plugins-and-tools

[oblique yew]

@open oar

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

[half quarry]

is there a plugin that toggle sources on/off depending on audio?

[spice mesa]

You can likely do this by processing audio externally to detect the trigger and using that trigger to toggle sources over websockets

[half quarry]

I'm good with that but I don't know any tool that can do that.

[weak escarp]

The audio move filter that is part of the move transition plugin can do that.

[half quarry]

This works. Thanks.

[woven fractal]

Hi guys is there any plug in to upload scores remotely and show them as an overlay in an esports tournaments ?

[harsh topaz]

Hey @weak escarp we tried fixing the failing save state of hotkeys in Source Record, but to no avail. Any ideas where we should look?

Thanks

[weak escarp]

is the error in saving or in loading of the scene collection json? is the hotkey saved in the json?

[harsh topaz]

I believe it's on save, I can't find any mentions of it in the json.

[spice mesa]

There’s a couple different workflows for this; the one I’m most familiar with is NodeCG but there are many others.

[twilit halo]

whats the plugin where you can seperate or exclude different app audio

[oblique yew]

To capture audio from selected applications only, similar to Discord, you can try the new OBS audio capture plugin (Windows 10 2004 and above only)

[manic hatch]

i cant seem to get source record working at all,

ive tried different recording types and such, any tips on getting to work?

[manic hatch]

the furthest i got was it made a file that was just a green screen

[vale vine]

Don't use nvenc new

[open sable]

I'm having a issue with lioran board if anyone uses it,
When I apply an effect to a source it seems to crash obs.

I apply the effect obs crash
Reopen reapply crash
Reopen reapply then it works.

It seems to happen with all effects. Any advice or how to fix the crashes?

[open sable]

Well if anyone can help out plz pm me ima truck driver and don't wanna miss a msg

[manic hatch]

ive tried all encoding types

[untold jay]

hi forum mods, i pressed the "save" button
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/high-quality-recording-with-multiple-audio-tracks-in-advanced-output-mode.1388/
can we put this in !localadvanced?

[hard jay]

well, need to review first, I'll try and find time today to go over it

[harsh topaz]

@weak escarp Hey!

We did the first stream trying using Source Record for instant replay.

Despite my 5+ tests throughout the week, and verifications that it worked (despite the hotkey issue), of course on stream day it all fell apart (Isn't that how it always goes?).

It worked to begin with, but over time something strange happened (by time I mean like an hour), that I cannot explain other than trying to describe what I was seeing.

So it appears to me that when you first launch it (NVENC), it would buffer the replay - and when pressing the button to save replay within 1-1½ sec save the replay. Nice!

Now, after some time - my replays would break. It would play the previous replay, and I was so, so confused.

Throughout further investigation; it seems that something was causing the replay to take up to 21 seconds from pressing the button, to actually saving the file (Could tell from checking the size of the clip it was saving). Obviously if you have a script that fires after 2.5-3 sec, it would then play previous file since Source Record hadnt actually saved a new clip then.

This behaviour would go away when opening the source with the filter on; Flicking the eye off, and back on (Resetting the filter).

Unfortunately this also meant re-setting the hotkeys etc because everything unset itself.

Source Record for instant replay is amazing conceptually, but it needs a tiny bit of work more unfortunately before it's truly useful 😦

Sorry for the wall of text, that's my feedback. I realize you're busy irl with other things - if you need me for anything I'm around!

Thanks again,
-Lind

[fathom coyote]

Why am I getting really high cpu usage when I stream using NDI, I got pretty bad hardware granted- but that's the reason I'm using 2 laptops (to offload some of the work)

[gaunt zealot]

Basically all the CPU and GPU load from NDI comes from the underlying NDI libraries from the NewTek guys. The encoding is a mix of CPU and GPU-based compute, so if the hardware you're running it on is low-end enough, you may get some "interesting" behavior. I'd look very carefully at both CPU and GPU usage while the NDI feeds are active.

I'd also watch the network bandwidth too as things like wireless is the land of pain and tears. Also keep in mind that a single 1080p60 NDI video stream is like ~125 Mbps...

[fathom coyote]

ight, first im running the "gaming" pc on these specs

2nd I'm running the streaming pc on even worse specs using x264

3rd my cpu usage is around 34% to 50% with NDI

used by ndi

not total

gpu around 20-30%

all on gaming pc^

without ndi, using qsv I'm getting around 10% cpu and 20% gpu

720p60

[gaunt zealot]

That's why you shouldn't even have OBS installed on the gaming PC. Just use NDI Screen Capture that comes with NDI Tools and call it good

[vale vine]

That's not a "gaming" pc. That's a ultra low power laptop

[gaunt zealot]

Also keep in mind that if you overload either your CPU or GPU source-side, your NDI feed itself will start dropping frames

[gaunt zealot]

Define "even worse"... And what's the frame time counters and drop rates looking like in OBS on the stream PC?

[vale vine]

With an igpu

[fathom coyote]

which is why i put "gaming" in quotes

I can still run minecraft at around 500 fps at 720p

which is why I wanted to try streaming it

I wanted to use NDI cuz I heard it'd let me up the quality from 720p30 to 720p60

[vale vine]

2 cores is not enough for gaming AND encoding

[fathom coyote]

so i've been told

yet I still do it at 720p30 at pretty good quality, I just wanted to find a way to make that 30-60

[gaunt zealot]

That's completely pointless given the displays available. Set Minecraft's in-game fps limiter to 120 or 240 and call it good. You'll get muuuuch better performance from NDI that way.

You're up against hardcore RAM bandwidth limits on laptops with iGPU

That's a large part of your problem

[fathom coyote]

yeah, i limit it to 120

[gaunt zealot]

Dedicated GPUs with their own RAM run much, much better.

[fathom coyote]

i know-

lowspec gamer moment

I'm just trying to do as much as I can with what I have

[fathom coyote]

my main problem is that with ndi my fps drops from 120 locked to 50

[gaunt zealot]

You'll want to get a capture card for the stream PC then

[fathom coyote]

alright then, any elgato alternatives? I already have one but it's usb 2 and is broken

[gaunt zealot]

So as I was saying about your laptop not having enough RAM bandwidth to do what you want. This is what you're seeing

[fathom coyote]

elgato is always out of stock

[fathom coyote]

mm that's disappointing

[gaunt zealot]

Avermedia is better anyways (before even talking about Magewell, et al...)

Only good thing about Elgato capture cards is their marketing department 😉

[fathom coyote]

Really? Ok

I live in the philippines

[gaunt zealot]

The EVGA and Asus capture cards are good too

[fathom coyote]

alright then, I'll look at my options. It'd be much appreciated if you would try look with me but I couldn't force you to

god damn avermedia is expensive

[gaunt zealot]

Plenty of options discussed by Eposvox that should be available in that part of the world:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzo7l8HTJNK9dN_ABiv1X9mxEM744pZxC

[fathom coyote]

5k php is 100 usd

are these accurate prices

this is a flagship store, meaning avermedia is selling directly

[fathom coyote]

thank you very much

[meager ibex]

The NDI Skype link was not working properly in my OBS, the video didn't pop up when I got my skype call from my co-host. Is there anyone that may be able to help me?

[weak escarp]

Thank you for this report this helps narrowing down the issue. I have no time to work on it today, but will try and find the bug later this week

[analog ruin]

Last time I checked, the windows store version of Skype does not work with NDI (even if it looks like it would). Make sure you're using the win32 version (not the skype for win10)

[dark sapphire]

the Store version does show the NDI options, so I think they fixed that.

[analog ruin]

it shows, but in my experience, it did not work

but if they've fixed it, thats great 🙂 My last test was probably like 8+ months ago

[terse onyx]

When setting up a browser source there's a parameter titled "Page Permissions" at the bottom, it's a pulldown. The selections in this pulldown are the following.

No access to OBS
Basic access to OBS (Save replay buffer, etc.)
Advanced access to OBS (Change scenes, start/stop replay buffer, etc.)
Full access to OBS (Start/Stop streaming without warning, etc.)

Can I assume the browser source has the ability to control OBS? Is their a working example that demonstrates this capability?

[wary escarp]

Some basic capabilities have been added in 27.1, hopefully with more to follow in 27.2
You can find documentation at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-browser

[terse onyx]

Thanks gxalpha.

[harsh topaz]

Any time of course We have the next tourny this weekend so 🙏

Also little side note, I'd been wondering why it happened and now I know . Is it possible in OBS to make hotkeys application only?

I've found that when I'm out of application, and I use shift + v (my hotkey for paste transformation) Source Copy applies and moves sources in my OBS despite it being unintentional.

Just a small thing, not sure if it's an OBS limitation or not.

Thanks!

[snow dew]

Guys, HI!
How can I show and hide text source automatically with text file updating?

Do u know some scripts or smth else?

[untold jay]

@snow dew depends on how much effort you'd like to put into this
it's possible to tell obs-studio to show/hide a source with websockets, but then you'd need to send a websockets command to obs-studio, which can be done from javascript, python or autohotkey if you're proficient with any of these; if the application you're using is capable of launching arbitrary windows .exe files, you can use obscommand to send websockets commands, but this incurs higher delay

[meager ibex]

I have been using the windows desktop skype application for the last 7.5 weeks and its worked every single time without issue until last week.

[lone prism]

Hi guys 👋 Does anyone knows a way to control the streamelements pause/resume and skip alerts functions via obs websocket from a second PC via streamdeck? my goal is to be able to pause/resume/skip alerts from the gaming pc(streamdeck connected) while OBS is running on the Streaming PC 🤔

[oblique yew]

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

[lone prism]

Thanks, but from my understanding this is more of a OBS-Websocket question than a streamelements-related question.

[snow dew]

i've found a script. so now it works good :) thanks

[untold jay]

@snow dew could you link it? someone might search this channel with a similar issue in the future

[snow dew]

Do u need this link?
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/txt-trigger.710/

[untold jay]

@snow dew i don't, but someone else might

[snow dew]

k

i meant if u mean xD

[atomic dune]

Is there download for OBS studio setting up, to turn on, and off sources....like 5 seconds? Instead of turning on and off manually? Im looking for way turn off the eye icon....on it own. Without me clicking it to turn it off.

[high gale]

There are a number of ways to do this. Personally I would suggest using StreamerBot as it is full of useful tools for all kinds of things. Here is a crash course, but the main thing you will use is Actions (where you define the source turning on and off) and Settings > Timed Actions (to make the actions you make run on a timer). https://youtu.be/JCNCWtpUUZs

[analog ruin]

Gotcha 🙂 Probably windows firewall stuff then, it almost always is :\ You can try temporarily disabling it (make sure you pick the one that matches your network "state" (public/private/domain) etc. Calling "echo / test" should be enough to provide you with an entry, but you have to be a bit quick

[rotund depot]

Is there any plugins that can regonize like color from specific pixels from monitor and can give a trigger from it?

[hollow hazel]

Is there a way to add a new input source from a program?

like how vlc is added as a source?

[quiet bramble]

Not that I'm aware of, however there is a fork of OBS which added support like that however I forget what it's called and don't know if they actively develop, maintain and support it or track ongoing mainstream OBS releases and update it.

@hollow hazel Can you give a more specific example? You can capture the output of just about any program with window capture so if that isn't good enough for a given program then the program would need to have some kind of API other software can use, and someone would have to write a custom plugin for that program, which is what the VLC source is.

[hollow hazel]

So I need to compile a custom OBS version that supports my programs API?

[quiet bramble]

You'd need to write a plugin.

