Add "Blackout" button/hotkey

[MARIANCE]

I was wondering why we don't have a Blackout button or hotkey, it would be extremely useful, IDK if there is any plugin. It's basically a panic button or just a faster way to turn the stream black AND mute all sound.... Just in case something unexpected happens on stream and we want to turn the screen black instead of stoping the stream. And yes you can create a black screen and put every mute hotkey on a key, but that can be conflicting

 

[CarcinogenSDA]

Create a completely black source with nothing on it.

 

[MARIANCE]

Create a completely black source with nothing on it.

Yes, that's what I pointed out, but it doesnt mute the sound. And rather that creating a hotkey, I would prefer simply a "blackout" hotkey that mutes and turns the stream black.

Btw, you're the real Carcinogen? I watch your streams a lot, lol.

 

[CarcinogenSDA]

Yeah hi lmao

Sorry I forgot that most people tend to just leave the Global Audio Devices as per the OBS defaults. Let me reiterate. It DOES mute the sound if you disable every audio device in your OBS Settings and only add them as individual sources within your scenes. That way when you shift Scenes, the sources simply are not on the current scene, so OBS just shuts them all down. I prefer to set OBS audio up this way so that I have tighter control over what audio is and isn't allowed on certain scenes.

So, if you set up a black scene with nothing on it (you've probably seen me do this from my transition from fanart slideshow to my intro video) it will deactivate everything with one button press. It will always take a second for every source from the previous scene to deactivate, but the visual effect is pretty immediate. I have a completely blank Scene with only the device I output Foobar to for capture, so I can fade the music out manually using that Scene + Fade Transition. Pain in the ass but better than nothing.