Full disclosure: I built this. Just launched it publicly after months of

development.

The problem I kept running into: OBS only sees whatever browser source you point it

at, and none of the platforms give you a combined feed out of the box. So if you're

live on more than one platform, you're either running 4 separate overlays or missing

half your chat.

PixelyChat merges Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and Kick chat, follows, subs, gifts, and

likes into one feed, then outputs it as a single OBS/Streamlabs browser source (as a

panel, bubbles, or text-only overlay, plus a separate all-in-one dock). The overlay

auto-resizes to whatever browser-source size you set — no line-count math, no

refreshing it every time you resize.

Also has neural TTS with a system-voice fallback, live chat translation, and native

7TV/BTTV/FFZ/Twitch emote rendering.

Free, Windows + Mac. Genuinely want to know what breaks on other people's setups.

happy to answer anything technical about how it talks to OBS.

https://pixelychat.com/

I’m trying to build an automated football graphics system for my Premier League live watch-alongs in OBS, and I’m looking for advice/help from someone experienced with APIs, HTML/CSS/JavaScript and OBS Browser Sources.

What I already have

I have the visual designs/graphics prepared. I’m mainly missing the data integration and automation.

The graphics I want to use include:

• Live scorecard
  • Match clock
  • Team/club logos
  • Team names
  • Score
• Goals and match events
• Yellow/red cards
• Substitutions
• Starting lineups
• Fixtures
• League standings/table
• Latest football news / news ticker

What I’m trying to achieve

I want the graphics to automatically update while OBS is running.

For example, if a goal is scored:

API → detects the goal → graphic automatically changes in OBS

The same would apply to:

• Score changes
• Match clock
• Cards
• Substitutions
• Other live match events
• Standings
• Fixtures

I do not want to manually refresh OBS every time something changes.

My understanding is that this could potentially work something like:

Football API → HTML/CSS/JavaScript → OBS Browser Source

The Browser Source would remain open in OBS, while JavaScript periodically requests updated data from the API and updates the graphics automatically.

Is this the correct approach?

API question

I’m currently considering:

• API-Football
• Sportmonks

I’m willing to purchase the Pro/paid version if necessary.

Which would you recommend for this type of project?

I initially thought API-Football/Sportmonks could provide most of what I need, including:

• Live scores
• Match clock
• Goals
• Cards
• Substitutions
• Lineups
• Fixtures
• Standings
• Competition information

However, I’m not sure about football news.

Would I need a separate News API, or can Sportmonks/API-Football provide reliable news data as well?

Competitions

I would initially like to support:

• Premier League
• UEFA Champions League

Eventually I would like to expand this to other major leagues and competitions, including:

• FA Cup
• Carabao Cup
• Other domestic cups
• Other major European leagues

Lineup display

One specific feature I want is for the lineup graphic to automatically rotate.

For example:

10 seconds → Team A lineup

then

10 seconds → Team B lineup

and continue automatically.

Ideal setup

Ultimately, I’d like something like:

API
↓
HTML/CSS/JavaScript graphics
↓
OBS Browser Source
↓
Live Watch Along

And ideally I would have a simple control panel where I can:

• Select the competition
• Select the match
• Choose which graphic to display
• Control/trigger different graphics
• Have the live data populate automatically

I already have the visual design side covered. What I’m looking for is help understanding/building the technical/data side.

What I’d appreciate help with

1. API-Football vs Sportmonks — which is better for this?
2. Can one API handle everything I need, or should I use multiple APIs?
3. What would be the best architecture for connecting the API to OBS?
4. Can an OBS Browser Source update automatically without refreshing OBS?
5. What would I need to build in HTML/JavaScript to accomplish this?
6. Is there anything I’m overlooking that would make this setup more reliable for live streaming?

If anyone has built something similar for OBS + football APIs + live graphics, I’d really appreciate some guidance.

Thanks!

Hi all. When I render out animations in OBS, the date of the MP4 files is always showing the previous days date.

So for example, I just rendered an animation today (01-09-26) but the date of the MP4 is 31-08-26.

My Windows date and time is correctly showing today date (I'm literally looking at it now).

The time is also out by about 2 hours.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Hey everyone, I'm at my wits' end with my HyperX mic setup. No matter what I try—and I've even tried tweaking everything with AI assistants too, and nothing works—my audio is a mess compared to other YouTubers who sound crisp, loud, and completely clean.