[hollow hazel]

ok thank you

[quiet bramble]

If it's written in C or C++ then you would have to download and build the OBS source code first, to build your plugin against as there is no public SDK.

[junior charm]

So I'm on 26.0.2.1 on PC and I've installed the newest VC available for pc in Rpans folders wether it be in my program files or roaming data where the file location is. I open it and Virtual cam isn't in Tools.

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Old Version (26.0.2.1)
• Integrated GPU
• Non-Standard Aspect Ratio

ℹ️ Info

• Insufficient Hardware
• Windows 10 21H1 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session

Hardware Check

Intel Core i3-550 @ 3.20GHz - Below minimum requirements / Intel HD Graphics 620 - Possible bottleneck

[junior charm]

F

lol

Bruh OBS is at 27.1.3

Isnt the newest RPan 26.0

[analog ruin]

what is RPAN? Reddits fork of OBS?

[peak vector]

Yeah, it's their fork

[junior charm]

lol fucking reddit

damnit

[swift dust]

Streamelements is still at 27.0.1

Which surprises me. The YouTube integration is something I would definitely want to have in my fork

[chrome egret]

guys how do I install plugins to the .zip version of obs

[nova stirrup]

How can one programmatically change the selected audio device on an audio source (in this case, specifically a "wasapi_input_capture" source). Anyone???

[analog ruin]

did you read this? https://obsproject.com/docs/reference-sources.html#c.obs_source_info.update
Not sure I can be of very much help besides that tho 😅

https://obsproject.com/docs/reference-sources.html#c.obs_source_update

[quiet bramble]

If the plugin has an EXE file installer and it supports installing anywhere via configuring the installation path, configure it to point to the portable installation. If not, download the plugin's ZIP file installer instead, unzip it and install it manually by copying the files to the right directories.

[warm laurel]

Hey everyone, I have a very small single issue with StreamElements OBS.Live and the Stream Deck. Everything works perfectly EXCEPT the Toggle Go Live button, it has a red X over the icon and says something like "OBS.Live Action is offline. Please Wait for it to become available"

If someone could please assist me with maybe a FAQ or a simple fix I havent thought of, I'd greatly appreciate it

[analog ruin]

!sehelp I think it would be better to ask them directly 😅 We dont make obs.live, StreamElements do

[oblique yew]

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

[warm laurel]

ah ok, the software brought me here, thank you!

[untold jay]

best way to fix issues with their plugin is to uninstall it, the native "start streaming" button works much better

[warm laurel]

yea its not a huge problem since i have synergy on a dual pc setup, but the red x was irritating me lol

[untold jay]

@warm laurel is it any good? i tried microsoft mouse without borders and it occasionally stutters badly, i tried input director and it runs fine so far, is synergy much better? i'm already using Windows shares and KDE Connect, so shared files and clipboard are already working fine, but is there anything else to it?

[hard jay]

Synergy is excellent in my experience.

I've been using it for a loooooooong time.

[untold jay]

huh, interesting

[warm laurel]

I love synergy, It allows me to only use a keyboard on my stream pc

and thats just for the initial log on

everything else is perfect, worth it

[untold jay]

input director hasn't let me down yet, but i'll probably buy synergy if it ever does, thanks for the replies

[boreal hearth]

Might wanna try barrier before that, it's a fork of synergy

[spice mesa]

Barrier’s great stuff.

[meager ibex]

okay I will have to look into this more, thank you.

does it matter that the skype itself is still working though. I can make video calls and still see my co-host but OBS didn't recognize it all like it normally does.

[boreal fiber]

Hi guys- I’m trying to run streamelements overlays for my stream. Laptop with AMD and windows 8.1. I can successfully capture the desktop but any time I add an overlay the preview screen goes black. Any ideas? I read something about dedicating a GPU and I’m pretty sure it’s all running on the high performance one

[oblique yew]

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

[untold jay]

@lost vigil exeldro's source record plugin

[analog ruin]

No, that will probably work as you would expect. NDI is a different matter.

[remote garnet]

guys i downloaded virtual cam plugin but it didnt showed on my obs tool bar

[swift dust]

You don't need the Virtual Camera plugin anymore, OBS 26 and up contains an in-built Virtual Camera.

[oblique yew]

Windows: OBS v26 and above contains a basic virtual camera. For advanced usage, such as preview or specific scene/source output, try the third party plugin.

macOS: OBS v26.1 and above contains a standard virtual camera. Having issues with specific programs? Check this guide.

Linux: OBS v26.1 and above contains a standard virtual camera. v4l2loopback is required, best installed via the v4l2loopback-dkms package.

[remote garnet]

Thank

[swift dust]

No problem

[untold jay]

@lost vigil you can use the non-"new" nvenc, it's only slightly slower

[orchid moth]

anyyone else having the issue of not being able to use more than one camrea at a time

i use to use two all the time now its giving me a hard time and i cant figure out why

[oblique yew]

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

[amber root]

Hi there, i stream to fb through OBS with stream elements live asplugin to see reactions and chat

so few days ago when i try to go live via OBS (with stream elements live) OBS crashes and closes.
After unistalling obs, it then worked, however as soon as i connected stream elements live back in OBS crashes again. this leads me to think its something to do with the streamelements plugin.

Could someone assist or having the same issue?

have tried resetting stream keys, logging out of Streamelements, removing and re-adding business integration, unistalling and reinstalling everything. I really dont know what to do and dont want to have to go back to streamlabs which is working

as soon as i log out of streamelements plug in, it works again and OBS connects stream to FB live dashboard

[analog ruin]

!sehelp @amber root if not, then we could maybe assist in getting it working without it

[oblique yew]

@amber root

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

[amber root]

perfect thank you¬

[meager ibex]

Oh okay well I will do thendigfing into the firewall then. Thank you.

[analog ruin]

good good, you digfing that firewall

[vast reef]

I came across a plugin that emulates a green screen. It looked quite professional and it said something with "using computing power" or something similar. Unfortunately, I forgot its name. Does anyone have a clue?

[untold jay]

@vast reef this one, maybe? https://github.com/kounoike/obs-virtualbg

[vast reef]

Thank you! Unfortunately, that's not how I have it in mind, I remember something different. The virtualbg plugin however works...mediocre? :/

[harsh topaz]

@weak escarp Regarding the Source Record plugin, I also ran into another interesting issue. I'm not sure if it's me doing anything wrong here; but the Source Record buffer recording audio sounds like the person is in a tin can. Perhaps it's echoing? Not sure what exactly is going on, but here's two examples. One from Replay Buffer; and one from OBS Recording - of the same input.

The audio I tried on is a browser source, with audio coming through. If I mute said audio (the browser source in Audio Mixer) the clip is muted - which leads me to believe there is only one audio sauce being recorded.

This of course isn't a feature breaking issue unlike the save time/hotkey issues. Just thought I'd report it here 🙂

[quiet bramble]

@vast reef Theree are a variety of apps or plugins for doing background removal out there, all claiming to be a great replacement for using a green screen. "Great" is in the eyes of the beholder though and what one's expectations are set at. I've tried about 4 or so of them and IMHO they're all terrible and unusable, but then again that depends on what one is expecting. They aren't a replacement for green screening IMHO, but they fake it 75-90% ok to some degree. Nvidia Broadcast is probably the best of the bunch I've seen so far (requires an RTX card), and even it isn't that great IMHO.

All the solutions I've seen are varying degrees of mediocre, some more on the "medi" side, and others more on the "ocre" side. 🙂

[harsh topaz]

Note to self: Attempting to use Move Transition of a scene item inside of a group is a poor idea, and you were a foolish man for even entertaining the thought.

Back to the drawing board.

[quiet bramble]

I'd take that up one level and suggest it's a poor idea to use Groups in general. 🙂 They work for certain use limited use cases and a lot of people will use them in a way that they don't notice any problems, but there are so many problems that can occur and cause headaches that I've encountered in the past that once Groups related bugs caused me to lose around 1000 scene scene collection, I stopped using the feature completely. The bug that caused that particular issue got fixed so I feel that my loss resulted in some good... But there are still various other problems that exist that are a headache to deal with. I recommend just using Scene Source with nested scenes and/or StreamFX Source Mirror and/or custom shaders/plugins/scripts or other alternatives depending on the situation. It is a bit more conceptually complex, but much more reliable in my experiences.

Granted, I'm probably in the 0.1% of users or 0.01% of users to ever even be likely to encounter some of the issues, but still. 🙂

I think I saw someone recently fixed another Groups bug that's been around for a while, so there's progress made over time too.

[harsh topaz]

Yeah I already am. And am aware of the group issues. Thus my statement if being a fool, but I wanted to attempt it. Didn't expect OBS/move transition to flat out crash on attempting it though, but I'm not at all surprised. It's such a shame groups are a dumpster fire, the concept of them are amazing.

[minor thistle]

I used groups on a recent build and I was scared about it the whole time lol

[mortal harbor]

!help

[oblique yew]

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

[fallen cliff]

Does anyone have a link to that "Discord SDK" thing you need for PNGtubers?

The "reactive images" thing

Found it, "Discord Streamkit" right?

[untold jay]

@fallen cliff discord invite links get deleted on sight here, i'll have to post a screenshot

[fallen cliff]

Oh... um...

It seems Jiinh's reactive vtuber site is down...

Oh gosh, what do I do?

[untold jay]

@fallen cliff were you following a video guide or something?

[fallen cliff]

No, I was specifically trying to avoid those. However, upon searching for answers, 3 separate sources have linked me to that site, which I can't use since it's down.

Apparently it generates the CSS in an easy to use code for you

[untold jay]

are you familiar with css at all?

[fallen cliff]

Not very...

[untold jay]

try this https://sireoh.itch.io/pnggen

i glanced at the css source code and while i'm sure i can figrue this out with my current level of css competence, i'm not too motivated to spend potentially up to 4 hours, as i'll have to refresh my memory on doing css3 animations if i want to replicate the intended effect, but looks like someone has backed up the original code, so that saves me from this hassle

[harsh topaz]

[dark sapphire]

that's very bad 😛

[harsh topaz]

Well, Source Record isn't quite what you'd call polished

Funny how it didn't leave a crash report though.

Feels like more often than non that's the case.

Oh, nevermind. It did. Why is "Upload last crash log", uploading the crash log before the last one.

[dark sapphire]

to be fair, Source Record uses the OBS encoders in a way that hasn't been extensively tested

so while libobs supports it, it's a bit experimental

[harsh topaz]

Ye, 🙏 Exeldro gets time to take a look at it. It's rough because it's kinda niché usecase, but it's like exactly what I need

[quiet bramble]

I think 99.9% of everything I do is a niche use case. 🙂

But to me it's "oh this is cool... what, you mean other people aren't doing this? But really though? What's wrong with them?" 🙂

[vale sapphire]

https://obsproject.com/logs/wSlxF-gptXemd2xs

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Two Instances
• MP4/MOV Recording

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H1 (OK)
• 0.1% Rendering Lag
• 0.1% GPU Encoder Overload

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.70GHz - OK! / GeForce GTX 1080 - OK!

[vale sapphire]

https://obsproject.com/logs/QYfnCN-mdvP69A4d

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H1 (OK)
• 0.1% Rendering Lag
• 0.2% GPU Encoder Overload

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.70GHz - OK! / GeForce GTX 1080 - OK!

[vale sapphire]

!vlc

[oblique yew]

Many default video players do not have good format support. When playing files made with OBS, players like 'Movies & TV' can appear to be missing video or audio. Download and use VLC instead for accurate video playback.

