Question / Help Using browser on top while capturing window in the background.

[20196Kobs6]

Greetings, here's all I'm trying to do. Capture a video playing in opera while viewing full screen in firefox over opera.
Windows 7, sp1, 64bit, running most recent firefox and opera. The aero thing doesn't seem to be working. If I minimize opera, the video is halted, only when focused window will opera video continue. I understand that win 7 did something to protect media copying in layers or whatever. This was done to protect media content providers from pirating.
Regardless, obs seems to imply that it can capture video in the background while one views things in the foreground. The aero theme instructions do not let me capture just the window I want and allow viewing other things. Please note that I've been working obs for some time now trying to do this and read a lot of the forums.
For example, I have obs in one half the screen, and opera in the other half recording a simple video, not utube or any name brand, and when I slide the obs window into the opera area, the move is captured in the recording. Whatever I slide into the capture window it records as if they are on the same foreground, which they apparently are.
Thank you.

 

[20196Kobs6]

Greetings, here's all I'm trying to do. Capture a video playing in opera while viewing full screen in firefox over opera.
Windows 7, sp1, 64bit, running most recent firefox and opera. The aero thing doesn't seem to be working. If I minimize opera, the video is halted, only when focused window will opera video continue. I understand that win 7 did something to protect media copying in layers or whatever. This was done to protect media content providers from pirating.
Regardless, obs seems to imply that it can capture video in the background while one views things in the foreground. The aero theme instructions do not let me capture just the window I want and allow viewing other things. Please note that I've been working obs for some time now trying to do this and read a lot of the forums.
For example, I have obs in one half the screen, and opera in the other half recording a simple video, not utube or any name brand, and when I slide the obs window into the opera area, the move is captured in the recording. Whatever I slide into the capture window it records as if they are on the same foreground, which they apparently are.
Thank you.

BUMP!

 

[koala]

The only advice I can give is: upgrade to Windows 10. I cannot guarantee your issue is gone, but with Windows 10 Aero is always active and with it the separation of the drawing space of every application, so you are able to capture partly obscured windows in full.

Trying to capture a browser to circumvent some kind of DRM will not work. This is enforced by Windows on every version, and OBS does not/cannot do anything to work around this.

Capturing a video in a browser isn't recommended in the first place - instead you should use some of the media sources in OBS do play the video directly. In case you absolutely must capture a browser, most will require you to disable their hardware acceleration if you use window capture, or you only see a black window. Desktop capture will work regardless of hardware acceleration.