plugins-and-tools

[tribal dragon]

My friend, so I was just going to screen share my OBS so they could copy settings and I could also show them how to do a few things etc.

[spiral ruin]

Your friend should join this Discord server and be at their pc for support. And post in the support channel that matches their operating system. They may be required to post a log or screenshots from their OBS to help figure out what is wrong and how to correct it.

[vale vine]

Discord app capture of obs does appear to be jank at best

It'll capture here for me. But sometimes it's only the actual canvas and other times it's the entire obs window

[solar stratus]

Using Se.live multistream: I am trying to use Advanced Scene Switcher to split one of my YouTube outputs (for VOD purposes), is there a specific way I can call to start/stop specifically one of my stream outputs, and/or change the key?

I can obviously do it with the main output but if it starts / stops, it also controls the other streams and would redialouge me with settings stuff. I need to be able to avoid this.

[simple token]

Merci

[carmine viper]

you mean use the plugin to change settings in the se.live plugin? no you cannot.

if se.live adds options for these settings to be controlled via websocket then the plugin would be able to.

[solar stratus]

Any ideas on a workaround? A whole new instance of OBS lags down the first of course.

[oblique yew]

A third party plug-in for streaming to multiple endpoints is available for OBS Studio.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/aitum-multistream.1991/

[fossil wyvern]

just use the above plugin rather than se.live

[solar stratus]

I'm using a different resolution for a couple of places.

Oh.

This is a different one than I thought it was.

Does it allow Websocket?

[fossil wyvern]

if you mean just rescale, then this (or the multirtmp plugin) can also do that

if you mean a separate canvas (for vertical for example) then this pluf the aitum vertical canvas plugin can do it

[solar stratus]

Saw that.

[fossil wyvern]

in what sense?

[solar stratus]

I still need to be able to start/stop the main stream so I can change the key. Will it stop the rest of the streams?

[fossil wyvern]

nope

because it's made by competent people, so you can start/stop each stream individually

[solar stratus]

Thank you!

[lapis sandal]

Hello guys, have a problem here, friends gifted me an Akai lpd8 mk2 (launchpad) telling me i could use it as a stream deck in obs for live, watched tons of tutorial but the plug ins are too much old, i even tried installing both obs 28 and 30.0.2 but "obs midi mg" and others will never work, do someone actually found a solution to this? or something? pls im desperate T_T
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@FEXGG
Hello guys, have a problem here, friends gifted me an Akai lpd8 mk2 (launchpad) telling me i could use it as a stream deck in obs for live, watched tons of tutorial but the plug ins are too much old, i even tried installing both obs 28 and 30.0.2 but "obs midi mg" and others will never work, do someone actually found a solution to this? or something? pls im desperate T_T

[quartz jacinth]

Anyone notice with the new 31.0.1 the twitch stats dock isn't available? Or am I doing something wrong because I have stream elements and Twitch connected and I cant find it in either. Thanks.

[hallow vale]

This one?

[quartz jacinth]

Yeah that was the one found the fix though had to reconnect my account under settings>stream

dont know why it did that after the update but fixed now lol

[hallow vale]

It needs doing occasionally anyways, as the twitch login expires

[rapid locust]

@oblique yew

[spiral ruin]

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[oblique yew]

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

[rapid locust]

Hi

@spiral ruin

[spiral ruin]

Do you need assistance?

[rapid locust]

@spiral ruin is OBs free

[spiral ruin]

Yes. OBS Studio is free and open source software.

[rapid locust]

Do u need a subscription

[spiral ruin]

It's free.

[rapid locust]

So no subscription to acces stuff

[spiral ruin]

There is no stuff to access. You create the stuff (the scenes and sources) you want to use for streaming or recording.

[oblique yew]

✨ If you're new to OBS Studio:

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

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

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

[rapid locust]

AaA

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio is completely, 100% free. You don't have to pay for it at all. It is a great, high quality program that excels at both streaming and recording. OBS Studio is guaranteed to be completely virus and malware free, as long as you download them from the official website at https://obsproject.com/download

[little walrus]

Does anyone have info on if this plugin still works? https://github.com/finitesingularity/obs-advanced-masks/ When i try to apply a mask it just hides the source

[carmine viper]

yes, working fine here

[umbral berry]

i tried installing vertical plugin but it is not being shown

[rough patrol]

is it better to go with a free alert provider, or is there a paid for one thats worth the money? im new to everything here

[fossil wyvern]

honestly I don't see much reason to go for the paid ones

[rough patrol]

This is my first ever pc. i dont know anything about them or whats good to use. i always played consoles. this is all new to me. i just want to learn and share my gameplays with the world and have fun now. im getting to old to sit back and wait anymore

[fossil wyvern]

well, free services are imo the way to go

[rough patrol]

any recommened ones?

[fossil wyvern]

what service are you streaming to

[rough patrol]

i would like to start small and just twitch for now. youtube and tictok i just want to upload clips i make for now. (my next adventure. how to learn to make clips lol)

[fossil wyvern]

then use twitch's own alert service tbh

[rough patrol]

i appreciate the help. thank you very much. i hope you have a wonderful and blessed day

[fossil wyvern]

👍 if you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask

[rough patrol]

thank you

[little walrus]

My options look different then any tutorials I watched. Maybe I did something wrong? No matter what option i use, if theres a filter the source completly vanishes

[fossil wyvern]

yeah, already that means the install of the plugin got messed up and you're missing some files

[little walrus]

Hm, yea that must have been it. Im used to just dragging the plugin to the folder. Ill run the install instead

Thanks!

[fossil wyvern]

yeah, running the installer is usually preferable

granted it's not necessarily the whole issue here but the name of the options being like that means it can't find some of the plugin files

[serene echo]

It looks like you’re missing the data folder, which includes all of the UI strings, as well as the shader files.

[little walrus]

yea it worked running the installer! thanks guys. sorry for the silly question lol

[fossil wyvern]

it's not silly dw

[serene echo]

Not silly at all. These kind of questions are what this channel is for. Glad you got it working.

[pallid prawn]

https://obsproject.com/logs/HsA53VMbYwlNDBl5

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (2)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz - OK! / GeForce GTX 1080 - OK!

[oblique yew]

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

[last pasture]

hello how i can add this to stream panel ?

[halcyon umbra]

Hello, I bought the Elgato Chat Link and connected it to my capture card, my controller, and my headset. How can I set it up so that my voice, the game sound, and my friends in the party can all be heard on stream via OBS?

[hard jay]

You probably want #audio-support for that

[halcyon umbra]

Thanks

[unkempt kestrel]

So I have an interesting tool query. I've been doing research here and elsewhere but haven't really figured anything out that ticks all the boxes. But ideally I'm trying to find something like a Google Slides/Powerpoint type tool that I can show a different slide per scene in OBS as well as have the ability to edit it off screen/outside OBS. Preferably would be nice to have a remote/web access solution but if it's just on the streamer's PC that's fine.

Google Slides ALMOST gets me to what I really want. I can craft URL's for the presentation mode to drop in as a browser source and target a specific slide. Perfect! But it doesn't update automatically if edits are made. The browser source needs to be manually refreshed. I can do the edit view and crop out just the slide but I have yet to find a way to hide all the edit boxes and user tags on screen while editing. I'd much rather have the clean look from the presentation mode.

I'm pretty sure this has been well discussed and someone has figured out good solutions but my Google-Fu has been on the fritz lately. 🙂

[fervent marsh]

I wonder if reveal.js has any kind of montior-for-changes functionality available (probably as a plugin)

[unkempt kestrel]

Hmm. First time I'm hearing of that one. Will have to investigate further.

[oblique yew]

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

[mental trellis]

Hello, is there any plugin for obs which has a feature of auto uploading my replays on youtube after saving them?

[hard jay]

Nothing out of the box that will do that, no.

[silver patio]

Heyy all, I'm trying to use OBS for film production. I'm using Media Playlist Source for playback of recording, but I can't make it play the newest file created with automation. I have Advanced Scene Switcher and Directory Watch Media plugins installed

[regal breach]

can i see what automation you've done?

[silver patio]

I've not really added any automation yet, but I'm wondering if I can play back the newest file soon as it's switched to a different scene (playback scene)

I'm using Media Playlist Source instead the non-playlist one bc I also want to play back the previous recorded videos

[regal breach]

Newest file in a folder? Or your last recording? How do you determine this file?

[silver patio]

playback the last recording, yea

basically i want to recreate a camera's playback function in obs where i can browse older previously recorded videos but also have the last recording be shown first

[queen sierra]

Is there a plugin or something that can instead of post to discord via rich oresence, take that rich presence for potential use in OBS layouts?

[brazen gazelle]

hi

[lost meteor]

does anybody no why my webcam never saves the changes i make when i close the program?

[untold jay]

@lost meteor If it's from logitech, that's a bug in their firmware, no fix available. There was an attempt to fix this, but it caused some other issues so it's not being used.

[lost meteor]

i see so is there anything that can help like in filters maybe?

[untold jay]

@lost meteor Nah. I hear some people have been making macros to re-do their preferred settings semi-automatically. If I had to do this, I'd use Autohotkey for this.

[lost meteor]

i see but what webcam do u recommend then?

[untold jay]

@lost meteor I don't know enough about webcams to make a confident recommendation, but "razer kiyo" is a relatively common sight in the support channels that isn't from logitech. (Then again, if they're a common sight in support channels, maybe it's because of whatever issues they might have.)

[lost meteor]

i see well thanks for the help

[patent ridge]

Hi all, I have a question. I am currently working on a plugin where for OBS and I have following issue. I need an event before a transition (stinger, fade or any other) starts. But I just dont get it to work There is no event for it, I only found following: OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_TRANSITION_STOPPED, ...CHANGED, ...LIST_CHANGED, ...DURATION_CHANGED

On the OBS reference page: https://docs.obsproject.com/reference-core#core-signal-handler-reference
I found following source_transition_start which I tried to implement like this:

static void obs_source_transistion_start_handler(void* data, calldata_t* call_data)
{
    QMessageBox::information(static_cast<QMainWindow*>(obs_frontend_get_main_window()), "Test", "Transition started");
}

...
signal_handler_connect(obs_get_signal_handler(), "source_transition_start", obs_source_transistion_start_handler, nullptr);
...

of course the signal_handler_connect funciton gets called and works for other signals like: source_rename just fine. But it never fires when a transistion starts. I actually never made it fire. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong here or does anybody have a solution to get an event when a transition starts?

Thank you all for your time and help

[solar dust]

Transition in OBS studio are private sources, their signals are not emitted in the global signal handler only in the source's handler.

[patent ridge]

Thank you for the answer. Can you give me a hint what it means for me? Instead of obs_get_signal_handler(), I use the the signal handler of the source (transition)?

[solar dust]

Yes for the second question. Watch out for the signal name, they differ a little between the global and "local" handler.

[patent ridge]

One more time nagging from my side. Where do I find information about that? Can you post me a link where the names of those signal names? Or do you happen to know it by heart?

[solar dust]

Usually in the docs (even I learn how transition work through the code for other reasons).
https://docs.obsproject.com/reference-sources#common-source-signals

[patent ridge]

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate. It is the first time that I make a plugin for OBS and use QT, I did not yet get my head around fully, but slowly slowly things are progressing!

[regal breach]

even with directory watch plugin you won't be able to do that. but i can write you a script based on the instant replay script. what do you want it to do? add the newest recording to the top of the list?

the other solution i can give you is that i can make it so the media playlist source plugin will load a folder but in descending order (i am the author of that plugin), but i'm afraid i will take a longer time, as i have yet to debug other pending updates

currently if you add a folder to the media playlist source, it will load it based on how the OS traverses the files, which i believe, on windows, is by ascending order of filename

[silver patio]

if it's not too much trouble, a script would be great!

it would be nice to have the newest recording always on top of the playlist so whenever the source becomes visible, it'll always play the newest

[patent ridge]

Thank you again. I have now my event when a transition starts. 🎉 🎉 🎉

For my testcode I did it like this:

...
case OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_FINISHED_LOADING:
{
    obs_frontend_source_list transition_list{ 0 };
    obs_frontend_get_transitions(&transition_list);

    QMessageBox::information(static_cast<QMainWindow*>(obs_frontend_get_main_window()), "Transition count after FINISHED_LOADING", std::to_string(transition_list.sources.num).c_str());
    for (size_t i = 0; i < transition_list.sources.num; ++i)
    {
        const auto& v = transition_list.sources.array[i];

        QMessageBox::information(static_cast<QMainWindow*>(obs_frontend_get_main_window()), "Test", "going through transitions");
        signal_handler_connect(obs_source_get_signal_handler(v), "transition_start", obs_source_transistion_start_handler, nullptr);
    }

    obs_frontend_source_list_free(&transition_list);
    break;
}
...

