Question / Help How do I ... Capture a scene from several different chrome tabs at the same time?

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series0

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This seems rather obvious as a needed thing. I can certainly have separate processes for the feed to attach the window capture to, but, the main pulldown in window capture does not list all of them. Is it only ever possible to get what is currently focused? That seems insanely limited.
 
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series0

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Maybe I am asking this question wrong.

If I have Chrome open with the usual 112 tabs open, I want OBS to be dealing with only 1 tab. How do I do that? It needs to have the name or address or <whatever the proper term is> of the specific tab and stay the hell on recording THAT tab even when I myself choose another tab.

Further, it needs to have the ability to be recording what is on either several instances of a browser, or differnet tabs of a browser at the same time. If it does have that ability, how do I do that? If it doesn't, then please tell me so.
 
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Osiris

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OBS cannot capture a single tab, it captures the window, it has no idea about tabs inside Chrome.
 
alexitx

alexitx

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If you want to capture specific page, then you can open it in a separate window (or drag the tab out). You can still work in your "main" window with all the other tabs open at once.
 
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MrBlobby

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series0 said:
This seems rather obvious as a needed thing. I can certainly have separate processes for the feed to attach the window capture to, but, the main pulldown in window capture does not list all of them. Is it only ever possible to get what is currently focused? That seems insanely limited.
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FWIW I posted about this yesterday, and since have done some experiments. Your post is quite old, and I guess OBS has been reorganised since then. But the basic problem remains I think. Maybe there is a plugin that can help.

Browser (actually Brave, but Brave is a fork of Chrome): Version 1.67.134 Chromium: 126.0.6478.186 (Official Build) (arm64)
OS: macos Sonoma 14.5 (23F79)
OBS Studio: 30.2.1
Handbrake: 1.8.1

I opened a couple of youtube pages and had each one in a separate window. I could capture each window separately, but I could not separate the audio tracks.

Next I opened one youtube tab in Brave and another in Safari. I set up a scene with 2 "macOS Screen Capture" sources, one for each YT video. I set one tab to record to audio track 1, and the other to record to audio track 2. I then played each YT vid and captured 10 seconds.

I loaded the output file into Handbrake and processed it twice. Once with Audio Track 0 only and the other time with Audio Track 1 only. This time the output files had different audio tracks, one per browser tab. Handbrake will do video cropping too.

To do:

Check two Safari tabs to see if audio can be separated.
If so, prove that I can attach a macOS Screen Capture source to each tab and record both, even if both are not visible. but not minimised.
 
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