you elaborate on your setup? Are you using 2 copies of obs-studio?

[wide talon]

yes, gaming pc has obs studio and teleport running on windows pc. Streaming/recording is on a mini pc, running on a linux virtual machine,

but I am thinking a remote desktop will also be using bandwith, so was thinking of doing the scenes on the gaming pc, not sure whats the best way to be honest Im new to all this

I did test the recording on the mini pc, and its doing Full HD easily,

[untold jay]

@wide talon This is usually pointless, especially if the 2nd PC is not powerful, you incur quality loss from using teleport + the 2nd PC likely does a worse job encoding compared to a modern single-PC setup with a good hardware encoder. If you have a RTX 2000 series NVIDIA card or better, you shouldn't need this.

[wide talon]

oh, I do have rtx3060, but the concern was it getting slowed down in games, and using 3d animation packages while recording

is there something better than teleport?

the mini pc is a ryzen 7, 16 gigs ram

if the recommended route is to stay on one pc, one pc it is

[untold jay]

@wide talon Teleport uses software encoding, so it's usually a net negative for performance in this scenario, unless you use some exceptionally heavy assets - but if that's the case, you can optimize them and still get a net gain in quality.

Could you elaborate on what streaming assets you are using?

[wide talon]

I want to record blender, marmoset toolbag, as I am texturing and modeling my assets. I also play diablo4 and others

hope that gives you an idea

marmoset makes my rtx3060 run for its life sometimes

[untold jay]

@wide talon That helps, but what streaming assets (media sources, browser sources) are you using?

[wide talon]

sorry not sure I understand, I just use teleport to capture my whole screen 1080hd to my other pc, I also want to be able to add a video introductions, text and other assets. but as far as sources it will only be that and the camara using my cellphone

[little thunder]

does anyone know if there is a plug in that shows CPU / GPU temps on stream

[untold jay]

@wide talon Not sure what to advise in this case, a 2-pc setup seems reasonable. You can ping me if you need help getting video from a smartphone's camera into obs-studio(but I'll be reading the scrcpy documentation to help with that, so you can also skip asking me and read it directly).

[wide talon]

Im good, with the instructions on github should be ok but thank you very much. I am just looking for the experience since thats where I am severely limited.

[untold jay]

!rtss @little thunder Not a plugin, but you can install and run msi afterburner https://www.guru3d.com/download/msi-afterburner-beta-download/ and enable its in-game overlay, where you can enable these stats, then tick "capture third party overlays" in obs-studio's game capture source (display and window capture will always show these overlays, too). You'll have to configure RTSS (that msi afterburner ships with) like so:

[oblique yew]

@little thunder

To enable compatibility with OBS in Rivatuner (RTSS, version 7.3.2 and above), enable "Use Microsoft Detours API hooking" in the app's Setup.

[wide talon]

I was testing droidcam ealier and it was working, the concern was more for the bandwith

[little thunder]

ok i will try this

[wide talon]

@little thunder what os are you using?

you can always just install any monitoring apps for your os and have them overlay, or stay on top

[untold jay]

I usually assume it's Windows unless stated otherwise, everything else is very rare.

[little thunder]

windows. i have RTSS already however i didnt want to show the stats as an overlay

[wide talon]

hahaha, yeah my fault

[little thunder]

yeah i tried linux but... im not savvy enough

[wide talon]

I vote for Chiyo`s suggestion on windows, msi afterburner

[little thunder]

i think RTSS only runs as an overlay

[untold jay]

@little thunder You can double-click this area in RTSS to "preview" the overlay as its own window that can be captured.

[little thunder]

then add windows capture?

[untold jay]

@little thunder Yes.

[little thunder]

ah ok

that window shows FPS only but yeah i dont think thats what i saw

no owrries

i think something external like an elgato or something was used

[untold jay]

@little thunder RTSS has its own overlay settings- I forgot what to do here. Not sure what to do next.

[little thunder]

yeah i have set that up for an ingame overlay

[oblique yew]

To enable compatibility with OBS in Rivatuner (RTSS, version 7.3.2 and above), enable "Use Microsoft Detours API hooking" in the app's Setup.

[glacial dome]

hello friends i tried to connect OBS websocket to OBS Blade remote service but Websocket is not connecting

is there anyone who could help me please

i really need help to fix this brother

[spiral ruin]

Screenshot the websocket server settings window from OBS Tools menu.

[spiral ruin]

And you confirmed that the same server port and server password are used in the Blade app?

