plugins-and-tools

[inland pivot]

but the file description look like this: vlc-3.0.16-win32

[paper barn]

So why did you say this?

https://get.videolan.org/vlc/3.0.16/win64/vlc-3.0.16-win64.exe

Download this

It's the direct download

[inland pivot]

becuases you asked me about the file

[paper barn]

and this is the file

I sent you

[inland pivot]

that show 64

mine is 32

[paper barn]

You need 64 🙂

[paper barn]

@inland pivot i already sent the link

[inland pivot]

do i need to unistalled that

before put this one

[paper barn]

I'd suggest so

[inland pivot]

ok

ok i am going to shut down the computer and come back

Pablomx2

I have done it! Thank you Pablomx2. It works now!

[paper barn]

Copy, have fun

[inland pivot]

ty

[craggy lava]

Hey @hard jay @untold jay I am using pop os and I have the nvidia-patch repo already installed, however, when I attempt to run the update command via flatpak I receive an error indiacting that nvidia driver 470.86 is not installed , but the flatpak-list command shows that it is installed... I cannot seem to find a way around this issue. I know you mentioned the proprietary nvidia drivers, is there some alternative place that I need to go to in order to install them? (I understand that because flatpak sandboxes apps and variables I have to download the drivers for them to be accessed; however I assumed that they were installed since driver 470.86 shows up in the flatpak-list command) . Honestly, I'm trying to solve this issue, because I managed to have this plugin properly work on the .deb version of OBS, but I am having no luck with the flatpak version. Meanwhile, my computer is screaming for help when I try to run god of war using XSHM.

[mortal harbor]

Hello

Can anyone tell me how my screen activity is being streamed from iphone with out me knowing ?

[glass trail]

What does this have to do with OBS?

[mortal harbor]

Remote control.

[glass trail]

!remote If you're talking about the plugin below, then I'm pretty sure that's not spying on you, if that's what you're asking.

[oblique yew]

If you'd like to control OBS Studio remotely, you have a few options.

To control from the web on any device (including phones and computers), use OBS Tablet Remote (requires obs-websocket).

If you'd prefer a mobile app that works like the Elgato Streamdeck, you can try Touch Portal, UP Deck, or Deckboard.

[mortal harbor]

Commonly used one with iCloud drive

[hard jay]

If your screen activity is being streamed from your phone without you knowing, you probably installed some kind of malware on your phone.

[mortal harbor]

Word

[craggy lava]

Any help based on the update above ^^^ with the NVFBC plugin. I know I initially brought it up a minute ago, but since the initial feedback last week I was finally able to hop back in and provide some more updates on the issue?

[untold jay]

@craggy lava maybe logs would have something useful? i'm not sure if the nvfbc plugin is distributed as a compiled .so or as source code

[craggy lava]

Hey thanks for the help. Give me one second and I'll drop the logs. Let me go pull them from OBS real quick.

[craggy lava]

https://obsproject.com/logs/7l0mJLhHfjCXFQwH

[oblique yew]

ℹ️ Info

• No Output Session

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X - OK! / GeForce RTX 3070 - OK!

[untold jay]

@craggy lava it threw "this hardware does not support nvfbc"
that could be due to two reasons (possibly both):

1. nvidia-patch wasn't installed correctly
2. the plugin checks the gpu name and refuses to work, instead of actually trying to use nvfbc
   if it's the former, try following the nvidia-patch instructioins again, see if you missed something; if it's the latter, you may have to dig into the obs-nvfbc source code to find the part that checks gpu name, change it to not check anything, and recompile the plugin
   or, maybe you'll have some luck with older versions of the plugin?

[craggy lava]

Yeah I might have to do option two, because I have tried everything to install the nvidia-patch, yet when I try the ........sudo ./patch.sh -f....... command that's when I receive that funky error stating that the flatpak nvidia driver is not installed.. even though when I run the commands to check for it, the driver is indeed installed.

[untold jay]

@craggy lava you're using a geforce card, which means nvfbc is blocked until you properly install nvidia-patch, but it seems that it fails to install
you can try asking for help on their github issues page, or install nvidia drivers through other means

[craggy lava]

Yeah I have been talking with the author over on the github page to see if they could help, I just wanted to hop back and forth between the two because I was unsure as to whether or not I was the only one experiencing this issue. Because I was able to install the patch for the drivers when I attempted to install this plugin via the deb version of OBS, but I am only running into the aforementioned issues with the flatpak version of OBS because I decided to scrap the deb version.

[untold jay]

@craggy lava if the deb version works, why not use it?

[craggy lava]

I ran into some issues with installing the browser dock plugin.. I mean I figured it out and managed to get it to work 😛 but figuring out how to get that particular plugin to work with custom docks is where the headache came in. Meanwhile that particular issue was not a problem via the flatpak version. The only issue I am facing now is the NFVBC plugin :(. I have used XSHM in the meantime, but if it's possible to increase stream performance via the NFVBC plugin I figured I might as well give it a spin.

[craggy lava]

and well here we are my friend. Knee deep in the OBS discord pestering you with my issues on a Friday Morning. Nevertheless I appreciate you, and you're a real one.

[untold jay]

@craggy lava i'll admit i never actually tried using this plugin with nvidia-patch on linux, i assumed it should work, but i should have checked when i had the opportunity to do so
i don't think i can offer any additional advice on this matter

[craggy lava]

On another note, do you know where flatpak plugins are installed? I've seen part of where the directory would be loaded via the /app/plugins/lib/obs-plugins/nvfbc.so mention in my logs, yet I cannot seem to find the actual folder containing them.

[craggy lava]

It's all good. I appreciate the help nevertheless. I'm just gonna see about editing the source code. But since I installed the plugin via popshop I am having some issues locating where it was saved at,

[mortal harbor]

https://obsproject.com/logs/x0YIMkAx4bx_K-q5 this?

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates
• Unrecognised Encoder

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H2 (OK)
• Windows 10 Game Mode

Hardware Check

AMD Athlon 200GE - Below cpu encoding requirements / GeForce GT 1030 - Possible bottleneck

[mortal harbor]

https://obsproject.com/logs/GeFeFB9YXL-oNhDD

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates
• Unrecognised Encoder

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H2 (OK)
• Windows 10 Game Mode

Hardware Check

AMD Athlon 200GE - Below cpu encoding requirements / GeForce GT 1030 - Possible bottleneck

[mortal harbor]

Where Can I Find CPU encoding requirements

[peak vector]

We recommend a somewhat modern 4-core CPU to have usable x264 encoding speeds

or a GPU with hardware encoder

[mortal harbor]

And How Do i Do That???

[peak vector]

Well, you buy the parts or a new(er) computer

you can probably replace the Athlon 200GE with a Ryzen 3200G or 3400G

it's still not great, but will run OBS at least for 720p encoding

[quiet bramble]

oh wow, an Athlon... haven't seen one of those in 10 years. Got a 4000 in my basement with a mobo with those leaky caps

Got a 6000 here in unopened box too.

[peak vector]

They still use the branding for their low-end APUs

[quiet bramble]

Ah, I didn't know the stack went that far down

[peak vector]

It's Athlon -> A-Series -> Ryzen G

Athlon replaced the A-Series branding it seems

[quiet bramble]

thought A-* died off too

[lean rune]

I have been googling and noticed a lot of people have asked, but no one has given a direct or correct answer. Is there a plugin I can download to add a live rss feed to my stream? Thanks in advance!

[analog ruin]

not that I know of. I would assume that is perhaps something people would have implemented in a browser already, and you can just use the browser source perhaps?

[lean rune]

I tried that with the espn rss feed link, but that is just the source code.

If there is no plug in available, I will have to look for a browser that does have it. Thank you!

[analog ruin]

there are some dated scripts out there, but I havent tested them myself, and im not sure if they still work, or how easy they are to work with / implement

[lean rune]

Yeah, I was looking for something official because of viruses and what not.

Thank you

[wind ocean]

So here's a potentially dumb question since I'm a noob, how do I customize my alert for a raid or something like that?

[white dune]

ask your alert provider.

[clever plaza]

I'm using VirtualCam Plugin for Camera, Using 2 OBS's. 1 For Streaming and 1 for Recording. How can I remove the effects on the VirtualCam ( 2nd Cam )?

But keep filters on the main version?

[nocturne remnant]

Hi, looking to find a fix for this closed captions issue. Looks like I found one maybe.. Would it be possible to implement FIFO and vf_ccrepack into OBS to git good captions? https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4006

I can stream SRT to ffmpeg from OBS but when I do it with the captions plug in on, it works but gets a ton of "illegal cc_count" errors. ffmpeg build it libklvanc the best way to test.

Turn the plug in off, no errors

https://github.com/stoth68000/libklvanc/issues/68

@mystic forum

[quiet bramble]

Nested scene with filters on the scene instead of the camera. You can use the camera by itself where you need it, or the nested scene with filters where you need that. Alternatively using StreamFX Source Mirror

[clever plaza]

Yeh I tried Source Mirror. It uses the filters still

[quiet bramble]

Did you remove filters from the camera?

[clever plaza]

Oh wait a minute

I think I get the idea

xD

[quiet bramble]

It's pretty easy, you can use your camera plain, and have various scenes with the camera in them and completely different filters and switch between all of them or even have multiple on screen in another scene at the same time.

Source Mirror is much tidier where it can be used though.

[rugged wave]

Does anyone know the name of this alert ?

[quiet bramble]

Ward El

[wise palm]

@wind ocean Are you using StreamElements for your Alerts?

[green slate]

Is there any indication that I turned on the recording while shooting a video? (i use translate)

[green slate]

good joke

as an example, I have an fps counter on the right side of my screen while recording

[stark narwhal]

You asked if there is an indicator.

Or do you want an indicator somewhere else which isn't inside OBS?

[green slate]

the indicator plug-in for obs*

that's exactly my question

[stark narwhal]

Where is that indicator supposed to show?

Inside a video game?