I will play around if not the OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_SCENE_COLLECTION_CHANGED event is the more appropriate

And yes OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_SCENE_COLLECTION_CHANGED is definetley the correct event for the purpose of connecting eventhandler to transitions

[regal breach]

just to confirm, (because that doesn't make sense to me), you say that event gets fired whenever you do transitions like Fade? even if you trigger the transition multiple times in a row?

EDIT: I didn't read your code so I misunderstood. Now I checked it and saw that your approach is correct (how I'd do it as well)

[regal breach]

sure, ill try to do it within the week, no promises though

[clear scroll]

👍

[fossil wyvern]

which, quite funny for source_transition_start and source_transition_stop

[solar dust]

It comes back to libobs != OBS Studio, OBS Studio's transitions are private but libobs does not require them to be.

[fossil wyvern]

yeah ik, but still, makes the existence of those signals bit weird imo

[lethal barn]

Anyone use the ROI Plugin? Have experience in setting it up? I'm not seeing the visuals to show where the points of interest are in the Editor and can't seem to get them activiated.

[tall herald]

obs 31 keeps crashing freezes if any source is touched. all updates r done plugins r done

[oblique yew]

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

[brazen gazelle]

hi

[steep geode]

https://github.com/mxgic1337/faceit-stats-widget

[tacit seal]

where's to download media request widget for obs? any link?

[oblique yew]

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

[gusty isle]

whats recommended for multistream?

[oblique yew]

A third party plug-in for streaming to multiple endpoints is available for OBS Studio.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/aitum-multistream.1991/

[crystal spoke]

What plugin do you recommend to use telestrator?

[nocturne swallow]

hey

Can anyone help me?
I would like to use the OBS virtual camera for ometv, but the ometv site tells me that I have not given consent to the camera

Please🙄

[bright sapphire]

Ometv doesn't allow the use of virtual cameras.

[nocturne swallow]

Are you sure?

😩

[bright sapphire]

Ask Ome 🙂

[stone lantern]

If you run across people having issues with the WCA audio plugin, i'm your guy.. and nice to meet you.

[sinful geode]

im trying to install and set up the OBS RTMP output plugin for multiplatform streaming

does anyone know how to install and use this plugin?

ive never installed plugins before

[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

[waxen spade]

does anyone have any amd replay buffer settings i can use? useing adrenalin is cool but when i try to play a video on my phone that i clipped from my pc, the video is frozen but not on pc and i think thats stupid. tried avc & hevc, those doesnt seem to be good. and then av1 just turns it into a downloadbale link

pls and thank you

[spiral ruin]

If the recording plays fine on the pc but not on the phone, that sounds like an issue of compatibility with the phone's media player app. What recording format do you use in OBS?

[waxen spade]

i shouldve been more specific, sorry (again) in adrenalin using avc,av1 and hevc seem to all suck. i havent tried obs's yet

[spiral ruin]

that's the encoder. I asked about recording format. The file container type the recording is saved as.

also, some mobile media players may not support all encoders.

[waxen spade]

hm, okay

can i ask which one do you use?

[spiral ruin]

What do you mean?

[spiral ruin]

That looks fine. Like I said, if it plays fine on the pc, the probably is the mobile device and the app's compatibility. It may not support mp4 encoded with anything but h.264

[waxen spade]

okay, comparing the 2 it doesnt seem adrenal has a recording format settings

thank you

[grim rain]

how to get plugins

and cool stuff

[oblique yew]

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

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

[wise quartz]

hi everyone, could i find a french channel for my question ? or not ? ^^

[oblique yew]

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

[wise quartz]

ok thanks

I'm looking for a plugin to animate a character on my screen, but with the audio of my friend on discord. As if it was his character speaking on my screen during a stream. Is this possible? I know "move transition" for my voice but for someone else's voice I don't know.

[untold jay]

!ac @wise quartz If it reacts to an audio source, you can replicate the same thing but use application audio output capture for Discord as an audio source. However, this will react to anyone speaking, not just a specific person, so you may have to use a different voice call solution, like Mumble, https://vdo.ninja or Skype.

[oblique yew]

@wise quartz

To capture only audio from specific programs:

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

[wise quartz]

Ok thanks. I will see that option

[dusky basin]

https://reactive.fugi.tech/

[wise quartz]

thanks a lot

[north cypress]

Hi all,
I'm using Multi-RTMP plugin to stream 2 completly different channels at the same time, video works fine but only the audio of the active scene is working, i have the audio of the second channel on track 2 but it won't work, it works only if i put the related scene active.
Any idea ?

[fervent marsh]

you have to tell the output in the multi rtmp config to use its own encoder, and to use whichever audio track number you want to go there.

[north cypress]

Yes i'm using the right track number, but the media need to be active to make it work

[wanton dawn]

hello you have modo speack french for help me ?

[hallow vale]

Welcome! We use English for moderation. Go ahead and say what you need help with.

[dim salmon]

how to do you get a hand cam

[spiral ruin]

Mount a webcam or other camera connected to your pc, and aim it at your hand.

[wanton dawn]

I have a problem with obs with the screenshot

[dim salmon]

i only have 1 cam thow

[spiral ruin]

Well, if you want a camera to show your hand, you need a camera for that. And if you want to show your face at the same time, that means two cameras.

[dim salmon]

i just want my hands

[spiral ruin]

Then you need just one camera

May have to buy a mount to aim the camera at your hands, that's all

[dim salmon]

i can show my cam where it is

[spiral ruin]

I don't know why you need to. It's a physical placement you need to figure out. Where to mount it so the camera can see your hands.

[dim salmon]

Up there

[spiral ruin]

Point it at your hands.

[dim salmon]

it is in place

[spiral ruin]

Do you mean permanently attached there, on top of your display?

[dim salmon]

yes

[spiral ruin]

And you can't detach it?

[dim salmon]

yes

can i just use my phone

[spiral ruin]

So, if you can't detach it, and you can't point it at your hands, what do you think you need to do?

[dim salmon]

idk

[spiral ruin]

Yes, your phone can be used as a second camera. This isn't hard. You just need a camera which you can point at your hands. That's it.

[dim salmon]

can we jump on a call

[spiral ruin]

WHY

This isn't hard.

[dim salmon]

idk so you can tell me how i can put my phone

[spiral ruin]

!phonecam
Here is a guide for ways to connect your camera phone to OBS.

[oblique yew]

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

[dim salmon]

thanks

i did not work

it

[brazen gazelle]

HI

[mortal harbor]

i cant update my mac OS to 11 can i get an earlier verson ?

[spiral ruin]

You're in the plugin channel, so an earlier version of what, exactly?

[granite bough]

I'm looking for some advice;

Does anyone know if there is a way to control a WLED instance from OBS?

I use OBS both for streaming and to control my Camera in discord, and I would like to use one of my WLED signs I have hanging above my PC as an indicator for when my camera is on, to let my partner know its on.
Is this possible at all?

[untold jay]

!advss @granite bough If there's command-line software you can use to change the sign's appearance, then you could use the advanced scene switcher plugin to monitor whether or not video is being captured from a video capture device source, and run a command-line executable.

[oblique yew]

@granite bough

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

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

[crystal rune]

teleport

Is anyone there that can help me with teleport and figuring out where I need to be streaming to

Im not sure where to set my stream sourse to

[untold jay]

@crystal rune Are you trying to send video to a 2nd PC of your own?

[rough brook]

Is there a plug in or something that allows me to steam with twitch and TikTok?

[oblique yew]

A third party plug-in for streaming to multiple endpoints is available for OBS Studio.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/aitum-multistream.1991/

[ebon sorrel]

Hi, does anyone have an IDEE the plugin AI_remove_bg always drives my CPu to 98-100 & especially when I have a movie from 1080P in the game! does anyone of you have an IDEE what else I could do so far it is the suitable plugin to remove the background for a virtual green filter!

[fervent marsh]

What's "IDEE"?

[vapid charm]

I'd tentatively say they mean idea but keyboard go

[ebon sorrel]

Oh sorry i mean Idea 🤣

[manic ermine]

It's hard to tell from the source since ai_remove_bg seems to just be calling into a closed source SDK (of which the manual is in chinese so I can't read it), but the description on github is "It doesn't require a GPU and run with 25FPS in ordinary computer" makes me think that it's not GPU accelerated and that CPU spike is just how much CPU it takes to do the background removal.

If you have an NVidia card you can install the broadcast SDK and get access to their background removal which is GPU accelerated

FWIW I haven't found a better performance cost to quality ratio than the NVidia broadcast filter for background removal

But if someone knows one I'm always on the lookout

[fossil wyvern]

If you have an NVidia card you can install the broadcast SDK
funny you say that, right now, you can't

[manic ermine]

Wait really? What'd I miss

[fossil wyvern]

it updated to cuda 12 and that messed something up with the way obs loads it up so the last version of the sdk doesn't load in obs, and since you can't download old versions...

but it'll be likely fixed in the next version

[manic ermine]

Oh damn, thanks for the heads up

[drifting flint]

does anyone know reasons as to why a source record wouldnt start recording? Some background, i have a VERY beefy PC. Ive already checked task manager, and im barely breaking 45% memory and 35% cpu. I am source recording 7 different things at once. is there some sort of max that source record allows you to do?

[hallow vale]

One of the more common issues with source record is that people forget to change the filename formatting option to make it a unique filename. Like adding "camera" or "game" in front of the existing naming stuff

[drifting flint]

name is customized

[hallow vale]

On all 7?

[drifting flint]

On all 7. The one that was giving me an issue is named "REC_BROADCAST_CLEAN" I also have a "REC_BROADCAST" but they are being recorded to 2 different folders. would that give an issue?

idk if it needs to be named something completely different

[hallow vale]

!cleanlog That should be fine. Send a clean log following the steps below and maybe we can see something to help.

[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

[drifting flint]

https://obsproject.com/logs/OGF7YN3OasgKcVZS

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

ℹ️ Info

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

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X - OK! / GeForce RTX 4090 - OK!

[drifting flint]

let me know if there is anything i can do

[hallow vale]

Here's all the source recordings, and there is the main OBS recording as well.

Which one is missing, can you tell me the filter name?

(REC) Shorts Broadcast
(REC) Cam A Source Record
(REC) Cam B Source Record
(REC) Cam C Source Record
(REC) Cam D Source Record
(REC) Broadcast Clean

[drifting flint]

(REC) Broadcast Clean is missing

[hallow vale]

It worked correctly in this log, do you see this file here: D:/FBTG/99 Current Recording Files/BROADCAST CLEAN/REC_BROADCAST_CLEAN.mkv

[drifting flint]

so initially the file was not in the folder it was recording to. I turned off hardware accelerated gpu scheduler, restarted the computer, and the file was in the folder when i turned it back on, however the file was corrupted. Now its working fine. but its strange because it was working fine the other day, then just randomly stopped.

[hallow vale]

It might be because every subsequent recording is overwriting a previous recording.

You should really have the variables in your filename formatting so this doesn't happen. One min and I will grab them.

Here, these that are in the formatting field by default %CCYY-%MM-%DD %hh-%mm-%

It makes each recording named with the date and time it was started. Append that after each name you have alreazdy given your recordings. For example (REC) Cam C Source Record %CCYY-%MM-%DD %hh-%mm-%

[drifting flint]

I was purposefully having it overwrite the previous recording. do you think that would actually cause issues?

[hallow vale]

I can't say for certain, but it is not safe.

[drifting flint]

okay, thank you for your help

[hallow vale]

YW, hopefully all goes well from here! If not, come on back.

[vale vine]

<@&715347355565817879> Das a bit excessive

[hallow vale]

Was just thinking the same. Thanks Matty!

[lunar scroll]

有中国朋友在吗？

[oblique yew]

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

[hallow vale]

I've had an unusual problem with Source Record the other day. The filter is set on my Nexigo Camera, and one recording turned out to have the whole OBS output recorded instead of just the source. It included overlays I use for streaming. I'm not seeing anything in the log going funky, but could use another pair of eyes. I did another source recording and stream the next day without changing anything and it correctly recorded only the camera.

