Graeme_Smith
New Member
Greetings. If I may - let me start with an information item - er, I'm an Idiot (blush).
Recognising I'm an Idiot, and have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, I recognise that one or more of the following potential issues are likely to apply to my comment:
1: What I'm about to suggest/ ask/ say is really, really stupid :-)
2: What I'm about to suggest/ ask/ say is impossible, can't be done, and any fule would know that without asking :-)
3: What I'm about to suggest/ ask/ say is impossible, has _already_ been done, and any fule would know that without asking :-)
4: What I'm about to suggest/ ask/ say has already been asked and answered, asked and not answered, or asked and put everyone reading into fits of giggles on many occasions in the past, so....
5: I'm an Idiot (blush :-P)
Phew. That's that out of the way :-). So what was it I was going to suggest/ ask/ say?
First, my main interest in OBS isn't directly in respect of streaming. Or at least, not streaming directly. Which probably lets everyone reading stop, um, reading right now :-). My main interest is to use it for local recording of streams, so I can use the output as part of video generating and compositing. Yes, there are other products (FRAPS being only one of them), but I can see possible advantages in something like OBS.
What I'd like to do, in an ideal world, is to set a scene with multiple cameras (so far OBS is nodding its head wisely and saying 'yup - I can do that :-) ). But I'd like to have those multiple cameras (Windows/ game sessions/ screen areas) send video output to their own individual files _simultaneously_, rather than a single local output file that records the view of whichever camera is selected at the time. I can see all sorts of potential issues with multiple audio streams, but I can see all sorts of pluses with being able to record (yes, and maybe even stream in some sort of split screen or PIP mode) multiple camera positions. For post-prod I could use the multiple outputs and transition between them in post-prod depending on what captured the best shots when, rather than having to try to switch between cameras live and actively.
Something of the same effect could, perhaps, be generated if it were possible (and as far as I know it isn't, but I may well be wrong) to run multiple instances of OBS, each with one window/ game/ screen area ('camera') loaded and each sending output to a different file, but my gut feel was that not only didn't I think OBS could multi-session at this time, but the overhead (CPU and otherwise) of having multiple sessions with multiple command and control sets of processes, plus the requirement for even more screen real estate (to be able to see and switch between each instance easily) might be even more problematic. Of course, I'm probably wrong :-).
Phew. There. In the event any of that anybody was patient enough to stick with me this far, that the above made any sense at all, and that any readers are actually still able to type through their laughter/ tears of amazement that anyone could be quite so stupid as to type it at all - thoughts? Comments? Yes, including 'You're an Idiot' :-) :-)
Recognising I'm an Idiot, and have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, I recognise that one or more of the following potential issues are likely to apply to my comment:
1: What I'm about to suggest/ ask/ say is really, really stupid :-)
2: What I'm about to suggest/ ask/ say is impossible, can't be done, and any fule would know that without asking :-)
3: What I'm about to suggest/ ask/ say is impossible, has _already_ been done, and any fule would know that without asking :-)
4: What I'm about to suggest/ ask/ say has already been asked and answered, asked and not answered, or asked and put everyone reading into fits of giggles on many occasions in the past, so....
5: I'm an Idiot (blush :-P)
Phew. That's that out of the way :-). So what was it I was going to suggest/ ask/ say?
First, my main interest in OBS isn't directly in respect of streaming. Or at least, not streaming directly. Which probably lets everyone reading stop, um, reading right now :-). My main interest is to use it for local recording of streams, so I can use the output as part of video generating and compositing. Yes, there are other products (FRAPS being only one of them), but I can see possible advantages in something like OBS.
What I'd like to do, in an ideal world, is to set a scene with multiple cameras (so far OBS is nodding its head wisely and saying 'yup - I can do that :-) ). But I'd like to have those multiple cameras (Windows/ game sessions/ screen areas) send video output to their own individual files _simultaneously_, rather than a single local output file that records the view of whichever camera is selected at the time. I can see all sorts of potential issues with multiple audio streams, but I can see all sorts of pluses with being able to record (yes, and maybe even stream in some sort of split screen or PIP mode) multiple camera positions. For post-prod I could use the multiple outputs and transition between them in post-prod depending on what captured the best shots when, rather than having to try to switch between cameras live and actively.
Something of the same effect could, perhaps, be generated if it were possible (and as far as I know it isn't, but I may well be wrong) to run multiple instances of OBS, each with one window/ game/ screen area ('camera') loaded and each sending output to a different file, but my gut feel was that not only didn't I think OBS could multi-session at this time, but the overhead (CPU and otherwise) of having multiple sessions with multiple command and control sets of processes, plus the requirement for even more screen real estate (to be able to see and switch between each instance easily) might be even more problematic. Of course, I'm probably wrong :-).
Phew. There. In the event any of that anybody was patient enough to stick with me this far, that the above made any sense at all, and that any readers are actually still able to type through their laughter/ tears of amazement that anyone could be quite so stupid as to type it at all - thoughts? Comments? Yes, including 'You're an Idiot' :-) :-)