[green slate]

yes

i found a few plugins, but they didn't work

[stark narwhal]

There is the following.
I'm not sure if it is still work though because it's quite old.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-status-overlay-requires-playclaw.490/

Might be one of the ones you found

[green slate]

i remember trying this and it didn't seem to be working

now I'm trying again

[frigid kayak]

hey im having some trouble building libobs, could someone help me out?

this is the error im getting. I'm running Debian and I've installed avcodec-devel since there is no ffmpeg-dev package

[analog ruin]

are you following this? You got them all?
https://obsproject.com/wiki/install-instructions#debian-based-build-directions

[frigid kayak]

ive done all of that and built obs from source and libobs from source but im still getting the By not providing "Findlibobs.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "libobs" error.
I have included libobs with the following command
cmake .. -DLIBOBS_INCLUDE_DIR="../../obs-studio/libobs" -DLIBOBS_LIB="../../obs-studio/build/libobs/libobs.so"

[analog ruin]

unfortunately, I am going to fall short here. You could try asking in #development instead 🙂 Assistance with building seem to be fine there @frigid kayak

[reef vigil]

Hi, just want to ask some question. Is anyone here can help me?

Coz I added an app extension called Marvel GEQ, it's a equalizer but it's not showing on my plug-ins

[untold jay]

@reef vigil is that vst2?

vst3 requires obs studio music edition from, uuh, pkv and andersama, i think?

[reef vigil]

Yes

Can't find the Marvel GEQ

It's now showing.

[reef vigil]

Thanks.

[hollow stirrup]

Not only avcodec-devel, I think you also need to install some other packages... I'm not sure what debian provides but maybe avformat-devel, swscale-devel, avfilter-devel, etc.

[livid geyser]

Anyone know if there a plug-in to increase the amount of audio tracks you can have?

[lavish relic]

Hello all love the software I have version 27.1.3 and was curious how I know which plugins I have does the version contain all that is available to this point does the program give you a way to see the list of them

I am a new user

[vivid sapphire]

OBS does not have a plugin manager yet

The easiest way to see what plugins you have is to view your log

[lavish relic]

thanks I took a look at that just now so I see the list I guess if I can do what I need then should be good I just need to experiment some more so its kind of trial an error thing ? but are their any plugins that would be helpful right at that moment am I missing any basic operations that would be really helpful ?

[analog ruin]

no, there is no such plugin as far as I know. The only solutions I know of would involve multiple instances of OBS, or using a fork of OBS (OBS Studio Music Edition)

[vale vine]

I think music edition is still only 6 tracks. But has 16 audio channels.

[analog ruin]

🤦‍♀️ you're quite right

[vale vine]

That's OK. I only know that because ace corrected me for saying the same thing

[livid geyser]

Wait obs music edition??

Bruh I might use that for Ableton

[analog ruin]

keep in mind that you're making larger sacrifices tho. You wont have the latest updates, and you will potentially forego official support etc 😅

[livid geyser]

Hmmm

[vale vine]

I think pkv said it was gonna be the last version too but don't quote me on that

[modern drum]

I'm not gonna ping Exeldro directly, but wanted to tell him thanks. I thought I had lost/corrupted a scene collection and he just saved me LOADS of time, so thanks!

[fossil wyvern]

@crystal trellis no, you go in Tools > advanced scene switcher

[crystal trellis]

aight

[fossil wyvern]

(not automatic scene switcher, those are different things)

[crystal trellis]

I don't see advanced scene switche

I was just about to ask

[fossil wyvern]

did you close and reopen obs after installing?

[crystal trellis]

wait

yeh I forget you need to do that

I see it now

[fossil wyvern]

dw ^^

[crystal trellis]

ok I have it on

[fossil wyvern]

ouki, go in the "macro" tab

[crystal trellis]

gotcha

[fossil wyvern]

and create a new macro with the + button

[crystal trellis]

aight

[fossil wyvern]

the way macros work is that you give them a condition and when the condition is met, it'll do a specific action you set it to.

[crystal trellis]

uh huh

[fossil wyvern]

so basically, this will be active for the first 0.1 seconds that you are on the scene "BRB-transit"

just in case, the first bit are the conditions, the second the effects

[crystal trellis]

ah ok

so I have a stream starting screen

is there a way I can mute this indefinitely

or do I just set it to a really high number

[fossil wyvern]

the way I have done it will mute it "indefinitely", because once it has been muted, it'll stay muted till it gets unmuted

so you don't need to tell it to constantly be muting it

[crystal trellis]

uh huh

[fossil wyvern]

actually if you do tell it to constantly keep muting it, and for some reason at some point try to manually unmute it while on this scene, you won't be able to, because it'll keep toggling it back to mute

[crystal trellis]

so if I wanted to keep this scene muted indefinitely but unmute on the next scene

how'd I go about doing that

[fossil wyvern]

you create a second macro to unmute when you change from that scene to another

this time, if previous scene is BRB then unmute

[crystal trellis]

hmm

so that I'm on the same page

[fossil wyvern]

and once again, with the "for at most 0.1 seconds" so that it stops forcefully unmuting it just after the switch

[crystal trellis]

so I don't put it on "no time constraint"

[fossil wyvern]

no, that's a bad idea because if you do that, it'll be constantly checking it, and constantly unmuting it

[crystal trellis]

and "at most 0.1 seconds" will keep that scene muted until I set another macro unmuted

[fossil wyvern]

so basically you lose manual control because if you try to mute it manually, it'll immediately unmute it right after

[crystal trellis]

I see

[fossil wyvern]

or until you unmute it manually, if you want to

[crystal trellis]

ah

[fossil wyvern]

is that not how you want it?

[crystal trellis]

it might be how I want it

if it allows me to set another macro to unmute the next scene with no hiccups

and then automatically mute to another scene

[fossil wyvern]

you don't have to set one macro per scene

[crystal trellis]

ah

[fossil wyvern]

for example here I have one that mutes whenever I switch to starting or ending screen

with the or, it'll catch both

and then one to unmute when I'm coming from those scenes

[crystal trellis]

hmm

ok so lemme see if I can wrap my head around this

I set 1 macro to run the mute macro on the 4 scenes I want muted

[harsh topaz]

You're dealing with an extremely powerful tool, this advanced scene switcher.

If you learn this you can automate just about anything.

[crystal trellis]

[fossil wyvern]

yup, it's about in the range of "fucking incredible"

[harsh topaz]

To me, it's beyond.

[crystal trellis]

am old man

[harsh topaz]

It literally killed my need for macros and websocket commands.

[crystal trellis]

so learning computer stuff kinda goes over my head at times

[harsh topaz]

The top half is "Conditions". They determine under what circumstances, the actions occur.

Bottom half is "Actions". They tell the program what to do. It fires 5x a second (at 200ms), and checks what you set.

Honestly, best way to learn it is to fiddle around with it. Try things on an empty scene.

[fossil wyvern]

well, one thing it still does lack is integration with chat ans similar stuff, but yee

[harsh topaz]

Have fun. SO many possibilities.

lifesaver.

Just sad I didn't know about this tool earlier. Saved a lot of headaches

[fossil wyvern]

yup. don't forget to make a "mirror" macro to unmute when coming from those scenes otherwise you'll have to do it manually

[harsh topaz]

And Warmuptill is honestly a legend. The amount of time and dedication, the instant replies to questions and the speed of updates/fixes. Top notch.

[fossil wyvern]

I'm still only using it for basic shit but yeah, amazing

[harsh topaz]

I mean, you say "only" but if it stops you from accidentally forgetting to unmute going form Starting to > Gameplay scene, it's worth every second it took to learn it.

[crystal trellis]

ok so

[fossil wyvern]

I mean, yeah, the facct this is "basic stuff" says a lot about that plugin

[crystal trellis]

I've probably butchered it

[harsh topaz]

It literally sets all audio for me - and changes VLC play lists - on the fly >.<

So good.

[harsh topaz]

screenshow what you did - and say what you wanted it to do.

[crystal trellis]

these 3 I want to keep muted

[harsh topaz]

Under what condition?

[fossil wyvern]

looks fine to me

[harsh topaz]

Okay, so.

Get rid of the 0.01 sec. thing.

At the top right, there's a "perform action only on condition change".

That'll make it so it doesn't fire over and over.

[fossil wyvern]

ooooh, didn't see that one

[crystal trellis]

I've been last minute drafted into streaming a Fighting Game event

[harsh topaz]

He added that to avoid people having to set a ton of time conditions. It's SUPER neat.

[fossil wyvern]

noice, ty for that linden

[harsh topaz]

I'd probably check the button underneath too.

[crystal trellis]

and I have 2 people on commentary and don't want the audio to quieten when I change scenes

[harsh topaz]

So it mutes during transition as well - not when it's there.

[crystal trellis]

and with the global thing

they'll bleed into the other scenes

[harsh topaz]

Normally it doesn't trigger a "Im on Scene A" until you're on scene A. Even if you pressed it in OBS; because of transition.

[harsh topaz]

This should never happen unless you set something. Audio is global.

[crystal trellis]

yeh thats the thing

from the in-game scene to intermission scene it's ok

[harsh topaz]

If you want a specific audio feed muted (Say Microphone) on specific scenes; the above should work. Bare in mind it also mutes you.

I'd also recommend using "Set audio source" to 0%

[crystal trellis]

thats fine

[harsh topaz]

And add Fade over 2 seconds

Or 1 second.

Instead of hard muting it.

Fading is a higher production quality on streams than hard cuts.

[crystal trellis]

I'm actually quite lost now

sorry

[harsh topaz]

Make sure that the scenes you want people to hear, has the opposite. So in-game has one that sets audio to 100% of those sources, when detected.

Instead of

And

Remove X, add O 🙂

[crystal trellis]

sorry man, I know you're trying your hardest

[harsh topaz]

No worries.

[crystal trellis]

but I'm very lost

[harsh topaz]

Which part are you lost at?

[crystal trellis]

I think just this once I'm going to bite the bullet and just roll with it and then come back when I have a bit more time and am not so stressed due to all this being last minute

[harsh topaz]

Fair enough. Like I said; basics are important.

The top half are the conditions for what needs to occur for the bottom half - the actions - to take place.

Try and play around with it.

[crystal trellis]

I understood that

[harsh topaz]

Make sure the Active text is on, or nothing will work.

[crystal trellis]

it's just putting everything into practice and trying to keep up

[crystal trellis]

if I got time tomorrow or if you or any of the other gentlemen are available

I'll pop back in here and hopefully we start from the beginning

thank you ever so much for trying to help

I do truly appreciate both of you taking time out of your day

[harsh topaz]

I have tournament most of tomorrow unfortunately. But if it's late and I see your msg I'll plop in. You're fortunate that there's a ton of people here that know a heck of a lot more than me though!.