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 24H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• 1.0% Rendering Lag
• 1.0% Encoder Overload
• Low Stream Bitrate
• Third-Party Plugins (17)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz - OK! / GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER - OK!

[carmine viper]

probably some edge case issue with the plugin or even the OBS API it relies on it some way....don't see a good way to investigate if you cannot reproduce the issue though.

[hallow vale]

Thanks, thought it might be something like that. I'll see about reproducing it. Appreciate it!

[carmine viper]

yeah just step through the log, do exactly what you did previously with the collection you opened up with, the scene collection changes you made in the order you made them, etc. otherwise, no clue!

[hallow vale]

Cool, will do!

[round karma]

i downloaded atium vertical plugin and i saw how to uninstall but it does not work what do i do

[oblique yew]

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

[hallow vale]

Just tried a couple times to reproduce and no luck. I'll just make it a habit to do a shot test recording in the future to ensure it isn't happening again. Kinda shoulda been doing that anyways LOL

[random pendant]

I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask this. Please tell me where to go instead. 🙂

I need to build a tool that will let me record a screen as well as record mouse and keyboard state for each frame. My first thought is to build an OBS plugin for this. This tool is intended to essentially annotate screen recordings with user input for training a computer use AI.

Ideally there would be an api within OBS in which I can receive a callback for each frame, capture input state, then save to file (I'm thinking a text file alongside the video). I realize that this would effect frame rates but I don't need this to work for streaming, just recording, and I only need at most 30 fps. Does something like this exist? If so, please point me in that direction. 🙂

If not, is there a path forward with OBS?

[random pendant]

Looks like I’m looking to make an output. https://docs.obsproject.com/reference-outputs#c.obs_output_info.raw_video

[hard jay]

OBS doesn't sound like the right tool to start with for that.

I'd recommend learning how the various OS capture APIs work and just making something custom on your own.

[random pendant]

@hard jay Thanks for the suggestion. Windows capture APIs are easier than I thought they would be. 🙂

[untold jay]

@random pendant Flaeri's pixelv can serve as a sample working application for how to capture and record the display: https://github.com/flaeri/pixElv?tab=readme-ov-file
This was made in an effort to rule out performance issues in obs-studio, so it does some of the same things obs-studio does, but without relying on obs-studio or libobs for anything.

[random pendant]

Thanks. Will take a look.

[regal breach]

Hi, what happened to the uuids key in the buildspec.json in the obs plugintemplate? I saw it got removed in https://github.com/obsproject/obs-plugintemplate/commit/5da535ca68d9b5528c74a6cef2f2f0cbc5906a8e but I don't see a commit message explaining the change. Did it move somewhere?

[drowsy burrow]

does game capture works now with valorant?

[fervent marsh]

No.

[edgy delta]

Problem with OBS downloaded from Steam, the plugin doesn't show up.

The problem I have is that I installed it according to the instructions, but the plugin doesn't show up. I'm not sure if it has to do with the fact that OBS is installed on my D drive (my disk D). I tried several ways, installing it on the C drive as it says, also on the D drive, but nothing worked. It never showed up. I need help, please. Thank you.
The plugin is called tal-reverb-4: https://tal-software.com/products/tal-reverb-4

[hard jay]

!vst

[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.

[hard jay]

Make sure you're getting the vst2 verison if they have one, OBS does not currently support vst3

[vapid charm]

You need to manually install the dll file looking at the install doc that comes with the windows download.

For the above reasons of course.

[edgy delta]

But it already shows that I have that version in my OBS, is it installed incorrectly?

In fact, in the instructions I see on the website, I don't even have the folders Steinberg\VstPlugins.

Could it be because I have it installed from Steam?

[untold jay]

@edgy delta If the folders do not exist, you can create them and restart obs-studio.

[edgy delta]

Great! I’ll try it and let you know if it works.

[edgy delta]

Thank you very much, it got solved!

[bitter tartan]

hi all, i need help with the local stream marker plugin for obs, it isn't working and i'm unsure what to do to fix it. can anyone help please?

honganqi's stream marker plugin ^

[high elbow]

https://obsproject.com/logs/2LhgzvVs2ke6EkFi

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 24H2 (OK)
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-13700F - OK! / GeForce RTX 4070 - OK!

[high elbow]

so whats wrong

wrong channel sorry

[tropic wharf]

i need help my making video output smoother

[oblique yew]

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

[granite carbon]

I couldnt find any OBS supported methods to increasing the amount of audio tracks.

Is this a technical limitation or any reason this is the case?

[quiet bramble]

It's just a development decision I believe for what is good enough for most use cases. There used to be a forked build of OBS that was a music edition that I think had 16 tracks but I'm not certain about that.

[granite carbon]

i see, weird that it isnt an option to add/remove as many tracks as the recording format supports

especially since we technically are down to 4 tracks since the VoD track was added

[fossil wyvern]

as far as I remember it wasn't actually 16 tracks, it was still 6, but it had tricks that allowed "mapping" additional tracks to channels in the 6 tracks

[fossil wyvern]

audio is a fuck and dynamic allocation of tracks would be a significant maintainance burden

[granite carbon]

oh, yea makes sense to cut down on it then.
1-2 more tracks wouldnt hurt tho

[fossil wyvern]

there is no denying that more tracks could be useful, and it's not impossible that the capacity will be added in the future, but as of right now, the balance of the need for it, vs the work requirements hasn't been in favor of doing it

[quiet bramble]

I think there might be some sentiment too that if someone needs more than 6 audio tracks they should use a DAW rather than OBS turning into a DAW. Personally I'd like to see it have 12-16 tracks even if it is fixed at that though.

[granite carbon]

yea, wouldnt bother me to just have most disabled by default and a setting under advanced to even show the hidden new 10 tracks

[quiet bramble]

It's super easy to blow over 6.

1. Full mix for live stream
2. Raw mic audio (for mixing a video later)
3. Raw game/content audio (for mixing a video later)
4. Audio ducked game/content audio (for live mix)
5. Stream sound effects, chat triggered audio, TTS etc.
6. Discord audio chat.
7. Background music
8. Twitch VOD track

[fossil wyvern]

yeah, but sadly there's a lot of "hardcoding" of the 6 so it would take a bit of work to change

(and I'm not being dismissive of the need for more than 6 I fully agree)

[quiet bramble]

search+replace | AI

[fossil wyvern]

I am rapidly approaching your location

[quiet bramble]

I doubt it is because it is a lot of work to do. I would however believe it if it was because there are way higher priorities and having more audio tracks would be a niche feature for < 1% of nerds like me though.

[fossil wyvern]

I mean it's both

[quiet bramble]

And an even more likely reason, is "Nobody sufficiently motivated to do the work has submitted an RFC and stepped forward as a driver." 🙂

[fossil wyvern]

the need is low enough that the amount of work is too high to be considered

like if it was just putting a 10 instead of a 6 in a couple of places, I'd have PRed it long ago

but like you even need to change the way the tracks are saved in the SC, which means handling migration, on top of also making sure the UI works correctly, and shit like that

[quiet bramble]

Most likely, the first thing that would have to be done would be for someone to make a solid argument for it with several example use cases that required multiple tracks beyond 6 to which using a DAW would be infeasible etc. This would more or less require the audio tracks to be internally generated rather than fed into OBS from external, because there is no way to get isolated internally generated audio tracks out of OBS into a DAW that I'm aware of.

I'm trying to think about it from an "If I were an OBS core dev convince me we need this" angle, as that's what someone would have to ultimately do.

[quiet bramble]

I'd argue the UI doesn't work correctly now though. LOL I always get a horizontal scrollbar for audio tracks in the configuration that has only the slightest scroll to it and begs to have the window resized about 24px wider to solve it. 😛

[fossil wyvern]

imo the first step should be a rework of the track system to make its number more adjustable. Like not at runtime, but needing less work to change it

[fossil wyvern]

I mean yeah it's not perfect, but if you want to increase you have to make sure it's not introducing more issues

[quiet bramble]

like, restructure but keep it the same but now easier to work with in future?

[fossil wyvern]

yup

[quiet bramble]

would make sense if that's the case of copy pasta ATM

One can always use multiple copies of OBS at the same time to record 12 tracks too. 🙂

[fossil wyvern]

there's always workarounds

that much is true

[eternal marsh]

Hello, anyone know how I can get the tuna token again? I keep getting this

for spotify integration btw

[quiet bramble]

Currently when I need to blow over the limit, I am able to record some things in Voicemeeter separate.

[fossil wyvern]

yeah recording smth in a side program and with a sync clap or smth is probs the most proper solution rn

[eternal marsh]

got it working

[fervent marsh]

Lack of proper timecode support makes it difficult to synchronize that, though. 😦

[carmine viper]

not entirely difficult, just requires thought that you need to do it beforehand. a simple 4-click sound that plays on a track on both instances would be fine.

[fervent marsh]

It's still a nontrivial amount of work to write code to synchronize that automatically, though.

Or at least I'm unaware of any tools that can do that trivially out of the box.

I end up writing out a video track with all the audio, using a script in OBS to generate a timestamp in a text source, and then afterwards I OCR the first few frames of a file to get a timestamp and then add timecode metadata. But that's... pretty unreasonable. (And I still don't have a good way to sync to the one audio track that I record with ffmpeg on a completely separate system, heh)

[carmine viper]

multi-system syncing seems like way more of a pain but within the same system I would think playing a noise that would be on a track in both recordings and lining those up manually in your editors timeline would be pretty quick

but it might be clear I never do this so maybe I am overlooking something

[fervent marsh]

It's easy to line up in an editor. But that's not "automatically".

[livid trail]

https://obsproject.com/logs/BzvwcmhmfcXnhf55

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• 38.1% Encoder Overload

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Max Audio Buffering
• 2.4% Rendering Lag
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D - OK! / GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - OK!

[silent cloud]

I have a wild question. I want to trigger a hotkey w/o assigning any keys in it via TriggerHotkeyByName websocket. Is it possible?

[fossil wyvern]

I think it should work? tbh try and see

https://obs-raw.streamer.bot/#TriggerHotkeyByName

[silent cloud]

Yea, i shouldn't have doubted myself. worked

i had two hotkeys in a lua script, they worked fine too

[livid trail]

https://obsproject.com/logs/hOO8HJZQCOkHSG2V

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D - OK! / GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - OK!

[livid trail]

https://obsproject.com/logs/tmmD9GofOhQP8eVB

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording
• 13.2% Rendering Lag
• 38.1% Encoder Overload

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Max Audio Buffering
• Third-Party Plugins (1)

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D - OK! / GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - OK!

[livid trail]

how...

[oblique yew]

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

[bright sapphire]

Please head over to the support channel for your OS.

[fallow osprey]

is there a away to uninstall a plugin? i have so many.

[fossil wyvern]

you have 5 that's not that much

and yeah you can uninstall them like any other program in windows

[brisk epoch]

hey, does anybody know if there's a plugin that adds more blending options to add to sources? like, for example: difference, exclusion, divide, hue, saturation, color, etc.

[quiet bramble]

If they were installed with a .exe or .msi file installer, then what Pen said, however if they came from a zip file or similar archive or were just a singular .dll file and you had to copy the contents manually into the OBS folders, then there is no way to uninstall them as they were not "installed". Rather you have to know the names of every file you copied into the OBS directory manually, and then manually go and remove them in File Explorer yourself as the operating system has no awareness of them being "installed" in a formal way that is tracked/monitored by the OS.

[lofty sentinel]

Hello. I was wondering if there is a way to copy a scene with all my sources I have setup. I tried coping my scene and I made some adjustments to the sources of the copied scene and it changed what I did to the original scene. I want to copy and make adjustment, but not impact the original. Any suggestions?

[real raft]

There is a Plugin Manager, although it currently doesn't recognize installed plugins, but maybe something for newly installed plugins https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/plugin-manager-for-obs.1862/

[brisk epoch]

Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. For example, you can have 2 copies of a source and transform them differently, like resizing them and so on, but any changes you make to the source itself carries on to every instance of it. It bugs me that you can't, for example, have a source in one scene have a filter active and then inactive in another scene. You'd need to make a different source but have it use the same whatever you're trying to show

[lofty sentinel]

Exactly what you said is happening and i want the same thing.

