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If/when this comes to be a feature I'd be eager to try it out! I have 2 reasons why I would find this helpful:
1. On a small scale, I never stop being surprised by the quality of audio from the humble iPhone mic, and I could see this being helpful for quick projects.
2. On a larger scale, I'm using OBS to stream the services at out church. We use a Canon DSLR as our primary close shot, my iPhone as our secondary wide shot, slides are brought in via NDI, and audio comes direct from the sound board. The audio situation is less than ideal as the mix going to OBS for streaming is identical to what's coming through FOH, and thus missing out on the ambience of the room, the sound of the congregation's voice, and instruments with a lot stage volume are barely audible since they don't need to be turned up much from FOH. To solve this, I need to get an additional audio source for an ambient mic. Assuming it's possible, using the mic already built into my iPhone seems like it could be a good solution for adding a bit of ambience from the room underneath the board mix.
Thanks again!
EveningStarNM
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How can I disable auto-exposure and auto-focus. I'd assumed that when I tap on a focus point and the indicator switches from "Auto" to "POI AE/AF" that they would be disabled, but both settings persist in changing the brightness whenever it senses a significant change in the scene. I'm shooting from above over 18"x24" area on my workbench on black background, and it's quite annoying to see the brightness changing when I move my hand out of the scene.
EveningStarNM
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Oops! Never mind. I found that it works the same way as the default Apple app: To disable auto-exposure and auto-focus, tap and HOLD for a second.
But now I have a new question. I'd like to use this on Linux Mint. Does anyone have any tips for building this plugin on Linux? cmake is obviously required. Are there any other requirments for the build environment?
Col
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Hi,
I bought the OBS Camera App for IOS when it was on version 2.0.0 and it worked really well with my iPhone X and my iPhone 6.
I haven't used OBS for a little while and today I tried to connect both my X and 6 to OBS and they aren't connecting. I just keep getting the 'Waiting for connection' message.
I've followed the instructions about force quitting the app etc. I've even gone as far as re-installing OBS, iTunes and the windows plugin as well as re-install the app on both phones.
The iPhone 6 is still on version 2.0.0 and the iPhone X is on 2.1.0.
Do you know of anything else that could be stopping the app from connecting to OBS?
Cheers,
Col
I bought the OBS Camera App for IOS when it was on version 2.0.0 and it worked really well with my iPhone X and my iPhone 6.
I haven't used OBS for a little while and today I tried to connect both my X and 6 to OBS and they aren't connecting. I just keep getting the 'Waiting for connection' message.
I've followed the instructions about force quitting the app etc. I've even gone as far as re-installing OBS, iTunes and the windows plugin as well as re-install the app on both phones.
The iPhone 6 is still on version 2.0.0 and the iPhone X is on 2.1.0.
Do you know of anything else that could be stopping the app from connecting to OBS?
Cheers,
Col
KennethHolland
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I just purchased the app today and I have the same issue: 'Waiting for connection'
I'm using an iPhone 8.
I've tried everything.
Kenneth
I'm using an iPhone 8.
I've tried everything.
Kenneth
KennethHolland
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Does anyone know if Will checks this anymore?
I just bought the app and it doesn't work.
Kenneth
I just bought the app and it doesn't work.
Kenneth
yup - he got back to
just the camera- if you want to stream the screen choose ‘video capture device’ in ‘Source’ (hit the + button and it should be the option third from the bottom).
hope that helps!
Quality absolutely terrible, feed continuously flashes and flickers, really poor. Idea nice but the App itself obviously needs a lot of development work before you could even consider using it. Right now its unusable and really isn't a viable option for the stated purpose. But keep going with it and see where you get to.
Dernebo
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I have bought the app and it looks really promising. Quality is totally ok and everything looks ok in OBS with my two camera angles. I have an iPhone7 Plus and the internal iSight camera in my iMac. When I set everything up it looks fine, but when I start to stream to Youtube the iPhone7Plus starts to lag. Even in OBS I can see the lag between the cameras. And it gets more and more delay. Everything looks ok when I stop streaming and both cameras is synced again. If I change to the view with the iSight camera it looks ok.
Any idea of what might cause this?
Any idea of what might cause this?
wtsnz
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wtsnz updated iOS Camera for OBS Studio with a new update entry:
Add Audio Support
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Add Audio Support
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wtsnz
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Hey people!