So just make sure you detail your issues, and people are usually more than kind enough to help

[crystal trellis]

cheers man

I understand

[flat glen]

i could be in the wrong channel but i use stream elements in combination with OBS.
every time i open OBS i got this cookie accept for the twitch chat
i hope somebody can help me out 🙂

[wary escarp]

Streamelements replaces our browser, please reach out to them

[oblique yew]

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

[acoustic palm]

Hi all 🙂 I am trying to connect mix it up with OBS but the websocket is not appearing in OBS, any idea?

[analog ruin]

!websocket make sure you use the installer (not zip)

[oblique yew]

OBS can be controlled remotely with the obs-websocket plugin.

Click here to download, or here for more info on using it.

[analog ruin]

if its still not showing up (remember to restart), please upload a log

[acoustic palm]

I am using the installer

[analog ruin]

!clog please post the log then

[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.

[acoustic palm]

https://obsproject.com/logs/lJKtOaa_l9_OfQGe

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• Auto-Config Wizard
• 88.8% Dropped Frames

⚠️ Warning

• Wi-Fi Streaming
• Mismatched Sample Rates
• Non-Standard Framerate

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 20H2 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H - OK! / GeForce GTX 1650 - OK!

[analog ruin]

@acoustic palm yeah, no websocket plugin in there :\

[acoustic palm]

I know but dont know why

I looked in youtube and did the same

[analog ruin]

what usually happens in these scenarios is that there has been multiple OBS locations, or OBS has been moved after initial installation

[acoustic palm]

and its not in there

[analog ruin]

the easiest way to correct this, is to properly re-install OBS.
This unfortunately means you will need to re-install any plugins. Is that okay?

[acoustic palm]

so just reinstall obs and websocket should make it work?

[analog ruin]

1. uninstall websocket
2. uninstall obs (your scenes and settings will be kept)
3. install obs (make note of where it gets installed to, dont change it)
4. install websocket (make sure that path matches from step 3)

its better this way, cus you'll have this problem with every plugin installer until the OBS path is corrected in the registry

[acoustic palm]

thank you!

[analog ruin]

so its a permanent fix 👍

[crisp spade]

I don't know what exactly happened but my Twitch chat dock always logs out whether I logged back in, closed OBS, and relaunched

[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.

[crisp spade]

https://obsproject.com/logs/KHEoSA6tJ4vck7Pn

[oblique yew]

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

🛑 Critical

• Max Audio Buffering

⚠️ Warning

• Mismatched Sample Rates
• Non-Standard Framerate
• Capture Interference

ℹ️ Info

• Beta OBS Version (27.2.0-beta4)
• Windows 11 (OK)
• Not Admin
• No Output Session

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 3 3100 - OK! / GeForce GTX 750 Ti - OK!

[analog ruin]

!sehelp the streamElements.live plugin replaces our browser and some service integrations. You'll need to reach out to them for help with that @crisp spade

[oblique yew]

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

[crisp spade]

ah, so it's SE's? I always use the default ones(?) that pops out whether I just logged in with my Twitch from my OBS

[analog ruin]

well, it dosent really matter what you choose to use. The plugin have replaced our stuff, so we can't support you (on the stuff they replaced) 😅
You could chose to remove it if you would like, but otherwise, you'll have to talk to them about it.

[crisp spade]

aaah, gotcha gotcha..

ya, now that you said it, it only happens when I updated my OBS to the beta builds and the SE plugin prompts a reinstall..

probably had the issue ever since and never noticed it, that makes total sense

thanks anyway!

[analog ruin]

yeah, pretty sure its not a good idea to run beta + se.live 😅

[crisp spade]

wait, oops, this isn't the windows support channel. sorry!

[analog ruin]

I think you picked the right channel, albeit it accidentally 😄 (cus se.live)

[spare prairie]

Are any of the contributors or developers for the "univrsal" input overlay plugin lurking by any chance? I reached out to @boreal hearth but I believe he may be AFK currently.

I am trying to fiddle with this plugin, however, I unfortunately am on a dual PC setup. From my understanding the installation needs to be done in the OBS folder which makes this a bit trickier.

[fossil wyvern]

I would advise against wildly pinging people, especially when there are very likely not the person you're trying to reach

[boreal hearth]

I'm here I also accepted your friend request

[fossil wyvern]

as for installation, according to the github, there's an installer https://github.com/univrsal/input-overlay/wiki/Installation

[spare prairie]

That is the person I am trying to reach.

But I understand the desire to not be pinged. My apologies.

Thanks for accepting! Will move my obnoxious inquiries into your DMs 😛

Also side note, both of your responses to me were high key useless. That was in fact the user I was trying to reach & that installation guide is not of use for this particular question.. hence my question being posted.

Furthermore, "wildly pinging" is a poor description for my one singular @ ; I'll take my leave now.

[fossil wyvern]

my apologies

[spare prairie]

❤️ All one big misunderstanding. Thanks for not biting my head off.

[quiet bramble]

Who needs server rules anyway

Kappa

[vale vine]

It's listed on their wiki to reach out here.

Seems a valid ping to me

[fossil wyvern]

yeah, my apologies, I presumed too fast

[vale vine]

I forgive you

[true atlas]

Hey guys!
Need some help getting Instant Replay to work exactly how I mean it to.
Now, I've followed both Nutty's and Defrag's tuts on this and I got working with my streamdeck and everything.
My problem now is, I want the Instant Replay buffer to be -only- the gameplay, NOT everything else that's on screen.
Is this doable?

[vale vine]

Probably with source record.

[true atlas]

Hmmm right, as opposed to recording the entire thing. Hmmm Hmmm.

[fossil wyvern]

(source record is a plugin, not just matty saying "you should record the source")

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

[true atlas]

Thank you! I was about to ask hehe

[strange pagoda]

hey im looking for a bit of software that can start both audacity and obs at the sametime

[analog ruin]

assuming default paths (change them if they dont match), you can just paste this into notepad -> save as "startBoth.bat" (with the "") 🙂

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\audacity.exe"
start "" /d "C:\program files\obs-studio\bin\64bit" "C:\program files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs64.exe"

[old pike]

https://obsproject.com/logs/BOx0Lww5C8EQc5Dn

[oblique yew]

🛑 Critical

• MP4/MOV Recording
• 96.7% Rendering Lag

⚠️ Warning

• Integrated GPU
• Mismatched Sample Rates

ℹ️ Info

• Insufficient Hardware
• Windows 10 21H2 (OK)

Hardware Check

Intel Core i3-6100U @ 2.30GHz - Below minimum requirements / Intel HD 520 - Possible bottleneck

[old pike]

i still need help with what to do here.

WAIT WRONG CHANNEL

my bad

[analog ruin]

heh, its okay 😅

[twin rampart]

Hey all new to the group and new to OBS. Thanks to YouTube and Google. I got alot figured out.
But what I'm wanting to do:
I have 3 video sources at one time.
I want to replay 1 of the sources that is not always live on the screen.
So far every time I try this. If I'm not on this camera it won't record anything.

Is there a way to reply a certain scene rather is on screen or not ?

[rustic patrol]

Hi everyone, I’ve recently heard about a software, that is used if you don’t want to stream with headphones. Every sound, that leaves your speakers and may be recorded by your microphone is going to be hidden for OBS and the stream. I hope you understand, what I mean, I’m not a native speaker… Does anyone know the name of this tool?

[quiet bramble]

@rustic patrol The only thing I'm aware of that might be able to approximate that is Nvidia RTX Voice, which requires a 2000 or 3000 series Nvidia GPU to work effectively (technically it can work on 1000 series cards using CUDA also but it is quite taxing on the GPU).

As impressive as RTX Voice is for removing background noise, it isn't completely flawless, and likely a certain amount of noise will get through and get picked up by the mic anyway, including other human voices you might be listening to via the speakers. I honestly don't think an approach like this will work out well with any degree of high quality.

Best to use a headset or wireless headset, or in-ear monitors

[stoic mist]

Can Source Record make a folder for it's output based on the date?

[rustic patrol]

Ok, sad, but thanks. 😉

[rancid summit]

anyone know how to do twitter alerts on stream for when people like and retweet my stuff?

[true atlas]

Hey guys! So OBS won't let me change settings.
I know this is probably because SOMETHING is running, like replay buffer or virtualcam. But I have stopped/turned everything off... What am I missing?

[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.

[true atlas]

https://obsproject.com/logs/jBfW8qdbW1QBm3J4

[oblique yew]

⚠️ Warning

• Wrong YUV Color Range
• Capture Interference

ℹ️ Info

• Windows 10 21H2 (OK)
• Non-Default x264 Preset

Hardware Check

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X - OK! / GeForce RTX 3090 - OK!

[dark sapphire]

make sure all your source records are stopped too

[true atlas]

To do that, I just disable the filter, right?

[dark sapphire]

I believe so?

[true atlas]

Yep that was it. Thank you.

Now if you don't mind, I have another one about the replay stuff.

I've got it working, except it's still showing more than just the gameplay.
I know this is because two different files are being generated in the replay folder, one is from the Source Record plugin and the other one is just the Instant Replay, right.

All I need to do now is point the replay source in the replay scene to the correct file, right?

Also the log anaylzer is saying I shouldn't have Game and Display capture in the same scene. I've always had it like this because certain games don't work with game capture and never had any issues...

[dark sapphire]

If you haven't had issues, it should be fine

[true atlas]

Thank you!

[true atlas]

Right, so -now- I might be running into an actual capture issue. Source Record outputs a green video, as in, no content in it

[harsh topaz]

Source Record has a lot of issues with it right now. The dev hasn't had time to take a look at it; I wouldn't recommend spending too much time trying to get it to work if it doesn't work right off the bat.

I personally fiddled with it for a long while and have come to the conclusion that there's a few too many small things with it at the moment that needs a fix 🙂

[true atlas]

Oh dang. Thank you!

Hmm but then to do what I'm trying to do, I could just set up a scene that ONLY has the gameplay sources in it, and use that as the source for the instant replay, right.

