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Hi, I’m on the latest build and I’m having trouble getting consistent nitrates using the Mac Hardware Encoder. I’ve limited the bitrate to 2800kbps, but it’s still regularly spiking to over 6000kbps. I know this particular encoder has been troublesome in the past, but I need to use it on an...

Hi. I'm using OBS 25.0.8 on a Mac. I am using a Samson Q2U going into my Mac via a USB cable, and I've got headphones plugged directly into the SamsonQ2U. I am able to record properly, audio sounds great. But at all times I have doubled audio in my monitoring headphones. Hoping someone can help...

so whenever i have obs open, whether im streaming or not, it lags down my laptop way too much, that its nearly hard to function. another problem is that i usually connect my phone to my laptop, then show that screen on quicktime, which i connect to obs, which will be streamed to twitch. this...

Having some problems with streaming. The camera video is totally fine as well as the audio. The problem is window capture - it freezes and is shown not smoothly, but in leaps. The captured app is Notion.Tried to play with settings - never gets better. It also doesn't depend on whether I'm live...

I am very new to using OBS, however, I have background in audio work. I was looking to use a VST2 plugin to add reverb to my Mic, however, when I click add filter, it prompts me to choose a filter type. On PC I usually can see a VST 2.x type, however, this does not appear on my MacBook Air...

There's a strange glitch happening with OBS for Mac when it's compiled with the famous StreamFX plugin. Basically, the about menu option of the plugin hijacks the OBS about menu on macOS. While most likely not an issue with OBS for Mac, we're looking for mac developers who'd like to take a look...

Hi, I have an Avermedia C875 that my Macbook Pro (High Sierra 10.13.6) recognizes in the application RecCentral. BUT OBS does not recognize the Avermedia. I mean when I want to had a video source, OBS only recognizes my webcam, but not the video coming from my Switch or any console. Please help!

Here is the situation: I have a mbp and a pc ,both have the latest obs, NDI plugin, and NDI runtime installed, as well as the NDI 4 Tools. I was to use OBS on the mbp as an NDI source. NDI is configured on the tools menu of OBS on the mbp and sending correctly. Now comes the tricky part. On the...

Hey team, I've hit a wall recently in my attempts to troubleshoot this problem. I'm getting really weird and random audio and visual glitches every now and then, no clear pattern or anything to them. Basically some of the visual stuff might freeze temporarily and other times it's audio that...

I’ve never had many issues with OBS and my (older) Mac but most recently I purchased a brand new MacBook Pro and OBS is now basically unusable. I’m not computer savvy but I believe it’s an encoding issue. OBS is reporting a 95% frame drop and basically makes my streams unwatchable and...

Hello, I'm a noob in OBS and I'm trying to stream a personal event using OBS. I'm not so sure if my mac can sustain streaming up to 2 hours. I wonder if anyone here can judge it based on specs/usage report below. Streaming setting Platform: A zoom meeting with 1080p HD, expecting more than...

I’m helping my friend set up her stream to stream Call of Duty. I haven’t streamed on a Mac in over 5 years so I’m having a hard time figuring out a few problems. using the external Avermedia live capture and everything is connecting properly, even audio but the game in OBS and ReCentral are so...

I've set up hotkeys to switch scenes, but I've just noticed that while I'm on any other application, my scenes aren't switching via hotkeys. Any ideas on how to fix for this? OBS version: 25.0.8 OS: Mojave Device: Macbook Air Hotkeys: Start/End Stream: Fn + F1 "Screen" Scene: Fn + F2...

When I plug in my capture card, select it as a device I do not see it show up like in the instructions. I was wondering if i was doing something wrong or if I had just wasted a lot of money on the wrong product. If you can help me please respond. Thanks! log file...

So I work for a College TV studio, where we use OBS for streaming, recording, conference calls, etc. Our main computer is running MacOS Catalina 10.15.2 and has a dual monitor setup. It always opens on the left monitor, but whenever I try to move it to the right monitor it crashes immediately...

Good Evening, I have an iMac (HighSierra) and a Bose NC 700 headset connected. Just installed Black Hole to let OBS simultaneously capture computer music and my speaking on the mic. It works quite well. Problem is each time I start OBS it just ruins the quality of music, physically switching...

Hi OBS community, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get OBS set up to stream league of legends, and to date, no walkthrough/how-to/tutorial has illuminated this process for me. Many of the results for 'How to set up OBS to stream league on windows/OSX' are years old, and they don't...

Hi All, On OBS last version for Mac, when window capturing an Excel file and clicking a dropdown list, this dropdown list does not appear in the recording... I'm stuck doing the video because of this right now... tried different files... it's the same problem Log File Let me know Thanks M

I hope this guide can help you for OBS not showing up in the System Preference -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Screen Recording. The problem might be caused by "System Integrity Protection" being disabled in your computer. In order to enable it, you can check out this guide...

Hi there, I have a mac OS of 10.12 and from the github notes, it says that the OBS 25.0.4 version is the last working version with the OS that I have but all of the download links on github shown are for windows. Is there a way I can get the dmg download link for mac OBS 25.0.4? Thanks! -Brian