Like OBS, VLC is a free and open source project.

[thin ferry]

when a restream.io account is connected to OBS, are the options presented exposed to an api that can be controlled by other applications such as obs-websocket?

[hollow stirrup]

Are you talking SetStreamSettings listed in https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket/blob/4.x-current/docs/generated/protocol.md#setstreamsettings ?

It can configure only the settings inside OBS Studio. Obs-websocket cannot set the final destinations from restream.io.

[thin ferry]

no, I'm talking about changing the information inside this dock:

I guess it's not possible, I'm looking into restream.io api now

thanks

[hollow stirrup]

I assume it's a browser source, then currently no. However, there is a PR feature request for obs-websocket to input keys into browser source.

[noble sable]

i I have one of those $10 -$15 type capture devices that copy vhs to your computer. What I need is the software that upon instalation on the computer it will allow hook up with the vhs. Can you help? EASY

[analog ruin]

@noble sable I think it would be better to consider a different type of software more aimed at what you're trying to do.
THis is a tutorial for virtualdub. https://youtu.be/sn_TDa9zY1c
It should containt all the important bits you would need 🙂 This isnt really related to OBS, so if you have more questions, its probably good to ask in #tech-talk for instance. Good luck!

[ornate shadow]

buena noches alguien sabe como solucionar el problema de PLUGIN Multiple RTMP ya lo instale al empiezo me aprecia pero sin querer lo borre asiendo clip en la x pensando que volver aparecer pero nada eso de desístale y volví a instalar incluso volvi a instalar obs

[bold scarab]

[hollow stirrup]

Is there a menu item in View -> Docks?

btw, next time, use english.

[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

[maiden edge]

hi, i stream a CCTV camera to youtube and need it to restart every 12 hours so that youtube can log the files. does anyone know how to do it?

[regal breach]

Is it possible to make a shader that reads the bounding box size, type, and source size? And crop the excess pixels outside the bounding box (when using "scale to outer bounds)? I'd appreciate some pointers, or if there's such a shader already available.

[untold jay]

@regal breach pixel shaders loaded with streamFX or obs-shaderfilter are filters, and therefore have no concept of sceneitems, all they see is the input source

[wild zenith]

OBS studio

[regal breach]

I see, thanks. How about obs plugins? Do you think it would be possible with it?

[untold jay]

@regal breach if you want to get sceneitem properties such as size, bounding box type and crop dimensions, that can be done with lua, js or python, plugins can also get it;
want to see the scripting reference?

@regal breach now that i mention it, you can write both a shader, and also a helper script that would fetch the values you need and edit your shader's properties accordingly, this would require knowing any of the three languages and also GLSL/HLSL to write the shader itself

for example, you could load data/obs-plugins/StreamFX/examples/shaders/source/shadertoy-Xsl3RX.effect from streamFX's "example" shaders, then try to programmatically edit their properties with lua, python or js (you can ask for help with that in #development); if that works, you can then ask for help writing shaders in the streamFX discord (if needed)

wait, no, not in #development, but in #scripting

[regal breach]

I see, thanks. Now that I think about it more, I probably need the scene item crop, instead of crop filter, as different scenes will hve the source but different size

tbh i've seen the scripting reference already many times before, but I still don't know where to start.

[untold jay]

do you have a shader already?

[regal breach]

i only have the obs shader filter that uses shaders, but not any shader files

perhaps a script will do the job, instead of using shaders too

[untold jay]

what was the use case again? you want to scale a source to its outer bounds, and crop everything that goes out of bounds?

aka "panscan"?

[regal breach]

yes, though i never heard of a pan scan

[untold jay]

"crop everything that's out of bounds" sounds a lot easier than "learn hlsl and python"

[regal breach]

yep it is exactly what I'm trying to do

i know python though

obs_sceneitem_set_crop seems to be one of the things i need

though I assume i'll have to calculate the excess using the source size too haha

[regal breach]

thing is, i've done so much cropping it's annoying, especially when trying to match frame overlays

thanks for your guidance

[untold jay]

i think i might have done it, but i'll need you to verify

[regal breach]

oooh let me see please

[thin ferry]

are you on linux?

[untold jay]

@regal breach is this what you wanted?

[regal breach]

kinda seems like it

but to be sure, it does not affect the crop in other scenes?

[untold jay]

i'm not sure if i understood the question
this uses nested scenes, so for all relevant purposes, it's a "source" and can be cropped and scaled and such

you need 2 scenes:
scene 1: add your problematic source, set bounding box type to "scale to outer bounds", scale it as needed
scene 2: add "scene 1" as a source

if you want to crop unwanted parts of the nested scene, you can use either a "crop/pad" filter, or a sceneitem transform, both will work

[regal breach]

while that can certainly work, for most of my use case, I don't think it will. say for example I have a window capture with 16:9. on one scene i'll resize it to 4:3, on another, some random non-standard aspect ratio. from what I understood with that setup, you need to setup your aspect ratio in scene 1

[untold jay]

@regal breach streamfx source mirrors seem to follow resizes, so you can have multiple resize dimensions set up

you can repeat this setup multiple times with different crop dimensions, not sure if streamFX source mirrors would be necessary for this, but they might be

[regal breach]

it seems like I still have to manually crop the excess pixels though

[untold jay]

let me check that..

[regal breach]

I'm looking to just dynamically/automatically do it. for many sources. something like an extra bounding box type "crop and scale to outer bounds"

[untold jay]

is that even possible automatically?

[regal breach]

the easiest would probably make it a feature in obs, but it doesn't seem to be popular among people.

I'm not sure if a plugin can add a new type of bounding box type, but I'm thinking a filter on scenes (so scene item transform is discoverable and that different scenes will have different crop values for the same source), where I can select a specific source. it will then monitor its transform and change the crop values accordingly.

not really sure since I haven't made an obs plugin yet.

[untold jay]

i think it would be best to ask in #development if such a plugin would be possible, sceneitems are part of "core" obs-studio functionality, you'll probably have to edit the source code that's responsible for dealing with sceneitems, and PR or fork it

[regal breach]

okay, thanks for the help so far (source mirror is really interesting as I've been looking for such a way without resorting to nested scenes, like simply having the same source with a different name)

[sudden surge]

Hoping someone can help.. Have recently been trying to move to solely using Asio options when using FL studios, but I'm finding when streaming via OBS, I can't seem to figure how to successfully route FL Studios sound to OBS.. any insight?

FOund this discord buried in one of many threads i've been reading through on this issue

[oblique yew]

1. Install VB-Audio CABLE. (A reboot is not required)
2. In OBS Studio, go to Settings > Audio and select "CABLE Input" as your Monitoring Device
3. Go to Edit > Advanced Audio Properties and enable Audio Monitoring for the audio sources you'd like to stream to Discord.
4. In Discord, in Voice & Video settings, select "CABLE Output" instead of your microphone under "Input device".

Now anything you monitor in OBS Studio will be streamed to Discord. Similar steps will work with other conferencing apps, such as Microsoft Teams or Slack.

[regal breach]

Set one bus in FL studios to the vbcable "Cable Input", add a mic in obs pointing to "Cable Output". Don't follow the other steps given by the bot

[maiden edge]

No, just using windows

[stable olive]

@hollow stirrup Did some more testing this morning using my webcam instead of the PTZ for testing. I'm seeing other problems with the PTZ filter.

First, I couldn't get the PTZ filter to do any detection unless I also had a non-PTZ filter active on another scene

And second, when I could get it to work it took a long time to find a face. Much longer than the non-PTZ version

[ornate shadow]

Good night, someone knows how to solve the problem of PLUGIN Multiple RTMP, I already installed it at the beginning, it appreciates me but I accidentally deleted it by grabbing a clip in the x thinking that it would appear again but nothing that to undo it and I reinstalled it even reinstalled obs

[stable olive]

https://obsproject.com/logs/nw1qC_e4mxQ8-DPn

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Max Audio Buffering

⚠️ Warning

• Integrated GPU

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H1 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session

Hardware Check

Intel Core i7-6500U @ 2.50GHz - Below cpu encoding requirements / Intel HD 520 - Possible bottleneck

[dark sapphire]

as in you closed the dock? you can show it again in View -> Docks

[hollow stirrup]

I've made a fix version. Could you try this RC at your convenience?
https://github.com/norihiro/obs-face-tracker/releases/tag/0.4.2-rc0

[hollow stirrup]

I don't know why it happens... The engine itself is same but just the place to get the frame data is different. Non-PTZ filter retrieves the frame from GPU and PTZ filter retrieves frame data in CPU before it enters into GPU.

Before entering GPU, color format depends on the source. It need to be converted in plugin-side but does not need to wait to transfer back from GPU.

[ocean sedge]

Anyone have a plugin or tool to display a RSS feed from a URL?

[ocean sedge]

Like a news ticker

[copper hollow]

Is there a "free" way to use my iphone has a video capture source in OBS?

[untold jay]

@copper hollow try https://vdo.ninja

[compact wave]

@quiet bramble Hello! I looked into RePitch and I can’t seem to find where to download it(?)

[copper hollow]

i will, it seems that is over the network, would prefer to do this via USB is possible

[quiet bramble]

@compact wave It's ReaPitch, part of ReaPlugs

[compact wave]

So to clarify, downloading ReaPlugs will give me access to ReaPitch?

[gaunt zealot]

Unless you have a Mac to capture with, you'll need to get yourself a HDMI capture card and a Lightning to HDMI cable.

[gaunt zealot]

Reaper's internal plug-ins aren't VSTs per se and won't work in OBS. You'll only get the following with ReaPlugs as, well, they're VST, as the page states:
https://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/

[compact wave]

Yeah, I believe that’s where I am confused because I don’t see ReaPitch anywhere.

[copper hollow]

I am using a Mac. I just tested with the OBS camera app/plug-in and it works fine, would prefer to not have to pay for an app if possible. If there is not a reliable free way to accomplish this I have no issue paying.

[quiet bramble]

Ah, my bad, I thought that one was part of ReaPlugs... it must be part of the main Reaper package then

[thin ferry]

I don't know how to automate it on windows, but I use these two programs to automate it on linux with cron jobs and a system service that starts obs with streaming (obs --start-stream):
https://github.com/Sabuto/obs_command-dart
https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket

[whole karma]

@quiet bramble @compact wave the ReaJS VST comes with a number of pitch options that you can load. Gentle adjustments in “Pitch Shifter 2” will likely achieve what you need.

[shy mica]

Anyone know of any bits that can help me w sales on Alibaba.com???

Or Shopify?

[cyan peak]

that doesn't have anything to do with obs or obs plugins

[stable olive]

On a quick test this seems to work better, but I won't be able to test it properly until tomorrow morning

[hollow stirrup]

Thank you, no problem.

[cunning viper]

A easier alternative to voice meter for separating audio sources

https://youtu.be/aOrAsQgJvtQ

Literally takes like 5 mins to setup but depends on how many audio sources you have

Ur basically adding each audio for any application as a separate audio source. Anything not added won’t show up in the stream/recording

[quiet bramble]

Oh, very cool. That's something highly desired by users for a long long time. Should make life easier for a lot of people.

[regal breach]

is that plugin already stable? i saw some reviews on it in the forums saying their audio gets choppy, etc.