[harsh topaz]

I tried instant replay that way, doesn't work. It glitches out the source record over time, and it ends up taking instead of 1.5 sec, 22 sec to save a recording.

And only way to fix it is to toggle untoggle the eye. But then it resets the hotkeys. So you gotta set the hotkeys again.

Like I said. I tried using it. The idea is incredible. But it's not functional yet unfortunately.

[true atlas]

Dang. Ok thanks for looking into it!!!

[harsh topaz]

I do agree that a tool like that plugin is severely wanted by a ton of people. And it's one of the most frequent things mentioned in this channel is "Source Record doesnt work with X Y Z" way.

Unfortunately, if a dev doesn't have time - or doesn't want to fix something - you can't make them. They have lives 🙂

[true atlas]

Yeah it's usable if you're recording the gameplay WHILE streaming, to edit later, right.

But the live replay...

[quiet bramble]

Can be difficult to reproduce problems people have sometimes, especially race conditions and other transient issues, or things that only occur under specific conditions that might not occur on the dev computer etc. too. Been there, done that 1000 times. 🙂

[spare turtle]

hi, is it okaa to give this plugin suggestion here?

is there a lua script or a plugin, for auto renaming newly created sources? dunno if it's possible to make it happen with websockets and lioranboard. but was thinking of an different way than that~

so for users who go through the process of sort their sources and scenes. i believe this can save time~
for example-

lets say Scene 1 is named BS - Browser Sources
so sources made under this scene (no matter wut kind / or if it is possible to give it for just browser sources/ or specific kind ( that would be good too) would be named like

BS - Browser Source 1
BS - Browser Source 2
BS - Image Source 1 ( here let's say BS - {default source name} then it would appear like this for any sources~
etc

if it was possible to determine which scenes you want to auto rename and stuff that would be cool too?

[fossil wyvern]

so, like, automatically change the default name when creating a source?

[spare turtle]

yesh

[fossil wyvern]

well, that sounds like something that's perfectly doable to me, only problem is there being someone who has incentive to make such a plugin.

[spare turtle]

yesh that's true~ but yea i hope someone does~

[modern drum]

Interesting idea.

[analog ruin]

If its just green, its likely because you're using "nvenc (new)". Zero copy wont work in this instance, so you would need to use the one thats just called "nvenc"

[cyan zinc]

One question: a few hours ago, I activate the 2FA in Twitch. But now the stream statistic dock is disappeared. How can I get it back into OBS?

[fossil wyvern]

view > docks > twitch stats

[harsh topaz]

Unless you're in the RC version, then just Docks

[fossil wyvern]

ooh, fancy

[harsh topaz]

Gonna take a bit getting used to

[fossil wyvern]

yeah XD

[stoic mist]

Wouldn't you just have to sign out and back in again?

[cyan zinc]

I tried, but there aren't anymore those Twitch things, although my chat is still in OBS

[untold jay]

sign out then sign back in

[fossil wyvern]

File > settings > stream and reconnect your account.

[cyan zinc]

Ok, that worked. Thanks for the tipps

[oblique crater]

What is the name of the Plugin that is used to set a time for each "media" to stay on your screen?

[quiet bramble]

possibly Advanced Scene Switcher

[west carbon]

for obs what do i add as the connections like mic camera gameplay etc

if i want to record a video

@oblique yew

[oblique yew]

For a guide on the various sources and how they work in OBS Studio, see our guide here: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Sources-Guide

[grand trout]

Trying to install the streamfx exe and it doesnt appear to have done anything

[untold jay]

@grand trout the streamfx plugin installer tries to autodetect where obs-studio is installed; if you tried installing obs-studio more than once, you may have the wrong path written to the registry, you can perform manual installation from the zip release, or uninstall and reinstall obs-studio to fix registry paths

[grand trout]

Is it possible to uninstall and reinstall OBS without losing any scene info?

[untold jay]

@grand trout yes, scene collections will stay unless you choose to remove them

[grand trout]

Uninstalled and reinstalled. Ran the exe and it worked. Thank you

[harsh topaz]

Beware that some plugins will have their information reset in the Scene Collection if you open the Scene Collection without having the plugins installed.

So always back up your Scene Collections when uninstalling things.

[grand trout]

Yep. Backed up the collection before installing just in case

[harsh topaz]

Good practice 🙂

[quiet bramble]

Hmm, didn't that bug get fixed at some point? I could be wrong but thought they said that was fixed.

Definitely a good idea to backup everything as often as possible, even before blinking though. 🙂

[viscid shoal]

Hello. Is there a way to get the debug logs of a custom dock Html ?

[harsh topaz]

Nah, literally just ran into it with 27.2 RC1 🙂

[oblique yew]

To expose Chrome Dev Tools for your browser sources, add --remote-debugging-port=1234 to your OBS Studio shortcut (where 1234 is your preferred port number) and navigate to http://localhost:1234/ in Chrome to connect to the session

[harsh topaz]

It is funny though, Transition Table and Adv-ss has wastly different experiences with it. TT remembers some of the transitions, and for some reason pulls in all sources and sets them to cut, where-as Adv-ss simply loses all memory.

I asked the dev about it and it's apparently because if the plugin isn't there on save (shut down of application) to set the information, then nothing is set.

[viscid shoal]

Many thanks

Ok now I know what is wrong with my custom dock...

Is it possible to read local files from a custom dock ?

I get the error: Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'file:///C:/foo.txt' from origin 'null' has been blocked by CORS policy: Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https.

[harsh topaz]

Ah yes, CORS policy. I didn't spend the greater part of a week dealing with that.

It's this really annoying thing that browsers implemented, that makes locally using files a pain in the butt.

Ultimately; I ended up getting us a remote server to host all files on - to then pull them back in as a browser source.

It's stupidly overkill in my world, but then again.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[viscid shoal]

security is always honest people

[harsh topaz]

Not sure why CORS policy is active locally though. A lot of these things don't accept "localhost" as a header.

It's just a pain. But maybe if you know more than I do, it's simple to get around.

[outer blaze]

Hi all! I'm a bit confused about how to setup my dev environment for plugin development. Is there a recommended way? Like, for example, would I start coding my plugin in plugins/my-plugin of the cloned obs-studio repo? I'm currently on Windows.

Because the "Get Started for development" page on the GitHub wiki only seems to be for modifying obs-studio itself, from what I understand

[harsh topaz]

#development probably can help you 🙂

[outer blaze]

Ah damn, sorry! thx!

[formal sail]

Has there been an update to OBS source record recently?

[vivid sapphire]

there was one on saturday

[formal sail]

is there a changelog I can find for that? 🙂

[dark sapphire]

the forum resource should have a changelog

[harsh topaz]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/source-record.1285/updates#resource-update-4427

[formal sail]

ty

has there been any improvement on it? Last time I tried using it, my recordings would stop automatically :/

[dark sapphire]

have you reported your issue to the plugin developer?

[harsh topaz]

There's a plethora of issues with it unfortunately. I wouldn't get my hopes up, this seems to have been an external update.

[vivid sapphire]

classic discord google :P

using discord people as your research gophers

generally speaking it's recommended to report those things on the appropriate thread

[formal sail]

I mean I kind of assume I would get a quicker answer here than reading a 6 month old forum :p

[harsh topaz]

It's one of, if not the most, inquired plugins.

[vivid sapphire]

you might get a quicker answer but it's more likely to be low quality

[formal sail]

the only real alternative for me is to use SLOBS

but, well

it's SLOBS

[harsh topaz]

SLD is indeed SLD 🙂

[vivid sapphire]

it's definitely not called that anymore :)

anyway

the forum thread is active

You'll probably find a better answer there

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/source-record.143697/page-15

[formal sail]

Kinda hope they would've played nicer with OBS considering they took a load of open source code, monetised it, and called it original.

But this is the plugins chat not politics in the streamer world

Thanks for the link, I'll do my digging 🙂

[simple narwhal]

Anyone familiar with the commandline tool OBScommand.exe ?
I want to update a browser source url with adding the equal symbol "=" in the url with parameters and I cant figure out what escape code I can use with obscommand so it doesnt parse it.. any suggestions?

[strong tulip]

@mortal holly uhh… what does this photo have to do with #plugins-and-tools?

[mortal holly]

Nothing I am sorry I am new

[keen stump]

I am seeing a bunch of plugins for windows. Is there anything for the Mac or Linux?

[mortal harbor]

Hi! I don't have the fastest internet connection. Satellite. I started streaming on Trovo. The bitrate is around 500 kb/s. Then I found some plugin on OBS on the Trovo website (or on the links from it). After installing it, the bitrate increased to 5000-6000 kb/s and never dropped. I was happy. Yesterday I reinstalled Windows and the bitrate is low again. And I don't remember where I found that plugin. I've already searched the entire Trovo website. there is no him. Tell me, maybe you know what plugin I'm talking about. I will be grateful for your help.

[fossil wyvern]

lot of plugins are compatible with mac or linux. it'll be precised on their page on the forum

[oblique crater]

What is the name of the plugin that controls the amount of time a media stays at the screen? It's similar to image presentation, but i can put a specific amount of time for each media, not one for every media

[kind saffron]

Does source record take up alot of CPU resources?

[untold jay]

@kind saffron that depends on what's your idea of "a lot"
it's approximately as heavy as running a second obs-studio instance, give or take, but more convenient

zero-copy nvenc is not available, which hurts performance somewhat if using nvenc, but it's also inherently a bit lighter than actually running a second copy of obs-studio

[kind saffron]

yikes I want to have a recording or buffer for ONLY my gameplay and only webcam separate but if thats the case i might as well just switch and use stream labs selective record

[hollow mulch]

@weak escarp did you have an opportunity to take a glance yet?

[analog ruin]

pretty sure thats going to be exactly the same thing performance wise. There is no magic, and if you want to separate encodes, then thats what it takes. Using hardware encoders can pretty much save you any CPU load, except copying the frames (and possibly scaling)

[untold jay]

@kind saffron is this a joke? i benchmarked streamlabs obs' performance and it's eating at least 3x more cpu, and that's without selective recording

[weak escarp]

I did take a look at it and tried to replicate it in my debug environment. Was not able to replicate it yet.