[brisk epoch]

well, like I said, maybe if you try making a different source use the same whatever you're trying to adjust it could work. be sure to name them differently and know which one is whoch

which*

[fervent marsh]

The magic you are looking for is the "source clone" plugin, which pretty much does what the name says. It'll make a clone of a source that you can then apply separate filters and such to.

[oblique wagon]

Does anyone know of an XBOX Game Bar plugin to use with OBS? Yes I've searched but they're from years ago; nothing recent.

[hallow vale]

What do you want a plugin for this to do?

[oblique wagon]

Easy way to record, if possible.

Game Bar recording(s) are too high in size and crap quality

[lofty sentinel]

Thanks!

[oblique wagon]

Or record something with OBS through pressing a button on my controller.

[vale vine]

So you are asking for a plugin....to do the core thing obs is designed to do?

[oblique wagon]

Well, no... I want a plugin that's tied to gamebar so I can record with OBS. Or even something that'll help with pressing something on my Series controller to record a clip.

I always miss out on great clips because my keyboard is wack 🤣

[hallow vale]

The controller button thing probably isn't possible. It would have to activate something OBS recognizes as a hotkey.

[oblique wagon]

Thanks and another question, can I get some sort of notification that a clip was recorded?

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/adding-notifications-when-you-start-recording-in-obs-studio.145387/ nevermind!

[brisk epoch]

woah thanks a lot, I didn't even know some thing like that existed!

[fervent marsh]

It's very handy!

[oblique wagon]

Yeah this isn't working...

I setup the websocket and copied over the dll but it's not showing a notification

Now it's missing the option O_o

The option is gone?

[carmine viper]

websocket is built into OBS, what you have copied over is probably not compatible.

you can just run the OBS installer again to fix this.

[oblique wagon]

I was just following the link above

lol

THANK YOU!

Working now. I see the notifications 😄 😄 ❤️

Just gonna press F11 when I want to record something 😄 so I don't forget which key it is midgame lol

[granite heath]

sorry if this has been asked and answered! New here and I am trying to add my VCC to OBS. I can see it on my laptop device manager, but it does not show up on OBS add device. Can anyone help me? I am not real computer savvy - just enuf to get in trouble!

[hallow vale]

!s You'll want to hit a support channel for your OS

[oblique yew]

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

[night coral]

hello we are having problems going live for our church service through facebook live...we keep getting an error taht says the cannont connect to server....try a differant stream key..we dont know how to fix this...we have tried differant stream keys

[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

[night coral]

https://obsproject.com/logs/QWN5ub5nCSxneATT

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Auto-Config Wizard
• 17.0% CPU Encoder Overload

⚠️ Warning

• Permissions Not Granted (1)

ℹ️ Info

• No Output Session
• 0.3% Rendering Lag
• No Scenes/Sources

Hardware Check

Intel Core i5-1038NG7 @ 2.00GHz - OK! / Intel Iris Xe - Possible bottleneck

[grim trench]

i was wondering if there a plugin that can move a source up and down in the source list instead of me using Ctrl up and Ctrl down hotkey manually

[fossil wyvern]

move it based on what?

[grim trench]

here is example, but im manually switching source with hotkey.

[fossil wyvern]

so your goal is to be able to change source position by pressing a hotkey?

[grim trench]

yes but want it to be automatic

[fossil wyvern]

automated, shen pressing a hotkey or automated from something else

[grim trench]

got it working but change my animation, need to sort that thanks for the help.

[hallow vale]

<@&715347355565817879>

[vale vine]

Joined discord October 2024. Makes sense they fall for chain mail BS

[hallow vale]

No way in hell did Discord say: "Hey everyone stay off of our platform"

[hard jay]

@empty oasis don't post this spam letter bullshit here thanks.

[tiny forum]

Can I pass Chrome flags to OBS Browser somehow?

[fossil wyvern]

yup pass them to obs and it'll pass them down

[tiny forum]

Feels like some flags (like --disable-web-security for example) aren't working for me, despite seing them in chrome://version.

[fossil wyvern]

well firstly not all chrome flags will neessarily work for cef

and some of them like user data dir, are overridden by obs during initialisation or shit like that

[soft arrow]

hello, I installed sdk files from nvidia website to use the background removal but it isnt working, any ideas? I am in OBS 31.0.1 and I have installed move transition, shader filter, stroke glow shadow, source clone and aitum vertical

[fossil wyvern]

yeah there's currently an issue with them and they can't load in obs

should be fixed in the next version of obs

[soft arrow]

omg thanks, I was getting crazy reinstalling drivers

Any way to go easily back without losing plugins to a previous version of OBS?

[hard jay]

I don't think the issue is fixed by downgrading

[fossil wyvern]

you can't downgrade obs to fix it

downgrading the video sdk would fix it, but the old installers aren't available online

[cobalt hatch]

Hiii I need some help understanding Warmuptill's Advanced Scene Switcher and how to do something with it, if anyone's familiar with it and can spare a moment?

[fossil wyvern]

what in particular?

[cobalt hatch]

so I'm trying to make hotkeys to reduce or add to the value of bars in a filter
Specifically I have a stereo pan filter, and I want hotkeys for it to reduce the value of the pan (left) by increments of 1, increase it by increments of 1, and 2 more to do the same to the pan right value

I tried using a hotkey action with a variable condition but it doesn't update the value in the filter when I hit the hotkey

I think I'm not defining the action or the variable correctly

[soft arrow]

do you have all version of the sdk? or somewhere in this Discord? 😂

[cobalt hatch]

was hoping someone could walk me through it with one of them cause I don't really understand what I'm doing

[fossil wyvern]

no and even if I did, I woud recommend you do not use random executables from randos on the internet

[fossil wyvern]

ok, screenshot the macro you have rn

[cobalt hatch]

the macro and the variable

[fossil wyvern]

right, so variables are just values that adv-ss holds, it does nt have any effect on its own

you need to add another action after that to put that variable into the properties of the filter

[cobalt hatch]

what do you mean?

[fossil wyvern]

well, you are decrementing the variable, that works, but then you need to tell adv-ss to actually apply that variable to the filter

[cobalt hatch]

so I do that with a filter action?

[fossil wyvern]

yup

[cobalt hatch]

like this?

I mean like this?

[fervent marsh]

Previous video effect sdk --> https://international.download.nvidia.com/Windows/broadcast/sdk/VFX/nvidia_video_effects_sdk_installer_v0.7.2_ada.exe (for a 40xx; substitute "ampere" for "ada" for a 30xx)

[fossil wyvern]

yeah that should do it (except decrement by one, not decrement by 0)

[fossil wyvern]

oh shit, ty

[cobalt hatch]

ohh ok, thank you so much!!!

[fossil wyvern]

@soft arrow

[fossil wyvern]

actually lemme check if it's the right one

[cobalt hatch]

wait it's still not working

[fossil wyvern]

don't have the filter window open

[cobalt hatch]

the variable itself should be defined like this?

[fossil wyvern]

change the value while it's closed and then reopen to check whether it works

[cobalt hatch]

it doesn't

[fossil wyvern]

set current value to 0, check if it does then

[cobalt hatch]

oh, it works!

that's amazing!

[fossil wyvern]

actually, instead of using variables, in the filters action can't you just choose increment/decrement instead to "set to fixed value"?

[cobalt hatch]

wonder why it couldn't get the float like that

[fossil wyvern]

more straightforward

[cobalt hatch]

emmm I don't think so? let me check again

the options are:
Set to fixed value
Set to macro property
Set setting JSON string

[fossil wyvern]

ok then yeah no

issue here is that if you set it manually, adv-ss will not see that you changed the value

you could setup the macro to read the current value first but that's a bit more work

[cobalt hatch]

how?

with append?

[fossil wyvern]

I4m sorry I can only be of limited help right now cause I don't have access to it to test myself but I think there's a way to have it basically "read" the filter values

as macro property if I remember correcty

[cobalt hatch]

do yoiu remember where you create macro properties? It wasn't in the FAQ and if I can find it maybe I can figure that part out myself

oh nvm those are conditions

[fossil wyvern]

https://github.com/WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher/wiki/Variables#example-set-variable-to-text-source-text

once again sorry I cannot be of more help

[cobalt hatch]

you've already been plenty of help what do you mean?

thank you ❤️

[soft arrow]

thank you

[fossil wyvern]

yeah that's cuda 11, thank you so much

[soft arrow]

it is working

👏

you saved me, I needed for my work

[grave star]

Hi all, I'm having some trouble with using source record to separate the videos from 3 cameras I have going in OBS. The goal is to have 3 separate videos result from each recording but OBS crashes every time I try to record with those filters active. Websocket works fine. My MATLAB script called it and created composite videos of the 3 cameras perfectly every time. What should I try next to resolve this?

[mortal harbor]

ola

[quiet bramble]

Are the record filters on the sources or on the scenes?

[royal condor]

Hello guys, im trying to get this effect on of my streams, is a filter or you guys know how to do it?

to have the 3 display on the screen showing the same thing

[quiet bramble]

clone the source and crop it and place them side by side

Exeldro's Source Clone plugin

[royal condor]

Thank you so much!

[woeful quiver]

Hi everyone, I need some help please...
I was unable to update OBS from version 29, because I am using the "PTZ control v0.15.4" plugin. In version 29 this works for me with the Pelco d, but in all subsequent versions, when I activate it, OBS closes automatically without allowing me to use the controller. I always hope that with an update this error will be resolved, but this doesn't happen, can anyone help me, please??

[quiet bramble]

make sure you are using the most recent version of the plugin, and that it is compatible witht the current release of OBS. If it isn't compatible then there is nothing you can do other than stay using the older OBS for now and report bugs/problems to the plugin developer on github or wherever they collect bug reports.

[vapid charm]

The dev hasn't touched it in over a year according to github so there's a chance something broke since the previous working release.

[quiet bramble]

Either OBS forums for the plugin, or github issues.

[paper grove]

Not sure if this is on Aitum or OBS's end but maybe someone can help me.

You know how in the hotkey settings for scenes where it says "select scene"? I am trying to setup a hotkey or 2 to transition between 2 different scenes in my vertical canvas. However when I set the hotkey and press it to switch to that vertical scene in my vertical canvas, it puts the vertical canvas into my horizontal OBS canvas and doesnt change anything in the vertical canvas.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[terse cave]

Hello everyone!

I am a developer from https://www.ethswarm.org/, and our project has just become capable of streaming. I would like to create a plugin that allows us to stream to Swarm through OBS. According to the docs and what I've seen in the code, it should be possible. Essentially, I need to access the incoming stream's segments and upload them to Swarm, along with providing a couple of custom settings via input fields.

My idea is to add a new item to the Services list that would allow users to stream to Swarm using custom logic. Is this really possible?

I tried experimenting with a service registration, but for some reason, I can't see my newly registered service in the list. The logs indicate that my plugin ran successfully, yet there is no sign of the item. I even tried creating a "Hello World" sample just to see how it works, reusing some logic from the original repo: https://hackmd.io/@v_ETxEVLRO62uIN52-3D0g/r1ouuqjtkx.

Why can't I see my service? Am I misunderstanding something in the API?

[fossil wyvern]

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki/Service-Submission-Guidelines

[terse cave]

ah I see how it works, thanks I am on track again!

[restive prism]

Hi, I have a problem with my OBS I have an echo I hear myself in double and the desktop audio works like the microphone so it shouldn't I don't know how to do it

[oblique yew]

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

[terse cave]

I’d like to avoid creating a separate ingestion service. How difficult would it be, and does it make sense to develop a plugin that effectively acts as an ingestion service? Let's abstract away from the complexity. Initially, I want to generate segmented HLS and simply upload the segments and the manifest to Swarm continuously.

We don't want to host an ingestion service for users and it would be too high an entry barrier for most to run their own. On the other hand, if a lightweight ingestion service could run seamlessly as a plugin, that would be awesome.

[fossil wyvern]

then you're not looking to create a service, but a plugin with a custom output

[hard jay]

Which is not possible right now. Services are not pluggable.

OBS doesn't sound like the right tool for your platform.

[fossil wyvern]

I mean what they describe would be doable with an encoded output that sends to their stuff, kinda like ndi or similar stuff does no?

[hard jay]

No, that doesn't sound like what they're doing at all.

They're trying to turn OBS in to a p2p platform that runs without a server.

[fossil wyvern]

oh

[hard jay]

I'll set aside my personal distaste for everything web3 for the moment, but that's not something OBS is or ever was designed to do, and while maybe possible, doesn't sound like the right starting point.

