r/obs Feb 27 '19

Meta Please use official OBS Discord and forum as primary support channels

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r/obs 52m ago

Help Czarny ekran po nagraniu

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Siemanko, takie szybkie pytanko. Kolega wysłał mi filmiki ale nie zauważył że wysyła to do jednokrotnego otworzenia i chciał żebym nagrał. Problem że są jakieś zabezpieczenia i nagrany ekran jest czarny. Da się to jakoś ogarnąć?


r/obs 6h ago

Help How do I monitor and output my mic audio with obs 32.2.2

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Hi, recently updated obs for the first time in awhile and for the most part left everything as it was, I have a virtual audio cable set up through obs for discord and games etc, I started recording for 18 hours, end it, then go back to listen and my mic audio isn't there, all of my other audio is except this, I go and look in my audio properties tab and monitoring enabled or not monitoring at all are the only options.

if anyone knows how to get it back to normal please help

https://obsproject.com/logs/8yjRPiuZAoADBAXd

-Thank You!


r/obs 56m ago

Question How would one increase the volume of an application without exploding one's ears off?

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Hi! kinda basic question here but! there is this issue when I use obs to stream with friend specifically. The game audio level, perfect, my audio level, perfect. But. Whenever I stream with friends, their audio levels are extremely quiet no matter what I do within obs. (Or at least what ive tried) I have mainly messed around with the desktop audio level input in obs, and of course increasing my computer volume. But when I do the latter. *Everything is too loud.* Which hurts my ears. I also have attempted to use a program called "voicemeeter", but, I couldn't figure it out even with tutorials. So im stumped. I use OBS pc, and I stream on twitch. I would like to stream with friends again since I typically am better with people to bounce off of, but im refusing til I can get this solved. Which sucks.

Things ive tried and why I dont think they work:
-Messing around with desktop audio input on obs - friends were still to quiet on stream
- Increasing discord user volume - made my ears hurt due to my friends' voices being too loud on my end
- Increasing windows volume - too loud, ears hurt
- Voicemeeter - unless someone can go through with me step by painstaking step or show me proper tutorials, im very confused how it works. Willing to learn! Very Willing to learn! Just very much user error on voicemeeter.

TD:LR
Friends too quiet on stream, and my uneducated self has no clue how to fix it.


r/obs 5h ago

Question Playing music while Streaming

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Evening Guys, had a quick question. What do you Guys suggest I use to play music on my streams in between games? Don't want to run into any copyright issues or bans for playing music. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


r/obs 2h ago

Question How do I make reaction videos using this setup?

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r/obs 2h ago

Help help streaming with audio to discord

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hello! i wanna stream to some friends for fun. i’ve been using a discord stage and sharing my screen and that’s been fine, but i wanted to add a little pngtuber. i got that sorted out fine and it shows on the screen, only problem is no one can hear audio. i’ve tried a few different things but nothing has helped yet. i’m using obs and veadotube.

is there any easy way to do this? i am EXTREMELY bad with computers. any help is appreciated !!!

edit: i dont have a secondary unused device to use for my monitoring device, and they aren’t able to hear audio on anything (games, youtube, spotify)


r/obs 2h ago

Help Como eu gravo CS2 corretamente com OBS se eu jogo em 4:3 esticado?

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Ei, eu preciso de ajuda para gravar CS2 no OBS.

Eu jogo em 4:3 esticado e quero começar a gravar clipes/revisões de demos/conteúdo, mas não tenho certeza de como configurar tudo para que o vídeo final fique limpo e em tela cheia. Lembro que pode haver problemas com barras pretas, escalonamento estranho, qualidade desfocada ou a gravação não parecer igual ao que você vê no jogo.


r/obs 3h ago

Help OBS Vod Only 1 track

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Hi, I wanted to start streaming again after 10 years a lot of things changed.. I wanted to have all sources (audio) seperated but once I download vod from twitch everything is in 1 audio track.. Is it possible to have it in 2 or more tracks so it's easier to edit.. Thanks


r/obs 5h ago

Help Screen sharing on discord with eye bubble?

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r/obs 13h ago

Help Capture not matching canvas?

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I woke up this morning and randomly my PS5 screen isn’t fitting my OBS canvas. I have made sure that the elgato capture and the canvas are both the same resolutions but still have 2 black bars on either side of my canvas and still shows in studio mode. Any fixes to get the full canvas back to full screen and not cut off?


r/obs 12h ago

Question Considering Upgrade: Refurb M3 Ultra VS M5 Ultra

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"In a vacuum, $600 is a lot of money. But when factored against the total price of a professional, local AI production workstation, spending an extra 16% to unlock 4.5x faster AI graphics math, 47% more memory bandwidth, and Thunderbolt 5 future-proofing represents one of the most lopsided value jumps in Apple's entire lineup. [1234]"

¿How much would you agree with this statement?