[hollow mulch]

Anything I can do to help?

could provide you with teamviewer id/code if you want to have a look at my environment

[charred sierra]

Hello everyone, I recently tried to build the FDK AAC plugin for OBS using Github CI with help from a friend. The script he provided need to compile the full OBS from source code, but all I need is obs-libfdk.dll obs-libfdk.pdb and locale files. I'm wondering is it possible to compile the files that are needed only. And is it worth the effort? The script is https://gist.github.com/Sg4Dylan/ef52532651e418031088002de97ae69d

[oblique crater]

I would appreciate a help here

[true bronze]

Is there a way to theoretically record two video files, with different settings, in OBS? IE recording in 2k and one in 720p

[stoic mist]

maybe try source record

[wicked raft]

hii! Is there any way that when users enter an exact command, it can be displayed as a kind of log of recent events (commands) on the screen. As if it were the followers logs??

[quiet bramble]

Source Record plugin is the only direct way as mentioned above. Indirectly, running multiple instances of OBS and using full screen projector previews of whatever you want to record, then capturing it in the other OBS. If you want to record multiple identical videos at different resolutions the best way to do that is to record one in high resolution then use Handbrake or some other program to transcode it to a lower resolution after however.

[pulsar sandal]

hii! i install obs ndi, i restart my pc but it dosent appear in ,,tools,, , i try to reinstall obs and obs ndi but the problem persist.

[broken acorn]

Hey guys, anyone here use the streamlabs live plugin? is there any reason to use that over just using obs studio?

[hard jay]

I think you mean the streamelements plugin

And that's really up to you, take a look at what features it offers and see if it's something you think would be useful.

[broken acorn]

Oh youre right my mistake, hmm it seems like it could be good, ill try it since i dont see any reason why it would be bad per say
Ive just always been warry of downloading extra things such as mods/addons/plugins for apps

[hard jay]

I'd make the general recommendation that if you don't know what problem something is solving for you, it's probably best to just avoid it.

[robust spade]

I may have created a problem with the OBS Plugin Folder in the main program. Is there anyway to return the folder to factory settings and start over short of removing and reinstalling OBS Studio completely?

[quiet bramble]

Only by going into the folders and manually deleting any files that do not ship with OBS Studio, and modifying any files that have been modified, restoring them manually back to their original state. Presumably you don't know what files have been modified, added or removed though so this is most likely not possible. So the short answer is: technically yes. Long answer is: practically, no

Not sure what you'd save though, it literally takes maybe 1-4 minutes max to uninstall OBS and reinstall it.

even on a slow computer

[pastel iron]

Hello all ! I'm new to the community, OBS plugins, and working with git as well (the triple whammy). I'm currently contributing to some work from a current plugin repo on git. I believe I have updated and edited the scripts in which I needed to fool around with, but now I'm completely lost on how to "build" this particular plugin. If anyone has some free time to chat about this, or has a link to some current build information (the plugin began about 4 years ago however) please let me know .. Thanks!

[hollow stirrup]

Can I ping you, @quiet bramble? I saw your comment on https://ideas.obsproject.com/posts/368/video-assist-features .
Looking at some articles on the web, false color is defined between -10% to +110%. I'm wondering less than 0% and more than 100% can be handled in OBS...

[wary escarp]

hey, which plugin in particular are you talking about?

[pastel iron]

@wary escarp github.com/fenrirthviti/obs-virtual-cam

I forked off of that to alter it with these changes.
Github.com/prefixwiz/obs-virtual-cam

[wary escarp]

Fenrir's fork of that plugin was only for testing purposes as OBS was integrating a native virtualcam and is no longer maintained. If you really need to, I'd look at the original plugin: https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-virtual-cam however, that isn't maintained anymore either

[pastel iron]

@wary escarp agreed. However what I needed was more than 4 virtual cameras. With obs new native virtual cam, you can only create one.

I'm not 100% sure what the diff was between the original and the fork. I thought the fork added more cameras. I may be wrong.

But after adding the necessary changes I'm a bit lost as to how to build it.

[wary escarp]

the fork did not add more cameras if I'm seeing this correctly

unfortunately, I personally can't help you with building on Windows

[pastel iron]

Ok thank you!

[elfin nova]

I had to reinstall OBS, my mods are gone. But the files for their properties still exist, if I reinstall the mods, will it begin working again?

[harsh topaz]

Probably not.

Most plugins break if you open a Scene Collection, and close it again - while not having the specific plugins.

Because they don't get to open their data, and thereby properly save their data on closing.

If you reinstall OBS; make sure you get your plugins as well before you open your Scene Collection again; or backup your scene collections.

[elfin nova]

I had to uninstall SE and the how to said to reinstall OBS.

[harsh topaz]

This is not to say it's the case for all plugins. Specifically filters I don't know if start working again if you have had the Scene Collection open.

[elfin nova]

I need the Spectraliser and Stream FX again, that's what I remember

[harsh topaz]

Try and install Stream FX; close OBS; open OBS and see if whatever you set up works again.

[elfin nova]

Ok, the Spectraliser too

[harsh topaz]

I know Transition Table & Advance Scene Switcher at least will break and lose/default their data if you don't have them installed upon opening/saving Scene Collection.

[elfin nova]

Reinstalled them, though StreamFX isn't loading or anything

[harsh topaz]

You installed StreamFX with installer, while having OBS in default installation location?

[elfin nova]

Yea

I don't change the install destinations

[harsh topaz]

Is it visible in tool bar?

[elfin nova]

Nope

Rebooting PC rn

[harsh topaz]

Shouldn't make a difference. It means StreamFX was installed in wrong place if it does not appear. Is your OBS in C:\Program Files\obs-studio ?

[elfin nova]

Yea

[harsh topaz]

Does C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit contain StreamFX.dll & StreamFX.pdb ?

[elfin nova]

No, though the installation thing said it was going there

[harsh topaz]

Try to figure out where it installed it, and move the files to their proper location.

C:\Program Files\obs-studio\data\obs-plugins need to have the folder StreamFX moved there as well, don't forget.

[elfin nova]

I'll just reinstall it

Yea it went somewhere else

I can't change Stream FX's install location, or the Spectralizer, they keep going to the two versions of OBS I have

I have two because of a bug that happened in a previous update

Now I ain't sure what to do

[stable shuttle]

would be nice with some kind of plug-in manager in obs

[white dune]

i hear that one is being worked on

[stable shuttle]

nice

[elfin nova]

These two plugins won't work together, but before today they did

I don't understand how to fix this

[elfin nova]

StreamFX is trying to install into a folder that doesn't exist, doesn't give me the option to change it

Neither the Spectralizer or StreamFX are installing right

[swift dust]

What happens when you press "Back"?

[unique dune]

how do u install it?

when u install obs what do you do after that?

[oblique yew]

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

[elfin nova]

Stops installing

[swift dust]

I thought it was gonna give you options...

Let me pull up the StreamFX installer myself real quick

[elfin nova]

I downloaded these today, from the same website I got them previously

[swift dust]

Hmm. It does show me a window where I can change the installation folder ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[elfin nova]

Link to where you got yours?

[swift dust]

Hold on, I'll try to find it

[elfin nova]

Thanks

I just wish I hadn't bothered with SE, otherwise this wouldn't have happened. The uninstallation guide I found for SE never mentioned there was an uninstaller

[swift dust]

Pretty sure I downloaded it from here: https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-StreamFX/releases/tag/0.11.0

[elfin nova]

Which file? Cause I got the EXE last time

[swift dust]

Yeah, I got the exe too

[elfin nova]

Honestly, I have no clue what's up

[analog ruin]

most plugins that have been installed (but not properly uninstalled), will write a note to remember the location it was installed in.
That means that if you would like to modify the install location you would need to properly uninstall the plugin first.

As for the path that auto pops up for OBS is based on the registry, and usually gets updated when you install OBS. If you've moved (or have old shortcuts), its probably a good idea to make sure it all points at the default location (and run the OBS installer again to point to the right location).

[swift dust]

Oh

[elfin nova]

I've fully uninstalled OBS

Multiple times today

[swift dust]

Well, I got it to show by running the StreamFX installer, closing it while it was installing, and then running it again

Maybe that's all you need to do?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[analog ruin]

dosnt work for me 🙂 I need to completely uninstall it to be allowed to change the path

[elfin nova]

I've done that though

[analog ruin]

alright, then hopefully the correct path for OBS is now updated, and properly uninstall should bring it back to the right location

[analog ruin]

mind if we check the location?

[elfin nova]

Of OBS?

Its on my spare SDD

[analog ruin]

stuff to make note of:

• Shortcut (for the icon you use to launch OBS, make note of where it points to)
• OBS location (make sure it matches the above)

[elfin nova]

The shortcut works

Its the Plugins that hate me

[analog ruin]

how do you know its not launching an OBS that is installed somwhere else, instead of the Z:\obs?

[elfin nova]

Because I deleted all versions

I made sure of that

[analog ruin]

I would still check the shortcut you use

[elfin nova]

Idk where the shortcut is

[analog ruin]

how do you start OBS?

[elfin nova]

Not on my desktop

Pinned to my Taskbar

[analog ruin]

I think you should unpin it

[elfin nova]

I've always had it pinned

This surely can't be why the Plugins refuse to install in the right place

[analog ruin]

there is no good (easy) way to check where that one points to

[analog ruin]

perfect. Unpin the one on your taskbar

and drag that one down after having checked where it points to

[elfin nova]

I can't check where its pointing to

It won't say

[analog ruin]

right click > properties

[outer geyser]

Hi everyone. I bought a Loupedeck Live. For it to integreate with obs, I need to install the websocket 4.9.1 plugin. The moment I do that, obs crashes at start. I run an M1 iMac and Streamelements SE.live. The moment, I delete the websocket folder from Application Support, it runs flawless again. I'm not sure, what I can do.

[elfin nova]

Its pointing to the right place.

[analog ruin]

@elfin nova excellent 🙂 Please remove the one you have pinned, and pin this one

did you install streamFX already?

