OBS redux
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everytime i open mine on 10.9.2 os x it just shows for 2 seconds then it closes and gives a error report. any suggestion.
Julia Mortellaro
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Josh N
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I think the problem might be with my soundflower (which I re-installed) having issues with OS 10.9.3. I made the audio input set to my headset microphone, and then set my output to a multi-output device, which sends output back to my headphones and soundflower simultaneously. I can hear my computer audio, however I cannot hear anything from soundflower when I playback recordings (I also tried with quicktime audio record).
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I was able to get it working, at least at the beginning. Quality was pretty good, but for some reason the actual stream went black if i went to 5000kbps (my network can handle that). Then i was able to figure it out with sound flower, but for some reason i wasn't able to get a picture on hitbox at all.
I assume thats just a User-problm tho since it already worked once.
What i would really like to see (or find.. maybe i was just too stupid to find it) is the ability to choose a specific screenarea or even better. a specific window i want to stream.
And of course, soundflower sucks, it actually has a bit of a delay. Its usable at the moment and probably the best option to stream on OS X, yet... i'd love to see OBS on OS X without having to use soundflower.
Thanksf or your work to! :)
I assume thats just a User-problm tho since it already worked once.
What i would really like to see (or find.. maybe i was just too stupid to find it) is the ability to choose a specific screenarea or even better. a specific window i want to stream.
And of course, soundflower sucks, it actually has a bit of a delay. Its usable at the moment and probably the best option to stream on OS X, yet... i'd love to see OBS on OS X without having to use soundflower.
Thanksf or your work to! :)
Padchi
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Wirecast has manage to capture audio without soundflower.
Also, i have noticed that i can't use soundflower 64ch instead i need to use 2ch with OBS.
Well we could theoretically create our own drivers but I just don't have the time at the moment, soundflower isn't that hard to configure, at least when it's working properly. I haven't noticed any issue with 64ch. You just need to set it to 64ch in audio settings.
And I am pretty sure wirecast does have its own driver at least as far as I know. The only way to capture sound is via a driver because apple does not provide a means of capturing audio in its API. I should know, I searched and scoured the internet for a long time until I finally found a message somewhere on stackoverflow from an actual apple developer who said they did that on purpose for 'performance' reasons.
We're relying on soundflower right now simply because it's currently the only available option outside of writing our own driver. I think there's also a driver called Wavtap which I think may be much easier, and also open source, but I'm not sure if it works with other programs.
Sal - why does your computer only go to 10.6.8?
And I am pretty sure wirecast does have its own driver at least as far as I know. The only way to capture sound is via a driver because apple does not provide a means of capturing audio in its API. I should know, I searched and scoured the internet for a long time until I finally found a message somewhere on stackoverflow from an actual apple developer who said they did that on purpose for 'performance' reasons.
We're relying on soundflower right now simply because it's currently the only available option outside of writing our own driver. I think there's also a driver called Wavtap which I think may be much easier, and also open source, but I'm not sure if it works with other programs.
Sal - why does your computer only go to 10.6.8?
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Looks like an simple and awesome piece of software... Since it is open source, don't you think you would be able to use it in OBS? Something like that would be really awesome.
As i said, soundflower is ok, but its annoying to use and there is some noticeable delay with the audio. It is ok for streaming, but i would not want to use it for normal everyday usage, thats why i think its annoying to use. You gotta go into the audio-settings all the time.
Julia Mortellaro
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is there going to be the ability to have a follower/subscriber notification for mac because no other websites where you can download the notification support mac. or is there no way of it happening because if not its ok with me. it would be a great feature to have.
Wavtap works? Okay people, if you're having issues with soundflower, uninstall soundflower and get wavtap. Go go go!
EDIT: ..Er, also I'm trying to find an installer for it, but can't seem to find it. Anyone have a link to where they got it?
And yes, if it works, we'll integrate it in to OBS as well as a downstream.
EDIT: ..Er, also I'm trying to find an installer for it, but can't seem to find it. Anyone have a link to where they got it?
And yes, if it works, we'll integrate it in to OBS as well as a downstream.
Wait, here we go: https://github.com/downloads/pje/WavTap/WavTap 0.2.0.pkg
(you may need to uninstall soundflower, though not 100% sure.. EDIT: actually, you may not need to, but if wavtap works fine and you're not going to use it anymore then might as well)
I programmed OBS to use wavtap if it finds it, so I think it should work right off the bat. You still may need to set your 'default output' to wavtap in your 'mac system preferences' -> 'sound' though, not sure how it works. I'll test this out on my end later to see how it functions.
(you may need to uninstall soundflower, though not 100% sure.. EDIT: actually, you may not need to, but if wavtap works fine and you're not going to use it anymore then might as well)
I programmed OBS to use wavtap if it finds it, so I think it should work right off the bat. You still may need to set your 'default output' to wavtap in your 'mac system preferences' -> 'sound' though, not sure how it works. I'll test this out on my end later to see how it functions.
I have not installed WavTap or bothered trying to use Soundflour with OBS for Mac because I use an external hardware mixer. But I would like to point out an issue about uninstalling WavTap just for a awareness for those installing.
https://github.com/pje/WavTap/issues/25
Also I would like to point out that in "Audio MIDI Setup" there is a "Create Aggregator Device" and "Create Multi-output Device" options you might consider so I haven't played with that either. Only checked out a couple YouTube tutorials on using those.
P.S. Just wanted to say thank you to Jim and any others working on OBS redux. I've been using CamTwist for a few years and FMLE for a couple and for the last few months CocoaSplit to cast. I've been really looking forward to an all-in-one option for Mac since I can't afford anything like Wirecast. So thanks much. :-)
https://github.com/pje/WavTap/issues/25
Also I would like to point out that in "Audio MIDI Setup" there is a "Create Aggregator Device" and "Create Multi-output Device" options you might consider so I haven't played with that either. Only checked out a couple YouTube tutorials on using those.
P.S. Just wanted to say thank you to Jim and any others working on OBS redux. I've been using CamTwist for a few years and FMLE for a couple and for the last few months CocoaSplit to cast. I've been really looking forward to an all-in-one option for Mac since I can't afford anything like Wirecast. So thanks much. :-)
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Paul Murphy
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Wow, I compiled OBS redux on Gentoo the other day, and was very happy to see it worked pretty much straight away. Deeply impressed. Just had to unmask a few libraries to get the QT5 stuff in, and switched from avconv to ffmpeg (not sure if this was strictly necessary, but swresample wasn't found until I did).
The latest pull brought in fdk, I am not sure but this (or some other changes to audio) seems to have fixed the audio lag issues. Very cool the way it sets up the pulse sinks - from what I can see, there is just one sink now, and you mix mike and desktop with OBS. Before I was mixing in both pulse and in OBS.
The only thing that doesn't work for me is streaming to twitch. OBS connects fine, and the audio gets to the twitch feed, but no video comes through. I am guessing that this is a codec issue, perhaps relating to the ffmpeg I am using.
If anyone has streaming to twitch working, could you let me know the version of ffmpeg/avconv you are using?
The latest pull brought in fdk, I am not sure but this (or some other changes to audio) seems to have fixed the audio lag issues. Very cool the way it sets up the pulse sinks - from what I can see, there is just one sink now, and you mix mike and desktop with OBS. Before I was mixing in both pulse and in OBS.
The only thing that doesn't work for me is streaming to twitch. OBS connects fine, and the audio gets to the twitch feed, but no video comes through. I am guessing that this is a codec issue, perhaps relating to the ffmpeg I am using.
If anyone has streaming to twitch working, could you let me know the version of ffmpeg/avconv you are using?