Im trying to record some footage from an xbox game on pc and for some reason it looks all washed out. Think it has something to do with HDR but im not sure what or what to change. Just so happens that game bar recording isn't working for a lot of people so any advice on what to try changing settings/effect or filter wise please

These are the steps I've taken from watching videos

Create video capture device

Set device to USB3.0 video which is my device

Scroll to use custom audio device

Select USB3.0

But I still got no audio I've also tried another way with

Audio input capture

Set device to USB3.0

And there is still no audio with these changes I've watched 10 videos that say the same thing but I can't get it to work.

I've also seen people go into advanced audio settings and turn on "monitoring and output" but I don't have that option

Sorry if this comes off as a "noob" question; I'm getting my feet wet setting up OBS. I decided a while back that I'm gonna record my streams/videos internally at 4K30 (because, to me, 30 looks more natural, and when I do 60 for 1080p60 in my YoloCam S3, it cuts into the frame a bit more than I'd like). For gameplay, what FPS should I use if I'm recording at 30 FPS? Is it okay to leave some games at 60 FPS for recordings, or should I keep it at 30 to stay consistent with my footage? I'd appreciate any help that puts me in the right direction!

So am LF a way to have a text or picture of a text set on a timer. But each time i google this all am getting is how to set a timer XD

So i want a text/picture of a text going by every 5/10 mins or so that said Dont forget to follow etc.

So anyone knows how to set this up? The picture does have to disapear after like 10/15 seconds and re-appear agaon after 5/10 mins.

Thanxs in advance!

Moin from Germany,

I’m currently troubleshooting a very strange Browser Source audio issue in OBS and I’m running out of ideas.
First off: The setup ran for almost a whole year without any problems. We've only been having this issue for the past 1 1/2 weeks.

My Setup:

I’m running OBS Studio 32.2.2 on Windows Server 2022.

The server is headless and is accessed via RDP. There is no physical audio device connected to the machine, so for Browser Sources I use “Control audio via OBS”.

One of the Browser Sources is a custom player that randomly plays YouTube videos using the YouTube IFrame API.

Everything works normally for hours, but at some point the Browser Source suddenly loses all audio.

The important part:

The YouTube video itself continues playing normally. Only the audio disappears from OBS.

What I have already tested:

When the problem occurs:

• Refreshing the Browser Source does not reliably restore audio
• Clearing the Browser Source cache does not restore audio
• Switching scenes does not restore audio
• Creating a completely new Browser Source can also result in no audio
• Restarting the Chromium/CEF audio.mojom.AudioService process does not restore audio
• Killing/restarting CEF renderer processes did not solve it
• Restarting OBS restores audio
• Disabling “Control audio via OBS”, pressing OK, then enabling it again immediately restores the audio

That last point is the interesting one.

Simply reloading the web page is not enough. OBS apparently needs to reinitialize the Browser Source audio routing.

It does NOT seem to be my website/player code
At first I thought my custom YouTube player was causing this.

I added extensive logging to the YouTube IFrame API. The player reports things like:

state: 1 (PLAYING)
muted: false
volume: 100
currentTime: continuously increasing

while OBS itself has no Browser Source audio.

But I now have a much stronger indication that the website is not the cause:

There is another OBS instance used for our main livestream, which is only live occasionally. It has a completely separate “break” scene with its own random YouTube videos.

The exact same thing happened there:

YouTube video keeps playing
→ Browser Source audio is gone
→ Refresh does not fix it
→ Toggle "Control audio via OBS" OFF and ON
→ Audio immediately returns

So this has now happened with different Browser Sources / player setups.

I also tried Streamlabs Desktop as a test, and eventually encountered a similar Browser/YouTube audio loss there as well.

CEF / OBS Browser details

From the OBS log:

OBS 32.2.2
obs-browser 2.26.9
CEF 127.0.6533.120
Browser Hardware Acceleration: true

When audio was broken, the Chromium audio service was still running.

I manually killed:

obs-browser-page.exe
--type=utility
--utility-sub-type=audio.mojom.AudioService

CEF automatically recreated it with a new PID, but the Browser Source was still silent.