[elfin nova]

No

[analog ruin]

alright, go ahead and install it

[elfin nova]

Because it keeps pointing to a file that doesn't exist

[analog ruin]

make sure to take note of the path it shows

[elfin nova]

Its still trying to go to a file that doesn't ffing exist

[analog ruin]

alright, we're gonna need to uninstall StreamFX first

control panel > add/remove programs -> streamFX -> uninstall

[elfin nova]

Its not even installed

[analog ruin]

it is. Or at least the reg keys are still present

so it was never properly uninstalled

[elfin nova]

Its not there anymore

Completely gone

[analog ruin]

yeah, thats pretty unfortunate

[elfin nova]

But its still doing this

What do you mean

I need StreamFX

[analog ruin]

yeah, but fixing this is going to involved either something really silly and convoluted,
OR something thats a bit scary

[elfin nova]

What do you mean

[analog ruin]

have you interacted with the windows registry before?

[elfin nova]

Just say it instead of eluding to it

What

No

What I don't understand is, why is StreamFX not allowing me to change where its going

[analog ruin]

if you make a folder called OBS 27.0.1 on your Z: drive, will it let you proceed with the installer?

[elfin nova]

BUT it allows everyone else to

Wtf

[analog ruin]

because the installer believes its already installed

cus it was never properly uninstalled

[elfin nova]

OBS got uninstalled and took it with it

[analog ruin]

kind of, but seems to me like the folder was also move/renamed. Thats kind of besides the point. Dosent really matter what happened, we just gotta fix it

[elfin nova]

Reinstalling StreamFX to that place, then going to the file to regrab the uninstaller worked

[analog ruin]

so yeah, safest/easiest is probably to just try to install it to the incorrect location, and then uninstall it afterwards

nice 👍

once uninstalled, the new installation should automatically point towards the correct location

[elfin nova]

There is a guide out there on how to uninstall StreamElement's plugin, that caused all this

[analog ruin]

!se this one?

[oblique yew]

To cleanly remove SE.Live:

1. Uninstall SE.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.

[elfin nova]

Because it was never stated there was an uninstaller for that specific plugin

Yes

That guide is BS

Because SE comes with an uninstaller

I only found out after

[analog ruin]

I think its implicit. Uninstalling stuff means going thru the "normal" method of uninstalling it (ie the uninstaller)

[elfin nova]

If I had known the uninstaller existed, I wouldn't have needed that guide above

The guide should tell people the uninstaller exists

[analog ruin]

so you think its should be added to step 1: Use control panel > add/remove programs > uninstall se.live?

yeah, that could be valid

[elfin nova]

No, I think it should be Step 1; Find the SE Uninstaller that came with the program

[analog ruin]

yeah, that is what this means

[elfin nova]

Because I could have used that and not broken everything in the process

[analog ruin]

no, you would have still had to uninstall OBS

[elfin nova]

Why?

That doesn't make sense

SE is a one way mod?

[analog ruin]

because we have no guarantee that the se.live uninstaller will place the correct files back

yeah kind of. We have no control over what their uninstaller does, and it needs to replace OBS system files

[elfin nova]

Ah

That makes sense now

Honestly, this is all more so because of the Streamlabs hack that happened yesterday

I finally wanted to replace my chatbox browser sources and stuff from Labs to Elements

But it was too complex

Thank you

[analog ruin]

my pleasure. I'm sorry, I know this was quite a pain 😅 A set of very unfortunate events, made this quite difficult to remedy. Thank you for your patience

[mortal harbor]

Is there a Video Editor plugin?

And if not, what are good ones? Blender ofc

[oblique yew]

List of free software for editing - Click Here

[modern drum]

Not sure where this goes; but any body know a site/browser source to show poll results?

[harsh topaz]

Poll ma pe

@modern drum

[modern drum]

Will I have to input the new poll everytime?

[harsh topaz]

You use the site to do polls. Add browser source. It changes the browser source.

[modern drum]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/streamfx-for-obs®-studio.578/

@open knoll

[quiet bramble]

A lot of people use strawpoll

[quiet bramble]

My code uses an IRE scale for false color I found via Google and mapped the IRE values to appropriate brightness levels in OBS. IIRC, I wasn't sure whether it should be linear or perceptual so I added a toggle between the two. I don't have the shader easily available at the moment though sadly (it's on a currently dead PC).

I color sampled the standard colors that are used I believe, or found color codes for them, I forget which. I used some sample input+false color found online to compare the results of my shader with similar results. I consider it experimental as I never found solid documentation on any specific standardization details, and intended to do further research though.

I believe this was the IRE color scale I used for my implementation, although I don't remember how I handled out of range areas, I think I just ignored them as they're basically impossible inputs as far as a shader is concerned.

Mind you, it wouldn't be difficult to change the code to handle out of range if someone had some way for it to exist, such as via previous shader processing generating out of range color.

Could scale such input into the valid representable range also.

[lost elbow]

Hey guys , i really need your help on this one , can somebody find the link for this spotify plugin ? i've used it in the past but wiped my entire pc and didn't saved the link
would be greatly appreciated tysm in advance

[dark sapphire]

was it Tuna?

[lost elbow]

nah it was a browser source , someone give me the link but i'm not in touch with him anymore so :/

it was customizable tho idk if this might help ( on the website directly )

[quiet bramble]

If they gave you the link in Discord, try using the search feature to find it

[lost elbow]

they gave me the link on their stream a while ago vod is not up anymore i guess so yeah it was kind of my last option to come here lmao

[quiet bramble]

Could try searching Google images with the crop above, or crop out the part with text to see if Google finds a partial match

[lost elbow]

yeah i guess i'll try that ! ty for giving me this option 🙂

[oblique yew]

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

[hollow stirrup]

Thank you. I'm sorry to hear about your PC has dead. I have already implemented zebra so that the false-color should be similar but just need to have several if-else-if lines in the shader. Currently I just ignore non-linear conversion and treating as linear. Maybe I need to do something.
https://github.com/norihiro/obs-color-monitor/pull/32 (This is not released mainly because front-end UI has not been implemented yet.)

[quiet bramble]

Yeah, I think I just used an if block

[hollow stirrup]

Do you remember what color space you use?

[quiet bramble]

I believe I sampled the colors from the above chart and embedded them in a palette array

[hollow stirrup]

I meant how the luma value is calculated from RGB.

[quiet bramble]

BTW:

float y = +0.212600 * rgb.x +0.715200 * rgb.y +0.072200 * rgb.z;

->

float y = dot(rgb, float3( 0.212600, 0.715200, 0.072200));

I'm using the same luminance primaries as you above (709)

With a gamma on/off toggle for luminance/luma as I wasn't sure whether that was needed or not.

[hollow stirrup]

Thanks, I didn't know about dot. Maybe dot should be a little faster.

[quiet bramble]

yup, minor optimization

[pastel iron]

If there is any developers out there who would be able to work with me for about an hour, please send me a message. Its in reference to a plugin that I've already edited, but I would like to understand a few more things about it. Thanks!

[strong tulip]

You should ask your question here

You may not get a suitable reply otherwise

[pastel iron]

Ok thanks!

[hollow stirrup]

It would be helpful if you can provide a little more details. Each developer has different strong and weak points. For example, someone is good at browser, another one is good at shader.

[pastel iron]

Good point. So, Ive edited the old plugin for OBS-Virtual-Camera. I know there's a native one, however I would like to understand specific ui components.. more specifically the start and stop of the stream itself.

[true atlas]

Guys!
I'm trying to animate an image mask... Move Value filter doesn't work with it.
Anyone got any ideas?

[quiet bramble]

Yep, the Dynamic Mask filter from the StreamFX plugin, depending on exactly how you're hoping to animate it.

Actually there are 2 ways, one is with Dynamic Mask, and the other is with an animated GIF mask with the Image Mask filter (yes, they can be animated!)

If you explain your usage case in more detail I might be able to give more specific recommendation/advice.

[true atlas]

Thanks for the speedy reply!
So I tried Dynamic Mask.
It doesn't work, because that one is about the RGB levels, right.
So it's messing with opacity.

What I need is for the image mask to kinda follow what the move animation is doing to the webcam

This guy is doing it in his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19CxvN0zjgQ&t=319s
Ironically, he explains a different effect but I wanna know how he's doing the one in his webcam in the video, lol

It almost looks like the mask is always there, but when the webcam is fullscreen it's scaled up so that the mask is outside the stage. That's what I want.

Except I can't do that because the webcam is 1920x1080 and so is the stage, if I was to stretch the webcam past the bounds to get the rounded corners out, it'd ruin the resolution, right?

[whole karma]

@true atlas Andi explains it all here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtmlIAfqBT4 his rounded corners are not a mask they are an effect which is animated using the move transition.

[sweet abyss]

Hello everyone, i am using the vlc plugin to render some video on OBS. There is a VLC functionality - next frame (ctrl+E) which displays frame by frame on VLC media player. How can i replicate this functionality on OBS using VLC plugin?
Thanks in advance.

[dark sapphire]

VLC source does not support it @sweet abyss

[quiet bramble]

Ok, I looked at that and that's not a mask, he's almost certainly using OBS Shaderfilter's rounded_rect.shader and border.shader along with move-transition's move-value filter to animate the shader properties on transition.

(and source transform)

[sweet abyss]

@dark sapphire is it possible to use obs_source_media_set_time function to skip it to the next frame time?

[mortal harbor]

Hey, I submitted a new resource on the forum last week and it's still pending approval. Is there an estimated time of when those things usually get approved?

[untold jay]

@mortal harbor you can ask forum mods about it

[mortal harbor]

I didn't get a response, unfortunately.

[true atlas]

OF COURSE!!!!
Damn, amazing. And it saves me the trouble of making the damn PNGs.
Thank you @whole karma and @quiet bramble , you legends!

[vale lava]

hi ! , i need some help with Advanced Scene Switcher , i have a 9 seconds transition and use advanced scene switcher to switch from a placehold scene to the actual scene at 8.5s but the scene jumps when i set the timer to that

[fossil wyvern]

cna you show me the macro you set up

[vale lava]

there's no macro, switching manually between scenes

[fossil wyvern]

ok, so only the gaming_t to gaming isn't working?

[vale lava]

no all of them xd

if i keep it at 8.5seconds they jus jump to scene without finishing the transition

[true atlas]

Guys, here's a weird one.

Can I flip the camera on my preview but NOT to the stream?

Or vice-versa?

[fossil wyvern]

well, how long is the transition?

[vale lava]

9 seconds

[fossil wyvern]

so it's normal that if you put the transition to happen after 8.5 seconds, it won't have time to finish the 9 seconds transition, no?

