Question / Help Problem with windows with same name

[goldenh]

I have a problem when dealing with windows of the same name. OBS will forget which window it is supposed to reference when scenes are changed.

To test, open OBS and 2 copies of VLC. add something to the playlist of only one instance of VLC, but don't play anything (to keep the names the same). Try and add both of them to OBS, you will have difficulty. For me what worked is that the last active window is the one added to OBS no matter what is selected in the drop-down, so I can add one, select the other window, and then add the other.

Using a global source will allow you to safely switch scenes, but it is more difficult to initalize more than one window and changing the window without restarting the stream necessitates changing to a new window, which resets the subregion information.

The problem is that I find that often web browsers will occasionally end up with the same name and obs will go a bit crazy if the scene happens to change during that. Don't windows have a unique id that could be used to track them instead of the actual title?

 

[Jack0r]

In OBS-MP you can now choose a window through selecting its:
- Window Title
- Window Class
- Executable Name
You might want to give this a try and see if it works with your windows.

 

[goldenh]

No, in OBS-MP the additional VLC windows do not even show up to be selected. The windows do have seperate process ID, so if I were able to add a window by process ID that would work.

I look forward to switching over to OBS-MP when it has all the features OBS has, but right now it isn't ready.

 

[goldenh]

Update: I found if i open the VLC windows BEFORE starting OBS-MP they'll show up in the add window screen, but still don't add correctly. But if I use the workarounds I used with OBS it works as if I had added them in OBS as a global source.