What's "OBS?"
That would be valuable information.
That would be valuable information.
It allows you to layer your inputs and different overlays together to create a single video output that includes things such as video games, webcam feed, etc. The video output is typically either recorded straight to video file for upload to youtube, or for streaming directly to a supported streaming service.
It's not purely used for video games, mind you.
In this case I believe the idea is that you would use OBS on your local workstation to setup your own web cam and a view of your desktop / work space for the purposes of peer development etc, and then pipe that out as a virtual webcam to other software that only support webcams as inputs.
That's my guess for what's going on here. Hope someone gets some good money from this.
Indeed. I also use it to stream sports with the scores as an overlay, and to record training videos.
Basically if you're doing anything "live" with video, it's the tool you want.
The more complex the setup, though, the more likely you'd need additional people working the controls. (But also, the more flexibility and conveniences you get).
Also, for development, why dont people ssh into a shared server and multi tmux together? Thats a kind of screen sharing.
You're solving the wrong problem. :-)
I was actually trying to get this working for myself because I'm doing a presentation in a few days and I'd like to be able to swap between myself full screen, and then either the slides or another piece of software with my face in a smaller area. If a "virtual webcam" tool was available for OS X I would be able to pipe that into Zoom.
I could just do a screen share and switch back and forth but I want to do something a little more polished.
Says you.
Do you actually not believe that other people may have goals/motivations/needs that you don't understand or see as necessary?
I concur that letting non-obvious abbreviations stand is a bad thing because it wastes the time of N readers who would need to look it up while it saves the effort for 1 writer who already knows and only has to write it out. This is inefficient.