[vale lava]

yea i was thinking if it was possible for it to switch scenes without interupting the transistion

that way it will switch to the right scene before the reveal

i'd like to know if thats possible or if there's anything i can do to pause of the stuff in the scene from playing till the transition was finished

[fossil wyvern]

so if I understand well, the _T scenes have something that plays for 9 seconds, and at the end of those 9 seconds, you want them to switch to the "actual" scenes, right?

[vale lava]

no no the _T scenes have filler in them and the actual scenes have some animations in them that need to play after the transition is over

what happens normally without the _T Scenes is that the Animations play during the transition it self

with the _T scenes it adds a buffer that stops the animations from playing during but the switch between the _Ts and actual scenes isnt seamless

can i add videos here ?

[fossil wyvern]

the animations themselves, what kind of sources are they, media sources?

[vale lava]

yep

webm files

[fossil wyvern]

ok, and so basically what you want to happen is that when you switch to a scene, nothing happens during 9 seconds, and after 9 seconds, the animations start playing?

[vale lava]

yup

[fossil wyvern]

but the scene (or at least part of it) will still be visible during those 9 seconds, right?

[vale lava]

its visible at like at 8.5 seconds when the reveal happens

[fossil wyvern]

but you don't want the animation to start playing at the 8.5 second mark?

[vale lava]

yup

its a reveal from the mid

and the animations happen at the edges

so it needs to happen after 9seconds

[fossil wyvern]

ouki, gimme 5 I'll show you a macro, and you'll tell me if it's as you want it to be

[vale lava]

roger

oh no gifs

[fossil wyvern]

this will basically restart your media source when you have spent 9 seconds on the scene.
The idea is to ditch the _T scene, just click on the scene to transition to it, and when the transition is finished, the media source will start playing from its start

try this, tell me if it looks good

if the media source actually needs to be hidden before that 9 second mark, you can also do that with a macro

[vale lava]

roger

let me try

is this right ?

[fossil wyvern]

seems like it except the time, why did you put it at 10 seconds?

(I mean, best way to check is to try it and then change it so it's seamless)

[vale lava]

9 seconds was cutting it off again

[fossil wyvern]

so, like the animation was already started when the transition finished?

[vale lava]

also its looping the start over and over

sec

its like this

[fossil wyvern]

oh yeah, also put "for exactly", not "no time constraint"

[vale lava]

sec

that worked !

perfectly

[fossil wyvern]

👍

now to copy that for every single scene

[vale lava]

thnx

[fossil wyvern]

also you probably want to fine tune the time if 9 seconds isn't cutting it right

[vale lava]

2 more help

smol ones

yea i changed it to 8.5

8.5 was perfect

where can i learn more about this plugin ? any videos ?

and do u know how to change OBS Scene Font Size i remember i did it before i forgot how

[fossil wyvern]

it does have a wiki though it's not entirely complete :
https://github.com/WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher/wiki

honestly best way to learn is to fuck around and find out

but basically, it can do everything

except presumably coffee

but I'd wager it's coming soon

[vale lava]

coffee ?

[fossil wyvern]

that was supposed to be a joke, dw

[vale lava]

ah its hard to tell , people name functions over random stuff xD i thought it was some function

[fossil wyvern]

dw lmao

[vale blaze]

i dont suppose anyone knows of a clapperboard which works with obs ? or a way to mark a sync in audio ?

[vale lava]

thnx again and anything about changing font size of scene names in OBS ?

[white dune]

what do you expect said board to do in obs?

[vale lava]

i always clap after starting the recording and use that in post to fix any synch problems

[quiet bramble]

They're just an inanimate object, they don't connect electronically to OBS or anything. Any clapperboard used properly will work, or even just using your arms or 2 blocks of wood etc.

[fossil wyvern]

not that I know of, sorry

[quiet bramble]

Amazon sells dozens of them if you want a proper board, they're like $20 or so

[vale lava]

or u could jus clap like i do its free xD

[quiet bramble]

🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬

[vale lava]

thnx that helped a lot

nope

[vale lava]

like a LOT , i was struggling with this for 2 days

[quiet bramble]

It's mostly a tool for when your video footage and audio footage are recorded by different devices on different mediums and you need to synchronize them.

[vale lava]

this

[fossil wyvern]

👍 pleasure

[quiet bramble]

"Don't do that" isn't particularly helpful to someone who has a use for this.

[fossil wyvern]

"haha have you tried not having issues"

[vale lava]

@vale blaze

a bit more info is needed

welp xD if he replies we can try to help

no no i dont have the problem @vale blaze has it

[sullen yacht]

Hey guys, do you know by any chance if there's a way I could set up OBS in such a way as it automatically determines microphone input sensitivity by using the same method as Discord?

No matter what filters or VST plugins I add, I can't get it as good as when discord does it.

(this is with krisp disabled by the way)

[mortal harbor]

not sure where to post but i need help setting up game with stream avatars stream avatars po up but i cant get game capture to work can anyone help or send me a right direction have been looking everywhere all day and cant find soloution

solution

[cyan peak]

we disable that here

[dark sapphire]

trust me when I say pinging 173 thousand people won't make someone help you more quickly

[oblique yew]

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

[mortal harbor]

im sure out of those 173 thousand someone with some kind of help will answer...

[fossil wyvern]

that's not even an obs support question

[mortal harbor]

is why i said not sure if posting in right spot.,.....

[dark sapphire]

yes it is, they asked about the game capture source 😛

[dark sapphire]

and what about the other 173 thousand who don't want to be disturbed? 😛

[fossil wyvern]

oh might have misunderstood what they meant

cross that, re-reading it I have no fucking clue what they mean

[dark sapphire]

basically, the stream avatars part can be ignored

[mortal harbor]

not sure why stream avatars work as game capture in specific window but game in specific window wonnt work at same time it one or the other no both for me

or vise versa one will work or the other not both even if game capture is transparent

thank you guys for trying to help im at a loss after readin all day about it and nothing

[fossil wyvern]

you're using a vtuber, capturing it with game capture and capturing a game at the same time won't work?

[mortal harbor]

no little guys running on bottom of screen

[fossil wyvern]

oh, then no fucking clue

[mortal harbor]

when a viewer joins a little character pops up on bottom allowing them to battleroyal adn such with other viewers

lol

me either ive been watching and reading everything i can find and still no fix

[spice roost]

is there any plugin to add new browser to browser sources? or maybe a new browser source with another browser. seems like obs's one does not load css keyframes and animations

[dark sapphire]

obs 27.2 updates the browser from chrome 75 to chrome 95

it's currently in release candidate stage, meaning it's close to being ready to push to everyone

[spice roost]

cool! then is worth waiting. thank you.

[eager valley]

Hi there, I am currently using the win-capture-audio v2 plug-in and I have a question. The plug-in does not work on the Xbox party chat, when I select it to the Xbox app it won’t record it. Is there any way to fix it? Thank you for your time.

[hollow minnow]

Good morning - Are there any tools to take gif images and manipulate them in 3d space? I want to be able to move one side of a gif image along a z axis to basically fake posting it on my wall in video as a painting.

[vale vine]

StreamFX gives you 3d transform/corner pin

!streamfx

[oblique yew]

If you are looking for more information or support for the StreamFX plugin, please visit the forum resource page.

[hollow minnow]

Thank you @vale vine - This is a plugin for OBS?

[vale vine]

Yep

Andi Lippi on YouTube has a pretty good video about it

[hollow minnow]

Perfect @vale vine - Thanks a bunch 👍

[vale vine]

👍

[mortal harbor]

how does nohboard work how do i increase letter size how do i change fonts how do i properly change the layout

why is my settings tab different from the ones in all the tutorials

[mortal harbor]

please help

i can't find anything online

[mortal harbor]

also pls @ me if you respond so i come back to the chat and can answer any questions

[wary escarp]

@inner marsh have you by any chance been able to make anything else than "Stereo" for multi-output devices in Audio Midi Setup?

[inner marsh]

I don’t think so but I haven’t tried, why what’s up

[wary escarp]

I'm doing a bit of experimenting with automating the setup process

and wanted to know if it's possible to do more than 2 channels

[dark sapphire]

i think the virtual device has to be created with more channels first

blackhole for example gives you a few options

[inner marsh]

Yeah it has the option for 16 channels

But separate Dow load and install iirc

[wary escarp]

well, the HAL device can be created with more channels
the multi-output-coreaudio-thing can't, from what I can see

[dark sapphire]

Huh

[wary escarp]

perhaps it could be created from code, but didn't have success doing that with Audio Midi Setup.app at least

[wary escarp]

basically, even though our current macaudio guide says you should install 16ch blackhole, I don't think it matters since you're bottlenecked by the multi-output thing
Except if the setting on there is meaningless and it just passes through all channels, which now that I think about it I didn't test

[static abyss]

Hello, i would liike to use plugin but i use flatpak debian distro. I don't know where IS folder plugin..

In last version of Obs

[fossil wyvern]

might depend on your install exactly, but I think default should be something like ~/.var/app/com.obsproject.Studio/config/obs-studio/plugins

[static abyss]

Thanks u, that true

[pure warren]

Hey is there any easy enough to follow tutorial out there for developing an OBS plugin?

Specifically in C++. The only tutorial on YouTube I found was for making a simple webapp and pointing the webpage plugin at it, which will not work for me

[true atlas]

Hey guys!
Is there a dock with buttons to test alerts?
It's the one thing in SLOBS I miss

[harsh topaz]

Is the dock a browser url? Add a custom browser dock. If not I don't believe so.

[true atlas]

That's what I was thinking. Maybe I should ask the Streamelements doods?

[strong tulip]

That'd be the place, yeah

[true atlas]

Thanks 😉

[strong tulip]

I wouldn't be surprised if their SE.live plugin has some facility for it

[true atlas]

Yeah probs!!! Forgot they had that

[strong tulip]

But I don't personally suggest its use due to the issues it has — but check it out, your mileage may vary

[true atlas]

Uh oh. Issues?

[harsh topaz]

Wait StreamElements != SLD?

[true atlas]

But yeah I'm trying to avoid plugins that mess with the OBS UI

[harsh topaz]

He said SLD first

SE after.

Now I'm confused.

[true atlas]

Wait what?

