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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. ▲ 2
    OBS Studio 27.2
    story by ghishadow · 2022-02-14 · 0 comments
  2. …-- (This and 2 other videos are linked in PR conversation tab: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875 )
    comment by syspec · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  3. Yes, and the author was asked to base the PR on 5155: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875#issuecomm... And it looks like they're just going to set the PR to a draft until after 5155 is merged, so it will get cleaned up and…
    comment by da_chicken · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  4. It's in the commit message, so it will get stored: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875/commits/5...
    comment by timdorr · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  5. …as soon as we are able. I would nevertheless expect for all of this to take quite a while. [0] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155 [1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155#issuecomm...
    comment by lelandfe · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  6. …which adds Apple Silicon and Universal Binary builds, the mentioned commit is part of that PR. [0] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155/commits
    comment by Diskutant · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  7. It's in the commit message: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875/commits/5...
    comment by madmoose · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  8. …request description [1] already provide ample description of why the changes are being made? [1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875
    comment by michaelt · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  9. In this case it looks their work is based on another branch not yet merged ( https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155 which adds support for Apple Silicon) - and the commit is from there.
    comment by n3_ · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
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    OBS: Improve window capture support on macOS 12.3
    story by tosh · 2022-01-28 · 0 comments
  11. This commit in the PR https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875/commits/8... provides an excellent example of why commit messages matter. This is more than 1000 lines diff to the build system (and thus potentially very dangerous…
    comment by pilif · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  12. The pull request page might be more readable: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875
    comment by caaqil · 2022-01-28 · in Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
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    Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit
    story by frankjr · 2022-01-28 · 188 comments
  14. …I also use this setup with gaming consoles so that I don't have to dedicate an entire monitor. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
    comment by cowtongue · 2021-12-19 · in Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM
  15. A link to that commitment for those who are looking: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/COMMITM... I'd encourage you to also adopt the FSF/SFC's "Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement":…
    comment by pabs3 · 2021-12-18 · in TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
  16. …or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights. """ https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/COPYING
    comment by 1_player · 2021-12-17 · in TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
  17. …They will never be on the hook for court ordered damages going back years for unlicensed use. [1]: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/COMMITM...
    comment by londons_explore · 2021-12-17 · in TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
  18. …[2]: https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/+/refs/heads/main/module... [3]: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins... [4]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus [5]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435042 [6]: htt
    comment by HMH · 2021-10-03 · in PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack
  19. …OBS directly interfaces with pipewire (which is very much platform specific and low level), see: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/4287/files
    comment by HMH · 2021-09-28 · in OBS Studio 27.1.1
  20. …they are platform-specific. Platform builds are handled by CMake to only include relevant plugins: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins...
    comment by dodgepong · 2021-09-28 · in OBS Studio 27.1.1
  21. It looks like they have their own library for low level stuff ( https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/libobs ), but for the most part rely on ffmpeg's library for all the platform-specific video, audio, etc. stuff (…
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2021-09-28 · in OBS Studio 27.1.1
  22. Looks to be managed here https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins Pretty clean source tree to reference :) Seems to be unique per OS and not dependent on third party projects.
    comment by xconverge · 2021-09-28 · in OBS Studio 27.1.1
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    OBS Studio 27.1.1
    story by bdz · 2021-09-28 · 71 comments
  24. this PR https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/4287 suggests OBS uses it for wayland screen capture.
    comment by patrickthebold · 2021-06-23 · in PipeWire Under the Hood
  25. …it was ever completed. EDIT: looks like OBS officially supports it for Mac and Linux since 26.1 - https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/26.1.0
    comment by myguysi · 2021-06-02 · in OBS Studio 27.0
  26. Wow that seems like a significant feature. I'm surprised it is not mentioned in the release notes: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.0.0
    comment by haberman · 2021-06-01 · in OBS Studio 27.0
  27. …able to use hardware encoding does save a lot of CPU cycles when streaming at higher bitrates! [1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4170
    comment by geerlingguy · 2021-06-01 · in OBS Studio 27.0
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    OBS Studio 27.0
    story by TangerineDream · 2021-06-01 · 117 comments
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    OBS Studio – open-source Studio Software
    story by axiomdata316 · 2021-04-15 · 0 comments
  30. …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
  31. 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?
  32. 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
  33. …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
  34. …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
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    OBS Studio 26.1
    story by haunter · 2020-12-14 · 1 comment
  36. > It's a simpler to use OBS https://obsproject.com/ https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
    comment by chewzerita · 2020-11-25 · in Mmhmm
  37. …[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
  38. …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
  39. 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
  40. …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
  41. 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
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    OBS Studio 26.0
    story by haunter · 2020-09-29 · 154 comments
  43. …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
  44. …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
  45. …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
  46. 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]
  47. …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
  48. 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
  49. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
    comment by kumarm · 2020-04-25 · in Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen
  50. 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