Question / Help Shutdown without confirmation

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machello

New Member
I know this has been brought up before: is there an option (or can this be added?) to disable the shutdown confirmation when closing OBS? I need to start and stop OBS from an external program (JustMacros). Starting is no problem, especially with the --startstreaming and --startstrecording command line options. Stopping obs is a different matter: taskkill, for instance, will result in the "OBS is currently active... are you sure you want to shut down?" pop up message. Disabling the confirmation option in the settings does not make this message go away.

Of course there is taskkill /f, but that seems a bit drastic and I'm not sure what nasty side effects that might have.
 
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WBE

Member
You could post it on ideas.obsproject.com, where people could upvote.

(Please keep the side effects in mind of drastic ways to end the program, ie. not ending recordings properly and not saving your profile and scene collection.)
 
rxdazn

rxdazn

New Member
for anyone wondering/coming from a google search, this option is under Settings > Advanced > General > Show active outputs warning on exit
 
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AaronD

Active Member
Two other ways to do this (it's likely an XY problem) might be:
  • Use Websockets to control OBS. Script those, instead of OBS itself.
  • Use the Advanced Scene Switcher plugin to effectively script things directly inside of OBS.
In both cases, OBS starts with no command line arguments (or at least not the "start" ones), and remains open after it's finished, once again doing nothing.

If you're really convinced that OBS should not be running at all anymore, Adv. SS can also shut it down unattended. Websockets probably can too, but I haven't looked at that.
 
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