OBS Studio

“It was really pleasant to have this all "just work" end-to-end on both Linux and Windows stacks.”

“I genuinely like OBS, and have liked it for a while, but it definitely took some getting used to.”

“it’s FOSS, makes excellent video quality, and after some initial setup of my scenes it is very easy to make new videos”

“it is great to see a piece of open source software as the default choice”

“OBS virtual camera its one of my fav features with masking etc”

“I just went ahead and donated to OBS Studio explicitly mentioning this policy as a reason”

“Nothing unexpected happened. I watched all 9 minutes and 28 seconds of it and it looks and sounds exactly as I would expect.”

“it just makes it so easy to screen capture slides (even under wayland) and combine it with different video/audio inputs”

“OBS is IMO much more stable and aimed at live streaming anyway.”

“it's really designed to composite video from a bunch of different places and broadcast the result”

“It's so far ahead of proprietary apps in so many areas, it's incredibly impressive”

“OBS continues to show how much attention to detail matters in open-source software.”

“It's a little painful to keep checking and sometimes re-add display source to get the default screen and voice recording working.”

“applications like OBS, where they bundle modified libraries to fix problems and then distributions unbundle them and release broken packages”

“It often has issues picking up overlays because there isn't really any synchronisation”

“It's a minor hassle to set up the first time, and is ready to re-use thereafter.”

“obs audio filters with stacked vsts and routing filters can unironically do this programs job better”

“The latency is so fine that I play Windows games over a capture card using OBS as the monitor.”

“This essentially lets me use my Mac as a monitor for my headless desktop”

“I stand corrected and I take it back as I did an update and the error is nowhere to be found.”

“It gives you a lot of flexibility, but it can take some work to make things look "nice."”

“had a bunch of people come in with issues that only existed in the Debian version”

“I screen record with OBS on both KDE and GNOME on multiple machines with no issues”

“offers a variety of solutions including some rather exciting looking process injection”

“In the end if you want to capture browser video - use OBS or ffmpeg with nvenc or something”

“It's great being able to slap some text over a scene, or have two computers up at once in a half-and-half arrangement.”

“Thanks to the api you can do quite complex (or wacky) streams with obs.”

“Once you have OBS installed, you have pretty much zero reason to use start-g or cmd-shift-5.”

“OBS is a great solution if you're on a budget or doing very simple streams”

“I like how OBS has subsumed (often low-quality) screen recording apps for me”

“some FOSS alternatives like Blender, OBS, Krita are becoming equal or better than the competition”

“I installed on all of my workstations for its screen capture and virtual camera features.”

“render performance has been fine on macos and linux even with older hardware”

“After about an hour of troubleshooting settings I gave up and used OBS”

“this is still welcome news. It is far easier than getting hardware encoding working”

“If you want to record from OBS, you have to re-encode the video for Resolve”

“FFmpeg and OBS are extremely powerful tools, but they require local installation, CLI knowledge, and manual configuration.”

“You should use OBS to screen record rather than video your computer screen with your phone”

“Crucially, the cheap composite capture devices are rubbish and have terrible drivers as well, while the cheap HDMI capture + OBS Just Works.”

“I recorded it with OBS studio and the resulting video looks very good.”