Running Multiple Instances Bugs

[LabPadre]

Howdy!

I've noticed that in versions 28.0 and up that while using multiple instances of OBS if you have a Browser source setup it will only work in one of the instances. The second OBS instance just plays a blank screen while the first instance play the exact same browser source fine. I use a universal overlay for multiple live streams. One of my systems uses two instances of OBS for two different cameras. They both use the same URL for a Browser Source for the overlay but the second instance of OBS will not show it. Using 27.2 or under works fine I hope someone kind point out a fix or work around.
Thanks for any insight.

 

[AaronD]

One possible workaround might be to use an external browser, not a browser source, and window-capture that. You also get to choose which browser you like, if you do it that way. (A lot of things are based on Chromium now - Chrome, Edge, etc. - so they inherit most of Chromium's features and faults, but Firefox and a few others are still their own thing.)

 

[Teedge]

I'm also having this issue (using multiple instances of OBS if you have a Browser source setup it will only work in one of the instances)

Howdy!

I've noticed that in versions 28.0 and up that while using multiple instances of OBS if you have a Browser source setup it will only work in one of the instances. The second OBS instance just plays a blank screen while the first instance play the exact same browser source fine. I use a universal overlay for multiple live streams. One of my systems uses two instances of OBS for two different cameras. They both use the same URL for a Browser Source for the overlay but the second instance of OBS will not show it. Using 27.2 or under works fine I hope someone kind point out a fix or work around.
Thanks for any insight.

You work something out?

 

[Teedge]

I have this exact problem.

The latest version right now is 31.0.1.

Window-capture does work but not the way I want it too which is a scoreboard overlaying a livestream.

Surely someone else has this issue and has a resolution??

My current resolution is to use version 28.0 which obviously moving foward I need to use a later version.

 

[AaronD]

Window-capture does work but not the way I want it too which is a scoreboard overlaying a livestream.

How does it not work?

• Too much captured, and it blocks other things? You can crop it.
• Only one copy of it available at a time? Depending on what you're doing, there are different ways to get multiple copies anyway, usually inside the same instance of OBS, but there are ways to send things between instances too.
• Something else?

 

[RecorderMan]

This is working on version 30.2.3 but absolutely infuriating that it is persisting in the latest releases.

 

[SprunkiRetake]

I have this exact problem.

The latest version right now is 31.0.1.

Window-capture does work but not the way I want it too which is a scoreboard overlaying a livestream.

Surely someone else has this issue and has a resolution??
Sprunki Retake
My current resolution is to use version 28.0 which obviously moving foward I need to use a later version.

If you move some of the documents to another memory, will the problem be solved?