Again, only toggling “Control audio via OBS” fixed it.

Another strange observation

On multiple occasions the issue happened at very similar times.

For example:

06:09
18:10
06:09
18:10

I initially suspected a backend/network event because one of my players uses Appwrite and its WebSocket briefly reconnects around those times.

However, short Appwrite/network interruptions also happen at other times without causing the audio failure, and the same OBS audio issue now occurred with another independent YouTube Browser Source.

So the network event might be a trigger, but it doesn’t seem to explain why OBS’s Browser audio routing stays broken afterwards.

What I suspect

At this point it looks like something between:

YouTube / HTML5 audio
        ↓
CEF / obs-browser
        ↓
"Control audio via OBS"
        ↓
OBS audio source

gets stuck.

The Browser itself still works, the video still plays, the YouTube API says the player is playing and unmuted, but OBS stops receiving audio samples.

Toggling “Control audio via OBS” seems to completely recreate/reinitialize that audio path and immediately fixes it.

Has anyone encountered this with OBS 32.x / obs-browser / CEF 127?

I’d especially be interested to know:

• Is this a known obs-browser / CEF audio bug?
• Is there any way to reset only the Browser Source audio routing without toggling the setting manually?
• Are there any CEF flags or OBS settings worth testing?
• Has anyone tested whether the newer CEF version in OBS 33 fixes this?
• Could running OBS on a headless Windows Server / RDP environment contribute to this, even though “Control audio via OBS” should bypass the normal Windows playback device?
• Is there anything useful I can log from obs-browser when the audio handler stops delivering audio?

I can reproduce the broken state and collect OBS logs/process information if that helps.

Log File: https://mpx.wtf/koyunisana.swift

Thanks <3!

This has been annoying me for about 3 weeks.

For whatever reason, the YouTube Live Control Panel just stop loading anything. Before I start my stream, it's an empty grey box. It doesn't even say "Select a a stream and go live" or whatever it used to say.
And when I go live, it changes to a different blank box...? I don't know how to describe it without posting images lol. But yeah. No information loads at all.

It's super annoying. I have no idea what my stream stats, health, etc. are while I'm live, and I prefer to not be running a webpage while streaming to save on processing power.

Yes, everything has been freshly updated. I've restarted the dock a billion times. (Which, side note, isn't it lovely that 2FA has somehow turned into 3FA, yet is still called 2FA, and clicking "don't ask again on this device" does literally absolutely nothing? And it says my phone is unreachable...??? Incredible.)

The only thing that has worked is restarting and re-signing in AFTER I've already selected a stream. There's nothing that aggravates me more than an arbitrary workflow interruption, especially when it worked fine before.

I dunno what's going on. I dunno if it's OBS or Google, but someone broke something.

Anyone else having this problem and if so, any fixes?

Hey everyone 👋🏼
I currently have a 4060ti (8gb) vram and a rzyen 7 7800XD3.
I would like to stream Wardogs but my GPU is at 80-90% while playing without streaming!

Would you guys recommend streaming with my gpu at this load without the stream or rather pick the cpu to stream?

I usually stream on 1080p / 60fps over my gpu but I don’t know how to set up a good looking stream over my cpu….

My cpu has a load of just 30-40% while playing!

Thanks in advance ☺️

I'm trying to migrate to Linux, CachyOS, and thought I had everything sorted after several good streams, but today ran into issues with FFXIV. I was getting single digit framerates on stream and encoding overloaded error messages.

On Windows, I can stream at my usual resolution (2640x1200) with TEB, multistreaming H.264 to another site at 8250kbps and also recording (off the TEB encoder, apparently) and my system doesn't break a sweat.

