OBS on Apple Silicon

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kevmunro

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lzrdbfast said:
Hey all, has anyone been able to stream audio from a Traktor S3 through OBS on a M1 pro (or any M1/apple silicon)? I know people typically use Soundflower, but it doesn't download on my Mac.

Would love to help with this - purchased a brand new Mac entirely for streaming, only to find out that it's not working :(
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Hey there! I use Loopback to push other sound sources into the stream. Great bit of software.
 
neuromask

neuromask

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Hello,

Can you please compile Tuna plugin for arm64 apple?

Tuna

Tuna Lets you display information about the currently playing song in obs without running a separate program. Currently supports these music sources: Spotify (All song information (except for song label), including Cover art) MPD (All song...
obsproject.com obsproject.com

Thanks
 
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Fbosman

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Does anyone know if the gstreamer plug-in works on the m1 version? I installed gstreamer and the plug-in (Mac version) but nothing shows up
 
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shiggitay

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CattoRayTube said:
I use VB-Audio Cable on M1 and it works just fine for me. https://vb-audio.com/Cable/
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I've used something similar on Windows... Does it allow routing of audio on a per app basis (or overall Desktop Audio) into OBS? Right now I use Loopback to make a virtual mic and that works, but having something better would be...better. lol.

Bartyx said:
@callimeron

Hello. Any new version? The last one is crashing after change scene layouts! Thank you.
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While Callimeron could release a new unofficial build as I could an official M1 native release (with all the bells and whistles etc) is coming soon... Until then Rosetta should work.
 
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shiggitay

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Bartyx said:
Rosetta works bad. I have a bit complicated setup with 3 cameras and there Rosetta version takes more than 50% of CPU and stream is lagging often. When i use Callimeron version with same scene setup, it takes about 5-8% CPU including recording.
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Ah your setup is way more complex than mine... Fair point. I just have a console capture video source, StreamLabs alerts, and my webcam with audio...
 
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Talonis

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I patiently await the official release. If nothing else, using OBS Studio under Rosetta emulation has taught me to me ruthlessly efficient and ingenious with my multi-camera streaming configuration – which is good practice whichever way you slice it.
 
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shiggitay

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Talonis said:
I patiently await the official release. If nothing else, using OBS Studio under Rosetta emulation has taught me to me ruthlessly efficient and ingenious with my multi-camera streaming configuration – which is good practice whichever way you slice it.
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I was streaming to Twitch last night to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a Japanese anime I like and I know this isn't quite OBS Studio but I was running StreamLabs Desktop (formerly StreamLabs OBS) under Rosetta on my M1 Mac mini, and it ran okay, but having either version/fork of OBS running officially natively on Apple Silicon would be baller. Patience is key I guess...
 
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Bartyx

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shiggitay said:
I was streaming to Twitch last night to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a Japanese anime I like and I know this isn't quite OBS Studio but I was running StreamLabs Desktop (formerly StreamLabs OBS) under Rosetta on my M1 Mac mini, and it ran okay, but having either version/fork of OBS running officially natively on Apple Silicon would be baller. Patience is key I guess...
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What encoder have you used? Apple Hardware? Or x264 software?
 
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StrayTexel

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Talonis said:
I patiently await the official release. If nothing else, using OBS Studio under Rosetta emulation has taught me to me ruthlessly efficient and ingenious with my multi-camera streaming configuration – which is good practice whichever way you slice it.
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It's reportedly coming in 27.3. Now that 27.2 is fully out we should start seeing official 27.3 release candidates any week (day?) now.

Bartyx said:
Rosetta works bad. I have a bit complicated setup with 3 cameras and there Rosetta version takes more than 50% of CPU and stream is lagging often. When i use Callimeron version with same scene setup, it takes about 5-8% CPU including recording.
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Yeah, anyone saying "just use Rosetta!" has a very simple, low-demand workload. With the unofficial M1-compiled releases it's a night and day difference.

However, I can only get any sort of "perfect" performance at a max of 1080p output. I still can't manage to record at 4K at all (~90% loss). Hoping that gets fixed in the official release and it's not a limitation of the hardware (M1 Pro for me).
 
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