[dark sapphire]

!ac

[oblique yew]

To capture audio from selected applications only, similar to Discord, you can try the new OBS audio capture plugin (Windows 10 2004 and above only)

[dark sapphire]

we've been recommending it for like 2 months 😛

[regal breach]

oh, alright thanks

[quiet bramble]

It's listed as a "beta" so I'd assume it isn't a stable "release" per se. I can say one thing about audio in general on Windows at least though. For general end user typical desktop stuff it is fairly simple and works great. For professional audio it is more complex and may require someone to have a much deeper understanding of a lot more aspects of how digital audio works, and how to configure it end to end, from within sound properties of the device through anything it is routed to all the way to the final app, knowing various caveats along the way, as well as things like buffer sizes, APIs etc. The average computer user doesn't know all of that, and even many musicians and semi-pros may not know all of it.

As such, it is easy for people to get mismatched sample rates at the device level, audio routing level, application level or some other place.

I've heard people swear how terrible Voicemeeter is, including people well versed in audio, but if anyone is patient enough to let someone investigate it for them and help them, usually the problem is they have either not configured something (that they never knew they were supposed to), or something is misconfigured or mismatched.

In the last 30 days alone I've had people complain about Voicemeeter "robot voice... blah, I don't want to use that garbage program it never works"... and all it turned out to be was they had their sample rates configured to 44100 in Windows, and 48000 in Voicemeeter causing a mismatch

Change to make the sample rates match, problem permanently gone.

[regal breach]

yeah my first days with voicemeeter was rough hahahaha. knowing your A1 shouldn't be "Shared" is a hidden thing.

[quiet bramble]

I mention all of this only because this will happen with any pro audio level app, routing app etc. whether it is stable, beta, or a partridge in a pear tree. 🙂

Another issue that will bite end users unfamiliar with it, is driver exclusive access mode either on playback or recording devices.

I've helped a number of people who lost their audio and couldn't get it back. It's just slowly and patiently going through every setting in Windows, the apps they're using, the app preferences, etc. to figure out how everything is wired and configured, like Sherlock Holmes. In almost all cases, it's just a matter of reconfiguring a few misconfigured settings.

Either disabling exclusive access at the OS level, or in the given app (a DAW for example)

How do people learn this? More or less everyone learns it by swinging on a rope hanging off a tree into a rock cliff face 10 times.

🙂

Audio is complex, and hard to learn, and even when you understand it all fairly well it still can make you lose your marbles.

[regal breach]

hahaha exactly why I am reluctant to refer people to using the voicemeeter app (though the extra cables are nice)

[quiet bramble]

Same thing with ASIO4ALL too... heard people diss that to no end... all it is mostly is a wrapper around WDM IIRC.

Any probs are usually misconfiguration, and not really a bug in the software.

I think the bigger problem is that more and more people are doing things on their computer as general end users that would generally be considered pro area stuff, but without the knowledge, and it is frustrating to run into walls due to that.

Imagine computers that don't need audio to be configured at all ever... 🙂

Someone needs to use some of that mad tensor core machine learning stuff to auto-configure audio, with a laser brain interface.

So long as they don't make the chips so powerful that they become self aware we should be ok.

😛

[white dune]

First I hear of it.

[weak escarp]

First I hear of it too, the text for my plugins seems to be a copy of the text from the obs forum without the formatting

[weak escarp]

First test, it does seem to detect which plugins are installed, but does not detect that the latest version is already installed. after installing/updating a plugin it seems te remember what version is installed using that tool and does not give me the update option.

[hollow stirrup]

This kind of system is normal in Linux. For example, tytan is packaging some of plugins for Arch Linux. I'm just concerning they Starscape didn't put any copyright information and links to the original site.

[solar dust]

I would say "many" rather than "some"

[hollow stirrup]

Oh, you are right. I didn't know you've package almost all.

I appreciate that. It should be so time consuming effort.

When I first found your package, it was just a few.

[solar dust]

Once the build recipe is done, changing the version and checksum (if there is) is really not so time consuming except if the plugin should be built in OBS tree for test building.

[sweet snow]

hello @hollow stirrup , I'M one of the developer from Starscape, we have an FAQ page to put copyright and the original site. https://obs.starscape.live/faq/

[ripe geyser]

hi I'm a product manager from Starscape, we haven't actually launched our obs plugin manager yet, it's still in early alpha stage

[sweet snow]

We respect the copyright of all developers,Our aim is to make updating and managing OBS plugins easier and quicker.

[hollow stirrup]

Thanks. That's good to hear. I was just checking the web site since I usually don't use Windows.

IMHO, I was expecting to have URL link for each plugin like AUR, for example https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obs-text-pthread/ shows Upstream URL. Still I'm not sure this is the right way.

[ripe geyser]

thanks for all your feedback, we will fix these issue asap 🙂

[sweet snow]

It seems in plugin detail page we override the default CSS, I will fix it soon

[sweet snow]

yeah, it will detect the plugin installed in OBS, and the best way is to HASH each file and compare it to get the version of each plugin, but it need a little time to make it. So in this version, we show update when first open Manager. There is no doubt we will identify the real version in next version.

[weak escarp]

for my plugins you can also check the version in the file information of the dll

[sweet snow]

yeah, all your plugins have standard file directory and dll information, but it's still have many plugins does not have enough infomation in dll file

[hollow stirrup]

I just follow obs-plugintemplate so my plugins does not have the version info. I just found resource.rc.in in Exeldro's plugin. Maybe need similar file.

[sweet snow]

We found the RFC#4 https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/4 On this September, notice this RFC was issued on DEC 2019, nearly 2 years ago. We don't sure if this requirement will support in future, then we decide to implement a 3rd party Software to manage plugins.

[untold jay]

it's that old mainly because no one has done it yet, it's quite a big undertaking, but it's still on the list of fairly high-demand features

[mortal harbor]

How can I see the chat when I'm make a livestream?

[untold jay]

@mortal harbor almost any web browser can do it
if you're looking for an in-game overlay for fullscreen games, that's not possible, only windowed or borderless

[stable olive]

Seems to be working better now. It successfully can find a face and pan/tilt is working for tracking

But it also loses the face easily, and when it does the camera keeps moving, often panning well past where the person is.

I need to play with it more to work out what is going on.

[glacial mango]

Does anyone know where I can find the Titler Live plugin?

[winged canopy]

https://newbluefx.com/

[glacial mango]

Thank you

[winged canopy]

https://heretorecord.com/graphics/

[wispy token]

Dear sear:

I need that for live transmition, if you software can do that I am interested or you have other solution welcome..

Trackin moving (live transition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMmew-mYo3E

[static drum]

Hello, I work with someone who has a radio show, and would like to broadcast it over Facebook Live. He has music that's pumped into his headset, and we're looking for a software that could pickup and broadcast that music, along with what he, his co-host, and any guests say as well. Could OBS do that?

[paper barn]

@weak escarp hey, sorry for the ping

Does Source Record work with replay buffer? Or does it record and saves everything while replay buffer is ON?

[untold jay]

@paper barn source record has its own replay buffer that can be configured separately from "normal" replay buffer

[paper barn]

So it can still be triggered to only record 'x' seconds and ram usage?

@untold jay

[untold jay]

@paper barn duration yes, ram usage i dunno

[paper barn]

Thanks, appreciate it, I'll test @untold jay

Mmmmm it won't be able to do what I wanted, it caps at 90s I guess because it can't change how much memory it uses

A youtuber I'm working with needs the possibility of doing 900

[untold jay]

@paper barn run a second instance of obs-studio

[wraith hedge]

that seems a big help for me as a new streamer though.

[whole karma]

OBS can combine audio from multiple audio devices on the same PC and broadcast them easily. This is arguably a discussion for the stream setup channel in this Discord.

[ripe geyser]

hi @vivid sapphire we're working on a plugin manager tool because seems like many people are interested in it, if you think what we're working on is cool, we will keep on making it better. 🙂 Right now we are looking for alpha testers to give us more feedback, so can we post the tool on the forum? cheers~

[vivid sapphire]

Hi meteo, thanks for your enthusiasm but after discussing it, we don't think that a third party plugin manager is something we want to promote. There are security concerns as well as user welfare concerns that we have with such a product, and when we release our own plugin manager we want to be sure that we work directly with and maintain a relationship with plugin developers rather than scrape the forum without their consent. We won't be approving your plugin manager at this time or allowing it to be promoted on official OBS websites.

[vivid sapphire]

Also it's become clear to me that you and your team are registering shill accounts on our forums, which I am now banning

[glossy gate]

so you're working on your own mod manager?

because it really seems like you're stopping something that people actually want to use here

:/

[vale vine]

They aren't stopping anyone from using it

They aren't going to promote something they don't agree with

[vagrant minnow]

or allow it to be on the official site.

[vale vine]

Seems like a very short sighted response based on what dodge said above

And then their subsequent actions of making shill accounts

[vagrant minnow]

That, too.

[vale vine]

Smells pretty fishy to me

[glossy gate]

true

[vagrant minnow]

Heya, Dodge. 🙂 Thanks for keeping the site safe!

[vivid sapphire]

You're free to use it, but it's not something we can recommend or promote in good conscience due to the risks involved -- risks that are further heightened by some of the questionable decisions the developers have already made

[glossy gate]

I can see both sides, the responsible side for the obs team but also the user side who wanted something like this for quite some time

[vale vine]

In a situation like this, a conversation with you all prior to making it prob would have been good faith and helpful, yea?

[hard jay]

To be clear, that's not a user. That's a for-profit company that made that.

[vale vine]

And one that potentially has a gain in scraping user data

At least from what ive read.

[glossy gate]

I see

meh x.X

but hey, now the obs team knows that people want this

[vivid sapphire]

rustysword, the person who linked the tool in here saying "hey i found this, is it legit?" is the person who made the app

[hard jay]

We've known for a while, and have discussed extensively about it.

[vivid sapphire]

we know people want this

[vale vine]

Oh really.....

[glossy gate]

not keeping up on this server, sry D:

[vale vine]

Yea, shady

[wary escarp]

Shady at best, dangerous at worst

[hard jay]

A lot of it hasn't taken place on this server directly, but rather: https://ideas.obsproject.com/posts/14/add-a-plugin-manager

And on the RFC for it: https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/4

[glossy gate]

thanks for gathering this

also hi future video creators who use this chat for their videos to warn users

oh holy the discussion has been going on since 2019

[vivid sapphire]

2018

well, 2018 is when the idea was submitted

[glossy gate]

I saw this only :D

[vivid sapphire]

it's something we've needed for longer than that

referring tot he ideas page

[vale vine]

It's definitely well known that a plugin manager is needed. And will make everyone's lives better. But doing it right isn't easy

[glossy gate]

insert miyamoto quote here but stretched to fit the current topic

[vale vine]

To be honest dude, pretty shady approach.

And a pretty big deal breaker for me personally.

Intentional deception is a shitty tactic

[vagrant minnow]

Not a good look if you have to ask other people if your own plugin manager is legit.

!ad Which would fall under this

[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.

[vagrant minnow]

Especially if there's data scraping and a for-profit side of things..

[hard jay]

I'm just gonna stop this here, as we've already rejected the advertisement of the product through our communities.

Please take the advertisement and looking for testers somewhere else.

You are welcome to continue with your project, but considering you are basically copying our forums, SEO blasting, and other shady practices, we do not want you in our communities.

Thank you for understanding.

[pale monolith]

Hi , Can somebody advise as to why Tuna plugin would suddenly stop working? I've had it working for months almost a year maybe more and suddenly it's stopped working. Please help.

[paper barn]

I recommend NowPlaying over Tuna

[pale monolith]

Is that the one by Zyphen?

