Question / Help How to have a good stream

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Icewave

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Hi, I had a few questions regarding scenes and sources.

What will put more pressure on my stream? More scenes or more sources?

OBS doesn't save different setups, and I intend to have several, would it be better to bunch up all these different streaming setups in one scene? Move them to another one? Or save them as a different file entirely?

I want to know what would be the best thing to do and how OBS works according to this. For example, I have a window capture source on an inactive program, with the source unchecked, will that still be allocated to the stream? I wouldn't want to have a leftover window capture affecting the computer or the stream.

Any help would be appreciated.

Also I vouch for OBS to have a plugin or an update that can allow you to have separate profiles based on this if it does affect streaming.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
More scenes and sources don't increase load in OBS. If a source is unchecked, or in a scene that is not active, then no resources are dedicated to it and it does not stay loaded in memory. However, sometimes you want that to happen, such as for webcams or capture cards. For that, you add the source as a Global source, and add the global source to your scenes to keep it active even when the scene that the source is in is not active.

If you want to save different layouts, you can make copies of the scenes.xconfig file in your %appdata%/OBS folder. It's a bit of a workaround, sure, but it works. The rewrite will eventually have the ability to export and import different layouts. OBS already supports having different encoding/quality profiles, though.
 
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