[fossil wyvern]

oh ouki yee I see that, I misunderstood what they were saying

[terse cave]

Alright, thanks for the info! And just out of curiosity, why are you against web3 specifically, decentralized streaming?

[hard jay]

Because it's a solution nobody asked for looking to solve problems nobody has, or have already been solved.

[ornate kindle]

guys

[hard jay]

Less generously, it attracts nothing but grifters and con artists. I don't know anything about your project, but the entire reputation of web3 is extremely tarnished at this point, and has yet to provide any proof of value, IMO.

[ornate kindle]

my entire pc freezes when i try to stream and it just happened like this wasnt a issuse ystr

[hard jay]

Best of luck with the project though, I hope you can come up with a solutions.

[ornate kindle]

said i had a encoder issuse??

[hard jay]

You'll probably want #windows-support

[terse cave]

That's understandable, and it accurately describes the current state of Web3. However, the technology is really immature and far from ready. I believe that with enough work, Web3 enthusiasts will be able to come up with solutions and ideas that pave the way for real applications and proper use cases. It just needs time. Thanks, mate! Keep up the good work!

[drowsy burrow]

Does Game capture works with valorant now?

[hard jay]

no

[ancient summit]

guys, the Bongobs Cat Plugin, I've solved some issues with it crashing after changing resolution, but I can't get in touch with the developer to update github

[vapid charm]

The plugin is more or less dead as is.

Depending on the license for it you can fork it and have your own version if you want to share.

[quiet bramble]

Since OBS is GPLv2, plugins for it must also be GPLv2, so I don't think it depends on the license much. 🙂

[vapid charm]

licenses are funny sometimes. Never assume. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[quiet bramble]

True, sometimes people ignorantly or malintently use a different incompatible license, which results in an invalid license and violation, so one does have to watch for that.

[fossil wyvern]

gplv2-compatible so some breathing room

[quiet bramble]

Yeah

[barren plank]

how can i loop a video on scene

?

[dark sapphire]

click the Loop option in the properties for the source

[barren plank]

its for polish language and I don't have that option

[dark sapphire]

that's a web source, you want a media source

It's a terrible name for it, but you want "Źródło danych"

[vapid charm]

Is there any real performance difference between using Nvidia Background Blur filter or Shader filters?

[carmine viper]

One uses CUDA cores and one doesn’t

[grave star]

The sources I think. The individual cameras would count as sources right?

[quiet bramble]

Put each source in a scene on its own, then nest that scene where the cameras are presently and remove the source record from the source and put it on the nested scene. Apparently, OBS can crash if a source is 0x0, which can happen if a source goes offline or similar. Putting it in a nested scene forces its resolution to always be the canvas size preventing such a crash.

[grave star]

I'll try that thanks!

[raven apex]

any plugin to show VR as a source in the scene that works on linux?

[coarse gazelle]

Two questions I got if anyone could help. First, there is a way using the advanced mask so that it adapts to being cropped right? Ive seen in research that it does if the mask is for a group and the crop is on a source but that hasn't been working for me. Second, is there a plugin that would let me change a texts font at the push of a button?

[rapid raven]

Hi All, does anyone know what the RTSP address is when you run the RTSP server plugin ?

Im trying to pull the RTSP stream into NX Witness.

[dusky basin]

I don't use it but I think there's a button in the settings to copy the address?

though that button hardcodes the url to rtsp://localhost(:port)/suffix

[vernal vapor]

Is there any free plugin similar to Streamfx?

[carmine viper]

was there something specific that streamfx does that you wanted to be able to do?

[vernal vapor]

I wanna test the the advanced encoder settings that the plugin adds

[carmine viper]

hm okay, but no that plugin is the only one that gives any of those options.

[vernal vapor]

Isn't against the OBS terms to sell a plugin by money?

since OBS is free

[carmine viper]

the source is available for free and you can compile it yourself but the binaries are not available for free.

[vernal vapor]

what is the difference between the source and binaries?

[hard jay]

the source requires you to compile it for it to work.

the binaries are pre-compiled.

[vernal vapor]

According to the developers of Streamfx, the source code is payd too

[vale vine]

I mean, you can clearly see the source on github

The alpha releases are probably pay walled

[wary escarp]

The GitHub code is not being updated anymore, I believe

Last real commit was 2023

[vale vine]

That's the last "stable release"

Xaymar moved it all to basically alpha stuff now I believe

[fervent marsh]

The GPL says that he can charge for binaries, but he must provide the source code on request, and that anyone who has the source or binary can redistribute them however they'd like without restriction (beyond the restrictions the GPL places). So technically what he's doing is technically legit, but making it so hard to get, and the extensive efforts to make people think they can't redistribute it (and demonizing people that do) are definitely nowhere even close to within the spirit of the GPL.

[vale vine]

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.

That highlighted part. If someone requests it, then by the licensing it does need to be provided without fail?

[fervent marsh]

Correct.

Well, technically, it's if someone he has provided the binary to requests it, he must provide it. If someone else provides you with a binary, that person is on the hook for providing the source.

[opaque bobcat]

Is there a thing I need to download to multi stream

[oblique yew]

A third party plug-in for streaming to multiple endpoints is available for OBS Studio.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/aitum-multistream.1991/

[fossil wyvern]

source is not atually afvaliable for free right now

well, not the sssoure of its latestt builds

[sullen hollow]

It seems the waveform plugin now crashes OBS

[carmine viper]

you'd want to report that to the plugin dev on their github.

[versed ore]

hi how are you i just joined, im having trouble with loopy srt and was watching his video, would anyone be kind enough to help me

struggling with obs websocket

[dark sapphire]

Anyone have a plugin or script that can reliably crash OBS? I need to test some changes to our crash reports.

[regal breach]

hi, i finally finished the script, but I just noticed, Exeldro's Directory Watch Media plugin has the same functionality, and I'm facepalming myself for spending time writing the script lol

I was under the impression that you already tried to use the plugin

ah, but it appears Exeldro's plugin doesn't support my plugin yet

anyway, here's the script

https://github.com/CodeYan01/directory_sorter_for_obs

[mortal harbor]

pls help me i can't record my screen and i wanna do a live on youtube

@oblique yew pls help

[random bolt]

Is there a Easy way to create a custom Mouse and keyboard overlay for OBS, I have a spritesheet but don't know how to create a custom overlay?

[untold jay]

@random bolt If you don't mind easy and labor-intensive, there's this: https://github.com/univrsal/input-overlay?tab=readme-ov-file

[fleet fractal]

Hi! Is there a plugin that will read and display long texts or am I missing something? I want it to rea out a text file with like 5000 characters...

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal All sources can't draw textures larger than 16384x16384 pixels. For text source(GDI), at very large font sizes you'll have surpassed that limit rather quickly. So choose a smaller font size, or use a browser source.

[fleet fractal]

So I host my text in online somewhere so it can be accessed from the browser?

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal You can add local files as browser sources by using a file:/// URI.

@fleet fractal(Ask if that doesn't make sense, I can elaborate on the exact steps needed.)

[fleet fractal]

if copilot can't explain it I'll be back after breakfast, just noticed my hands are a bit shakey yet.

[untold jay]

@fleet fractalAdd a browser source, tick "local file", click Browse, select a file.

[fleet fractal]

it seems to add the file as an image... I want it to do a scroll bar sort of thing..

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal Open an image editor, paste the text using the text tool, export as .png, use that as an image source.

[fleet fractal]

ok, and then how will that read the whole text thing as a marquee board scroll from beginning to end?

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal Right-click the image source, choose Filters, add a Scroll filter.

[fleet fractal]

it still just slides the page around, do i need to set the width of the text in the text file? and how do i get it to just keep them all going in a single line without jumping rows? like remove word wrap?

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal How do you want this text to show?

[fleet fractal]

a single line scrolling from beginning to end like the little black marquee box above the bulletin board at school...

but when i use the txt sources it limits it to two sentences so i am very interested in Browser source

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal And the text file is 5000 characters with no line breaks?

[fleet fractal]

um with or without i saved it both ways

am i being goofy its like a short story

dystopian future blah blah blah etc

[untold jay]

Seems fine here. I used a font size of 48 pt and a text file with 14k characters.

[fleet fractal]

ok brb

[fleet fractal]

still stops around 1,280 characters i think...

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal You sure yours is 5k characters and not 5k lines?

[fleet fractal]

approximately 4,469 characters long, including spaces.

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal Change the text source's font size to 8 pt.

[fleet fractal]

currently formatted as plain text, without any page breaks or line breaks.

[fleet fractal]

makes it fuzzy but it hit the end... try 12 instead of 8?

[untold jay]

@fleet fractal Now try larger font sizes until it stops working.

[fleet fractal]

thanks!

[random bolt]

Yeah tried that but been struggeling the whole time

[random bolt]

Do you have any other Ideas or is That kinda the only easiest option?

[stuck ledge]

do you know how i make a follower count like that? I saw streamlabs got this, but I dont want a crazy design or something

[cunning smelt]

Have you tried streamelements?

[wispy loom]

You could do this with something like Streamer.bot querying for follower count then updating an OBS Text object; no plugins involved.

[stuck ledge]

Thank you both 🙂

[fringe root]

Hello, everyone. How are you? I'm going to use OBS to stream with 4 cameras. I don't know much about OBS. I'd like to make some professional transitions and screen savers as well. Could you suggest me any tutorials, courses or videos that will help me professionalize my live streams?

[normal saddle]

Can i ask here for help for alerts?

Hello, can someone help me with OBS/Streamelements

When someone cheers, you can see it + sound but the name isn't there. I tried everything in Streamelements with Top/Bot/ moving it doesn't help.

[oblique yew]

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

[oblique yew]

✨ If you're new to OBS Studio:

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

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

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

[mortal harbor]

I am looking for a teleprompter plugin for OBS

[oblique yew]

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

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

[minor musk]

@regal breach hello there, im from github, about your media source plugin. can u add me or anser on my questions?

1. can we update current playlist item in runtime?
2. can we save current video time too, for reopen video not from start, but from previous time

[wise kayak]

Hey Everyone! Is there a tool/plug in/tracker (I don’t know the technical name) where it tracks how many times I play with viewers individually that works with discord?, like for example, I play Fortnite squads, and I wanna rotate with my community evenly

[regal breach]

1. Yes
2. If you're talking about reopening obs, that's not yet possible, I am not sure how much performace hit it will be to save the time every second.
   If you're talking about switching between scenes and have the video go back to its previous time, you can enable the pause video in the properties of the source

[vapid charm]

Using my lovely paint dot net skills.....

The portion on the left is a window capture that's full canvas and following the arrow path it "compresses" to something about this size while the source on the left comes into view like such.

The line ins't included and only for contextually separating here.

FFS.

I'd wanna use move transition plugin right?

Along with 2 diferrent scenes as well.

[fossil wyvern]

yup move is the way here

[wispy loom]

I'm not 100% certain I understand what you're going for, but - in general - if I want one source to change position and transform over time while another one does the same... yeah, move transition. (Pen is much faster than me haha)

[vapid charm]

Basically it's this but in both directions. It expands to the left and "closes" to the right.

[cyan merlin]

does anyone have recs / fav plugins i should try out ?

[wispy loom]

Okay, if I understand, then: put the Move Source filter(s) on the scene that the target source is in; could use Show as the start trigger, then have one Move Source filter per desired state, and set each one go have desired timings to get there.

then can bind hotkeys / use Streamer.bot / StreamDeck /etc to toggle the Filters ON and get the moves happening.

[carmine viper]

feel free to scroll through the forums resources page to look at all of them but plugins are more of a "I need to accomplish this specific thing" thing

[cyan merlin]

https://obsproject.com/forum/plugins/
this one?

i thnik its that one

thank you i didnt know tehre was a list

im still super new to the obs community and what not, i just click record

but lowkey thinking i need to look into it more

[serene echo]

Yup! That is the best spot to find plugins.

[wooden anvil]

if any used closed caption plugin: i was trying this plugin and my setup is dule pc gaming streaming and i have setup this in streaming obs however its not working nothing show up any idea why?

[hallow vale]

Which plugin is it exactly?

[wooden anvil]

closed caption plugin

[hallow vale]

Can you link it please? There are several it could be

[lyric pine]

anyone elses streameleents plugin randomly just stop allowing the ability to multistream?

