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Re:OBS – Open Broadcaster Software by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:24AM (#31832001)
Unless OBS (or FFMpeg or GStreamer) is giving you something you need (maybe correction on your camera or some touch up filters or whatever), I'm not sure if you (the royal "you") really need OBS for this setup.

I also have a very similar setup. High quality webcam, high quality headset, and a few lights pointing into my face to offset the lighting in the room. I have Zoom configured to use original audio and turn off echo cancellation and most audio postprocessing as the headset pretty much does everything I need audio wise. I've even had my partner talking in the same room and others on my VC haven't heard a thing.

My webcam needs almost no touch-up. While I can stream at 1080p easily (and do so with friends over FFMpeg and an RTSP server), Zoom (and I'm guessing Meet) will frequently downsample your webcam output when in a VC with multiple participants to save on bandwidth. A 1:1 chat can have you streaming in full 1080p glory, but I don't ever need a post-processing layer atop my webcam.

The setup is as easy as me turning on my camera and putting on my headset. Make sure you are using Ethernet so you don't run into AP congestion, especially if you have others in the house doing VC as well. But yeah modern high quality VC is almost completely plug-and-play.

Re:OBS – Open Broadcaster Software by linker3000 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:10AM (#31833263)
I do technical pieces to camera for training material and also live work at STEM shows (Raspberry Pi Jams, Arduino chats and other tech stuff), and have a three monitor setup.

Screen 2 will be running any apps I need to show (coding etc.) and screen 3 is at the back of the workbench, which has a downward facing camera so I can show me working on the boards and other electronics.

Switching scenes from main cam to what's on screen 2 to the workbench is very handy, even without a dedicated key pad.

The only hassle is that under Linux, OBS sometimes forgets the camera device designations on startup and I have to pull out the USB connections, re-plug and then go into both camera definitions and re-select the right cameras.

I have device video and audio sink definitions behind he scenes so that the video and audio can be fed to virtual devices inside Zoom or Teams etc.

Edit: Oh, and I have a client plugin which allows me to use my Android phone camera as a roving webcam to highlight things on the workbench such as a scope screen, power supply current reading etc.

All works quite well.

Re:OBS – Open Broadcaster Software by loudmax on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:35AM (#31835248)
If you haven't looked into this already, I'd recommend checking out how to write a udev rule for your USB devices. There's probably a way to lock them down so OBS identifies them consistently.

The Arch wiki has fairly in-depth instructions for understanding how udev rules work https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/udev

Re:OBS – Open Broadcaster Software by bavell on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:13AM (#31837093)
Re:OBS – Open Broadcaster Software by sundvor on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:28AM (#31832379)
Nice setup!

OBS scenes is the killer feature for me, so it just works well. In addition the AFK one I've also set a couple of zoom levels that frame me better if I decide to slide my seat back a bit.

I even have scenes for sprint planning estimation sessions. 1-3-5-8 etc superimposed over my picture. :D (they are numbered buttons on the Streamdeck).

Re:OBS – Open Broadcaster Software by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:42AM (#31832447)
Aha now that's an interesting way to do it. I guess in my setup, and my room geometry, I don't need to generally have specific scenarios ready for, say, planning so just turning my stuff on through Zoom is fine.

I do love reading about all these setups though. I feel like so many tech companies and software engineers are new to remote work that these tips can go a long way to interfacing effectively with coworkers. At least in my case it was trial and error until I got what I wanted.

Re:OBS – Open Broadcaster Software by stavros on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:18AM (#31835061)
What's the latency like?

Also, do you know what keystrokes the Stream Deck actually sends? Is it some ctrl-alt-whatever combo, or MIDI, or what?