OBS redux

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swiper

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Hello, I'm new to streaming and using these programs but I've had a surprisingly easy time setting up the video capture and display capture. Thanks!

Couple questions:

1. How do I make it capture just a single window? If I'm trying to stream a particular game, I only want it to show that and not the entire desktop.

2. I've tried using soundflower to direct in-game sound to the stream but I'm having difficulties-is there an easier way to do so? I guess just being able to know how to direct other sounds into the stream would be great, like spotify or pandora.

Thanks again.
 
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Mathias

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I still don't seem to be able to find my Elgato game capture in my video sources. Should i be able to or isn't that feature implemented yet? If i should be able to add my Elgato, can you then help me by explaining how?
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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It's not implemented. It will be largely up to Elgato to add a Mac driver that lets other programs use it.
 
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Shoeboots

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First of all, thanks for all the hard work. I've been playing around with the Mac version of OBS and it's amazingly easy to use, and very high quality output to twitch! Even with my low upload of 2.5MB!

Like several folks on this thread, my long term plan is to game on a PC and use my Mac to stream. I also have an Elgato Game Capture HD, and I understand that it's elgato's problem that it doesn't show up as a capture device in OBS.

I'm hopeful that elgato will fix this at some point, but I'm also not holding my breath. So I'm wondering if you could recommend a solution that would allow me to capture my PC output either in the current build of OBS for Mac, or in the near future? Is there a competing product that is more developer friendly? Or possibly a more universal HDMI capture device?

Thanks again for the great software!

EDIT: As an example, would a device like the Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Recorder show up in OBS?
 
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Shoeboots

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dodgepong said:
If you run the Elgato program in fullscreen you can monitor capture that.
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I thought of this and it's definitely on my list of possibilities. It would require me to buy another monitor, however, so that I can see the OBS interface. This would potentially make the workaround more expensive than buying a different card that works (if there is one out there that works)

Additionally, I'll also have to take a quality hit cause the Game Capture Software is getting lower quality in the software's preview frame than OBS is outputting.
 
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spiritstr

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Hi there,i just want to know if something will change for Windows users with the OBS Multi Platform in terms of perfomance at least.
 
cherrybrola

cherrybrola

Member
Hi guys. Love that I can now use OBS. For the last year I'd been stuck using FMLE, so THANK YOU!
I've noticed, watching a streamer who used a cam/mic delay while using a capture card to sync it up with the gameplay (probably using HDPVR or something where it encodes on the device). Do you plan to have that feature on the multi platform as well?
 
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jconnor817

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Dodgepong, what do you think the chances are that Elgato will add a Mac driver that lets other programs use it? Very likely, likely, or not likely?
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Community Helper
There's a small possibility of getting the Elgato to work without an driver update from Elgato by using QTKit, but there are some challenges with that approach. I couldn't really say what Elgato is going to do, it would just be a guess.
 
paibox

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A basic text plugin has been made, works on all three platforms. Might be in the next release, but most likely won't initially have all the advanced features of the text plugin in the current version of OBS.
 
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