Local Recordings With OBS (With Comparisons to Fraps)
Here is a good comparison of OBS with Fraps, but more importantly has some advice I've never seen before for folks only recording and not streaming - namely, the suggestion to change the preset in Advanced Settings to "Ultrafast" to save on CPU resources for recording purposes.
Settings guide: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/
h/t to Marshall Dyer at https://plus.google.com/115983072744270454907/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f16FG_B2zpk&feature=share
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Lower Your CPU Usage in OBS Streams and Recordings
Lower Your CPU Usage in OBS Streams and Recordings
This video shows how to lower your CPU "hit" or usage in Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), permitting an older or slower computer to stream with more headroom for running other programs, like browser windows, games or software applications.
The software used to monitor the CPU is Sysinternal's "Process Explorer" for Windows at Microsoft Technet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Load it up and click the CPU monitor to bring up a full window view. It runs in your taskbar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a274YynXRwI&feature=share
This video shows how to lower your CPU "hit" or usage in Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), permitting an older or slower computer to stream with more headroom for running other programs, like browser windows, games or software applications.
The software used to monitor the CPU is Sysinternal's "Process Explorer" for Windows at Microsoft Technet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Load it up and click the CPU monitor to bring up a full window view. It runs in your taskbar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a274YynXRwI&feature=share
Saturday, May 9, 2015
I'm Interviewing a man by the name of John Hess(from filmmakeriq.com) tonight on my YouTube channel.
I'm Interviewing a man by the name of John Hess(from filmmakeriq.com) tonight on my YouTube channel... I'm using OBS to do it. This is my first time live streaming with OBS on Linux. I hope it all goes well.
It starts at 9 CST. I'd love to see you guys there. Please let me know if there is anything that I should know before I start. :-)
It starts at 9 CST. I'd love to see you guys there. Please let me know if there is anything that I should know before I start. :-)
Friday, May 8, 2015
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Does anybody know if there are any plans to make a live green screening plug-in for OBS multi-platform?
Does anybody know if there are any plans to make a live green screening plug-in for OBS multi-platform? I would use it a lot.
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Thank you OBS developers for bringing OBS to the Linux desktop.
Thank you OBS developers for bringing OBS to the Linux desktop. It's powerful and amazing software! AND IT HASN'T EVEN LEFT ALPHA YET!!!???!!!! Just awesome.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Coming Soon:
Originally shared by Terry Leigh Britton
Coming Soon:
An Experiment in Open Mic Night style Music Performances
Using YouTube Live Events and Multiple Cameras!
I host a show called "The Blue Juice Jamboree Variety Show" on Sunday Nights. I am using YT Live because the audio AND video quality are far superior to hangouts even when hangouts are behaving.
YT Live Events are amazingly stable. I think "Open Mic" nights deserve that kind of stability. AND I do not like the Studio Mode codec that much, even when it works! Though Phil Aston did figure out how to tame it for his wife Sue Aston 's wonderful live violin shows (taming the upper-frequency stridency that Studio Mode has and controlling the peaks to be no higher than -12db), it still suffers the usual Hangout problems with video stability, and getting the voice right!
(Not to mention Studio Mode hangouts-on-air spontaneously dropping OUT of Studio Mode and back into Voice Mode, seemingly on a whim; and Voice Mode is amazingly bad sounding with music!)
One has FULL CONTROL over the sound quality using YouTube Live Events instead. To me, it is worth the extra effort required to have that quality and consistency. Unfortunately, Hangouts are still providing only an unstable and inconsistent hobbyists' tool, while YT Live Events provide us with professional tools.
Enter http://obsproject.com, a free encoding software for sending one's mic and webcam/video camera up to YouTube Live!
I'm making a video showing a minimum-installation of OBS that would enable an Open Mic night kind of event using multiple cameras feeding the same event.
YT-Live allows up to six simultaneous cameras to stream in, which the audience can select between during the show!
For the test shows, I'll schedule performers to follow each other, perhaps, but it is conceivable they could all play at once without having to wait their turn, and the audience could switch among them, and rewind to see each person in the order they want to!
(That is, though we are used to a linear presentation, a non-linear format is possible. One could even have six simultaneous linear programs still giving the audience a non-linear way to experience it!)
More info to come soon! :-)
I need some musicians who want to play with this to come forward!
I have also figured out a way to keep the social element flying, and have an audience included.
Pings out to Aaron Young Chris Sutton Hangout Records Christine DeGraff C Bret Campbell Eddie Conlon Cecilee Linke The Dead Shed Rayne Dowell Kathleen Bradshaw (Please ping others!)
http://obsproject.com
Coming Soon:
An Experiment in Open Mic Night style Music Performances
Using YouTube Live Events and Multiple Cameras!
I host a show called "The Blue Juice Jamboree Variety Show" on Sunday Nights. I am using YT Live because the audio AND video quality are far superior to hangouts even when hangouts are behaving.
YT Live Events are amazingly stable. I think "Open Mic" nights deserve that kind of stability. AND I do not like the Studio Mode codec that much, even when it works! Though Phil Aston did figure out how to tame it for his wife Sue Aston 's wonderful live violin shows (taming the upper-frequency stridency that Studio Mode has and controlling the peaks to be no higher than -12db), it still suffers the usual Hangout problems with video stability, and getting the voice right!
(Not to mention Studio Mode hangouts-on-air spontaneously dropping OUT of Studio Mode and back into Voice Mode, seemingly on a whim; and Voice Mode is amazingly bad sounding with music!)
One has FULL CONTROL over the sound quality using YouTube Live Events instead. To me, it is worth the extra effort required to have that quality and consistency. Unfortunately, Hangouts are still providing only an unstable and inconsistent hobbyists' tool, while YT Live Events provide us with professional tools.
Enter http://obsproject.com, a free encoding software for sending one's mic and webcam/video camera up to YouTube Live!
I'm making a video showing a minimum-installation of OBS that would enable an Open Mic night kind of event using multiple cameras feeding the same event.
YT-Live allows up to six simultaneous cameras to stream in, which the audience can select between during the show!
For the test shows, I'll schedule performers to follow each other, perhaps, but it is conceivable they could all play at once without having to wait their turn, and the audience could switch among them, and rewind to see each person in the order they want to!
(That is, though we are used to a linear presentation, a non-linear format is possible. One could even have six simultaneous linear programs still giving the audience a non-linear way to experience it!)
More info to come soon! :-)
I need some musicians who want to play with this to come forward!
I have also figured out a way to keep the social element flying, and have an audience included.
Pings out to Aaron Young Chris Sutton Hangout Records Christine DeGraff C Bret Campbell Eddie Conlon Cecilee Linke The Dead Shed Rayne Dowell Kathleen Bradshaw (Please ping others!)
http://obsproject.com
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