I am still alive - I've been settling into my new country, and have been busy working on new features! The latest version (v2.4.0) of the app has many improvements to the way you select resolution, frame rate & I've also (by popular demand) added Wireless support via the NewTek NDI protocol! This allows us to use the app in many more applications too.
Here are some answers to your questions..
This app streams what front and rear cameras. You can stream the display natively by plugging in your device into your mac and adding a new video source - the iOS device will show up and you can broadcast what you see on screen.
The app now supports wireless streaming via the NewTek NDI protocol which Resolume supports! So yes. (NewTek NDI works over USB when connected to an OSX machine too - not Windows)
Col, have you tried the latest versions of the plugin and the app?
Hey Kenneth, I'm sorry you've ran into an issue! Is this still happening with the latest versions?
Sounds like you've ran into the only bug I'm aware of. This only affects iPhone 5, iPad Air & iPad 3 as far as I am aware. I do not have a fix - other than using the NDI output, if that is an option for you. I'd recommend that you ask Apple for a refund if it doesn't help :) And again, I'm sorry.
Hey Dernebo, I noticed this myself and made some tweaks to the latest version of the plugin. If this continues to happen, I'd recommend using a lower framerate or resolution as it sounds like your computer might be struggling to decode the video from the iPhone, and then encode the stream to output to YouTube.
Other than using the Wireless NewTek NDI output in the app, no. As far as I am aware they do not have any third party plugin ecosystem that allows developers to extend Streamlabs like we can with OBS Studio.
I am still alive - I've been settling into my new country, and have been busy working on new features! The latest version (v2.4.0) of the app has many improvements to the way you select resolution, frame rate & I've also (by popular demand) added Wireless support via the NewTek NDI protocol! This allows us to use the app in many more applications too.
Here are some answers to your questions..
This app streams what front and rear cameras. You can stream the display natively by plugging in your device into your mac and adding a new video source - the iOS device will show up and you can broadcast what you see on screen.
The app now supports wireless streaming via the NewTek NDI protocol which Resolume supports! So yes. (NewTek NDI works over USB when connected to an OSX machine too - not Windows)
Col, have you tried the latest versions of the plugin and the app?
Hey Kenneth, I'm sorry you've ran into an issue! Is this still happening with the latest versions?
Sounds like you've ran into the only bug I'm aware of. This only affects iPhone 5, iPad Air & iPad 3 as far as I am aware. I do not have a fix - other than using the NDI output, if that is an option for you. I'd recommend that you ask Apple for a refund if it doesn't help :) And again, I'm sorry.
Hey Dernebo, I noticed this myself and made some tweaks to the latest version of the plugin. If this continues to happen, I'd recommend using a lower framerate or resolution as it sounds like your computer might be struggling to decode the video from the iPhone, and then encode the stream to output to YouTube.
Other than using the Wireless NewTek NDI output in the app, no. As far as I am aware they do not have any third party plugin ecosystem that allows developers to extend Streamlabs like we can with OBS Studio.
Dernebo
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Hi. You were right. It was ofcause the resolution that was too high for my streaming-computer. After that everything worked perfectly with no lag at all.
...until I installed the last update of OBS (22.0.1). ;) The iOS Camera option disappeared after upgrade. Any info on that? I guess the plugin is in need of an update?
wtsnz
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Awesome, good to hear that it's now working :)
I managed to sneak out an update to fix the issue with the new version of OBS Studio last night. You can download the new version from github here.
Dernebo
New Member
And now it is working flawlessly again!. ;) Thanks a lot for a great plugin. I noticed there was some problems with using iPhone 5s, but with my iPhone7 Plus, it is five big stars from me. ;)
ajay836018
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There is an app called lonely screen for you windows computer, you get the app and connect screen mirror from your iOS device, then you can simply do a window capture and customize of the window in obs. You can have as many window captures as you want. I use this with a iPhone png pic, overlay the window capture and it looks like my iPhone is right on the screen.
So I installed the app and the NDI plugin for OBS, and I get a connection but no video/audio in OBS, the source is just blank. Tried changing bandwidth and resolution settings but no dice. Any idea what's up? I have tried both dualband and 5GHz, my WiFi connection is fine in both cases.
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