Disabling Recording

[Martin_H]

Is it possible to disable recording and ideally remove or hide the Start Recording button from the onscreen Controls menu?

The reason I want to do this is that I am streaming church services on a very low-spec PC which handles the streaming fine but grinds to a crawl if recording is started – it typically causes a 5 to 6 minute delay in the actual streaming!

We have no need for recording, everything is streamed to FaceBook and YouTube so copies can be downloaded from either of those.

The PC is in the church sacristy and streaming is started by various people. On a couple of occasions, they have accidentally clicked Start record causing the slowdown problem; removing it would prevent that.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Not that I'm aware of... but don't my comment as authoritative on this

What I use is plugin Advanced Scene Switcher, so that both start up and an ending fade to black "Go in Peace" sequence is automated. So, to avoid volunteer (inattentive or somewhat untrained) 'oops', I'd consider automation to bypass the issue (what I did anyway)
One option (I haven't checked/tested this, I'll leave that to you as I'm not in front of an OBS system) might be to plug in a USB stick, config OBS to record to the USB drive, then remove USB drive? Would that cause an issue and prevent recording?? [at least enough to remind volunteer of their oops?

Further, assuming your OBS settings are common (default?) to record using same settings as stream, then CPU/GPU impact to add Recording to an existing Stream is negligible. IN which case, if you are having significant performance impact, then most likely you have a HDD vs SSD. With current pricing, I'd suggest getting a SSD as they are 'relatively' cheap at the moment. Not for OBS, but my primary VMware Workstation PC is over 10 yrs old (with multiple SSDs).. works fine for me, even running up to 4 Win10 VMs at same time, as I'm not a gamer and the only thing the system is too slow for is photo/video editing.

Also, I like having a local recording (wedding, funeral, baptism, etc) as CDN (YouTube, FaceBook, etc) HIGHLY compress video. A locally recorded video will be MUCH higher quality, so better for sharing with family, or marketing snippets, etc. Then just move the recording to an archive hard drive (also cheap) as needed