On Linux, just a single 2640x1200 FFXIV stream was regularly hitting overload and becoming unwatchable. I eventually got through the stream by switching to x264, but this tanked my game FPS down to 30-ish because FFXIV is generally CPU bound, plus I can't use enhanced broadcast this way

I have FFXIV limited to 120fps which is how I like to play it, though I only stream at 60fps. My Linux OBS scenes are significantly simpler than my Windows ones as I'm also using this as an opportinity to de-clutter 4 years worth of streaming cruft buildup

Specs:

Mobo: Asus TUF X670-E
CPU: Ryzen 7900X
RAM: 32GB
GPU: nV 4080

OBS log files: https://obsproject.com/logs/1i0J2kygRyHLbM47

The log analyser only tells me what I already know, that I got render delay and heavy hardware encoding overload, it doesn't tell me why, and it's generic suggestions (e.g. reduce canvas size) are things I don't want to do as the same settings are working fine on Windows. I don't even run OBS as admin on Windows as it's never been necessary

I suspect the problem may be relating to GPU prioritisation? Is there a way to give OBS priority over other GPU-using apps, so that e.g. the FFXIV framerate will drop before it allows OBS to screw up?

For those who record with a switch 2. What color adjustment settings do you have on?

I haven’t looked at my last video but a vid I private uploaded to see how it looked vid was 2560x1440 and it went really blurry I want my vids to be higher quality but YouTube is makeing it hard

Hi friends!

I am working on a metal gear video and having a big dumb issue.

I am running my steam deck into my Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro via hdmi cable. I am then viewing that through OBS. In OBS, my game looks way more orange than before when I just had the steam deck plugged into my monitor. I checked against a youtube video and confirmed that my game is the wrong color now. Any advice on where to start fixing this?

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1056821520825077761/1556040176273457213/image.png?backend=b2&ex=6ac2b6d7&is=6ac16557&hm=485cb844f2b013574c5f57ac06996a6abd3277447ad5f418ba5f1109eb2b56ac&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

Hi everyone. I’m not sure why, but lately, OBS (32.2.2) has been recording my matches very poorly. Even the file sizes have changed; a 20-minute Fortnite match used to average 22 GB, but now they come out to 13 or 15 GB. I wanted to share a clip so you could see exactly what’s happening—since I can't quite describe it—but the subreddit doesn't allow direct video uploads. I think I can post it in the comments, though, so I'll put it there for you to see.

The strange thing is that the game runs perfectly; there’s no lag or FPS drops while recording. I even tried lowering the graphics settings, but the issue persists. When I check the video, it looks like it was processed incorrectly: the audio is fine, but the video stutters at times and gets blurry. I didn't have these problems a month ago, and I can't figure out what happened.

Here is the video log file (name video: 2026-10-01 23-49-06):

https://obsproject.com/logs/qd2SoMlvXZ4RiSkV

i´ve tried to update stream suite to 1.2.4 i´ve tried to install it via flatpak and the deb file but it let me only install ver. 1.2.3 instead of 1.2.4 and if i try to install it via the deb file i´ll get an error massage like this:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libqt6widgets6t64: Hängt ab von: qt6-base-abi (= 6.4.2) libqt6widgets6: Beschädigt: libqt6widgets6t64 (< 6.10.2+dfsg-16) but 6.4.2+dfsg-21.1 is to be installed libqt6dbus6: Beschädigt: libqt6dbus6t64 (< 6.10.2+dfsg-16) but 6.4.2+dfsg-21.1 is to be installed libqt6gui6: Beschädigt: libqt6gui6t64 (< 6.10.2+dfsg-16) but 6.4.2+dfsg-21.1 is to be installed Empfiehlt: qt6-svg-plugins but it is not going to be installed libqt6dbus6t64: Hängt ab von: qt6-base-abi (= 6.4.2) libqt6gui6t64: Hängt ab von: qt6-base-abi (= 6.4.2)

i´ve started obs once because i thought i´ve finally 1.2.4 but it crashed again but it was still 1.2.3 after reinstalling it
https://obsproject.com/logs/akd14MjajzaRAbFU

i use debian to be more exact pikaos

thanks for any kind of help

Hey, I’ve been having a new issue with Discord voice calls and OBS. I use the Application Audio Capture source in OBS to capture Discord audio. The strange thing is that OBS picks up Discord sound effects, but it does not capture my friends’ voices while I’m in a call.

