I thought I'd check out OBS and see what it has to offer, and if it's worth the switch over. After playing around with the setup and what not, I created an account and thought I'd share a few things I think could make it work really well! Sorry if I just overlooked a way to do these things to be honest I probably didn't look for information as hard as I could have if I didn't already have an xsplit license.
I noticed just by having the program up and preview open, it was skyrocketing my computers load compared to what I would see from having xsplit open (this could be because xsplit disables aero, while OBS does not). Basically the load on preview was the same as when I have games, music, streaming, and video rendering going on at the same time even with comparable settings to my xsplit stuff.
When setting up my scenes, it was simple enough to do so which was nice, however you're leaving out a lot of customization. As a league of legends player, I like to have my webcam in a certain spot on the screen, as well as have random other things placed throughout my screen such as playlists, music videos, titles etc. I feel like this is very limited in OBS unless you want to cover up an important part of your HUD. Once again, could be ignorance because I didn't read into a whole lot of stuff.
While setting up the stream, I found it kind of annoying how switching tabs in settings called up a dialogue box to save/cancel even though I hadn't left the main window. I guess it's probably personal preference, but I always like to set my stuff up quickly, then recheck and save everything at once.
Overall think you guys are doing good work, to be honest I think it's the webcam settings and stuff that took away my interest for now. Hopefully when my xsplit license is up long down the road this will be further along keep up the good work!
I noticed just by having the program up and preview open, it was skyrocketing my computers load compared to what I would see from having xsplit open (this could be because xsplit disables aero, while OBS does not). Basically the load on preview was the same as when I have games, music, streaming, and video rendering going on at the same time even with comparable settings to my xsplit stuff.
When setting up my scenes, it was simple enough to do so which was nice, however you're leaving out a lot of customization. As a league of legends player, I like to have my webcam in a certain spot on the screen, as well as have random other things placed throughout my screen such as playlists, music videos, titles etc. I feel like this is very limited in OBS unless you want to cover up an important part of your HUD. Once again, could be ignorance because I didn't read into a whole lot of stuff.
While setting up the stream, I found it kind of annoying how switching tabs in settings called up a dialogue box to save/cancel even though I hadn't left the main window. I guess it's probably personal preference, but I always like to set my stuff up quickly, then recheck and save everything at once.
Overall think you guys are doing good work, to be honest I think it's the webcam settings and stuff that took away my interest for now. Hopefully when my xsplit license is up long down the road this will be further along keep up the good work!