[glacial dome]

yes sir

Scan code as well but it says

Couldn’t connect

[spiral ruin]

Contact Blade support for further assistance with that app. While it is called "OBS Blade", it is not produced or maintained by the OBS Studio development team. It is a third party app from a private developer.

[glacial dome]

Did manual as well

ok how to contact them

[spiral ruin]

I don't know, but that information is probably available from the site from where you downloaded Blade.

[glacial dome]

ok i will check there

thank you very nuch for help apreciate

[pure edge]

is there some way to view ur chat as like an overlay on ur game, but that only u can see not ur viewers?

[spiral ruin]

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

[pure edge]

how about for yt

[spiral ruin]

A better link https://github.com/baffler/Transparent-Twitch-Chat-Overlay/releases/tag/v1.0.4

[spiral ruin]

Works for several platforms

[pure edge]

k

thx

[valid harness]

is there a way to start up recordings without having to go outta fullscreen

[spiral ruin]

!hotkeys

anyway.... OBS Settings - Hotkeys, set a hotkey to toggle recording. Or use a remote control app/service like Touch Portal or Streamdeck

[valid harness]

thanks

[sour karma]

Hia, is there a way to get OBS to display text like this? (in image), when the text comes out as | Artist - Title | in a text file?

[sullen knoll]

There’s a plug-in for recording a video with out overlay

[sour karma]

I kind of need the plugin to read up until a certain character and after a certain character

[velvet lily]

im aware you can Win+R and shell:startup and drag in obs shortcut but can you start obs but instead of it being Full screen can it be minimised to hotbar ? if i press my (start replay buffer) will it let me as its in the minimized state ? thanks

@spiral ruin @hallow vale you might be able to help senior

[oblique yew]

To launch OBS Studio with custom parameters, see the list of Launch Parameters.

[velvet lily]

I have no idea whats what on there if im honest might as well speak mongolian

[spiral ruin]

It describes how to do what you are asking for and shows examples.

[velvet lily]

i mean i dont see one for start on boot and minimise

[spiral ruin]

Start on boot would be adding OBS to the startup, so that's all Windows side, but you would want to use a specialized shortcut to run on startup, one that is flagged to run it minimized.

[velvet lily]

i see tray but thats not the icons at the bottom , thats the arrow on the right

[velvet lily]

so put the shortcut in shell:startup

[spiral ruin]

Correct, starting minimized to system tray is different than just the OBS windows minimized. Up to you which one you want to do.

[spiral ruin]

Yes. That tells Windows to use this shortcut on startup.

[velvet lily]

but that puts obs into full screen on startup, how would i go about putting it into minimised

[spiral ruin]

Add the flag to the shortcut.

[velvet lily]

the flag ?

[spiral ruin]

I can't show you because I'm on a chromebook but the flags are in the parameter guide I linked you.

[velvet lily]

not seeing flags ?

do you mean this

--minimize-to-tray

[spiral ruin]

Yes, those are called flags, or parameters.

[velvet lily]

theres only tray not taskbar

[spiral ruin]

I don't think it will be labeled as "taskbar", maybe simply "minimize" because minizing an app window minimizes it to the taskbar and nowhere else.

[velvet lily]

the only one like that is to tray

[spiral ruin]

You can always open OBS from the system tray anyway, which is what a lot of people do who don't need OBS window during regular production. Some people using keybinds or remote control surfaces like Touch Portal or Streamdeck, and everything works fine when OBS runs in the system tray.

That was't necessary to post, I can see it if I wanted to. And I was still typing my reply to your last post.

[velvet lily]

ahhhh, so i can just double click from tray aswell ? also that was ment for myself i couldnt use highlighter on the page

i was getting lost in the writing

[spiral ruin]

Yes, you can easily open OBS from the system tray

[velvet lily]

with obs in tray can i theoretically press my start buffer hotkey to start and stop aswell as save hotkey.

id assume so right ?

[spiral ruin]

Yes, try it out.

[velvet lily]

just restarted and i got something about safe mode ?

[spiral ruin]

You installed a plugin already?

[velvet lily]

okay so i Win+R and added a Shortcut copy of obs into the startup folder. I then R click on the shortcut on desktop and go to target and put in --minimize-to-tray and hit appy

it boots up on start however it remains full screen and starts the replay buffer

[spiral ruin]

I'm not sure. I asked because you are in this channel and often a bad plugin will trigger safe mode.

[spiral ruin]

Head back to #windows-support maybe someone online can help figure out the issue.

[velvet lily]

okay

[eager herald]

does freeytype2 on mac not have center text alignment? Do I need to install a separate text plugin for that? Theres center transform but it doesnt center align the text.