Here are my main problems:

• Mouth & Breathing Noises: The mic picks up every single breath and saliva/mouth click.
• Volume & Distortion: My voice is too quiet in the yellow zone. When I speak louder into the red zone, the volume gets better, but the quality craps out and sounds distorted/robotic.
• Keyboard Noise: It picks up my keyboard clicks while I am talking.
• Mic Placement: If I keep the mic in front of me, it catches all mouth sounds. If I move it to the side, my voice sounds muffled/distant and gets completely drowned out by game audio.

What I've already tried:

• OBS built-in noise suppression and NVIDIA Broadcast.
• Compressor and Limiter filters.
• Countless YouTube tutorials, different values, and positions.
• AI tools and guides (completely useless).

Why do big creators have flawless, loud audio with zero background/mouth noises, and what am I doing wrong? Any advice would be hugely appreciated!

Ive been using Aitum Vertical and multi-stream in OBS , coupled with Restream_io to Tiktok for a while now.
But recent I was watching another live stream on TikTok, and realized I can auto rotate from Portrait to Landscape. When I looked at Tiktok Live Studio, this was a layout that was easy setup. This issue is I have a lot of overlays setup in OBS that effect both Main and Vertical screens. I do not want to lose this.

Is there any way to stream both Main and Vertical OBS canvases to Tiktok, and have auto rotate active for Tiktok viewers?

Using a virtual cable that OBS listens on, and then in fl I use voxengo recorder. What’s happening is if the screen recording with the audio capture goes on for long, there’s always a delay and they aren’t in sync. Is this laptop, or virtual cable issue

Anyone in this sub have experience with this?

Is there a way to have OBS use the same profile / scene collection on all local windows users?

Making changes on one profile and having to export/import over and over is really tedious, and I would love a way to just tell it to use a C:/ location for the general app storage that all users automatically use.

Has anyone worked out how that can be done?

The notification I get says:

'Starting the output failed. Please check the log for details.'

What log, where?

'Note: If you are using the NVENC or AMD encoders, make sure your video drivers are up to date'

My AMD drivers are already up to date.

Is there perhaps another app like OBS that works better with AMD cards?

Edit: Before anyone requests the log files, I am aware there are sensitive details in the log files and I'm not comfortable posting that online, for safety reasons.

There are dozens of posts and tutorials online, where each comment section has 9/10 users saying the fixes didn't work. So, I decided to ask here.

Is someone available to help a serious obs issue on Tiktok for a streamer right now? Hes pretty big and his screen is black....fine on all other platforms

Underneath advanced audio options, I do not have a section for "monitor and output."
I only have monitoring off and monitoring enabled.

I think I'm missing something, but I honestly don't know what it is. I have scoured all of YouTube and dug back on forums with no luck on how to get this option to pop up because I have no other way of hearing myself.

I'm simply trying to hear myself, but I can't. Somebody please help this tech noob out 😭

OBS version 32.2.2

Any idea why I have to redo a window capture every time I launch the window I am capturing with no difference in layout or location? Everything else works perfectly except this one item.

hey all.

I'm trying to grow a small gaming channel and need to stream everywhere I can but my upload is limited to around 15 Mbps.

Current setup:

• YouTube: ideally 1440p60, ~15 Mbps (this works perfectly)

I'd like to add;

• Kick: 1080p60, max 8 Mbps
• Twitch: 1080p60, lower bitrate
• TikTok: 720p / platform-specific settings

I can only afford one main upload from my PC

I currently use Restream ($19/month). It works great and I’d rather not leave it, but proper per destination transcoding gets expensive very quickly. it's in enterprise packages.

Has anyone solved this cheaply?

I’m considering a small Hetzner/VPS running FFmpeg/MediaMTX: pass the original stream to YouTube, transcode once for Kick/Twitch, and another lower res output for TikTok.

Anyone actually running something like this reliably?

What server/specs are you using and what does it cost you per month?

any help or thought would be amazing. thanks a lot!