[oblique yew]

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

[slender grove]

hey guys, i just downloaded obs td (been using streamlabs) and want to get some follow notis and what not. streamlabs has a default one i liked, how would i get one on obs?

[oblique yew]

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

[sacred geyser]

hey i just set up Amuze to show my now playing music from spotify but i cant see to get the canvas to work like its not showing the clip just album art. i do have it set to canvas aswell

[wooden anvil]

obsproject.com/forum/resources/closed-captioning-via-google-speech-recognition.833/

[regal breach]

What's the difference between the update and save signals in terms of writing your own source?

[regal breach]

nevermind, it was just as i thought, thanks

[regal breach]

sorry for the long delay, i had a lot of trouble trying to rebuild obs and apply changes of the plugin template to my plugin

can you please try this build https://github.com/CodeYan01/media-playlist-source/actions/runs/13417491862 (bottom of page) and enable the hardware decoding option in the Properties?

@hazy plinth also see above link for the hardware decoding option

[ancient trout]

Hey all! hoping I'm in the right place to ask...

Using Reaper as my DAW, I am just trying to get my vst plug-ins window to pop up on screen (obs) when I use them. Wanting for the FX window to pop up independently from my DAW's window capture... not trying to dock it into that screen. On my attempts to figure this out, I don't see an obvious way to do this. Not on the Reaper side either... not sure if I need to make vst windows "visible" somehow, externally from the DAW, so that OBS has something independent to find. I think I'm over complicating this. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[spiral ruin]

So, you DAW has a vst plugin you want to use, but directly in OBS?

[ancient trout]

no, I just want the VST window to pop up on screen so people (and I as well) can see my fx windows while I'm live

I'm using the vst in the daw but when I use it, it dosen't show up on OBS

[spiral ruin]

You may have to use a display capture source, as some child windows (the pop-out window) won't be captured by a window capture source that is set to capture Reaper directly.

[ancient trout]

got it. I didn't want to dedicate an entire screen to my fx window but maybe is the only realistic route?

[spiral ruin]

Lots of apps are like that.

Not really a unique situation, but first time I've heard of it with Reaper

[ancient trout]

i'll give that a try

thanks!

[spiral ruin]

You can also try a separate window capture source for just the effects window. It may work.

[ancient trout]

it works. Yeah, had to add window capture & I'll just move my fx window onto that screen... I'll find more quick uses for it anyway so that works!

[errant jasper]

thanks for continuing to work on this, it's appreciated! i was able to install the build you linked and enable the hardware decoding option, but it didn't appear to have any effect on my issue -- the sample file i linked still appears like it does in the screenshot.

i don't know if this is helpful, but i did a little additional research and found that i wasn't correct about the videos the issue affects. this seems to occur with any video encoded as 10-bit (or higher). this has included every encoder available to me in handbrake -- h264, h265 (videotoolbox and x265), av1, vp9.

[fierce pelican]

hey, so im using source record the plugin and on obs my facecam is a circle but everytime i finish recording and i look at my camera footage its a circle but its in the middle of a black box and wondering if anyone knows how to fix it? it really just messes up the video when im trying to edit the camera like im corykenshin.

[barren lance]

hi guys, where i can find download background removal?

[fierce pelican]

If you mean for like your Webcam or camera I recommend prism lens, it's like a greensreen/background removal

[barren lance]

they helped me already.. thanks anyways..

[wooden anvil]

hello any one have idea why caption nto working? im having duel pc setup my mic work in obs i can see that but caption not detecting anything?

[quiet bramble]

What are the other options under "Output to"?

[wooden anvil]

this one

[wooden anvil]

should i install the plugin in the streming pc or gaming pc?

[fossil wyvern]

if you're outputting to twitch directly, streaming pc, provided you have a separate source for the mic

but still, should show in previe

[wooden anvil]

no im streaming throught server for multi stream not restream im using my own

[fossil wyvern]

that is unrelated

by "outputting directly" I meant using the native captions

outputting (the captions) directly

[wooden anvil]

nothing work

so wired

[fossil wyvern]

what?

what do you mean "wired"?

[wooden anvil]

i mean thats strange why its not working i saw the video and i did same steps 😐

[fossil wyvern]

ooh weird

[wooden anvil]

ya 😄

[fossil wyvern]

close obs, reopen, send a log

[wooden anvil]

ok

[wooden anvil]

https://obsproject.com/logs/7qB6vdNNQkoPr3CT

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Browser Not Accelerated

ℹ️ Info

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

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz - OK! / GeForce RTX 3050 6GB - OK!

[fossil wyvern]

close and reopen before sending

[wooden anvil]

done

https://obsproject.com/logs/HiHjJFQQCi9l2c99

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Windows Game Mode
• Third-Party Plugins (5)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz - OK! / GeForce RTX 3050 6GB - OK!

[wooden anvil]

what u trhink? @fossil wyvern

[polar forum]

Hi everyone, is it possible to use two stream keys in OBS for youtube?

[untold jay]

!multirtmp @polar forum Yes, use any multistreaming plugin to send the 2nd broadcast.

[oblique yew]

@polar forum

A third party plug-in for streaming to multiple endpoints is available for OBS Studio.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/aitum-multistream.1991/

[polar forum]

Beautiful, let me try that. Thank youu @untold jay @oblique yew

[glass wind]

Is this a space where we can ask what plugins and tools we might need go accomplish something? I am looking for a specific chat feature that I saw and I am not sure what tool I need to do it. Could someone assist if this is the right space for that?

[fervent marsh]

This would be a good space for that, yeah.

[tender geode]

Need help. My files are missing and I cannot run my overlay on OBS. My scripts logs have an error loading. Can I retrieve files?

[glass wind]

Okay, thank you! I am looking for a way to display my chat overlay to have channel badges next to the chatter’s name (see example photo the little rainbow shrimp is the chatter’s channel badge). I multistream using restream

[true haven]

I'm new to OBS and trying to livestream for my news org tonight. I added the github captions plug in and everything seems to be set up right, but the captions aren't showing on screen while the camera is on. If I click the eye icon in the soures to turn off the picture, the captions are working. how can I bring it to the front? other text boxes I've created are working right.

[bright sapphire]

sources are like layers in the list. Whatever is higher in the list is more to the front

[crisp bridge]

Hello everyone,

I am designing a obs plugin. this is my first time creating one. I am unable to build the windows build due to missing libobs. I am using the obs-plugintemplate as the template.

I can create macos and ubuntu, but not windows. I am trying to build obs studio from source in CI. However, I am failing to link them correctly. the pathing for the libobs is always incorrect. Can someone help guide me.

[manic temple]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but I saw "tools". So here we go.

I am looking for an app for android that will allow me to screen mirror wirelessly to OBS.

I have tried a few and none seem to legitimately work.

Any suggestions?

[hallow vale]

So we don't give repetitive suggestions, what have you tried and in what way do they not work?

[sly patrol]

https://youtu.be/xSbxjg-NuO0?si=oFhwM6Va_1uoUIfs

[oblique yew]

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

[hallow vale]

Are you having an OBS issue you need help with, or are you dropping links to try and get viewers?

[tepid frigate]

So my obs just updated and now theres no dock for multistreaming. Was it just a beta? Or can i get it back somehow?

[spiral ruin]

OBS has no built-in multistream feature or dock, past versions or present. Your dock must of been part of a third-party plugin you were using. Check your Docks menu, see if the missing dock is listed there and unchecked.

[manic temple]

Ive tried prism live, douwan, and ive looked at anymiro, but not tried it yet. But it has worse reviews than douwan.

[fossil wyvern]

scrcpy?

[spiral ruin]

☝️

[manic temple]

Ill give it a go!

Ty!

[hard jay]

I've tried them all including scrcpy and while that one is probably the most reliable, it's still sketchy at the best of times :p

Which is a comment mostly meant to set expectations.

It wil be very hard to get away from all jank, but, scrcpy should work pretty decently.

[manic temple]

Think im better off just sharing my screen on discord with one account, then watching said screen, and viewing said screen with OBS?

[hard jay]

probably not.

[manic temple]

Okay cool lol

Like it works fine but its a hassle to setup.

So ill try whats recommended.

Thank you all!

[tepid frigate]

I didnt have any third party added and ive checked my docks. And i definately wasnt imagining it or put it there myself and now its gone

[swift tulip]

The third party plugin was obs-streamelements

[spiral ruin]

Could also try vdo.ninja. Browser-based video, screen and window sharing. I use it to get my Chromebook display to OBS on my main rig.

[spiral ruin]

Were you using SE.live plugin and that mulitstream feature?

[manic temple]

Gotcha!

Yea essentially what im doing it for is so a judge can wirelessly use a score app on an old phone that is also sending that screen of the score to the live stream of the game

[hallow vale]

Also you can take a look at Let's View and Airdroid cast. Both free. If you want to try a paid app, I bought Mirroring 360 after the 7 day free trial. The stumbling block for me was to be able to not capture the phone mic along with system audio. I wanted not. I believe it depends on the phone's OS as well as which app you are using.

[tepid frigate]

It mightve been that. I just know that i didnt put it there and it popped up after an update. Ill check that

[spiral ruin]

If you ever installed the SE plugin, then you did put it there. That plugin changes parts of OBS, some for good, but mostly for evil. A lot of people have negative side effects. Others don't. Up to you how you want to proceed. I will link you a different plugin, one a little more stable for multistreaming.

[oblique yew]

A third party plug-in for streaming to multiple endpoints is available for OBS Studio.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/aitum-multistream.1991/

[rocky solar]

Dose anyone know of a plug in that can translate RS-232 serial data, separate it into usable inputs or fields to then put as a output on the overlay of video?

[tepid frigate]

You are the best my guy!!!! I got it up and running

[true haven]

Amazing! Worked great. Thanks so much.

[west garden]

Like Papa Luigi said, give vdo.ninja a try. There is also a vdo.ninja android app on the play store that can screen-share.

[paper pollen]

Is there a plugins for OBS to make a transition for every later of PSD just live vmix GT Designer?

[oblique yew]

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

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

[paper pollen]

is that applicable for PSD for every layers?

[manic temple]

Hello. Its me again.

Havnt tried anything on my last question, but now I have another issue.

Friend and I edited a transition, and part of the transition is meant to be transparent, but when we saved it, the transparency turned to black.

Is there a way to get that back to transparent?

[novel meteor]

OBS studio for live striming how should i?

[oblique yew]

✨ If you're new to OBS Studio:

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

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

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

[fervent marsh]

If you saved it without an alpha channel, you'd need to go back to your editor and save it correctly.

[manic temple]

Got any resources explaining that? Im unfamiliar

[fervent marsh]

Not off the top of my head. The short version is that some video formats have an extra channel that determines how transparent parts of the video are. What editor are you using?

[manic temple]

I believe my buddy is using Adobe after effects

[fervent marsh]

Render as prores 4444 and "RGB+Alpha", then once that's done, convert it to VP9 (webm) using shutter encoder and make sure you have the alpha channel enabled under "advanced". That's probably the most reliable way for that.

[manic temple]

The original video was transparent, and he doesn't have a way to preserve it because hes using a 3rd party program to convert it to an mp4. There's nothing he can render wise because the original asset isn't transparent anymore.

So is there a good way to convert it and keep the transparency?

[fervent marsh]

mp4 doesn't support transparency.

The best you can do is make the background green (or some other unique color) and use a chromakey filter to convert that color to transparency, but you can't do that for a stinger transition.

[manic temple]

Ahhh.

Hm.

What would be the best way to edit a stinger transition then?

Fine with the transition itself.

Just looking to add a logo, and have it appear and disappear eith the transition.

[fervent marsh]

Create it with something that can render with transparency, render it with transparency, then convert to webm with transparency.

[shell marlin]

I need some help. I have a plugin (I know that it is the issue, but I don't know how to kill it). I was trying to run a countdown clock, and since that day, my OBS will crash, but I can't find the right file to destroy. I really don't want to start over as I have quite a few plugins that I use regularly.

[spiral ruin]

!plugins
If you know the name of the plugin and had used the installer to install it, you can uninstall it like any app on your pc, from your OS Settings - Apps list.
If you manually extracted files from a download and pasted them into the OBS folder, then you can manually delete the specific plugin's folder you want to remove. This guide shows how to remove plugins in detail.

