OBS redux

[dodgepong]

That HDMI-In port isn't a capture port, just a passthrough. You can't capture it.

 

[jonbro]

I already implemented input audio capture for mac just earlier today as of this writing, seems to be working well so far. You'll be able to use it with soundflower at least and be able to capture your desktop that way for the time being.

I came across this stack overflow when trying to dig up the answer to this question. It seems like a kext is the only way. It would be really cool if you had an inbuilt one, I find soundflower to be a real pain to use. WavTap works much better for me (even though it is built on soundflowers code). Having source mixing (say between mic and desktop sound) would be really really amazing, the workarounds for getting this working with soundflower are completely out of control.

 

[Lain]

Thank you for the informative link. Yea, doesn't appear to be a way. Either soundflower or wavtap should be fine to use.

 

[Lilrex]

will the rewrite get shoutcast support ?

 

[paibox]

We can't answer that question with any amount of certainty. If someone implements support for it, it'll have it, but it's not something that is currently planned or prioritized in any way.

 

[Lilrex]

We can't answer that question with any amount of certainty. If someone implements support for it, it'll have it, but it's not something that is currently planned or prioritized in any way.

Thanks. Would it be possible to consider making adding in a DSP easier? I am not a coder so I have not got the slightest clue.

 

[Lain]

Basically, the entire thing is completely modular, so if you wanted shoutcast support it could be put in with no issue by someone who knows how to do it. Or, if it's already in FFmpeg, you could basically just do it that way, as it'll come with FFmpeg outputs on top of our normal outputs.

 

[CrystalGamma]

One question: Will OBS2 support changing the codecs more freely than OBS1? (use other video codec like VP9 instead of x264, Opus instead of MP3/AAC) Because the streaming sites will no doubt move on technically in the next years. Best case you can select from all of ffmpeg's codecs :D

 

[computerquip]

Perhaps I speak slightly out of place since I'm not as familiar with the design as some of the other developers...

but from my point of view, pretty much any codec you can imagine is potentially supported. Note the word "potentially" however. One may not have implemented support for various reasons or just plain lack of interest. If someone wants something bad enough, it will probably eventually have support, regardless of who implements it (which may not be me or anyone currently active).

This goes for pretty much everything else. I don't mean to hype of the redux or anything, but their aren't many limitations. You can probably even replace the entire GUI with simplicity if you so wished to. The whole point of the redux is to remove limitations and create a more flexible code base. I think Jim's done a hell of a good job of creating a design and interface that does just that. The possibilities are wide and far... I think the largest issue is time which we're in no shortage of.

Patience is key. Questions like, "Will OBS2 support X, Y, and Z?" should probably globally be met with, "Potentially" or "Eventually". Of course, a flat out "Never" is also possible. Even then, having a third party create plugins is a possibility I would imagine. Perhaps a security threat though... :D

 

[Lain]

It already has an FFmpeg output plugin, and FFmpeg has countless codecs builtin. So I suppose that's the short answer to your question.

 

[CrystalGamma]

It is. Great!

 

[ZeroWalker]

Will it be possible to Capture "Wave" and Custom "VFW" Codecs? :)

 

[paibox]

Wave? As for the VFW codecs, no such support is planned yet. ffmpeg does not have anything in place to use VFW codecs either, so it would have to be a separate implementation.

 

[ZeroWalker]

Wave, i simply means, lossless Audio (.Wav)

As for VFW codecs, is there a way to save it lossless with UT Video Codec or Lagarith then (or is VFW the only way for that?)

I know ffmpeg have Huffyuv implemented, not sure how though.


Cause lossless would be nice (x264 lossless has it's limitations with how the GOP works, so it's not fast to work with in Editing software).



Also, how do i report a bug?

 

[paibox]

Pretty sure ffmpeg can output uncompressed PCM. Like I said, ffmpeg can not use VFW codecs. There is likely some codec resembling Lagarith in there, but you will not be able to use the actual Lagarith codec.

Lossless recordings are of questionable usefulness either way, as almost all venues of presenting video to other people in some way (streaming, YouTube) are limited to 4:2:0 color space and in heavy bit rate limitations.

If you wish to report a bug, posting about said bug in the Bug Reports forum would be a good start.

 

[ZeroWalker]

Ah that's good, well i would prefer Lagarith or UT Video Codec, but other similar will probably do as long as they don't "Suck" performance/size wise so to speak:)

Yes as you say, but i often record videos and use the clips to make a Music Video or other stuff, which in turns till convert to RGB and then YV12 again for Youtube, so if i record in YV12 it will be like:

YV12 -> RGB -> YV12 which is not good.

However it doesn't matter alot, except for Pixel games, YV12 changes A LOT on that compared to RGB, so editing will make a huge change if it must use the conversion 2 times.

So if it can be supported, it would be awesome.

 

[CrystalGamma]

FFMPEG can only decode Lagarith (at least the build supplied by my Linux distribution) but it can encode UT video and has its own lossless FFv1 codec which can compress stronger that either of them but is slower than other lossless codecs, but might be fast enough for what you are doing, depends ...
Also, x264 has a "lossless" mode that is activated by setting a constant quantizer of 0.

 

[ZeroWalker]

Ah, well nice that it can encode UT, that's very nice.

I just need a lossless format that has keyframes on every frame so it can be edited easily in some software (After Effects).
x264 is not a codec that is easily edited sadly, but works perfect the other times.

 

[JPHVeNoM]

Just wondering when support for the HD PVR will be added?

 

[dodgepong]

Support will be added as part of this rewrite. The release date is not established, but it should be within a couple months. HD PVR support might not be in right away, but it will come eventually.