I've embedded a browser window in an OBS stream on my mac, and it just about ground my computer to a halt; the CPU was pegged at 100%, and using it with Zoom basically meant not using anything else.
Is it just me?
Is it just me?
There is a lot that you can do to optimize OBS streams before you may need to jump to Windows, however :)
But you should check to see if you have activated hardware encoding. Go to "Settings" and "Output", select "Output Mode: Advanced" and then in the "Encoder"-dropdown you should now see an option called "Apple VT H264 Hardware Encoder". That should hopefully help somewhat with CPU.
It crashed the first time I tried to set up the most basic stream on Mac, so I never tried again.