Push out OBS with preset recording settings and preset sources

[Grimdewulf]

Hi everyone, I hope you can help.

What I would like to achieve is to push out OBS to hundreds of PCs on our network with a certain configuration so I won't have to make those changes myself on each PC, nor the end-user.
That certain configuration is the recording format: I'd like it as.mp4 instead of .mkv right off the bat after the installation process.
Is there any way of doing this?
I use PDQ deploy.
Also.. a long shot, but is there a way to automatize OBS to find and add the first available Display Capture and Audio Output Capture source to the sources tab?

Thank you

 

[koala]

There is no built in managed configuration in OBS. It's strictly a standalone app.

You can export the settings as profile, as well as the scene collection, and deploy theses exports to some well known directory, then let your users import these exports once.
You can also look into %appdata%\obs-studio and copy+deploy the config files directly.

However, some of the config is hardware dependent. Audio and video devices have IDs specific to each computer and will point to nothingness if used on a different machine. Also, OBS performance depends on the computing power of CPU and GPU, so different machine and different GPU often need different encoder settings.

Just configuring one setting only and keeping everything else means directly editing the OBS config files in %appdata%\obs-studio and isn't supported by anything.