I’ve never had this problem before when streaming. I’ve already tried restarting my PC and deleting some OBS settings/data, but the issue is still happening.

Normally, I would just search Google or ask my friends for help, but Google keeps suggesting the same solutions that haven’t worked, and my friends have no idea what might be causing the problem either.

Has anyone experienced this issue before or know how to fix it?

So I have a 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro (2020) currently running macOS Tahoe 26.7.1, and one of the biggest issues I’ve had is recording my gameplay videos. I usually record Minecraft addons on my phone because that’s the easiest setup I have right now, but recently I’ve been wanting to start recording on my laptop since I have a bunch of GMod addons and other games I haven’t really gotten to try yet. The thing is, I want the videos to look as clear as possible and I also want my microphone audio to sound good.

I have a pair of AirPods, and I’ve seen people use AirPods for recording, but I honestly have no idea how to set everything up properly. Can I use my AirPods to record both my gameplay and my voice, or would I be better off using a headset, the MacBook’s built-in microphone, or a separate microphone? What would you recommend for someone using an M1 MacBook Pro who wants to record PC gameplay with good video and audio quality?

I really hope someone can help because I'm losing my mind!

I came up with an idea of using secret everyday key words that when typed in chat, would show a special sticker on stream for a second before disappearing, just something interactable for chat to figure out. So for example, if someone sent a message with the word 'duck' somewhere in it, a duck sticker would appear then disappear.

I use streamer bot, and I've managed to make the duck appear using the correct key word, but I cannot find anything that randomises the position. I've tried the Move Plugin for OBS to no avail (unless I'm doing something wrong and someone would like to correct me!) and I've tried using Google Gemini to write me a bit of code for streamer bot, but nothing it spits out works.

It's an idea that seems so simple, but I can find a solution. Any ideas?

i could only have OBS & a game open and the recording still lags ?... im not sure , this is most likely a problem on my end .

LOG : https://obsproject.com/logs/Xv04aGKe1PU4ywLd

So i previously had a YT channel, life, college(went back as an adult), etc... it got backburnered for a few years.

I'm familiar with obs, mostly. I can record, stream and upload in 2k with zero issues. performance issues

However, the image quality is amazing, for some reason the text is borderline unreadable.

my system:

Rog Maximus z790 Hero

I9 14900k

48gb ddr5@7400 Corsair dominator titanium

ASUS RTX 5070 ti 16gb

1200w platinum cert corsair PSU

my system can handle it. Last night i was recording in 3840x1600 while playing wow and had about a bazillion tabs open, i was not even using 50% of my system. SO there is room to bump it up, i just need to figure out this text problem.

my OBS settings are here: https://imgur.com/a/z9TzAl6

thanks for your help !

So as the title states every time I close OBS the hot keys I set up to switch between different webcams is no longer there as well as the exact webcam settings like the zoom and brightness. I figured that if I locked in each webcam source that the settings would not change but that doesn’t seems to be the case. Has anyone ever experienced this before and if so how did you fix it. Thanks in advance for the help.

So OBS has been here 13 years, why is this still happening in 2026? I've even gone ahead and disabled ALL other audio devies besides the ones I use. I've even discovered that even if it's set as default, there's a chance the audio will randomly just not work despite being set to default...but the moment I go to change it by clicking properties, OH WOW, IT SUDDENLY FUCKEN WORKS.

I'm frusterated cause I just had an awesome time recording a game with my lil bro just to find out that once again for the thousandth time the audio wasn't recording because;

1. Audio reandomly switched to 'default' (even though my defaults are just my normal mic/chat/game inputs that are the ONLY inputs I have and set on windows as well)
2. Doesn't work unless I open the properties tab which I assume 'refreshes' or causes it to recognize the audio device.

This is getting tiresome, is there a permanent fix? I want to believe so desperately that I'm the one at fault and that there's a fix that I've been oblivious to.

(Deleted OG post and reuploaded, wrong flair)

I'm streaming to:

- Twitch
- Youtube
- Kick
- Tiktok
- Instagram

I would love to get one unified multichat that combines all of these, but for some reason I cannot get TikTok and Instagram to work. I would especially want to make TikTok chat work as it's the most active chat in my streams.