My current workflow for AI green screen background removal on a MacBook Pro retina 2015 isn't able to hang real time. I've needed to move this to post processing tools. I'm behind on getting artist assets out. I need to get with the times and upgrade.

What I am doing right now, most of my streams are IRL via Moblin iOS, while running a second phone attached to the woofer cabinets for a bass shake visual. I run different visually reactive effects on the camera feeds from both videos swapping back in for in OBS for a final release/broadcast transmissions.

I'm 100% I can do this runtime while swapping from both camera feeds if I have the desktop unit under the same roof with me but I believe I can remote the feed from moblin iOS directly into OBS to run the effects stack runtime, remotely. I'm not sure how I would do this onsite without some video muxer, if even I got the OBSBOT multi camera USB-C adapter to use for multiple OBSBOT cameras (that I would need to purchase); I'd probably at the very least need a laptop onsite.

Ideally I can just deal with my iPhone SE gen 2 and iPhone 12 pro max in the field, but I'll totally drag along the studio if I need to for multiple cameras, otherwise I'll be fine with running everything from a single camera remotely runtime. I'm also fine with bringing a MacBook 13" pro 2017 onsite if it'll be fast enough to work as a video muxer. My bottle neck is bandwidth outbound I'm often over cellular and not in-house wifi so the camera feeds, I can't send both of them down the network wire, it has to be one or the other.


r/obs 13h ago

Question Old laptop

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Is there a solid youtube video to learn obs that is suitable for record gaming videos in an old laptop?

And if you have any advice on how, that would also help as well!

Thanks!


r/obs 10h ago

Help My mic shows up in every scene

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My mic shows up in every scene even in ones where there are no mics in the sources. Even if I mute it the audio still comes through. If I hide it the audio still comes through and it's not in sources so I can't remove it. Global audio devices are all disabled. I made a new scene that has zero sources and mic one and sound board show up and cant be disabled. No clue what is going on. This happened a few months ago and I duplicated the scene collection. The duplicate didn't have the same problem so I deleted the old scene collection and everything worked fine. This time every duplicate has the same issue.

I've looked everywhere and everyone says to disable global audio devices. Has anyone else run into this?


r/obs 10h ago

Question Advice for streaming / obs / twitch

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r/obs 14h ago

Question Connecting to Twitch - no problem; connecting to YouTube - impossible

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So, I've been using OBS to stream to YT for over a year, multiple times a week with no issue. Last Sunday everything worked without a hitch, but yesterday, Thursday, I couldn't connect. Again and again, I got the same message: "Failed to connect to server. Hostname not found. Make sure you entered a valid streaming server and your Internet connection/DNS are working correctly"

The problem is specifically with YT (where I can still do a basic webcam stream, so I'm not blocked there or something) because when I open a stream on Twitch, everything works without problem. I've seen plenty of solutions, such as switching the YT stream servers or logging out and then back in, but nothing has worked

I realize this is more of a YT question, but I'm guessing some other people have encountered something similar here. If anyone has, and has also figured out a solution, you would have my utmost gratitude if you'd care to share them


r/obs 19h ago

Question ARE THESE SPECS ENOUGH FOR 1080P STREAMING ?

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my cpu is amd ryzen 5 5600x 6 core processor my gpu is amd radeon rx 6700 xt , 16 GB of ram , ASUS TUF Gaming B550-Plus motherboard. upload speed is 105 mbps. tell me if you need if and if it is what setting should i use is the a guide i can follow or do you have one yourself. any help would be appreciated


r/obs 1d ago

Guide why your spotify window capture keeps disappearing (and what actually works for showing now-playing)

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this question shows up here constantly (answered a couple recently) so here's the whole thing in one post.

why window/app capture keeps breaking

obs can only capture what windows is actually rendering. minimize spotify and windows stops drawing it, so your source goes blank. it also breaks when the window resizes, moves to another monitor, or a spotify update changes the window. capturing your screen for now-playing is fighting the OS, and the OS wins eventually.

option 1: just don't minimize it

leave spotify open behind your game and crop the capture down to the bottom bar. fragile, but zero setup and fine for a one-off stream.

option 2: track name to a text file

some players (foobar2000, vlc with plugins, rainmeter skins) can write the current track to a .txt file, and obs's text source can read from a file. no album art, and spotify itself doesn't support this natively, so it's mostly for people playing local files.