[paper barn]

NowPlaying. site (remove space)

[pale monolith]

Nothing showed 😦

[paper barn]

Remove the space brother

[pale monolith]

oh

[pale monolith]

There is nothing showing with NowPlaying widget 😦

[paper barn]

What service are you using to listen to music?

[pale monolith]

Spotify

[paper barn]

Have you connected your spotify account to the website? 🙂

[pale monolith]

Pretty sure i have

[pale monolith]

Yes it is connected

[paper barn]

Does it look like this?

[pale monolith]

Yes mine looks the same

[paper barn]

Are you playing music?

In spotify?

[pale monolith]

Yes there is music playing on Spotify right now

[paper barn]

Did you add the browser source?

[pale monolith]

Browser source also added

[paper barn]

Change the song in spotify and send me a screenshot of your OBS

[pale monolith]

There i did it

[paper barn]

Delete this

[paper barn]

So it doesn't work?

I recommend joining their discord for support then

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/nowplaying-widget-spotify-streamelements.1138/

[pale monolith]

Could you please supply me with their discord details>?

[paper barn]

If you check the OBS Project forum you'll see the discord 🙂 I can't send discord invite links

iirc

[pale monolith]

Ahhh i cannot find the discord link , the only one there is for obsproject

[pale monolith]

nowplayingobs . com is the actual site i need to go to , and they have a link to their discord server to get a free key or something ?

[paper barn]

The OBSproject website

Has the discord link..

No, to ask for support if it's not working @pale monolith

[shrewd hamlet]

Is there a plugin/tool/utility to full screen a specific Source/Scene to a dedicated monitor?

[vivid sapphire]

right click the source in the sources list > Fullscreen Projector

(or windowed projector)

[mortal harbor]

Hola, alguien que hable español necesito ayuda porfavor 😢😢no puedo grabar 😢

[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

[mortal harbor]

I need help please 😢😢 I have a problem with the program 😢 don't worry about the language I translate it but please help me 😢😢

[oblique yew]

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

[mortal harbor]

And how do I go there, a link please

[vivid sapphire]

#support-portal

[sharp zinc]

What is the difference between "Network" and "Source Timing" in NDI sync mode?

[inner marsh]

is there any plugin for obs that makes a popup after you finish recording to name the recording?

[quiet bramble]

Don't think so... OBS has to create the file while it is recording so it has to have a filename to use to write the file out to. I'm not sure whether there would be a way to do that or not but it'd probably involve a plugin using the API to find out if a recording is in progress, with a callback for recording stopping, but then it probably has to wait for the file to be finalized. Then there is also the matter of auto-remuxing feature to contend with.

And that has an auto-delete original file optional feature as well.

One could write a script in python, powershell or some other language to monitor the OBS recordings directory and monitor for new files showing up, but I think it'd have to wait until they are no longer in use first to avoid risk of problems. Seems race conditionish too.

[wary escarp]

Actually it doesn't, that PR got closed

[wary escarp]

@dark beacon just stop

[vale vine]

DMs?

[vagrant minnow]

This time they went far enough to get a from the server.

[vale vine]

Probably for the best

[wary escarp]

Messages in this channel

[vale vine]

I missed it...darn

[rocky gale]

Hi all, the NDI plugin im trying to install into OBS will not appear in any menu, I could do with some help.

After i install the NDI plugin and its dependency I restart the PC, but no extra menu options appear. I have also tried manually moving the archived folder contents from the NDI download into OBS studio root with no success.

Any ideas? EDIT maybe i put this in the wrong section on this discord, ill add it to windows support too.

[rocky gale]

update, tried uninstalling OBS, NDI and NDI 4 runtime. i restarted the computer and reinstalled them all starting with OBS then installing NDI which installed the run time and still no luck. on another build i did the same and had success. Any ideas? both of these builds are fresh installs of windows

[boreal hearth]

!logi

[boreal hearth]

can you post your obs log?

[rocky gale]

sure give me one second

https://obsproject.com/logs/m6NAu_6-UfpT2XSi

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduler

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H1 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session
• No Scenes/Sources

Hardware Check

Common KVM processor (not in benchmark DB) / GeForce GTX 1070 - OK!

[rocky gale]

here you go

[boreal hearth]

CPU unsupported by NDI library. Module won't load.

[rocky gale]

interesting

[hard jay]

Looks like a hardware KVM or some kind of VM?

[rocky gale]

yeah thats what im using

[hard jay]

Seems whatever is being used there is messing with reporting capabilities to the system.

[rocky gale]

ahh, i checked the other build i used and its registering the CPU as:

rather than the KMV from the build i need to use the ndi on:

[hard jay]

Yeah, it's doing something funky there.

[rocky gale]

balls, only way i know how to change this is by having a different formatted OS which means i cant PCI passthrough

which defeats the purpose of the VM with obs in

[boreal hearth]

I don't know what NDI uses to check the CPU but there are some registry hacks to change the processor name, maybe that's already enough

[rocky gale]

oh yeah? do you have any more info on that?

[boreal hearth]

I can't find the tutorial I found but this seems close enough https://yourowncodes.com/how-to-change-processor-name-by-registry-editing but some googling should point you in the right direction.

The change I made wasn't permanent though so I had to apply the change on boot

[rocky gale]

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/common-kvm-processor.66160/
Understood, ill try that and come back. Whilst you were looking i found this to take another angle, i presume that changing this will destabilize the boot as PCI passthrough requires some very specific settings. BRB, and thanks!

[hard jay]

It looks for specific instruction sets, (SSE2, iirc?) that it needs

But yeah I also don't remember the specifics on how it queries

[rocky gale]

We have success - changing CPU type sorted this right out. ill write up a little guide for archives. Thanks to you both @hard jay @boreal hearth

[hard jay]

Ah sweet!

Glad it's working

[topaz coral]

i need help with installing move transition on obs please

[weak escarp]

what part do you need help with?

[pale monolith]

Can you please show me where to find it? I am lost 😦

[topaz coral]

it wont let me extract or unzip the folder

[weak escarp]

the zip for manual install or the zip with the installer?

[topaz coral]

it wont let me do none of them

[weak escarp]

do you get an error message?

[pale monolith]

Can someone please give me the link for the OBSproject website?

[oblique yew]

OBS Studio can be downloaded right from the OBS Project website: https://obsproject.com/download

[topaz coral]

when i go to unzip it says my trail has ended not sure what else to do

[pale monolith]

But that does not take me to the Nowplaying discord server link?

[weak escarp]

what zip program are you using?

[topaz coral]

is there away to do it manually ?

[topaz coral]

nch

is there another one i can use?

[weak escarp]

can you right click the zip file and click extract all

[weak escarp]

I would use the option extract to ... folder

[topaz coral]

it just takes me to a program that apprenlty iv finished my free trial

[weak escarp]

if you want a free zip program I can suggest 7-Zip

[topaz coral]

iv got this part some how

[weak escarp]

the destination should be 1 folder up than shown in the screenshot

program files\obs studio

[topaz coral]

iv jsut put them on my desktop

can i just move them to that folder?

[weak escarp]

move the bin and data folder from the zip to the obs studio folder

[topaz coral]

move the bin?

[weak escarp]

sorry data and obs-plugins folder is what it should be

[topaz coral]

so move that folder to obs plugins?

[weak escarp]

move those 2 to the obs studio folder

[pale monolith]

Okay thanks , i found NowPlaying discord server after sifting through some forum posts

[topaz coral]

iv got 3 folders

so like this?

[weak escarp]

that looks like the obs folder where the contents from the zip needs to be placed yes

[topaz coral]

ok i will see if it gone on to obs

nope still not showing on my obs

[quiet bramble]

Do you have multiple versions of OBS installed such as 32 bit and 64bit, or parallel installs etc?

It's not uncommon for someone to have an old OBS installation they don't even know is there, and end up installing plugins into the wrong one, but the icon to launch OBS launches the other install. Happens all the time.

[topaz coral]

when i open the obs folder there is a 32 bit and 64 bit yes

[quiet bramble]

Also, in case nobody's already mentioned it, whenever you install plugins into OBS, if the program is running it wont see them until it is restarted as it looks for plugins only during startup.

[topaz coral]

the program hasnt been open

[weak escarp]

can you check if C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit\move-transition.dll does exist?

[weak escarp]

in that 64bit folder does there exist a file called move-transition.dll ?

[topaz coral]

cant see it no

[weak escarp]

so copying or moving the folders did not work as expected

[topaz coral]

nope dont look like it

any other way?

[weak escarp]

did you try the installer?

[topaz coral]

only the one i told you about

do you mean to unzip?

extract?

[weak escarp]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/move-transition.913/version/3727/download?file=75977

[topaz coral]

that just pops up

[weak escarp]

open the zip using explorer or use 7-zip to open the zip

[topaz coral]

how do i do it using explorer?

tried 7 zip doesnt seem to work

[weak escarp]

here a version without zip: https://exeldro.com/test/move-transition-installer.exe

[topaz coral]

followed all the steps for that it said obs folder

ye its on there now thanks 🙂

[olive mesa]

Hi I'm new here. Please excuse my ignorance if this is not the right place to ask such question : I'd like to know if there's a plug in that would allow me to record localy and separately each scene while streaming?

[swift dust]

As far as I'm aware, that plugin sadly doesn't exist. But multiple outputs at once is planned to happen in the future.

[wary escarp]

it kind of does!
Check out the "Source Record" plugin from Exeldro

[swift dust]

Oh yeah, I guess that works

[wary escarp]

you should be able to select the scene as a source in there

[olive mesa]

I'll ook into it. Such a great piece of software and I keep discovering new possibilities every day...

Thanks for answering!!

[swift dust]

No problem

[pale monolith]

@paper barn I got the widget to work finally , There were complications along the way on my end but we got it resolved eventually

[harsh topaz]

@weak escarp Had any time to peak the Source Record hotkeys etc?

[echo girder]

guys i need help, why can i only turn on one virtual camera?

as u can see

i can only turn on 1

[limber rune]

Hello guys
i have 25mbps upload on my internet
but i can only stream with 3000kbps max
why please ?

[stiff sun]

about the VST3 adaptability

has it been created ?

or is it too soon ?

[river fulcrum]

can anyone help with the tuna music plugin

i am stuck at the song info part

[hard jay]

There's an open bounty for it, but no accepted proposal yet.

[stiff sun]

3k $ ?

damn'

[quiet bramble]

$3k sounds pretty cheap IMHO.

If someone wanted to develop something like that as a volunteer in their spare time for fun or something, it'd either already be available or they'd be working on it already I imagine, not waiting for any other reason than they want to do it and have the time and requisite knowledge etc.

If someone is going to do it instead with monetary incentive, they also have to have the requisite knowledge and skills and if they do, they could be employed somewhere making $5-10k or more per month at some tech company.

$3k is not a lot of money really, 1-2 months rent/expenses for many people. Something like VST support is probably not something someone could crack out in an afternoon but more likely something someone spends several weeks of long hours working on. $3k would possibly be "acceptable" for an engineer to do that.

$3000 is 5 weeks worth of 40 hour work days at $15 minimum wage, 2.5 weeks of work at $30/hr (below entry level engineer IMHO), or 1.5 40hr work weeks at $50/hr

So purely from a "incentivized purely by money to do a job", $3k is a bargain. 🙂

[glass trail]

pops in. "Minimum wage in my state is $8.60." He pops back out directly after.