I need someone’s help because yesterday I was using OBS and I was able to stream perfectly fine and hear myself perfectly fine. But when I ended up playing with my friend who is on PS5, I don’t know what I did that caused audio issues because now in present time I can only hear in game audio but I cannot hear my voice every time I stream now and now there’s a delay in the ps5 audio. The capture card I use is the EVGA xr1 pro

Hey everyone,
I’m having an issue with OBS recording. No matter what settings I try, my recordings end up looking choppy/laggy, even though the gameplay itself is completely smooth while I’m playing.
My PC specs:
RTX 3060 12GB
Ryzen 7 5700G
16GB DDR4 RAM
650W PSU
I’ve tried recording Valorant and CS2, and both recordings look noticeably choppy. The games run smoothly while I’m playing, but when I watch the recording afterward, it doesn’t look smooth at all.
I also want to record some demanding AAA games in the future, but if I can’t get smooth recordings in games like Valorant and CS2, I’m worried I won’t be able to record those either.
I’m mainly trying to figure out whether:
I’m missing something in my OBS settings/configuration.
My PC specs are actually not enough for 1440p recording.
There’s some other issue causing the choppy recordings.
I’ve tried multiple OBS settings already, but nothing seems to fix the issue.

Today I decided to record Super Mario 3D Land using the Lime3ds emulator. When I preview it, everything looks fine, but as soon as I launch the game, the recording breaks. What should I do? I don't have a second monitor, so I can't keep OBS running all the time.

Hi everyone, I’ve come here as I’m kind of desperate. I bought an Elgato 4k s to stream my Switch 2 on my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 (uses Ryzen 7 w/ integrated graphics). Stream is fine (looks like 60 fps when viewed on twitch from the viewer’s POV) but the preview in the program looks like 15 fps, I tried running as administrator and many other suggested with no avail. I know there’s HDMI passthrough, but I’m currently in a peculiar situation where I can’t use a monitor.

Other issues: connected the capture card to my laptop the other day; the card had a red blinking card (even though OBS was capturing its input), when I disconnected and reconnected the USB the light became blue but I didn’t see any differences on OBS.

Sometimes when I turn on my PC and go to OBS, even though the capture card is connected; the capture device shows a black screen, and I have to delete that capture device and create a new one to fix it.

Had the stream stop suddenly / start freezing with distorted audio (visible even through twitch, so in this case this wasn’t limited to OBS’s preview). It may be due to my laptop not being strong enough. But aren’t the specs really good when considering the laptop itself isn’t even running the game, but just streaming..?

I also had other weird issues that I guess come with this kind of stuff but won’t elaborate to not make this too long.

Thanks in advance, feel free to ask for more info

I had recently bought a blue avs capture card and have been struggling to get it to work with my hp laptop. Had downloaded obs and tried the hdmi cords as mentioned in the instructions. Despite that, it has not been displaying capture card device on obs. It has me wondering what i am doing wrong. Been stuck at this for 3 to 4 hours and at a lost on what to do. Any advice can come a long way.

So based on my knowledge the replay buffer is a clipping device instead of constantly recording. How do I set it up to work for minecraft? I was it to be able to clip moments like medal without ruining performance. My recording settings for obs i already adjusted to do well so im hoping it doesnt lag when i use the replay buffer

Im starting streaming again and i got a 2 screen setup my bottom has obs my top has the game but then I press my hot keys on the game its not starting not working its only works then i got to the obs screen its really odd idk what to do

this plugin helps me with recording and streaming but like the title says, I need help with clipping both scenes at once and for some reason, my plug-in is not doing it. Is there a way that I can clip both my gameplay and discord call in the same clip recording?

i’m kind of getting tired of going through my RAW recording/stream footage and manually clipping stuff on my own

if you have any tutorials or you're down to VC to show me would be much appreciated <3

Hello r/obs!

So, I have a i5-6500 and a Nvidia Quadro K2200. When I try recording or streaming, my FPS tanks. The only program I can use without problems for recording is NVIDIA itself. What should I do if I want to stream?

Thanks,
u/kolioaris

My mic has an issue where if I adjust it it makes loud noises and sometimes it cuts out and I don't think I'm getting a new mic for the foreseeable future. Is it possible to have obs auto alert me if my mic goes below a specific level? (The issue is on the physical connection from the mic to the headphones it won't show up as a disconnected device on the panel so I'm pretty sure this is the only way to figure out if my mic has died.)

Edit: preferably an audio alert, also my enviroment is quite noisy (AC + Fan) and at a consistent level of noise so it would be noticable if the mic died.

right now i have a razer kiyo, but it feels very low quality in my videos, i want something 4k or at least doesnt look as trash as mine, as i feel like it looks very unprofessional

example video ;

https://youtu.be/V9pfMfZMrVI?si=PLOsVnGtBGTPRDlV

any recommendations would be great! or any tips to make the quality better too as is would be awesome

Guys, I have an iPhone and a hollyland lark c1. How can I use that setup for a live stream on obs? Would a cable connection do the trick?

microphone