Question / Help Interesting Solution to Elgato Capture Card for OS X OBS

[puffin]

Apparently, OBS recognizes an Elgator via this plugin

https://help.elgato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031363132-OBS-Link-Setup

 

[Narcogen]

Sort of. That's basically addressing the Elgato directly, the way their software does, and then producing an NDI feed. If you have one of these devices already and need to use it with OBS, this is a decent workaround, and probably still better than their own software.

However Elgato should not be promoting that device as "compatible with MacOS" and "compatible with OBS" without specifying that you can't use it with OBS while running on MacOS, and this workaround doesn't really change that.

OBS on MacOS works better with Magewell, BlackMagic, or AJA hardware, or with Elgato hardware that doesn't have this limitation, like the CamLink.

 

[Narcogen]

Also-- I just tried to install this-- it REQUIRES Mojave or later. So you're required to use a version of MacOS that breaks other parts of OBS (namely SyphonInject) just to get access to their workaround for OBS compatibility.

So, Elgato or Syphon, but not both.