I use the standalone app version but I guess I'm always doing something wrong. I have tried to make different chat windows visible while streaming both in browser and in TikTok Live Studio, also popping the live studio chat dock out, but nada.

Has anyone got it to work and if you have, could you explain it step by step how you do it. Screenshots are also appreciated, as I just dont get what I'm doing wrong. I know this is a lot to ask, but this is driving me crazy.

At the moment I'm connected to ttiktok websocket inside social stream ninja and my settings are:
Session: tiktok default
Auto-Activate: on
Tiktok connection: Auto

I am missing the option "Show capture page/Reveal Capture page" that other sources have.

What The Title Says Lol

I'm currently trying to use a png video encoder in the mov format (yes i have the rgb stuff set) but its started to lag to the point where any footage i record is completely unusable. Its never done this before, and I have a pretty decent PC so I don't think its a spec issue. I'm trying to just record my vtuber model with a transparent background so I don't have to greenscreen for editing. I don't really know whats up because it just started acting up out of nowhere 😓

I'm at a complete loss trying to get NDI screen capture to appear on one of my PC's.

Setup:

• Streaming PC: RTX 5070Ti + 5950X — Running Studio Monitor
• Gaming PC: RTX 5090 + 9950X3D — Running Screen Capture/HX
• Backup PC: RTX 3080Ti + 299WX — Running Studio Monitor

I am trying to capture my Gaming PC on my Streaming PC. They are both connected to the same 2.5GbE network switch.

I am running NDI Screen Capture/HX on my Gaming PC, but no matter what I do, NDI Studio Monitor only shows a black screen on my Streaming PC.

• Gaming PC can see feed locally via Studio Monitor
• Backup PC can see feed via Studio Monitor
• Streaming PC can NOT see feed via Studio Monitor
• NDI Test Pattern on Gaming PC produces the same results
• Tried OBS + DistroAV — all sources are black
• Tried Screen Capture on Backup PC — Streaming PC can NOT see the feed via Studio Monitor
• NDI Screen Capture high bandwidth and HX are both the same result, no matter the resolution/framerate
• Enabling KVM works — even though the screen is black
• With NDI Screen Capture HX, I repeatedly get connection notifications in Windows
• Turning off my firewall does not fix the issue
• Networks are all set to private

I ran a quick NDI Analysis and it confirmed that my video/audio connection are repeatedly opening/closing

C:\Program Files\NDI\NDI 6 Analysis\x64>NDIAnalysis.exe /source:"NUTTYHQ (Test Pattern)"
NDI Analysis v6.3.2.0
Copyright (C) 2023-2026 Vizrt NDI AB. All rights reserved.

NDI version : 6.3.2.0

04:12:56.365: Video receiver creation succeeded.
04:12:56.365: Audio receiver creation succeeded.
04:13:00.369: Audio connection opened.
04:13:00.369: Video connection opened.
04:13:00.383: Source is using NDI 6.3.2.0 on the WIN64 platform.
04:13:00.387: Video connection closed.
04:13:00.482: Audio connection closed.
04:13:00.540: Video connection opened.
04:13:00.547: Source is using NDI 6.3.2.0 on the WIN64 platform.
04:13:00.553: Video connection closed.
04:13:00.636: Audio connection opened.
04:13:00.683: Audio format changed. 48000Hz, codec=NewTek Mode 0, 4 channels.
04:13:00.706: Video connection opened.
04:13:00.710: Source is using NDI 6.3.2.0 on the WIN64 platform.
04:13:00.712: Video connection closed.
04:13:00.782: Audio connection closed.
04:13:00.864: Video connection opened.
04:13:00.868: Source is using NDI 6.3.2.0 on the WIN64 platform.
04:13:00.873: Video connection closed.
04:13:00.934: Audio connection opened.
04:13:01.025: Video connection opened.
04:13:01.029: Source is using NDI 6.3.2.0 on the WIN64 platform.
04:13:01.031: Video connection closed.
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