Question / Help Quick question about Software Capture

[Inharmonius]

Hello! I have been using OBS for a while now and everything runs fine. I'm able to use both the Monitor capture of my desktop as well as Game Capture. The only problem is, I would like to isolate a particular region on my desktop (Music player) in order to have a small box on my stream to show which song is currently playing. When I attempt to add the region, the box comes up blank. Am I doing something wrong? Or is it not possible to capture the desktop, and then a smaller region of the desktop on top of that? Thanks for the help.

 

[Smoshi]

I think you would need two monitors, but I might be wrong.

 

[Krazy]

You can play your game in borderless window mode and then try to use Window Capture on the media player.

 

[XeiZ]

Just to make completely sure, it doesnt really say software capture does it? If it does its time to welcome the new millenium and update obs. :p

 

[dodgepong]

What music player?

 

[FerretBomb]

Personally I'd just use a Window Capture for your music player. Desktop capture is slow and *sucks* for the most part (unless you're on Win 8, at which point you have bigger problems), and should only be used as an absolute last resort.

 

[dodgepong]

Yes, but I suspect the music player he is trying to capture is Spotify, which doesn't work with Window capture. If that's the case, I recommend using one of the tools in the Tools subforum to get the Title/Artist into a .txt form and put that into OBS instead.