[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

[vale vine]

nice way to fetch a ban

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[oblique yew]

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[vale vine]

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[vapid charm]

Dyno is actually partially dead glancing at the status channel in their server

[spiral ruin]

Dyno taking off early on a Friday.

[crisp bridge]

#plugins-and-tools message

if no one has an answer for me. can someone at least guide me on what is the. best practices to get libobs on to get the windows build.

[hard jay]

providing the full build log or at least the actual error would be helpful

oh there's a second screenshot

discord was not showing that, thanks discord.

I didn't think we used vcpkg at the moment

[crisp bridge]

please let me know what is the best way to share the logs. would a link to the github action be ok : https://github.com/mjshakir/obs-twitch-limiter/actions/runs/13453413323/job/37592136702

also please forgive me I am new to this discord and plugin making. so any guidness would really help me

[hard jay]

I'm a little confused where vcpkg came from, we don't have that anywhere in our plugin template I can see

[crisp bridge]

you are right you don't use vcpkg. since libobs is not there. I am using vcpkg to get boost and rapidjsobn library

[hard jay]

The error is from your vcpkg setup, which we don't use or support at the moment, so I am not sure what you did there.

Did you follow the guide on the template repo? https://github.com/obsproject/obs-plugintemplate/wiki/Quick-Start-Guide

[crisp bridge]

I need 3 libraries for my project boost, rapidjson and libobs of course. what would be the best way I can get those libraries into windows

[hard jay]

libobs comes from building obs, not from an external library repo

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-plugintemplate/wiki/Getting-Started might be better than the quickstart for you

[crisp bridge]

Sorry, I did not! that is my fault. I will follow that and see. I am sorry and thank you for the guiding me.

[hard jay]

No worries!

[grave star]

Hi, I'm having some trouble with nesting each scene into one. How does that work?

Dragging one scene into another doesn't seem to work.

[fossil wyvern]

add a source, select "scene"

[grave star]

Thank you, then where does the source filter go?

[quiet bramble]

On the nested scene.

[grave star]

Like this?

I don't seem to be able to do non-effect filters on the scene

[quiet bramble]

Not sure what you mean by that, can you elaborate?

[grave star]

From the screenshot above, what would you do next?

@quiet bramble It doesn't seem to be giving me the option to add source filters anymore

[quiet bramble]

That's what the "+" button does.

[grave star]

Ok, thanks. I'd opened it before but not seen the source option I guess. Do I do 3 separate source record filters and assign each scene to them somehow?

[quiet bramble]

If you want to record a scene, put the source record filter on a scene. Put them on whatever scenes you want to record. If you want to record a source, since there is a chance it will crash if the source is not available and has a resolution of 0x0, by putting the source in a scene by itself and putting the source record filter on that scene, you eliminate the crash risk because a scene is always the resolution of the OBS canvas. Instead of putting the source inside the scenes you want it in, you put the nested scene you encapsulated the source in in those scenes using Scene Source. The filters always go on scenes instead of sources and problems are avoided.

How many source record filters you need, depends on what it is you want to record, and putting it on the scene(s) you want to record.

[barren bison]

Hello!

I need guidance here...

I am using Advance Scene Switcher to trigger when something happens on my gameplay. And as my action I want to send a Websocket message to Streamer Bot using the current connection I have so Streamer Bot can interact with OBS.

I have not been able to capture that websocket message on my Streamer bot. It seems that it is not possible to talk to Streamer Bot from OBS or I am not understanding something here.

Currently, my workaround is to toggle a source lock and Streamer bot is waiting for a source LockStateChange event to happen. But I don't want that, because every time I lock/unlock something it is going to be triggered.

Any suggestions?

[fervent marsh]

I'm pretty sure you can do what you want to do with websockets, but I don't know the specifics, I'm afraid.

But in the meantime... when I need a kind of semaphore to signal to something else, I use image sources without a configured image, stuck off in a separate scene, and toggle their visibility to signal things.

[upbeat patio]

I'm having trouble with setting up my droidcam connection

[wispy loom]

This is genius. Thank you.

[jagged edge]

Does somebody know how I can get my iPad screen via airplay to obs studio?

[tidal zealot]

Hello, the application sound catcher does not appear in the resources, I am using the most up-to-date version.

[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

[bright sapphire]

👆 crossposted #windows-support message

[vale vine]

Well that guide doesn't exactly answer their question 😉

Their issue is apparently that source not being available so likely old windows, but need log

[bright sapphire]

true - I should have clarified.

#windows-support message

[vale vine]

Yep ha

[barren bison]

And on SB you capture that event and identify the source that was modified with the Logic item?
Which variable is used to identify source that was modified?

[fervent marsh]

I don't actually use SB, so I'm afraid I can't directly help much there.

[barren bison]

That is ok. Thanks!

[barren bison]

Found it!

• Created a Dummy Scene
• Created a dummye source
• Action will toggle Enable/Disable that dummy source
• on SB, create a trigger from OBS that captures SceneItemEnableStateChanged
• on SB action, use logic with variable "obsEvent.sourceName" to check if the source that was modified is the one you are expecting to be modified.

[fervent marsh]

Aha! Yeah, that sounds about like I'd expect, just wasn't sure of the specifics in SB. Awesome!

[crystal wolf]

do we haev anything for chat overlays i want to combine youtube kick and twitch please

[weak torrent]

try casterlabs 🙂

[tight horizon]

Anyone know of a browser source countdown timer that includes font customization?

[untold jay]

@tight horizon Add *{font-family:"Comis Sans MS"!important;} to the CSS field, does that work?

[tight horizon]

I'll check

Later

[atomic hinge]

what plugin is good for TikTok and Youtube Streaming?

[crystal wolf]

thank you will do

anyone have a way to do a giveaway on a multi stream and keep a follower list

[spiral ruin]

!plugins
People use plugins when it fulfills a specific need or adds a feature not native in OBS. Or, the plugin helps streamline the workflow to make controlling sources easier during a stream. Take a look at the list to see what people are using.

[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

[atomic hinge]

What Plugin would you Recommend me?

Which is easy to use and is also good?

[spiral ruin]

You don't need plugins to stream. Just use OBS to start streaming. If you have something you want to do in OBS that cannot be done with OBS itself, then we may recommend a specific plugin.

[atomic hinge]

No i mean to stream on both Plattforms on the Same time.
A recommend Plugin for that?

[oblique yew]

A third party plug-in for streaming to multiple endpoints is available for OBS Studio.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/aitum-multistream.1991/

[dusk lion]

Is there a plug in or any way to trim replay buffer clips before downloading them?

[oblique yew]

Editor functionality is not something that is currently in scope for OBS Studio development at this time. Our main development focus for OBS Studio right now is streaming and recording features.

We're happy to leave editing for other, more specialized software to handle. For a list of recommended post-production software, including video editors, see our list of Post Production Tools

[oblique yew]

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

🛑 Critical

• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler
• Audio Monitoring Device Failure

⚠️ Warning

• Capture Interference
• Multiple Game Capture

ℹ️ Info

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

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-14700K - OK! / GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER - OK!

[simple token]

Hello, I have a problem with Advanced Scene Switcher.

I had to reset my PC and lost my configuration with the plugin.

I tried to recreate it from memory, but it doesn't work.

I would like the following setup:

When I start the stream, the game and microphone audio should be muted.
At the end of the countdown, the scene should switch automatically, and the audio should be re-enabled.
Currently, it's not working as intended—either the sound doesn't mute at the start, or it doesn't reactivate afterward.

I want the same behavior for the pause scene: the audio should be muted, and after 5 minutes, there should be a scene change with the audio reactivated.

Additionally, during the live scene, I want two videos to appear every 5 minutes, but I can't figure out how to do that anymore.

Could someone help me by providing screenshots of the actions I need to set up in the plugin, please?

[granite umbra]

https://obsproject.com/logs/g4l6r8S8WWV48ODO

[oblique yew]

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

🛑 Critical

• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler
• Audio Monitoring Device Failure

⚠️ Warning

• Capture Interference
• Multiple Game Capture

ℹ️ Info

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

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-14700K - OK! / GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER - OK!

[opaque geyser]

Hey guys is anyone available to help me with OBS for plug-in development I got a couple of questions

[untold jay]

!plugintemplate @opaque geyser Read this if you haven't already. If you need help compiling obs-studio or a plugin for obs-studio, ask in #development .

[oblique yew]

@opaque geyser

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

[opaque geyser]

Already did, the template is not very informative for what I need

[untold jay]

@opaque geyserWhat do you need?

[opaque geyser]

I just need some pointers, I will ask in #development

[spiral ruin]

Could just ask here too. Ask the specific questions, if someone is online with answers, they will reply.

[opaque geyser]

Okay, now I'm confused, #development is for contributing on OBS or for plug-ins? This seems to be for plug-ins that's why I asked here...

[spiral ruin]

Ask the specific questions.

here

[opaque geyser]

~~I want to create a plugin the does the following;

Monitors the running processes on the system and check for a specific process with a given name, when said process will be found it will refresh a list of specific sources, let's say the following Application Audio Capture (BETA) and Window Capture this is useful for when the program that I'm recording / streaming doesn't immediately match any other already opened programs but only the one that was most recently opened.

1. I see the plugin template is on .c and .h, do I simply change those to .cpp and .hpp to be able to make use of the C++ features or am I stuck with C? ( this is not a problem I'm just wondering )
2. As what I want to do needs access to the WinAPI is there a simple way to make calls to that? ( This is so cause I don't think there is another way to get the process-frame that easily, not aware if there a better solution )
3. I wanted to use pthreads for this but I couldn't get it to build is there an issue with native threads? Is there an OBS alternative that uses Timers?

Additionally I want to implement a dockable QT configuration panel which will have the two following things;

The name of the process, e.g. my-awesome-process.bin and the polling-interval which is how often the thread will re-initialize checks.~~

EDIT: Figured a way to do this, sorry for that 🩷

[untold jay]

@opaque geyser You described the advanced scene switcher plugin, it seems.

[opaque geyser]

No, not scene switcher, just a robust executable tracking source refresher

But, I managed to get it to work with WinAPI imports now so I'm going that route

[spiral ruin]

Advanced Scene Switcher is more than just "a scene switcher". It's an incredibly deep macro too.

[hallow vale]

Move the two Mute actions to the top of the stack

[atomic hinge]

i cant download that when i press download it open another tab and that is empty only Black.

[hallow vale]

Click the symbol in the top right that looks like a down arrow with a line under it.

[atomic hinge]

i restart the browser now it works

[full scroll]

Hey so I just got this replay system working for Steam on Discord. I wondered how I could make it so the replay will show the most recent clip of the replay buffer I did without the people watching it seeing the old clips and having to go back and forth would be nice, This dude sent me a breakdown of the replay. Still, I'm kinda confused with what I'm looking at it would very helpful. If someone could help me

I should also mention that someone suggested it had somthing to do with the scripts or something

[hallow vale]

Did you test it and it showed old clips?

[full scroll]

I havent figured out how to test the thing you said

[hallow vale]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/replay-source.686/

Watch the how to video

[full scroll]

ok i see how they did it but the this arent there

like when it says load replau

replay

its not there

But i see stuff saying hide game capture is there a way to hide me putting the new clip

@hallow vale

[hallow vale]

I may FAFO with that script later, but for now I don't know enough to help further

[mortal harbor]

can i still use restream if i have the streamlabs plugin for obs?

[fossil wyvern]

you should be able to yes

[worn lake]

Hello people, a problem that happened to me, person if it is not the correct community, when I use my Logitech camera it increases the cpu from 11 to 15% but normally it is 3 to 4%, the ram at 40% and the gpu at 50%, before it did not happen like that, does anyone know why, any solution if someone has had this happen to them

[hallow vale]

Do you have any performance issues because of this, or is it just concerning to see the numbers higher than previously?

[outer socket]

!plugins

[oblique yew]

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

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

[worn lake]

Before it was not normally at 3 to 4, but now it is with 15 cpu but the memory also increases and the gpu increases to 45%.

[hallow vale]

Yes, those are higher numbers. Does anything bad happen, though?

[hallow vale]

Ignore the numbers. Is anything else wrong?

[odd forge]

Hi, I'm new here. I'm having a problem with the advanced scene switcher.
https://obsproject.com/logs/avKFtDIIWvryZOjk
This is a crash log.
It seems to be a problem with obs_frontend_get_streaming_output.
If anyone has had this problem, can you give me some advice?

