Since upgrading to Mojave on my 2018 Mac book pro 15 inch I've been having issues with the video capture device portion. From time to time my stream will just start randomly flickering, even if not streaming and just testing in OBS. It's only OBS, I've opened my camera and tested it not using the app and I get no tearing/flickering. It's been happening the past month at least, very desperate and need help.
Question / Help Webcam capture flickering
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Narcogen
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Apple is in the process of deprecating the display technology that OBS depends on (OpenGL). I have no idea if this would affect a simple mechanism like a webcam at this point, and this is the only report of this I've seen so far, so I don't think that's relevant.
I have seen issues where cams in Mojave and upwards don't work at all until OBS gets permission on them, but that doesn't appear to be your issue, either.
If you're running OBS as a mission-critical application on MacOS I would strongly suggest not upgrading past High Sierra.
I have seen issues where cams in Mojave and upwards don't work at all until OBS gets permission on them, but that doesn't appear to be your issue, either.
If you're running OBS as a mission-critical application on MacOS I would strongly suggest not upgrading past High Sierra.
Narcogen
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It pains me to say so, but if OBS is mission-critical for you then yes, you should be using a Windows machine, and one with an Nvidia card. (AMD cards also have a hardware encoder but in my limited experience it is harder to use, harder to troubleshoot, and does not perform as well.
OBS is currently more reliable, more performant, and more capable on either Windows or Linux than on MacOS, and the future of OBS on MacOS appears to me to be in serious question.
Just not having access to NVENC as a possible encoder is worth making the switch. I use OBS on all three platforms, but in the past few years I've moved from using it primarily on MacOS and secondarily on Windows to the other way around.
OBS is currently more reliable, more performant, and more capable on either Windows or Linux than on MacOS, and the future of OBS on MacOS appears to me to be in serious question.
Just not having access to NVENC as a possible encoder is worth making the switch. I use OBS on all three platforms, but in the past few years I've moved from using it primarily on MacOS and secondarily on Windows to the other way around.