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OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

113 mentions on Hacker News by 80 people: 33 stories, 80 comments · first 2014-02-04 · latest 2026-10-25

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  1. …OBS in Wayland rather unpleasant in practice; https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-81504 (via https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4295 )
    comment by halz · 2021-03-31 · in OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support
  2. As far as I am aware OBS [1] did a complete rewrite: - Old: https://github.com/jp9000/obs - New: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio [1]: https://obsproject.com/
    comment by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF · 2021-02-19 · in Ask HN: Do you know any stories of successful large rewrites?
  3. How does this work? https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2484 Is it just basically a backdoor going through the hardware? Is there some way that a compositor works with Linux security so that you need a special privilege or root…
    comment by ilaksh · 2021-02-02 · in I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
  4. …Glimesh are going to be looking at moving away from FTL themselves. See the discussion on this PR: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/3834
    comment by dodgepong · 2021-01-04 · in Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
  5. …there's a lot of bunk that goes around on social media. OBS is working but is not fully tested yet: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2484/ (Disclaimer: I did some of the work on this port)
    comment by cycloptic · 2020-12-20 · in On the Graying of Gnome
  6. > It's a simpler to use OBS https://obsproject.com/ https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
    comment by chewzerita · 2020-11-25 · in Mmhmm
  7. …[1]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html#heading_toc_j_3 [2]: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2484#issuecomm...
    comment by mkhalil · 2020-10-28 · in On Abandoning the X Server
  8. …developers. However there is already work being done for OBS supporting Wayland natively[1]. [1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2482
    comment by mariusor · 2020-10-01 · in OBS Studio 26.0
  9. and they get 10k bounties from time to time https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568 * once ;)
    comment by akerro · 2020-09-30 · in OBS Studio 26.0
  10. …installation it is impossible to make it record either whole screen or just a selected window. [1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2471 [2] https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/14
    comment by xvilka · 2020-09-30 · in OBS Studio 26.0
  11. There is a way to capture Wayland https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/1758 I'm hoping this eventually gets merged in. This would not only allow capturing Wayland, but also capturing games without affecting the performance too…
    comment by Jnr · 2020-09-30 · in OBS Studio 26.0
  12. …OSs have very different strategies for this? Yup. Check out their capture "source" plugins: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins... https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins...…
    comment by genpfault · 2020-07-14 · in How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
  13. …now there is an open issue about a performance degradation in the last versions of OBS for macOS. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2841 I don't know if it is correlated to your problem though.
    comment by buglite · 2020-06-03 · in OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
  14. …want to show the contents of a single window, you would add a "window capture" item to your scene: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki/Sources-Guide#... ...then select "VirtualCam" from the Tools menu, and click "Start" to start…
    comment by rzzzt · 2020-06-03 · in OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
  15. OBS will probably be able to do what you want[1]. 1 - https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
    comment by AsyncAwait · 2020-05-19 · in Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
  16. …to make entirely custom virtual cameras and when Shopify's CEO offered $10k for feature support. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568
    comment by ckdarby · 2020-04-26 · in Virtual webcam – play a video in e.g. Zoom
  17. I found the chroma key implementation, but this seems to assume you have a green screen or similar: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins... I thought GP was asking for an implementation of background removal without…
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2020-04-25 · in Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen
  18. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
    comment by kumarm · 2020-04-25 · in Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen
  19. For Linux and Windows yes. There are plugins that can create a virtual cam https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568#issueco...
    comment by seedie · 2020-04-08 · in Jitsi Meet features update
  20. …for cross platform virtual camera for OBS - https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634 - https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568 - https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15 via dashesyan…
    comment by Scottopherson · 2020-04-07 · in Share OBS output as a webcam in Hangouts, Zoom etc
  21. …feature and it's getting lots of traction. https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634 https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568 https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15
    comment by xal · 2020-04-01 · in OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
  22. There is an even cooler pull request that adds zero-copy screen capture. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/1758 I think this is a better way to go to get the same performance and low latency gaming capture as on Windows with…
    comment by Jnr · 2020-04-01 · in OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
  23. …for cross platform virtual camera for OBS https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634 https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568 https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15
    comment by dashesyan · 2020-04-01 · in OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
  24. …for rendering. For those interested, there is an open PR here to add native EGL/Wayland support: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2484 For wlroots compositors there is also the wlrobs plugin, which can be used if you don't…
    comment by cycloptic · 2020-04-01 · in OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming
  25. …apt-get update sudo apt-get install obs-studio sudo apt install qtbase5-dev git clone --recursive https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio.git git clone https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-v4l2sink.git cd obs-v4l2sink mkdir build && cd build…
    comment by jnwatson · 2020-02-10 · in Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming
  26. Free and Open Source GPLv2 (the O is for Open even): https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
    comment by buildzr · 2019-08-14 · in Goodbye, Green Recorder
  27. …just as crucial as the first line. Take for example a recent commit to the OBS project on GitHub: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/commit/26d5560da3b7... The exact commit is as follows: libobs: Add scene item grouping Allows the…
    comment by enzanki_ars · 2018-06-23 · in GitLab 11 released
  28. Github: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio
    comment by brudgers · 2017-01-27 · in Open Broadcaster Software – OSS for Video Recording and Live Streaming
  29. I coded the Blackmagic support for OBS Studio. It was only slightly nightmarish. https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins/dec...
    comment by Hytosys · 2016-06-27 · in Cheap HDMI capture for Linux
  30. …to be cross platform and because the old codebase was pretty bad, so I guess you could contribute https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio
    comment by Ambrosia · 2014-02-04 · in Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO