OBS Studio, recording and live streaming of videos from the desktop

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In the next article we are going to take a look at OBS Studio. This is one cross-platform, free and open source application. Using OBS Studio you can not only record directly from your webcam and microphone, you can also incorporate game scenes, add still images to your videos, capture a window or part of the screen, and much more.

The application will allow us to work with multiple sources, mix between them and create a perfect diffusion. OBS Studio can be used to comfortably share our gaming, art or entertainment activities with Twitch.tv, YouTube, Hitbox.tv, DailyMotion, Connectcast.tv, CyberGame.tv, CashPlay.tv. We can also use custom streaming servers for free.

OBS Studio comes with many internal features that will allow us to produce professional videos. The studio mode will allow us to see the preview and adjust our scenes and sources before making them available to the general public. While using the program, we can choose and set any hotkey combo to start / stop sequences or recordings, switch between scenes, mute audio sources, etc.

General characteristics of OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software)

As I have already said, OBS Studio is a free and high performance open source software with its source code available at GitHub.

We are going to receive support for various streaming platforms. These include Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Hitbox among others. We will also have support for multi-user broadcast profiles. With this application we will be able to switch between different profiles with ease.

Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is written in C and C ++. It will allow us to capture video sources in real time, composition of scenes, encoding, recording and broadcasts. The data transmission can be done through the Real Time Messaging Protocol and can be sent to any destination you RTMP support (for example Youtube).

obs studio running

We will be able to customize the program making use of the light and dark color themes that come with it.

We can quickly set up broadcasts and recordings with a simplified configuration panel. Another feature that should be mentioned is the ability to record and mix video / audio in real time.

We can seamlessly switch between scenes in an unlimited way using custom transitions.

With this software we will also have filter holder using image masks, chroma / color, color correction, etc., with which we can give our videos a more professional touch.

El audio mixer that includes the program is very intuitive. It also includes filters by source, gain, noise gate and noise cancellation, among others.

OBS Studio has an interface that is simple enough that a beginner in video recording and streaming can get going quickly. Anyone who tries it is likely to be delighted with its efficiency, workflow, and extensibility.

Install OBS Studio on Ubuntu

Before proceeding to install OBS Studio in our Ubuntu, we will have to install Ffmpeg so that the program works perfectly (if we don't have it installed yet). To do this, from the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T), we will have to write the following:

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Once the installation is finished, we will add the necessary PPA in order to install OBS Studio. From the same terminal we write the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio

At this point, we can execute the following order (in the same terminal) to be able to enjoy this program on our computer:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install obs-studio

Once the installation is finished and we have launched the application, this will self-configure. The auto-configuration can be chosen between optimizing it to make live broadcasts or to make recordings.

Uninstall OBS Studio

To remove this program from our system, we can open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write the following command:

sudo apt remove obs-studio && sudo apt autoremove

We can delete the installed repository, in the same terminal we will write the following:

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:obsproject/obs-studio

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  1.   Oriol said

    Hello, I am new to OBS and I have been fiddling with it and now on the main screen of the program instead of one screen I get two and I do not know how to recover that only one looks like before, I have looked everywhere but I am able to pull out the screen that has been added. One is called Preview and the other Program and I don't remember the name of the one that only came out before, if preview or Program.

    1.    Oriol said

      I have already solved the problem.

  2.   Oriol said

    I use the OBS to broadcast and I don't know how to be able to talk to my friends through TeamSpeack or Discord and in games our voices are not heard while we talk and I'm broadcasting and only the sound of the game is heard and I don't know how to get it.

  3.   Oriol said

    For those of us who are starting in the OBS, it would be very good to make a video where you can see how to configure the audio of the OBS to be able to stream and if at the same time I am talking with my friends on Discord, Team Speack or Skipe it will not be heard in the direct what we talk and only hear the sound of the game. I've been trying for days but I can't.

  4.   Salvador said

    A task as simple as recording an area of ​​the screen (as any recording software does, as easy as delimiting a rectangle with the mouse and clicking on record) in OBS is a practically impossible task, incredibly complicated. It's counter-intuitive, complicated, cumbersome, and maddening.

  5.   facundo said

    they saved my life

  6.   Nestor said

    Hello, I am trying to install a virtual camera in OBS to transmit by Zoom or Meet, I have ubuntu 20.04 (I am new in this universe)

    1.    Damien A. said

      Hello. I recommend that you take a look at the documentation they offer in the help of the project website. Maybe there you will find an answer to your problem. Salu2.