Streaming and Recording
So I am curious what thoughts are on streaming and recording at the same time with OBS. More specifically if you prefer doing a double wide scene for a face cam and gameplay for recording or using something like source record? If you do a double wide I would assume that is more for recording purposes. Source record is nice, but I have always had issue with either the encoder starting to overload or OBS just crashing. I am really just curious how people do edits with things like their face cam for recordings while also streaming? Hopefully that makes sense. Ideally I would like to simply record game, and face cam, then also stream a scene. However I believe that is a lot at once.
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It would be sick if OBS allowed you to encode the different sources in your layout into different video streams in the recording but I don't know if it supports that
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Source Record
Download
Plugin for OBS Studio to add a filter that allows you to record a source.
Add "Source Record" filter to your source.
Installation
Copy and merge the folders that are in the download zip to the OBS folder for example:
C:\Program...
Can it do what I said though and have multiple sources in the same video file as separate video tracks
I guess you can just merge files with ffmpeg
Why would you want that though
The issue is you'll be writing data to the same file which I'm pretty sure you can't do in any scenario
I am just trying to find the most efficient way of recording videos for youtube but also stream. I just want more control over the face cam and game footage for the recording. More so than like just an exact 1:1 of the stream. Mostly if I want to edit something with my facecam.
Nowadays you should just use Source Record for each source you want to record separately from others
So in total you could have something like:
- 1 stream (or multiple that are scaled down with the Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting beta)
- 1 recording of the current scene including all the audio tracks
- 1 source record of your gameplay source
- 1 source record of your facecam source
Yeah I've had nothing but issues with source record crashing obs.
Also wouldn't that be one more encoder than available. I thought GPUs had the capability of three