Bug Report Streaming on a Mac - READ THIS

[mgw]

Ahh I understand...I can't use USB 3.0 as my older imac only has thunderbolt and usb 2.0

Yes for example MacPro 2013 trash can only has TB 2.

 

[mgw]

I had to register on the forum just so I thank you for saving me lot of money. I have been running on lagging issues with OBS with my Mac for the past 6 months and the main reason was as you said I had so many scenes that I wasn’t even using that were loading on the background. Thinking its my machine I had to go to 720p just to avoid the lag. I was so close to buy a new mac when I found your post and went and created a scenecollection with only what I need and boom all is normal!

My mac was late 2015 4 core i7 16 GB RAM. So I was really surprised when I saw the lag.

thanks again!

Just a casual observation that Livestream Studio has exactly the same behavior. It has to render all the scenes even if they are not being used.

 

[Boldegg]

Just a casual observation that Livestream Studio has exactly the same behavior. It has to render all the scenes even if they are not being used.

OBS doesn't render all the scenes, it renders all the visible sources in the scenes. You can deactivate uncheck some of them. On Windows it's helping although on Mac it seems to not does a lot.

 

[KUCTech]

Hello Everyone: I am looking for opinions on the suitability of running OBS on a Mac computer. My situation is that I am in the middle of setting up a live streaming configuration for a church, and they have Macs installed for their technical operation. I have been testing OBS for several weeks on an iMac, and I am finding it a really frustrating experience. Basically the User Interface just doesn't work, to the point where it is almost unusable. I find it impossible to dock or resize the control windows (Scenes, Sources, etc.), and any changes I can make are reset on the next invocation of OBS. Any mouse movements with the OBS controls are essentially unpredictable - I have lost several Source items by trying to drag them, and they just shoot off the screen, never to be seen again! (The mouse functions well for other applications.) So what I am trying to do as a workaround is have the controls I really need (Scenes and Sources, PTZ Camera Control) as floating windows and hope that they behave - at least I can size them so that I can see the full names and have all of them visible in the window (scrolling in the docked position is not at all dependable).

I am also testing OBS on a Windows system and I don't have any of these issues.

So I am wondering whether it's worth the effort to try to get OBS working on the iMac, or to recommend either other live streaming software, or stay with OBS and acquire a Windows system. In the limited testing that I have been able to do, when OBS is streaming, the performance is good, so I would hate to give up on it if there was a way of making the UI work.

Cheers,
Tony N.