How can I detect a black/empty source and display a place holder?

[Prukotar]

Hello,

I'm looking for a solution to detect if a source is blank (for example fully black) and display another source, if this is the case. Is there any configuration option to do so? There are many sources that might be blank (for example a camera capture, where the camera is shut down) or a game capture, where the game is not running. Some sources are resizing to 0x0 pixels and I can place something behind them. But others like the camera capture via Elgato Cam Link Pro will not.

I'm NOT having trouble with my sources, I just want to make my stream look better.

Regards

 

[Suslik V]

The Advanced Scene Switcher plugin has a lot of conditions and sometimes can help with automation:
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/advanced-scene-switcher.395/

 

[Prukotar]

Hey thank. Looks like a neat plugin. I studied every aspect of the conditions inside a macro and cannot find any solution to detect a blanked source. Are I'm missing something?

 

[Suslik V]

I studied every aspect of the conditions inside a macro and cannot find any solution to detect a blanked source...

The "Video" condition from the mentioned plugin.

 

[Prukotar]

Hey, thank you. I did not mention this condition. Works like a charm! I noticed something: If you want to analyse video data and want to activate/disable sources regarding to this result this does not work, if you analyse the video, that is disabled of a condition meets. I used a source clone as my final output and analyse the original camera feed. So the condition only disables the source clone and never the original camera source.