is OBS really that bad?

[notyourpoison]

Hi,
I have always been streaming with OBS on Bongacams and I do like it for many reasons. I'm new to Streamate and so far I have been using their encoder but it is very limited on what you can do; for example: I like my music to be streamed from desktop audio so the quality is higher, rather than through speakers to microphone (does that make sense?)
BUT
I was told if I stream with OBS my placement will be worse, I will have lower amount of people in the room and I can't do cam2cam?

 

[KingMarti]

Hi,
I have always been streaming with OBS on Bongacams and I do like it for many reasons. I'm new to Streamate and so far I have been using their encoder but it is very limited on what you can do; for example: I like my music to be streamed from desktop audio so the quality is higher, rather than through speakers to microphone (does that make sense?)
BUT
I was told if I stream with OBS my placement will be worse, I will have lower amount of people in the room and I can't do cam2cam?

Yep last time I checked obs dosnt get priority placement and c2c only works through their encoder. What I used to do was run my cam through obs using the virtual camera, and then use a virtual audio card to pass the audio from obs into what streamate would consider to be a mic. theres a write up on the blog on my site (in my sig) on how to set it up. So basically the desktop audio and mic input would get sent to streamate as a single audio device (the virtual sound card) and then you do all the control through obs as normal.

Its a fair bit of messing about getting it all set up, but it's the only way as far as I had found to have all the benefits of using obs, without having to give up the priority placement.

 

[Leylasakura]

Yep last time I checked obs dosnt get priority placement and c2c only works through their encoder. What I used to do was run my cam through obs using the virtual camera, and then use a virtual audio card to pass the audio from obs into what streamate would consider to be a mic. theres a write up on the blog on my site (in my sig) on how to set it up. So basically the desktop audio and mic input would get sent to streamate as a single audio device (the virtual sound card) and then you do all the control through obs as normal.

Its a fair bit of messing about getting it all set up, but it's the only way as far as I had found to have all the benefits of using obs, without having to give up the priority placement.

Thanks for that info. Where can I find your blog and does it still allow you to do c2c that way?

 

[KingMarti]

Thanks for that info. Where can I find your blog and does it still allow you to do c2c that way?

you should be able to do everything you can do through the sm web broadcast so c2c should work no problem.

here's a link to the post about the audio pass through https://kingmarti.com/obs-audio-pass-through-tutorial/