Question / Help Multi OBS at the same time?
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Narcogen
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1) Technically, yes, but practically, no. If you keep two different versions on the same machine you can launch them separately and they will open, but changes made to the preferences, settings, profiles and scenes in one version will affect the other as well, and the same for any hotkeys. So for certain very specific situations, you might be able to get two copies running at once and do separate things with them, but this arrangement will not be fully functional because there will be things it cannot do.
2). No, OBS is a video streaming program. You could set a very small frame size and send just a blank image, but OBS streams RTMP and I believe RTMP always has a video stream, you can't stream just MP3 or ACC. You're better off using something like IceCast or NiceCast for an audio-only stream. There's no way to tell OBS to not send video. You can leave out a source, but there will still be a video stream in your output. What platform are you trying to stream to?
You may also find that your version of MacOS may be too old to run the latest versions of OBS.
2). No, OBS is a video streaming program. You could set a very small frame size and send just a blank image, but OBS streams RTMP and I believe RTMP always has a video stream, you can't stream just MP3 or ACC. You're better off using something like IceCast or NiceCast for an audio-only stream. There's no way to tell OBS to not send video. You can leave out a source, but there will still be a video stream in your output. What platform are you trying to stream to?
You may also find that your version of MacOS may be too old to run the latest versions of OBS.
Server163
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Yes you can - i do this on a "mac-server"
- https://youtu.be/NAMYGsj74vY < ---- Video, browser and background music mp3
- https://youtu.be/PhRrAXZGZG0 < ---- Video, browser, LiveATC source and background music mp3
Narcogen
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This is really not recommended, and I say this as a person who has spent some time not only doing exactly this, but also having the two instances be different versions of OBS.
Both of those instances will be reading and writing the profiles and scene collections in ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio
The active scene and profile can be separate from both instances, but changes to scenes, scene collections or profiles from either will affect the other.
At the very least, in this arrangement, never making any changes to scenes with both instances open. Use one instance to edit, and then open the other.
This is a good way to get corrupted scene collections that cause OBS to crash on launch, and should be avoided if at all possible.
Both of those instances will be reading and writing the profiles and scene collections in ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio
The active scene and profile can be separate from both instances, but changes to scenes, scene collections or profiles from either will affect the other.
At the very least, in this arrangement, never making any changes to scenes with both instances open. Use one instance to edit, and then open the other.
This is a good way to get corrupted scene collections that cause OBS to crash on launch, and should be avoided if at all possible.
Server163
New Member
2 drives - one OBS on each - no problem change scenes or anything else - not for me that is. I use 23.2.1 to do this.
I'm testing latest version [ on a different server ] of OBS on another server. Latest version give issues, not to run multiple OBS, but 1/4 screen when streamimng to Youtube. This is the issue occurs even if I only run one OBS.
I'm testing latest version [ on a different server ] of OBS on another server. Latest version give issues, not to run multiple OBS, but 1/4 screen when streamimng to Youtube. This is the issue occurs even if I only run one OBS.
@Server163 you mentioned having multiple installations to support running multiple instances at once. Others said the users Library will get corrupted. You said we can have different folders to keep them separated. Will OBS now allow us to save settings where we want, or somewhere relative to the installation folder? @Narcogen do you understand how @Server163 idea can be made to work?
I had an idea to create multiple users and invoke each copy from different users?
I had an idea to create multiple users and invoke each copy from different users?
johnathansmith1969
Member
can someone please tell me how I can do this install? I want one version with my show and the 2nd version for testing plugins etc