[quiet bramble]

In Ontario where I live, minimum wage is moving to $15CAD/hr in January from the looks of it. That's approximately $12USD/hr. Having said that, I can't see anyone who has the knowledge and skills to develop software of the nature above to be willing to do it for US or CA minimum wage. If they have the skills to do that kind of software development they most likely wouldn't be working for anyone for minimum wage by a long shot. 🙂

Any junior to senior software engineers here that would be willing to work for $9-15/hr doing software engineering? <crickets>

😛

Honestly, to create VST3 support and have platform parity across Windows/Mac/Linux on x86_64, x86, M1, and have adequate testing and maintenance of the feature I'd predict something more like $15-30k or more to be more reasonable target for someone to consider doing it.

[stiff sun]

i got a fork

so now I can stream Serum and Omnisphere

[stiff sun]

I live in quebec LOL

minimum wage is like 13$ CAD

so

10.31 USD

[stiff sun]

Might contribute to it now that I think about it, wouldn't it be nice to have VST3 support on the (original/principal ?) OBS version ?

[quiet bramble]

It'll be cool to have some day. I'd rather use a full fledged DAW personally though.

[bitter kayak]

So I am new to creating an OBS studio plugin and I see the source code for the examples on github, It has been a while since I used C++ makefiles is there a specific build instruction to use with GCC?

[wary escarp]

OBS and most plugins are using cmake
There is a plugintemplate you can look at, but afaik that has cmake files that are not compatible with the OBS ones (until those in OBS are updates, probably after the release of 27.2)

!plugintemplate

[oblique yew]

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

[bitter kayak]

I just opened the docs for the plugins and my eyes about melted out of my head

why is it so bright

my chrome plugin for forcing darkmode didn't work

I haven't used Cmake before, is there a short tutorial you could recommend?

[wary escarp]

Uhhhmm, I don’t know any of the top of my head

[bitter kayak]

Thanks for the boilerplate

I have built a psuedo plugin before where you load a local browser source, I just wanted to make a real one this time and use the excuse to get back into C++

Im going to make a new source type for timers and I want to have it where you can set the timer values and then have it start when it is shown and auto-hide when it is done playing its ending animation/tune

seems pretty simple

[bitter kayak]

If you don't mind me asking, what IDE do you use for C++/plugin development?

[wary escarp]

I‘m using Xcode (macOS)
From Windows people I’ve heard most use VS or Clion

[bitter kayak]

Alright thanks for the help. Time to get to it.

[stiff sun]

Use reaper

[vale vine]

Apparently they made it open? Anyone that speaks code have a chance to look at this thing?
https://github.com/Starscapelive

I still don't trust it based on the approach and shenanigans that tool place the other day.

[peak vector]

of course it's an electron app...

[wary escarp]

Did they message you about it? Or how did you discover that?
Asking out if curiosity

[vale vine]

Andi Lippi server.

As he had a video he released about it that he then moved to private based on the shit show around it

Pretty sure they are talking to him directly

[wary escarp]

So their attitude didn’t change I guess

[vale vine]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not sure. All I know is I don't really trust it

[obsidian kestrel]

Hooray another Chrome instance for a very basic task

[orchid zealot]

Say does anyone knows how to install this https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/background-removal-portrait-segmentation.1260/ for macOS??

[hollow stirrup]

The instruction in the release note says

Mac OSX: Unzip obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip to /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/. e.g.
$ unzip -o obs-backgroundremoval-macosx.zip -d /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/

Doesn't it work for you?

[orchid zealot]

Thanks man

idk why it didn't work the first time

[broken lagoon]

Hi, I hope this is the correct thread 🙂 I am trying to add another person in the stream trough Skype. But I cant select the person who is calling me under "source name", its just blanked. The person doesnt pop-up for selection. I have added NDI in OBS as a source, and "activated" NDI in Skype. It has woked before but suddenly stopped working. Can someone help me on what to do? Thanks!

[tidal portal]

After a couple of mistakes I've made it my mission to try and add a "currently active scene" marker - I'm a backend web developer with no real experience with C and I'm having trouble locating where exactly the scene list is generated. If anyone could point me to the correct file where I can fiddle with the function that generates the Scene list that would be really helpful.

[stable olive]

That would be useful. I use the multiview to tell me which scene is active, but it would be better to have it in the main scene list

[dull mason]

hi guys, quick question. Why does my discord streamkit resets everytime i integrate it on my obs?

[stable olive]

Look at UI/window-basic-main.cpp

[quiet bramble]

Yep, Reaper is what I use personally.

[stable olive]

The uses of the scene list widget can be found by searching for ui->scenes

The Scenes list widget itself is implemented in UI/scene-tree.cpp which is where you'd need to add a graphic element for showing the active scene

And it inherits from the stock Qt QListWidget, so you can look at the Qt documentation. Just google search for QListWidget

[dusty flint]

right, what's everyone preferred alert plugin?

[analog ruin]

https://twitter.com/martin_bloksa/status/1461148638223212546 take your pick of provider, and then you just use the built in "browser source" 🙂

make sure you do your own research on what fits your needs

[stiff sun]

Good

[copper spear]

is there a plugin yall recommend to eq in obs

[quiet bramble]

@copper spear Sure, the ReaEq plugin from the free ReaPlugs VST plugins package from Cockos, the company that makes the Reaper DAW. Be sure when you install the plugins to install them to: C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\ReaPlugs or OBS may not be able to locate them. The installation of ReaPlugs may default to other locations. On my system for example it defaulted to trying to install the VSTs into Cakewalk, even though I actually have Reaper also installed. 🙂

OBS looks in several locations for VSTs, but the best location is probably under C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\ for a general location, as most programs will check this location.

Any other free or paid VST 1.x/2.x plugin should work as well, as long as it is the same bitness as your OBS install (32 or 64 bit)

[sonic meteor]

when using the Multi RTMP plugin... Should I have twitch set up under the 'main' stream tab?

then...
Only hit "start" for Youtube and dont worry about the twitch start?

or do I need to hit start for both of them after clicking the main "start streaming' bottom

[untold jay]

@sonic meteor the plugin requires that you start streaming at least once using the "start streaming" button, regardless of what it's configured to stream to

[sonic meteor]

So I do have to set up both? in the second picture?

also.... what server do I need to put in there?

[atomic dune]

I cant seem to get the shaderfilter to work, can someone support me in this?

[quiet bramble]

Windows, Mac, or Linux?

[torn tide]

hello

[bold light]

Don’t know if this is the right channel for this but can any outside source be used to make widgets for obs ?

[mortal harbor]

Who will play Minecraft with me?

[ripe geyser]

hi Matty, we have corrected our actions, and from the bottom of our hearts, my colleagues and I are sorry for the trouble we caused the other day, we're sorry for the self-promotion, shill accounts, it's not the right way to find testers. I know we got off on the wrong foot, but we are doing everything we can to earn your trust and prove that our team are very passionate about making games and tools for content creators. We don't intend to monetize the plugin manager in any way, and since our tool is open source now, anyone can inspect it, we want to be totally transparent. (and for my colleagues, many of them are from different countries, so there are different rules and cultures, and we were too eager to show our work of love, so hope you and the community can understand and forgive us and give us a chance to prove ourself.)

I just wanna make sure you know that we are sorry, and I will only say things that can contribute to the community from now on

[astral kernel]

i'm looking for some vst plugins, there are many on the internet so i came here for a recommendation

[ripe geyser]

https://www.tokyodawn.net/tokyo-dawn-labs/ imo try slickEQ, Nova & Kotelnikov, they are all you need to make audio sound better. pretty intuitive and there are many tutorials on youtube

[clever mason]

Hi - is this where I can for help setting up Clippy?

Clippy is a plug-in (I think) that when you shout someone out, or someone Raids you, depending on how you setup the command - it will play their top clip from their stream....I saw this on TheReeferRaptors twitch and thought it was SUPER cool

I have the URL setup, but I cant get it to work in OBS or StreamElements

[modern zenith]

hello guys

how can i add Z,X,C and more in input overlay?

[astral kernel]

thanks a lot ♥️

[maiden aspen]

Hello everyone I'm new to the OBS Community. Q, I'm trying to use the obs tuna vlc setting but OBS KEEPS CRASHING ON ME!! Can anyone help me out?🙏

https://obsproject.com/logs/t63V1iPGnLHXHgOd

[boreal hearth]

!logi

[boreal hearth]

can you post the log?

[maiden aspen]

https://obsproject.com/logs/t63V1iPGnLHXHgOd

[boreal hearth]

not the crash log, the obs log like in the image

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Insufficient Hardware

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates
• Non-Standard Framerate

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 2004 (OK)
• No Output Session

Hardware Check

AMD A8-7410 APU - Below minimum requirements / Radeon R5 220 - Below minimum requirements

[boreal hearth]

your tuna version is one year old. Try updating to the latest version

[maiden aspen]

Thank very much

[quiet bramble]

Make sure it is albacore free tuna too.

🙂

[maiden aspen]

Thanks! Will do! U wouldn't happen to have a link would you please?

[fast fjord]

is there a way to make it so I can change the text sources content easier with Google Sheets?

I know you can like have each text source to a dedicated spot on Google Sheets, but that seems to be only useful for changing by typing. I need a way to just like click a row and it changes the sources at the same time instead of me typing it out if that makes sense

[strong tulip]

Assuming you already have the text sources hooked up to Google Sheets (however you managed that), that's less of an OBS thing and more of a Google Sheets automation thing

[mortal harbor]

hey guys im having an issue with my obs crashing when i close it. apparently its because of a plugin i have but the plugin is up to date. Crash Log: https://obsproject.com/logs/sKuibFyLzpKLlhXV

[untold jay]

@mortal harbor crash blames panman.dll or obs-vst.dll, check your VST2 plugins

[mortal harbor]

thank you it was the obs-vst.dll

[fast fjord]

so what can I really do

anything? or am I gonna just have to do 500 text sources

[strong tulip]

Huh?

You said

I know you can like have each text source to a dedicated spot on Google Sheets

So I assumed you had done that (somehow; no idea how)

If that were the case, I would've assumed you'd just hook the question and answer text sources up to four cells whose values can be read in from other cells

But if that's not the case, then you'd probably have to do a bit of coding to modify your text sources on the fly — though I wouldn't read in from a source like Google Sheets, I'd rather just a JSON file or something

If you have a bit of programming knowledge, Kruiz Control might be the way to go @fast fjord

[fast fjord]

I have 0 coding knowledge lol

and the videos on youtube do allow you to use google sheets (or I guess excel...) to read from a file

the only problem is, the individual cell itself can change the text source value

that would mean I'd have to retype every question and answer, instead of just pressing a button (or selecting a different row) that provides a new set of information on the same text files on OBS

[strong tulip]

I'd be interested to see these YouTube videos on how to hook a text source up to a spreadsheet

Could you share a link to me?

[fast fjord]

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

Excel Sheet to OBS - Update Real-Time Score to your Game

that uses Microsoft Excel

but for that purpose it is just for changing numbers (aka a scoreboard)

[strong tulip]

Right, this looks easily done

[fast fjord]

so you can just easily re-type your number source on another monitor or something to change the OBS Feed. But that's not what I want

[strong tulip]

Nah

[fast fjord]

I feel it'd be more problematic to re-type 4 things (or even just copying and pasting it is still bad imo), than having 500 text sources

[strong tulip]

You wouldn't edit the cells directly, you'd edit other cells and have the visible ones update based on their content.

Or, what I'm thinking, you would edit 1 cell to pull the questions in from other cells.