[fervent marsh]

@loud wedge ^^ I'm not sure this is something adv-ss has actual control over, because things crashing when getting OBS outputs seems to perhaps be crashy independent of addon, but pinging you in case there's actually something actionable for you here

[odd forge]

Thanks! How do I find out where the problem is?

[fervent marsh]

Unfortunately, there's probably not a huge amount you can do.

Is this the first time it's crashed for you, or something that's been repeating?

[potent summit]

how do i install plugins without a installer

[fossil wyvern]

which plugin?

[odd forge]

I use OBS for a small TV channel. It worked for a whole year without any problems. About a month ago this problem started. While OBS was playing some video, it crashed.

[potent summit]

advanced scene switcher i tried to download it with the installer but i dont see it in tools

[fossil wyvern]

did you restart obs since running the installer?

[potent summit]

yes

[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

[potent summit]

https://obsproject.com/logs/Oep8uWGm2gT40y2b

[serene echo]

It may be the new sentient version of AdvSS, that just anticipates what you need, and does it... (joking.. but if the singularity occurs, it will probably be AdvSS)

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Old Version (30.0.2)
• Mismatched Sample Rates
• Non-Standard Framerate

ℹ️ Info

• Insufficient Hardware
• Windows 11 23H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Browser Not Accelerated
• Windows Game Mode
• Third-Party Plugins (2)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i3-1115G4 @ 3.00GHz - Possible bottleneck / Intel UHD Graphics - Possible bottleneck

[potent summit]

oh yea i forgot i have a old version of obs xd

[fossil wyvern]

update obs

[potent summit]

i though i was on 30.2.0 i guess im blind

[fervent marsh]

And it's crashed multiple times in the same spot? Hmmm. I wonder if there's some bug in v31 that's getting tickled. Either that, or have you added any new macros recently that have conditions based on whether you're streaming or recording or anything like that?

[potent summit]

how do i update i havent used it for a bit

it doesnt show a prompt to update when i launch obs

[odd forge]

It doesn't crash in the same place. It's completely random. Every other day or so.

[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)

[fervent marsh]

Oh, huh. Can you drop one or two more crash logs here for us to look at?

[odd forge]

https://obsproject.com/logs/roHDCF55uO9RDQQM

[fossil wyvern]

can you show what your macros are?

[fervent marsh]

That one is crashing in the same place as the first.

[odd forge]

I have over 100 macroses

[odd forge]

Could I upload an export somewhere if that would be helpful?

[fossil wyvern]

oh lord

[fossil wyvern]

!manuallog
check the log files, see if there is one from a session that was ended by a crash

[oblique yew]

Please manually upload your log file.

(Windows)

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

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

[fossil wyvern]

@fervent marsh my guess is that adv-ss is asking for the fe output at a moment where there is none but that's all I can see

[odd forge]

https://obsproject.com/logs/avKFtDIIWvryZOjk
This is the log file when OBS crashed.
I deleted all the macroses that monitor whether OBS is streaming.
Now I'm watching to see if it crashes again.

[fossil wyvern]

no, that's a crash report

[odd forge]

Opps sorry. https://obsproject.com/logs/5t3X6Bb7IrJZBkQw

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Non-Standard Framerate

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (8)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-12700 - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[fervent marsh]

Yeah. And we've seen that before, too (I had to make my stats gatherer not monitor the stats on outputs, even, because obs-websocket would cause the same kind of crash). I've never been able to reproduce it well enough to actually try to catch it in a debugger though (...or at all, really)

Well, not so much "at a moment there is none" as much as something somewhere probably needs a lock or something.

[fossil wyvern]

no, don't send the log like that, I gavce you instructions on how to find the log files folder so that you go there and try to see if one of the log there corresponds to a session that ended with a crash

[odd forge]

Ok just a moment please.

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Non-Standard Framerate

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 22H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• Third-Party Plugins (8)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-12700 - OK! / GeForce RTX 4060 Ti - OK!

[potent summit]

how do i make a macro that mutes me when on a starting soon scene and unmutes me when im on a different scene in advanced scene switcher

[stark narwhal]

For unmuting you can either create a second macro or use the else condition button in the bottom right.

[fossil wyvern]

that is literally the same log as above, that did not end with a crash

[potent summit]

ok

[fossil wyvern]

logs are named by the time you opened obs at, not the time it closed

[odd forge]

Sometimes the OBS manages to close itself. This happened today. However, the stream is interrupted incorrectly. And the RTMP server hangs. I will review it again now.

[fossil wyvern]

right, but that's not a crash

if obs closes correctly, that would not prosuce a crash report

if your issue is not with obs closing on its own and giving you an "oops obs has crashed" message you'll need to be clearer on what the actual issue is

[odd forge]

I apologize. I'm not a programmer and I'm confusing the terminology. I thought that if it performs an action that wasn't specified, it would crash.

[fossil wyvern]

what exact issue are you having

[odd forge]

Ok. Let me explain.
OBS is running 24/7 and streaming a TV channel to an RTMP server.
It was working perfectly for about a year.
About a month ago it started to close by itself for no apparent reason.
I installed the previous version of the plugin and for a few days there was no problem.
Yesterday it started again.
I tried to figure out what the problem was from the logs and removed all the macros that monitor whether OBS is streaming. These macros send an alarm to my telegram channel that it has stopped streaming the TV channel.

[fossil wyvern]

!manualcrash
go in the folder described below, screenshot what is in there

[oblique yew]

To find the OBS Studio crash logs, follow these steps:

1. Press WinKey+R to open the Run dialog
2. Type in: %APPDATA%\obs-studio\crashes and press Enter
3. Upload the desired crash log, usually the latest, directly to this Discord channel by dragging and dropping the file into the chat window

[fossil wyvern]

do you have multiple installs of obs studio?

for example one running in portable mode?

[odd forge]

Yes, I made a portable mod a few hours ago. I didn't have one before today.

[fossil wyvern]

and the portable install had the same issue of closing itself?

[odd forge]

I haven't tried the portable mod. I haven't streamed from it.
I installed it with the idea of ​​getting NDI and streaming from the portable mod. To see if the original OBS would close if I didn't stream from it. But I haven't tested it because it's currently live.
I've only tested it on my laptop at home.

[fervent marsh]

Odd. None of these files are the crash logs you posted.

[fossil wyvern]

yeah, my thought exactly

[odd forge]

Will this help?

For some reason they are in different places. I have no idea why.

[fossil wyvern]

because one is the log and one is the crash report

but I see this is in parsec and you also have obs on the host, when you uploaded crash reports before, was that on the host or from parsec

[odd forge]

When I upload via parsec, I do this:

That is, from a parsec of course

[fossil wyvern]

yes but the question I asked is : when you uploaded crash reports before, was that on the host or from parsec

[odd forge]

from parsec

There's no reason to upload from my home laptop. The problem is with the on-air computer I access via Parsec.

[fossil wyvern]

then idk how you possibly managed to get crashes more recent than the most recent shown in your screenshot

[odd forge]

I am making efforts for this. The problem is serious because it stops the TV channel. I have reached the limit of my knowledge and that is why I sought help.

[untold jay]

@odd forge If all else fails, you can make a second portable obs-studio install, install the spout2 plugin, and use that to send video to the second portable install. And use audio monitoring or the obs-ndi plugin to share audio as well. That way, if the 1st instance crashes, you can restart it without interrupting the broadcast for too long.

[odd forge]

Yes, that was my idea today. Next time I stop, I'll use the NDI in this way.

I hope the problem will be fixed in one of the next updates.

[crimson mauve]

I have multiple NDI cameras and require an instant replay on my live stream. I've tried the replaysource 1.8.1 plugin, however when I try and set the audio/video filter duration on each 'camera source' the window closes and the filter is not saved. Is there a better plug-in for me to consider? the window closes without me being able to update the duration. regardless of setting that duration, the filter is not saved

[weak escarp]

Are you setting the duration on the replay source or on the replay filter?

[crimson mauve]

@weak escarp in the 'replay filter async'

[crimson mauve]

@weak escarp I missed a step, here's what I've done. for each NDI camera I've added a 'source' from the dropdown called 'replay source' and set the duration there and I see that THAT establishes itself in the filter. Am I on the right track? Nothing else required in that filter, correct? So playing back that replay would require me setting up a 'scene'...say I call it 'camera 1 replay' and then setting the source to the camera's media file I've set up to capture the video replay buffer?

[crimson mauve]

The current version of Advanced Scene Switcher, is not loading my macros to the OBS hotkeys

[severe cape]

Suggestions for audio monitoring/levels etc? Like if I have a fancy audio mixer or whatever lol

[fervent marsh]

In your position I'd sell the mixer and buy a computer that actually worked... 😉

[severe cape]

He just built that shit! lol

Also it's not my PC its his! He built mine though and his old one and all his friends - but at this point tbh I'm thinking it was the onboard paste on the CPU - he didn't repaste like normal cause he thought he had more than he had lol - putting GPU back in tomorrow

[wicked ivy]

Having some trouble finding an answer to this question, and hoping someone here may have an answer before I invest time into experimenting myself. In OBS, my workflow includes 2 videos that are always running on loop throughout the broadcast, 3 videos as lower 3rds, and 3 videos as stingers. With all of these videos being loaded into OBS simultaneously, I've been curious if I could improve the stability of my workflow by using a playout solution (like CasparCG w/ a client) for the looping videos and the lower 3rds. I know OBS itself will use fewer resources this way, but I'm not sure if the resources used by the playout solution would outweigh that benefit. You typically wouldn't use a playout solution for a workflow with this few videos, unless your switcher doesn't support your needs (OBS does support my needs), but if there are benefits to doing so then I would. Replacing 5 media sources with 1 NDI or browser source seems attractive. Any chance someone has done some testing to compare performance with just OBS vs OBS+Playout/CG?

[hard jay]

It's unlikely to be a net gain. You'd gain the most performance by slimming down the looping videos as much as possible, and using a format like .avi that is very easy to decode.

Probably a question better suited for #tech-talk though, I'm sure you'd nerdsnipe a few people there in to discussion on it.

However, I would say that if you're not really having any issues, I wouldn't bother with it.

[wicked ivy]

Thank you for your input!!

The looping videos both require transparency, so that limits the codec/container options a bit. Though I suppose I could just key out the background...

[hard jay]

I think Epos did a video about this

https://youtu.be/X9jMna8KQyA

sure did.

Have fun!

[wicked ivy]

Thank you again! I'll have to give this a watch

[hard jay]

Some of this might be slightly outdated, but, overall it should still be pretty relevant.

[wicked ivy]

I'm sure there's something better than gopro cineform in qt mov 😛 Thank you

[boreal jetty]

Hi everyone ! I need help, I want to captur my phone with a cable but I fount nothing for do that because I want to stream at tiktok and Twitch in the same time

[daring wigeon]

hello ive been trying to use obs teleport plugin bcz if my poor intenet speed i connected both laptops via an internet cable and the last step is going to tool in obs and configure something in teleport output but the option its not there and i installed the plugin correctly, how do i fix this?

[near peak]

If you go to C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit you see obs-teleport.dll there?

[daring wigeon]

yes

[near peak]

!log Can you drop a log here?

[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

[daring wigeon]

here u go https://obsproject.com/logs/35AhKi1c7snyJ5X0

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates
• Non-Standard Aspect Ratio
• Capture Interference

ℹ️ Info

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

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-5500U @ 2.40GHz - Below minimum requirements / GeForce 820M - Possible bottleneck

[near peak]

I just checked my version and I had an old version of teleport. Upon updating I see that it actually shouldn't be in that folder anymore

[daring wigeon]

wdym?

then where should it be?

[carmine viper]

the plugin is loading fine in the log

[near peak]

Since v0.7.1 it's in a different location

[carmine viper]

it should be in the tools menu

[daring wigeon]

when i downloaded the zip file there was an exe

[near peak]

Oh wait did you drop the dll manually there?

[daring wigeon]

i did open the exe and then uploaded it manually

[near peak]

Since 0.7.2 the default install location is

Not C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit

[carmine viper]

but this doesn't matter

[daring wigeon]

i had 2 obs-teleport.dll files and they were crashing the app so i removed one and it opened fine

[near peak]

Okay that was a different issue altogether then. Yeah should show up in tools

[daring wigeon]

if i installed it there would it work?

[carmine viper]

what is giving you the impression it isn't working? it is loading in the log and it shows you have added a teleport source in your scene as well.