Feature request: start streaming while the stream preview is activated

[Rice]

I have posted this in a different thread where Jim said that he fixed the 1080p streaming with the Elgato Game Capture HD. Here is a copy/paste of that post which explains what i mean:

I tested it today, and yes, it finally works! That's good news! Thanks for that Jim, awesome. Now i can leave Xsplit and finally get back to OBS. Because OBS doesn't have this strange syncing issue which Xsplit has at the moment.

One more fix for this version of OBS would make it beat Xsplit in a big way: Starting and stopping streaming and recording, while the capture device is allready started up. This isn't the case at the moment. So for example when i want to start streaming to Twitch, i hit the 'Start Streaming' button. What happens then, is that the Elgato Capture HD would start up, causing it to show the: 'please wait' screen. I don't want this to happen, because then every thumbnail in Twitch would be: 'Please wait'. It would be better if you could start streaming when you actually fired everything up using the preview stream button. Do you think that is possible? So that everything is started up allready and you are able to preview everything, and start streaming after that? That would be a big fix and i don't think it would be too difficult to program.

 

[Lain]

Already in the multiplatform rewrite -- preview is always on there. Just needs other features to catch up with the current windows version, and then ultimately replace it entirely.

 

[Rice]

Sounds good Jim! Good job. Good to know that there is a version comming with all these nice little fixes.

Any chance of this little feature getting into a new version of the current OBS? Or do i just need to be a little more patient :)