So give me a few mins to try it out

[fast fjord]

my current idea (since I have 0 coding knowledge) is to have 4 text sources and group them up which is the annoying af way, but I can AT LEAST use stream deck to hide / show a specific question row

but I'd prefer to just click down on like the next row or column of google sheets so it changes all 4 at the same time for me

[strong tulip]

@fast fjord

So you can see I have a sheet with the questions on it and a sheet with the actual quiz to display on OBS (like the video you linked me)

And just using a couple of Excel functions, I make it so that the display cells (the ones to capture into OBS) change values based on a number

So then the only thing you need to change is the number

[fast fjord]

O_o

ok so

I guess follow the video I linked you, and use the Excel Functions and it'll work?

[strong tulip]

Basically. So they don't actually hook any text sources up to the spreadsheet, they just do window capture — so you would just format the quiz cells the way you want

And all your questions go into the Questions sheet

[fast fjord]

I'll have to experiment with that when I get the chance, I didn't expect a response so fast, but since it's for school I'll try to figure it out

thanks for it

[strong tulip]

The formulae should work fine in Sheets, too. Though I don't use Sheets, I just use Excel.

Yep, tested it. Works beautifully in Sheets. 👍

Which means you could even have a different window/device open to change the number, independent from the one you use for window capture

[fast fjord]

give this man a role

[strange heron]

hi

[clever plaza]

I'm using "Source Record," to separate recordings. It works fine for Webcam but when I try to do only display capture ( Or Window Cap ). It's also capturing my webcam, anyone know why? ( I have source record for webcam and the screen/game I'm trying to capture ).

[clever plaza]

Ever since I installed Source Record
And have OBS opened
My PC becomes on fire
Like 1-2FPS and then freezes slightly.

[clever plaza]

Was there a plugin that has more NVENC Options or something. Zaymar or something like that?

[strong tulip]

StreamFX

[harsh topaz]

Source Record still needs some love, in due time 🙂

[clever plaza]

So I'm not the only one having that issue then? Not worth using?

[harsh topaz]

I'm having quite a series of issues with it as well. Not exactly what you describe, but also some.

[clever plaza]

Oh?

[clever plaza]

Source Record is very bad.

Just full breaks

[weak escarp]

yeah source record is not stable and is far to advanced for most people, but it works for others

[midnight orbit]

Hello everybody! Is there any way to have a '' spectralized'' animated logo?

[fringe wing]

Hello there!

I use the Move Transition Plug in. I love it so far. I was just wondering is there a way to add custom delay to different sources?

[weak escarp]

yes you can use move transition override filter for that

[fringe wing]

Yeah I realised in the meantime. But the % depends of the total lenght of the overall move transition right? So If I want to have like 3 sec to adapt my different elements I put 3000ms on the "Move Scene Transition" and I play with individual Transition override filter on each elements?

Thanks for your work btw, soooo many possibilities

[maiden aspen]

HELP PLEASE!!

[modern zenith]

how can i add Z,X,C and more in input overlay?

[oblique yew]

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

[strong tulip]

Add what? Be more specific.

[swift dust]

More keys to the input overlay plugin (at least that's how I understood it)

[strong tulip]

I thought the plugin needed to be configured and in that process you choose which things you want to show.

[modern zenith]

The keys, the letters of the keyboard, Z, and more

[modern zenith]

Yes

But i dont know about the configuration the json archive

[clever plaza]

Not much advanced. Just breaks OBS which in turn breaks my pc.

Anyone know of an alternative to source record?

[vapid charm]

@clever plaza unfortunately outside of making an OBS build with something close enough that's it to my knowledge.

[clever plaza]

I guess I could just have multiple OBS opened.

[inner flame]

Hello everyone, I need some help. I would need to remotely control obs scenes without connecting to the same network as the PC. Is it possible to do this with a vpn?

[untold jay]

@inner flame yes, try zerotier or hamachi

[rain jasper]

Hello first time here, I have just started using OBS and it is an amazing tool. I am looking at just pulling the raw image data out and passing it to python. At the moment I'm just going through the code trying to find the raw data, Then use pybind11 to make a module that will give me the raw data as a module. If anyone could point me in the right direction to where the data is returned it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[untold jay]

@rain jasper i don't think python scripts can access raw rgb data of sources, that might require a plugin, or at least a pixel shader (there are plugins that implement them, such as obs-shaderfilter or streamFX)

[rain jasper]

@untold jay Thank you

[rare iris]

is there anything like the streamlabs emote wall that isn't from streamlabs? it's a fun feature i just don't wanna use streamlabs for it

[vapid charm]

@rare iris kappagen from streamelements.

[rare iris]

thank you!

[fervent acorn]

Is there a plugin that lets me use my phone as a camera for pc?

[white dune]

that's more of an os level thing. make it show up as a camera in any old app and obs will be able to use it too

[onyx talon]

Hi guys, I was previously using slobs but recently decided to make the jump over to obs. I was wondering if there is anything available in the community similar to hcboards? Where I can integrate key bindings for sound effects, video clips, gifs etc?

[strong tulip]

@fervent acorn look into Camo Studio (wired) or EpocCam (wired/wireless). The first one lets you modify the picture on your computer, the second one is cheaper but you do the modifications on the phone.

@onyx talon Stream Deck, and tools that can perform similar functions such as TouchPortal, UPDeck, Kruiz Control

[north parrot]

Do you guys recommend any OBS plugins? I'm currently using a spotify widget but thats about it

[untold jay]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/ @north parrot see if tere's anything you like

[north parrot]

🙏🏼

[sweet wave]

DD Database Design Final Exam on oracle academy https://youtu.be/GMHnXTuEt68 . How do i sound?

[strong tulip]

What?

[sweet wave]

i need kinda audio feedback, i try use compressor filter

[strong tulip]

But why ask me? Why quote my post, it has nothing to do with audio.

[sweet wave]

not quote tho, i do that mainly to get your attention.
you seems kind 🙂 , nvm if u busy

[strong tulip]

Don't just randomly ping people. I don't know anything about audio.

[sweet wave]

ya >.<

[glad sable]

Hi, reposting..
Does anyone have experience with NDI? I am trying to use my laptop's webcam for my pc but I can't seem to make it work.

[limber leaf]

Hello. Trying out the new Source Record plugin. There seems to be an option for Streaming (I'm guessing its Stream only option). It ask for Server, but doesn't seem to offer a drop box like the one in Settings does. Do I just type in "Twitch" or whatever?

[nova hare]

does anyonme know a controller add on

[limber leaf]

@nova hare what kind of controller addon you looking for?

[stark narwhal]

You get the URLs from here
https://stream.twitch.tv/ingests/

Replace {stream_key} with your actual streamkey

[limber leaf]

So will using it this way mean that the source will only show up when streaming?

[stark narwhal]

It means you will only stream that source when you stream from what I understand

But I can check to make sure

Ok
Record Mode set to streaming means only.record.when streaming

Streaming Mode set to streaming means only stream this source when streaming

So if you only want to record that source when streaming you would use this

[limber leaf]

@stark narwhal Ah, ok. I'm trying out different things since the Record when Recording feature gets the audio out of sync after a while. Trying to figure something out to make it work

[late musk]

Obs.live plugin for stream deck was working until the latest update where I could just used the button on the stream deck but it is no longer working. I have already tried the uninstall the stream deck software, reboot and then reinstall it to see if that would fix it and it did not I get the following: Obs.live is offline, anyone know how to fix this?

[queen oriole]

can somone help me with getting my ppt projector momitor from one pc to the pc that i run obs on so i can have the projector screen as my back screen and our preacher on top

[spring laurel]

Hi!

I have to stream a table tennis match and I'm looking for a scoreboard that will be adjusted for table tennis (has sets, points, serve indicator). I have pre-designed graphic but having trouble finding a scoreboard plugin (mac) and set it up properly. Any suggestions and experiences?

Thank you!

[inner marsh]

There was a plugin on the forums(link below) that could possible be adjusted to work

!plugins

[oblique yew]

How to install plugins: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/421/
List of available plugins: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/categories/6/

[inner marsh]

^

Specifically this one https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/scoreboard-for-obs-on-macos.1066/

[glad sable]

Hi anyone can help me with NDI for OBS? I am trying to use my laptop's camera as my pc camera but I can't seem to make it work

[harsh topaz]

You'd have to run NDI in OBS on your laptop for that. Fullscreen your webcam feed on the Laptops OBS.

Then open an NDI feed on your primary PC, and grab that NDI feed from the network.

Beware that audio/video desyncing greatly over time is quite an issue with NDI on OBS atm.

[cedar cape]

Would i ask a question about streamlabels here? Having an issue where my sub count isn’t updating

[hard jay]

We can't really support SL's products here, you'll need to reach out to them.

[hollow stirrup]

What is your actual problem?
I'm using NDI like this setup and it is working.

• a Linux PC with a camera, running OBS to feed NDI,
• a Windows PC running NDI Webcam Input from NDI Tools and running a meeting application (like Zoom, WebEx).
  On OBS Studio, just open Tools -> NDI Output Settings, and enable Main Output.

It is sometimes difficult to configure firewall when using NDI. I temporarily disable firewall on sender-side when using NDI.

[glad sable]

I figured maybe the issue is with my firewall because I can't seem to get the feed from my Laptop with Cam to my Main PC. The laptop in question is a company laptop where I can't make changes with the firewall.

Right now as a workaround, I use OBS.Ninja till I get a decent camera for my Main PC. I have given up on the NDI at the moment 😄

[hollow stirrup]

Oh, that sounds difficult situation.

[subtle grove]

Can I have my Restream.op chat window apart of my OBS without using streamelements OBS.Live? I’d like it to open and be visible to the right of my stream preview there. Or do I need the OBS.Live for that?

[vale vine]

Restream.io?

Don't use obs.live. unisntall the .live part. Then connect restream acct

!se

[oblique yew]

To cleanly remove OBS.Live:

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

[vale vine]

!chatdocks

[oblique yew]

To enable Chat docks for Twitch, Restream and YouTube, you will need to connect your account via Settings -> Stream.
If you'd like to enable chat docks for other services, you can use View -> Docks -> Custom Browser Docks. This allows you to include any webpage in OBS.

[subtle grove]

Thanks @vale vine !

[vale vine]

[gaunt zealot]

I'd also suggest looking into GroundControl if you're using StreamElements as an alerts service. It's way better than OBS.Live anyways.

[vale vine]

Though it's deprecated and basically unsupported iirc

[subtle grove]

That was actually ganna be my next question but for StreamElements haha. Do I need 3 different alert boxes? I did kinda like how with Streamlabs alertbox I could have just the one alert box for all my stream platforms.

[light talon]

hello

can i write arabic ?

[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

[light talon]

thanks

[harsh topaz]

Hey @weak escarp any news on the Source Record leak/over time issue & Hotkey problem? 🙂

[feral gazelle]

hello

how to delete new plugin

in mac

[quasi shadow]

Hi everyone!!!
I use streamloots and I am wanting to have the cards be more interactive with the scenes and such. is there a way that when someone plays a card that my screen becomes greyscale (or black and white), or that it could trigger a confetti effect on screen? im so lost and confused with this! I donwloaded the OBS websocket 4.9.1 but past that i am now officially lost in wonderland!

[mortal harbor]

guys

can i ask something?

[dry jay]

Is there a plugin that can help me get YouTube live chat displayed on the screen?

[analog ruin]

you can use the pop out chat, and add it as a "browser source". @dry jay
Unfortunately, the link will change every stream, so you will need to continually update it :
There is an alternative, and that would be using restream.io's "merged chat" service, which will update it for you, so you can just use their link always. It is primarly meant to add multiple platforms chat together, but will still work for this purpose.

