Windows capture not showing all windows

pdchandler

New Member
Hello helpful people ...
Up until today (!) I have been satisfactorily using Text-to-Screen (https://github.com/Klocman/Text-To-Screen/releases) to place words as an overlay to video/image etc. Text-to-Screen does a fairly simple job of placing sections of a textfile on a separate window; I have been using windows capture in OBS Studio. It has a main window and also an output window named [something like] "Text to Screen Output". So what has happened is that the main window is available for capture, not the "Output" window - it's just not in the list of windows available in the Window Capture Source. (I've done quite a bit of googling around the issue, and there's a lot around about the black screen issue - but this not it; the window name is simply no longer in the pull-down list.)

Nothing has happened to Text-to-Screen, as it's latest update was a few years ago. I'm on OBS 26.0.2, and have been for a few weeks. The only system change that I can think of is various windows updates of late. At any rate, a bit of investigation suggests that many more windows or sub-menus registered to the OS than are ever listed in the pull-down list, so I would be guessing that there's a filter going on somewhere.

Any suggestions?

The other thought is that my Text-to-Screen approach works well enough (when it works), but is there a plugin or an alternative approach for this relatively simple task?

Thank you,
 

DanielBMusic

New Member
Same issue, the main app I'm wanting to overlay over my direct video source doesn't show up in the Window Capture drop-down list. Anybody?!?
 
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