Is there a way to capture Discord video streams so that if someone drops from the call everything doesn’t shuffle around in OBS?

[Llewinidas]

Basically i have 5 captures of my discord window, each cropped to one of the people in our stream. The problem is that when someone drops from the call, the individual video window sizes change and shift location.

Related issue: if someone stops broadcasting video but stays in the call for voice, Discord also shuffles everyone around.

is there some way to directly capture these video broadcasts from each attendee to avoid this problem?

 

[FerretBomb]

Via Discord, no, there isn't. Window Captures are 'dumb', they just grab the pixels at certain coordinate-spaces. They don't "know" anything about the video they are capturing, and have no contexts.

If you use Skype For Creators (a variant of Skype by Microsoft) it will provide an NDI feed for each participant which can be intaken using the obs-ndi plugin, and handled as distinct and separate audio/video feeds.

Without that, the only thing I could recommend is having multiple scenes in OBS, each set up for a different number of participants, and manually switching as people join/leave the Discord call.