[dry jay]

Thank you for answering my question.

[pulsar cape]

Having issue with source record, have my settings to record my active scene while streaming, then have source record filters just on my capture device set to be enabled when i start recording. For whatever reason both files show all source (webcam, overlay) and are nearly identical other then audio tracks (best I can tell). Any reason the source record filter just on my display is picking up the other sources as well?

[inner marsh]

in finder press cmd-shift-g and paste this /Users/user/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugin_config and then delete whatever folder's plugin you want to delete

[analog ruin]

probably needs to swap out asher with their own user I presume? 😅

[inner marsh]

crap thanks for the heads up

[kindred berry]

idk if this is the right place to ask for this, but does anyone knows if this is a plugin?
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1215419576?t=4h16m1s

he uses an image which shakes and brightens up whenever he's talking

[hard jay]

There's a plugin that does the shake part, I think? I vaguely recall and audio shake plugin

[weak escarp]

It can be done with the audio move filter from the move transition plugin

[wary escarp]

Small tip: You can replace the /Users/name/ part with ~/, that works for everyone

[tribal dirge]

Hello, I need help with downloading OBS plugins!

I copy the data & obs-plugins folders into my C: drive / obs-studio folder
& then restart OBS and I can't find the plug-ins anywhere.

[inner marsh]

what plugin

[tribal dirge]

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

[oblique yew]

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

[steel walrus]

can anyone who uses the TUNA plugin help me out?

[cyan peak]

I didn't even know there was a tuna plugin

what does it do?

[dark sapphire]

yeah, I use it with Spotify. what issue are you running into?

[paper barn]

There's being a lot of users asking for help

Is it a compatibility issue now?

[steel walrus]

how to word wrap the text to a certain dimensions? as the songs change the title size keeps changing and goes out of a certain location i want it at....

[steel walrus]

grabs music information from Spotify into a text file so you can use it as a Label on your content

[paper barn]

Have you tried something like https:// Nowplaying.site?

[steel walrus]

I actually prefer Tuna's customization options

[paper barn]

Nowplaying is extremely customizable too

[steel walrus]

but i just have the one thing I cant figure out with the words going out of wrap or getting messed up

[steel walrus]

Its a browser source? im trying to keep system resources used by OBS at a limit here and that means no browser sources

[paper barn]

It is a browser source

Yes

[steel walrus]

tuna is better in terms of fewer system resources compared to another browser source that is based on Chrome

[paper barn]

Tuna to me is horrible tbh

But that's my opinion

[hollow stirrup]

Does the text file include line-break? If yes, I think you need to set the alignment settings both in the text source property and the transform settings.

[whole karma]

Open the Properties for the Text (GDI+) source that Tuna is using, scroll down to the bottom and check the "Use Custom Text Extents" then set the Width and the Height values to your liking and make sure "Wrap" is checked.

[granite sandal]

Hello- I'm trying to connect OBS to the Riversidefmplatform to use a different background. Does anyone know how to connect them?

[oblique yew]

Windows: OBS v26 and above contains a basic virtual camera. For advanced usage, such as preview or specific scene/source output, try the third party plugin.

macOS: OBS v26.1 and above contains a standard virtual camera. Having issues with specific programs? Check this guide.

Linux: OBS v26.1 and above contains a standard virtual camera. v4l2loopback is required, best installed via the v4l2loopback-dkms package.

[uneven knoll]

Does anyone know if there's a timer that will add and remove text/change text over a given interval? I have a starting soon screen that shifts between 2 different images, and I want to put text on the 2nd one that with appear and disappear, possibly with animation to the text

[versed wave]

Hello! Is there anyone who can tell me what the plugin is/ how to add the noise suppression to where music from live streams can be taken out of recordings?

[dark sapphire]

those are called audio tracks. https://obsproject.com/wiki/Advanced-Recording-Guide-With-Multi-Track-Audio

You may also need the following plugin to only capture specific apps & route them to tracks

!ac

[oblique yew]

To capture audio from selected applications only, similar to Discord, you can try the new OBS audio capture plugin (Windows 10 2004 and above only)

[versed wave]

Thanks! I'll give it a try

[obsidian flame]

Hello. Is there an OBS plugin that allows you to move a source (like doing a "light float" to prevent the webcam from being static, moving a source image etc ...)?
I can only find tutorials for making animations during transitions. Thank you

edit: For example, like the animations available at https://loading.io/animation/icon/

[peak vector]

possible with a script but I don't know a ready made one

[versed wave]

So I've done this and have the "Audio Output Capture" in the Audio Mixer but can't find out how to specify it to Spotify as it's playing. Any idea?

[dark sapphire]

did you add the application capture or the device capture?

"Audio Output Capture" specifically is a device capture

[weak escarp]

You can use move source filters that are part of the move transition plugin for that

[versed wave]

I just have Audio Output (or input) Capture. I don't see an application capture I can add

[dark sapphire]

did you install the plugin I linked?

[versed wave]

Yes

[oblique yew]

A current log file is required to help fix your issue. Please post a link to your current log file.

• In OBS select Help > Log Files > Upload Current Log File.
• Click Copy URL and then paste the link here.

[versed wave]

https://obsproject.com/logs/o_5WX_XRXASfdfaB

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Refresh Rates
• Windows 10 1909 (EOL)
• Mismatched Sample Rates
• Capture Interference

Hardware Check

Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz - OK! / GeForce RTX 2070 - OK!

[dark sapphire]

the plugin did not install properly and was not loaded

[wary escarp]

That plug-in needs a newer windows version

2004 or newer

[dark sapphire]

ah, that would do it too

[wary escarp]

Try updating Windows

[versed wave]

Ah ok. When checking for a Windows update it tells me I'm not up to date but does not give me an option to update

[dark sapphire]

you may need to download the media creation tool manually then

[obsidian flame]

In fact, I would just like to move an image from right to left, in a loop ... and another up and down, in a loop. Is it possible to do that?

[weak escarp]

Yes

[obsidian flame]

ok thanks 😉 I try it

[versed wave]

What's the media creation tool?

[dark sapphire]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10

[obsidian flame]

I don't want to make a transition. I just wanna move something this way.

[dark sapphire]

add a filter to the source

[obsidian flame]

which?

[versed wave]

Ok, downloading that now. Thanks for your help so far. I just transitioned from SLOBS to OBS and am just trying to get things sorted out.

[obsidian flame]

The only filters I have are these

[dark sapphire]

did you install the plugin exeldro mentioned?

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/move-transition.913/

[obsidian flame]

thanks. I try this

[weak escarp]

Here is an older video explaining it: https://youtu.be/1ncZIZESwko

[obsidian flame]

The video shows a transition animation. But, what I want to do is just make an image move automatically, left to right, without having to activate it by keyboard shortcut or whatever. Just move something. Nothing more.

I don't want to move a scene or a group. I want to move a source. Just a picture.

[weak escarp]

the video shows what you need, you need to add the filters to the scene the picture source is in

[obsidian flame]

Sorry, I don't understand anything. I have set the scene as the source and have access to the options. But, how to reproduce this animation? @weak escarp

I would just like to do something like this.

[weak escarp]

So you need 1 move source filter to move it up and 1 move source filter to move it down and link those 2 together by using the next move setting to create a loop of movement

[obsidian flame]

@weak escarp Incredible this plugin !!! You're genius! Thanks ^_^

[oblique yew]

No.

[bright birch]

Can anyone share a plugin that automatically removes backgrounds or blurs it without a green screen ?

[strong tulip]

StreamFX can do it with recent NVIDIA cards, otherwise you’re better off with an app like Snap Camera that have some filters to achieve something similar

[rugged stag]

Backgrounds like the desktop?

Or like the background of a camera

[twin hawk]

There’s got to be an easy way for a chat plugin that combines both twitch and YouTube, I literally just need two. I know how to stream to both I just can only seem to get twitch working

[dark sapphire]

NEW: If you're developing for the obs-browser JavaScript API, you can now get type definitions via npm! https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/obs-studio
npm install --save @types/obs-studio

[humble hemlock]

What's this? A new obs browser source replacement?

[dark sapphire]

Nope, just type definitions for the existing API

[analog ruin]

restream.io has a chat that allows you to merge multiple 🙂 Thats the only way I how. Not a plugin per say, but should work for your need

[bright birch]

Camera

[mortal harbor]

hey, which folder do i put plugins in?

[oblique yew]

How to install plugins: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/421/
List of available plugins: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/categories/6/

[hardy epoch]

Would someone be able to recommend a plugin or maybe I don't need one/don't know how to do this...I just want to have a video play (social rotator) disappear, and then come back like 5 min later and repeat. Is that possible?

[vale vine]

https://youtu.be/uRYZ87ShKu0

[hardy epoch]

i'll give it a look, thanks!

[turbid ferry]

I forgot to how to put Obs OpenVR data and obs-plugins into obs so how do I put them in obs?

[oblique yew]

How to install plugins: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/421/
List of available plugins: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/categories/6/

[turbid ferry]

I cant find my plugins in folder

[wise palm]

You could make this happen super easy, use an old Lua Script, set the values in menu (Tools>Scripts) - set it to repeat, and enter your millisecond values.
You can use Google to set the proper time - "how many Miliseconds in 5 minutes"

[wise palm]

I'm assuming you just installed the plugin?

[rich gust]

Hi everybody can anybody help me.. i whant a Barometer in my show that if 80 % of the people in the chat hits an emoji ore what ever ... that an Alert appears ?????

[white dune]

barometers are for measuring atmospheric pressure.

[reef mantle]

Hi i just installed the dev enviroment and startet reading serveal examples and got some introduction to the plugin api. Im trying to develop a small plugin to add empty/white lines to a source. (thereby increasing to resolution). This sounds strange but is used as a workaround for a not well configured pixel led wall.(No Brand etc.) Could you give me a hint in witch direction to look or with funktion to be best used or some good example. thx for your Help

[untold jay]

@reef mantle have you tried the "crop/pad" filter?

[reef mantle]

no on my last try i could not duplicate sources. It would be necessary to have 8 copies of the same input source. Is this possible?

[untold jay]

@reef mantle streamfx plugin adds a "source mirror" source

[reef mantle]

hmm ok i will try this. I hope this doesn't need too many cpu.

[reef mantle]

thx so much u saved me a lot of time

[wild notch]

Hello, everyone! A plugin that I have submitted has just been accepted, and now my next step is to make it available for Windows (it's only available for Linux now). Do you know any interesting sources to check in order to build my plugin for Windows? Thank you!

[untold jay]

@wild notch if you need help compiling obs-studio on windows, you can ask in #development, start here https://obsproject.com/wiki/Getting-Started-with-OBS-Studio-Development

[wild notch]

Oh, thank you very much! @untold jay

[pulsar wigeon]

hey everyone, does anyone know if there's a plugin that plays a sound when the replay buffer saves a clip?

[untold jay]

@pulsar wigeon if you really want that, you can add a media source, enable monitoring for it (edit > advanced audio properties), then go to settings>hotkeys and set the same hotkey as your save replay buffer hotkey to play it

[pulsar wigeon]

I set that up but for some reason, I can't hear it

have i done something wrong?

[untold jay]

@pulsar wigeon and what hotkey did you set?

[pulsar wigeon]

the exact same as my instant replay

[untold jay]

@pulsar wigeon are you sure you bound playing that sound to shift and separately to caps?

[pulsar wigeon]

i just realised i made a mistake with hotkeys lol, i thought that meant it would only record when both were pressed

but it kept saving replays

so i dont see why it wouldnt play the noise