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That's pretty fast for a beta released yesterday. Are the devs actively monitoring and reverse engineering every binary released that related to streaming? Also, where can I get the live studio executable? None of the links I found works, is that public release?

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I'm the one on the OBS team who originally found this. I saw a tweet yesterday from someone that's in the beta, and as with any desktop live streaming software (and especially with "Studio" in the name) I was curious if they were using any OBS Studio code or if it was developed all in-house. The download link is available in their JS, you can find the most recent installer link here: https://tron-sg.bytelemon.com/api/sdk/check_update?branch=ma... (note: you probably won't be able to actually use it without being in the beta group)

Without even installing it, opening the setup files showed some immediate red flags, notably the "GameDetour64.dll", "Inject64.exe" and "MediaSDKGetWinDXOffset64.exe" look awfully similar to the way the OBS Studio game capture hooks work with our "graphics-hook64.dll", "inject-helper64.exe" and "get-graphics-offsets64.exe". I don't jump straight in to disassembling everything I come across, but when it's this obvious it begs further investigation, and after some disassembly I was able to confirm that OBS code was present in their binaries.

This is why I HN. Thank you for that clear account of the discovery, funny what a little curiosity can lead to.

Not masking the names further makes me wonder if whoever actually implemented this may not have been aware of the repercussions.

Reminds me how I caught someone stealing my mod code. Same variable names, and whereas I used spaces for indentation when most used tabs, this guy also coincidently also used spaces in the same areas.

I challenged him on it and he played dumb.

Thanks for reading my blog :)

> most used tabs

who uses tabs? o.O

Wow this is amazing, thanks for digging in and doing this work. If this were Reddit, I would give you a gold award, but since this is HN, all I have to give is my 1 upvote.

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