Question / Help How to add "Now Playing" with VLC video source?

[MrFrenglish]

Hi

So I've recently added music to my "BRB" scene in OBS with VLC video source (vlc plugin). Everything is working as intended. Viewers can hear the music and me too. Now I would like to add the artists and name of the songs to give credits to the creators, help viewers know what songs are being played and more importantly, avoid copyright claims.

That said, I haven't found any solution on how to do it without having to open a third party software like windows media player/vlc/snip/etc.

Is there a way to easily do this? It doesn't need to be fancy. Just something to show the artist + name of the songs.
Thanks!

Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/tlZXmq_7HVrLnbIX

 

[MrFrenglish]

Bump

 

[thedarkwizard]

Hey, have u been able to solve this? I created an account just to try my luck here

 

[stone0rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIAV2QnRgfU

try watching this video ,maybe it will help.

Hey, have u been able to solve this? I created an account just to try my luck here

 

[MrFrenglish]

Nah @stone0rose This requires you to keep spotify open all the time. Thats what I meant by "not using a third part software".

I just want to install the program I need to display current songs and then open up OBS and songs are shown. So far theres seems to be nothing that does that. Guess we'll have to wait until something new comes up.

 

[BoScotty]

Hey Stone0Rose, did you ever figure this out? I've been trying to figure this out too for a while and no dice. It has to be possible.

 

[univrsal]

I don't want to get anyone's hope up too early, but I've started working on adding vlc source support to Tuna, if I don't run into too many issues I'll be able to release it sooner than later.

Spoiler: Screenshot

 

[lcatlas]

I don't want to get anyone's hope up too early, but I've started working on adding vlc source support to Tuna, if I don't run into too many issues I'll be able to release it sooner than later.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Where to donate to support it? ))

 

[univrsal]

Where to donate to support it? ))

Technically nowhere, you don't have to donate. I'll try and finish this up next week after my exams, but if you really want to you can go over here, but it's entirely optional.

 

[Sylverstone14]

I don't want to get anyone's hope up too early, but I've started working on adding vlc source support to Tuna, if I don't run into too many issues I'll be able to release it sooner than later.

Spoiler: Screenshot

I'll say that my hopes are exponentially up! Definitely my most wanted feature from Tuna.

 

[univrsal]

I'll say that my hopes are exponentially up! Definitely my most wanted feature from Tuna.

I have it practically working as I showed in the screenshot, but there's one thing I have to figure out. The process of obtaining the song information from a VLC source is not 100% safe. If any future update to the VLC source changes its internal structure, Tuna will likely crash when trying to access the information, which is why I'm trying to find out what the best way is to prevent this. Currently I have it set up to disable the VLC source option if the OBS version changed, but maybe I could also just warn the user if the version changes.

 

[Sylverstone14]

I have it practically working as I showed in the screenshot, but there's one thing I have to figure out. The process of obtaining the song information from a VLC source is not 100% safe. If any future update to the VLC source changes its internal structure, Tuna will likely crash when trying to access the information, which is why I'm trying to find out what the best way is to prevent this. Currently I have it set up to disable the VLC source option if the OBS version changed, but maybe I could also just warn the user if the version changes.

Ah, that's fair. VLC does update from time to time, so I can understand where it becomes problematic. I do appreciate the work on Tuna though, it's been a really great part of my streams.

Also slightly unrelated, but there's been the issue of having OBS crashes due to an issue with the ucrtbase.dll file, which is apparently linked to Tuna - is there a fix for that underway? Haven't been able to find anything concrete as yet, and I should be on the latest release if it's already been fixed.

Question / Help - My OBS Just crashing

sometimes without any notice sometimes it makes a window that says OBS crashed but then the stream is going without any problem soo i can ignore that :D But my problem is not fixed why do i get crashed sometimes all day runs without any problem sometimes it crashes after 30 minute soo its full...

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Question / Help - OBS crashes ramdom

Hello guys, since yesterday I had some issues with OBS Studio. It's crashes randomly, but if I don't accept the error message, OBS is still running. But I have the error message is the background. I will upload my error logs from yesterday , maybe it helps you to find out, where the error...

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[univrsal]

Ah, that's fair. VLC does update from time to time, so I can understand where it becomes problematic. I do appreciate the work on Tuna though, it's been a really great part of my streams.

Also slightly unrelated, but there's been the issue of having OBS crashes due to an issue with the ucrtbase.dll file, which is apparently linked to Tuna - is there a fix for that underway? Haven't been able to find anything concrete as yet, and I should be on the latest release if it's already been fixed.

Question / Help - My OBS Just crashing

sometimes without any notice sometimes it makes a window that says OBS crashed but then the stream is going without any problem soo i can ignore that :D But my problem is not fixed why do i get crashed sometimes all day runs without any problem sometimes it crashes after 30 minute soo its full...

obsproject.com

Question / Help - OBS crashes ramdom

Hello guys, since yesterday I had some issues with OBS Studio. It's crashes randomly, but if I don't accept the error message, OBS is still running. But I have the error message is the background. I will upload my error logs from yesterday , maybe it helps you to find out, where the error...

obsproject.com

I've handed out debug builds to some users, to help me find the issue. I haven't heard back from most of them, but I think I had one crash log that showed where the crash occurs, I'll have to dig it out though. You can get the debug build here. It just makes the crash report contain additional information. I'll look into it next week and see if I can fix it.

 

[Sylverstone14]

I've handed out debug builds to some users, to help me find the issue. I haven't heard back from most of them, but I think I had one crash log that showed where the crash occurs, I'll have to dig it out though. You can get the debug build here. It just makes the crash report contain additional information. I'll look into it next week and see if I can fix it.

Gotcha, will do my best to update you with logs!

 

[univrsal]

For anyone interested, I made a release for tuna, which includes support for VLC sources. You can try it out here

 

[lcatlas]

Thanks alot, going for a tests )

 

[mosyria]

For anyone interested, I made a release for tuna, which includes support for VLC sources. You can try it out here

VLC suppurt disapled any ideas?

 

[univrsal]

VLC suppurt disapled any ideas?

Do you have VLC installed? Did you click "no" when it asked you to keep it enabled because obs studio updated?

 

[Canadian_Gamer23]

Does Tuna work with Streamlabs OBS?

 

[univrsal]

Does Tuna work with Streamlabs OBS?

No, last time I checked it didn't support plugins at all.