[harsh topaz]

Streamlabs Desktop

[strong tulip]

Nobody said SLD

[harsh topaz]

StreamElements

He said SLOBS

Wrong name same product?

[strong tulip]

Yeah, but he isn't using Streamlabs alerts

[true atlas]

Oh no. I moved away from SLOBS. You just didn't read the whole thing hehe

[strong tulip]

This is a conversation carrying on from #windows-support where @true atlas already explained he switched to Streamelements

The only reason SLD was relevant to the discussion is that it has integrated alerts testing

[harsh topaz]

Ah okay. Fair didn't know it was from support channel.

Btw you can use Streamlabs Alerts without SLD. :P

[true atlas]

Yeah it's been years I've been wanting stuff like, auto-repeat alerts and auto-type in chat to set up alerts and chat.
Instead of having to go click test and type in chat every change I make.

Unbelievable that nobody solved it yet.

I can't be the only one who needs this lol

[strong tulip]

I mean, the whole idea is that you test the alerts once and then not again, so there's little impetus for anybody to make such a plugin

[true atlas]

How about changing alerts for yearly events like halloween, xmas

Testing new ones for giveaways

Shoutouts

Or if you run a live podcast and you need to mess with them constantly because guests, events

[strong tulip]

Again, you have to set them up in Streamelements anyway, so you'd test it there

[harsh topaz]

That's a minority thing.

If you change that many alerts on a regular basis where pressing a button is a headache :p

[strong tulip]

At any rate, you'll want to ask the Streamelements folks

They may have some tool

[harsh topaz]

True

[true atlas]

I get it. But even the one time setup is already so painful the way it is...
Or in cases like me where I mod for X number of people and I have to re-do THEIR alerts and overlays... 😦

But yeah thanks guys! I'll poke SE people 🙂

[strong tulip]

This may help

!sehelp

[oblique yew]

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[strong tulip]

link to their Discord :)

[harsh topaz]

Fair enough. If you manage multiple channels and their alerts for a living I can see it being beneficial.

Unfortunately minority aswell.

[true atlas]

Yeah. Thanks again fellas!

[pure warren]

Anyone?

[harsh topaz]

#development

[pure warren]

Thought this was the dev category but aight

[jovial fjord]

What's a good but simple plugin to show the title and artist of a song that's playing? I primarily use Firefox and music.youtube.com

[vagrant minnow]

I believe you're looking for Tuna.

[mortal harbor]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/infowriter.345/

idk how to set this up

any help

?

[harsh topaz]

Not at a pc atm, memory little foggy. I believe you install it. Add a infowriter source anywhere. Go set a hotkey under hotkeys.

I do remember it being a little janky to get to work properly though. I never got to use it for it's intended purpose.

[stark ocean]

I'm using advanced scene switcher to automate some video loop scenes but its not working correctly. I have grouped several scenes together with similar aesthetic into several groups and I want to be able to trigger the sequence by switching to a scene and after a certain amount of time, to then switch to play all the scenes listed in the group. But when I set up the sequence and start the scene switcher, my trigger scene will only transition to the first scene inside the group. It won't play the remaining scenes in my group - they are supposed to play in chronological order. What am i doing wrong?

Or is it not possible to have a individual scene trigger an entire group?

For example, these are all the scenes located in one of my aforementioned groups shown above.

[true atlas]

Hey guys!
Is there a way to make a source show/hide following another source?
For example, I have a PNG file acting as a drop shadow for a nested scene.
But sometimes I'm in a scene and the nested scene is not up so you can just see the black square there...

[quiet bramble]

Use OBS Shaderfilter to do drop shadow instead of faking it. 🙂

[true atlas]

Dude no

That's not an answer. And, doesn't work for this anyway because the shaderfilter gets cut off by the scene size

[quiet bramble]

Well the answer to your exact question is "no there isn't a way".

[true atlas]

Oof.

Wait a minute. I'm being dumb. I could put the shadow in a nested scene with the source

[quiet bramble]

But, that's not a useful actionable answer for you to get what you really want though. So, another way to look at it is what is the underlying real problem you want to solve, and instead of having a pre-determined solution, to look at other solutions that get the desired end result.

(also known as an X-Y problem)

[true atlas]

Hmmm no I can't do nested here either because that'll mess up animations. Hmmm Hmmm.

[quiet bramble]

You can group things together in OBS Groups (not recommended due to bugs), or nested scenes, and whatever you do to the scene happens as a collective action. But for the purpose of applying a drop shadow to anything in OBS, the best most efficient way to do that is with a pixel shader. Shaderfilter has 2 different drop shadow shaders that work well, but it's also possible to make custom solutions too. There are some other hack ways to do it but none are really as efficient as a shader.

[true atlas]

Yeah I'm avoiding the groups, found that out the hard way...

[quiet bramble]

These kind of problems are often solveable by re-envisioning how to lay out scenes in a more layered manner including filters etc.

[true atlas]

Yeah ok, let's see. I'll illustrate better

[quiet bramble]

Source Mirror filter from StreamFX can help to reduce excessive nested scenes sometimes also

[true atlas]

Yeah that one is a LIFESAVER, using it a lot

So this is the chatting scene with the shadow, right

The problem with nesting here is, the game that's gonna be on top of that, gets animated back to full screen when I switch back to gaming

[quiet bramble]

Not sure your exact usage scenario but one possible idea is to have a bunch of sources in one setup/meta scene, with a drop shadow shader applied to the scene itself, and one source visible in the scene. In the presentation scene nest the meta-scene, and use Exeldro's plugin that lets you activate sources like radio buttons... I forget the name of the plugin... Source Chooser or something like that

[true atlas]

If I nest that into a bigger scene to have the shadow in there, it'll be an issue when the game gets back to fullscreen... Unless.... I make the scene larger than 1920x1080 to accomodate the shadow?

And yeah what you're mentioning is called source toggler. I wish I'd seen that before just now... Lol I have buttons in the streamdeck turning a LOT of stuff off that I wouldn't have to if I knew that was a thing.

[quiet bramble]

If the game is the inset and you have a shadow on it when inset, and you want to switch it fullscreen without a shadow, then have the game in a scene by itself with the shadow on it, sized so it is visible, and a copy of that without the shadow, and switch between them, or alternatively animate the property using Move Value from move-transition plugin to toggle the filter off when going full screen

[true atlas]

See but that's what I'm saying. If the game scene is larger than 1080p I don't even need to turn the shadow off, right?

But there's another problem with that. I have a shader there that's doing the rounded corners

[quiet bramble]

Yeah, over time you can come up with ideas and try to figure out how to do them and pull it off, but there might be easier ways to do it with other plugins/scripts etc. So along the journey you keep discovering new plugins, tools, scripts, ideas, and adding them to the mental toolbox so to speak, then from time to time, redesigning past designs to use better tools from the mental toolbox, improving efficiency, reducing complexity etc. And there are always new things coming out too... 🙂

Well, if the shadow is not visible it is optimal to turn it off anyway as it's just burning some GPU cycles even if it is only a small amount.

[true atlas]

So when things go fullscreen, I have actions in the buttons turning off the rounded corners

But

If I did the bigger-than-1080 idea

Now the rounded corners are considering the scene INCLUDING the shadow, right

[quiet bramble]

Are you just toggling it full screen, or animating it with move-transition?

[true atlas]

So it'd mess up the shadow anyway

Move-transition.

[quiet bramble]

Yeah, I'd just transition the shadow out or toggle it off when full, to not waste cycles.

[true atlas]

The other problem too, is I have the game scene set up in a way so as to toggle between ultrawide and HD games, which changes its size. So THIS is a compelling reason to go shader because the shader will adjust

[quiet bramble]

yep

[true atlas]

If it's on "Wide" mode, it's like this

[quiet bramble]

From an optimization standpoint, having pre-rendered content is more optimal than generating it live if it can solve the given problem. For example, someone has a background image for their greenscreen but wants to blur it. Someone might use a StreamFX gaussian blur. But that background isn't moving or changing, and gaussian blur burns GPU heavily depending on how much blur it is, repeating it over and over on some input that isn't changing. Much better to do that in GIMP and save the image and use the blurred image as static background. Just one example of pre-rendering static content/fx than doing it live.

But, if the content being affected is dynamic and the filter/FX would then also be dynamic due to varied input, including things like animation with move-transition etc., then using filters/shaders can keep it dynamic, but you can look for ways to optimize that too to have least impact on runtime performance.

[true atlas]

Yeah that's one big reason I tend to go PNG file style

Also when I first set this stuff up, it was the only way to do most things

I had fullscreen animations I made in AE even

[quiet bramble]

Also, for certain dynamic content, prerendering can be more optimal also, such as having a background video loop and wanting to say... blur it... best done in a video editor and pre-rendering the blur. But people will sometimes again use runtime blur in OBS and murder their GPU 🙂

[true atlas]

I switched to SLOBS a while back and didn't really change my overlays since, so I'm now catching up on what's been released for the real OBS as I quit Streamlabs. Turns out it's a LOT easier now 🙂

[quiet bramble]

Lots of little ways to optimize stuff.

[true atlas]

I'm not super worried about resource usage cuz I'm on 3950X+3090 but still, no point in making 'em sweat more than they have to

[quiet bramble]

yep, what isn't overburdening in one use case can be in another. Such as playing some new game that totally annihilates a GPU for example

[true atlas]

Hahahaha like New World?

[quiet bramble]

Wouldn't want some drop shadow or blur filter that isn't visible dropping the game frame rate from 60 to 50 🙂

😛

[true atlas]

Ok so, here's what I'm thinking, right.
The shader can't expand beyond the source I'm applying it to.

But what if there was a way to apply the shader to the parent scene and make it only shade one source?

This way the shader has the parent scene's size to work with that's outside the source we're trying to shade

[quiet bramble]

Blur and SDF can be particularly heavy, especially the way most people use them. Blur in particular should be using dual-filter in most cases to use least GPU and it works great, otherwise Box Linear. And to further reduce GPU usage one can add a downscale filter in front of the source to be blurred dropping it to one half/third/quarter resolution, and an upscale back to canvas size after the blur.

[untold jay]

@true atlas you seem to be forgetting that the crop/pad filter has the word "pad" in it

[quiet bramble]

Any filter applied to a source or scene will affect the entire source or composited scene.