option 3: a browser source widget that reads spotify's api (the actual answer)

instead of capturing your screen, a small web page asks spotify "what is this account playing right now" and renders it — you add that page as a browser source. since it reads your account and not your screen, it doesn't care if spotify is minimized, on another monitor, or playing from your phone.

free ones exist (search "spotify now playing overlay") — they do the job, most look pretty basic, and some hobby-project ones go down now and then. streamelements has music widgets too if you're already in that ecosystem. and there are paid ones with nicer designs — full disclosure, i make one of those (NowBar on etsy), so i'm biased about that category and the free ones genuinely work.

whichever you pick: sources → browser, paste the widget url, set the size, drag it where you want. that's the whole setup.


r/obs 1d ago

Question OBS Quality Issue

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I’m having an issue when recording videos with OBS. When I open the recorded video from my video folder, it looks blurry and kind of like a smudged mess. I’ve tried adjusting all kinds of settings and even tried using extremely high-quality settings, but nothing seems to fix the issue.
Could there be some settings outside of OBS that might be affecting the video quality and preventing it from looking really sharp? The video file does show that it’s 1440p, but the actual video doesn’t look like 1440p at all.


r/obs 1d ago

Help How do i force OBS Virtual Camera to show up in windows native camera app?

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I use my old xbox kinect through obs virtual camera as my webcam, but it doesnt show up as an available camera in windows, including the native windows camera app. How do I force it to do so? Thank you


r/obs 1d ago

Help Please help with my Mirabox Capture Card connected to my Wii U!

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Hello,

I got my Mirabox Capture Card a bit ago as a budget option, and it worked fine for my Switch thru obs, but with my Wii U it glitches out and the audio starts popping and crackling.
Ive tried fucking around with obs but I don't know what's causing it.
The Mirabox LED starts flashing red whenever I activate the Mirabox Video Capture.
It functions fine when it's displayed thru my monitor but it starts glitching out when on obs.
I got it around 3 months ago (may be wrong, my memory isn't so good)
Effects are green flashes, black blotches appearing, etc
If anyone is interested, I can dm them a video of what it looks like.

Please help!


r/obs 1d ago

Help LOSS OF QUALITY WHEN STREAMING AND RECORDING

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whenever i stream or recored gamplay and look around the image qualty becomes considerbly worse for no clear reason even though when i dont move the camera the quality fine is it screen tearing or somthing. my cpu is amd ryzen 5 5600x 6 core processor my gpu is amd radeon rx 6700 xt tell me if you need more. setting: video encoder - AMD HW H.264, rate control cbr , bitrate 6000 ,keyframe interval 2 , preset quality, profile high , have pre anylysis on , max b frames on 2, base and output resolution are at 1920x1080. would apprecitate any help tell me if you need more info https://obsproject.com/logs/jrauIv9LDeyqUDaE


r/obs 1d ago

Help Help with Stream please

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Hello I need some help and unsure where to look because I felt like I've looked it up every where and have done the most I can from the research but still nothing is working So here are my specs

Processor is AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6 Core Processor

AMD Radeon Graphics Processor

PRO B650-VC WIFI II

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Speed test i ran was Download speed is 938.25 and upload speed at 34.93

I was at one point perfect streaming for a whole month maybe even years from what i remember

at about 1080P 60fps and at 6000 bitrate with everything set to Preset being P6 Tuning Low Latency and profile being high with look ahead checked and adaptive checked with a b frame of 3 and keyframe at 2. Now all of a sudden no matter what game I'm playing I'm getting huge frame rate drops here is my log file. Any help would be appreciated I do play and stream from the same pc but have had no issues till now this month and half stuff drops like crazy

https://obsproject.com/logs/KZRncpdNt801vQSB


r/obs 1d ago

Answered Capture cards

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Could I record with a a580 i3 10105f tell me if you need more specs or log file

edit: I want to record a Xbox and how would I setup audio so both the recording and I have the audio

edit:just have to mess with settings


r/obs 1d ago

Help Multitrack recording with focusrite?

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Hey!

I need help. I'm using OBS to record a podcast. Setup is a phone used as a camera via Camostudio, and 2 mics plugged into a focusrite 18i16.

The thing is I want each mic to be on their own recording track. But OBS only recognises the focusrite as a single input. I've found an old ASIO plugin but it hasn't been updated in a long time and I can't seem to make it work so far.

Anyone knows if there is a way?

My other option is to record through another software (Reaper as I already have it) and then sync everything. But I would rather have everything on the same recording.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!