Question / Help Launching OBS-Studio with a different settings path?

[Ranko Kohime]

Does OBS-Studio have a command switch for using an alternate settings folder?

 

[dodgepong]

Do you want this because you want be able to have multiple sets of settings, or because you want to store your setting somewhere else?

 

[Ranko Kohime]

The former, but the latter would always be nice, as I like to unclutter my ~/ of directories. :)

I occasionally stream myself playing games, for which I have one set of scenes, and I also host live podcast recording, and I like to segregate these into separate profiles, especially since I use different encoding settings for each.

 

[dodgepong]

The feature you're asking for is profiles, which is one of the things currently being worked on.

 

[014]

The feature you're asking for is profiles, which is one of the things currently being worked on.

Hallelujah! I normally stream to my own front end but sometimes stream to Twitch. It will be nice when my settings don't get wiped out by switching. :)

 

[admalledd]

My current ugly way to do it while I wait for profiles is that I have a symlink that I move around (~/.obs/basic.dev/ , ~/.obs/basic.twitch, ~/.obs/basic.youtube, and so on) and a little launch script that sets up the symlink before starting OBS

 

[Lain]

Profiles had to have a slight delay to 0.10.1 or 0.11.0. Right now 0.10.0 will be the update to add hotkey support.