Open Broadcast Software or OBS is free software open source code for streaming audio and video data to the Internet. The program is completely cross-platform and can run on Windows, Linux or MacOS. It's a great alternative for programs like Wirecast and XSplit.
OBS uses a standard real-time messaging protocol for broadcasting, and therefore can broadcast data to any service that supports it, such as Yotube. Despite the wide possibilities of OBS, the program also supports many plugins. In this article, we will look at the best plugins for OBS Studio which you can use.
To find OBS Studio plugins for Video, users will have to browse many forums. To make this task easier, let's take a look at the best plugins that can be used with the program.
Many people are interested in how to install the plugin in obs studio. Everything is very simple here. It is enough to place the plugin folder in the folder with OBS Studio. On Windows, Program FIles are used; on Linux, these files are placed in one of the home folder directories, most often ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins.
1. Browser Source Plugin
With this plugin, you can embed different content into your video streams. These may be web pages SWF files, CSS code and more. In fact, with the plugin, you can render entire websites to a stream and do everything that could be done in a normal browser.
2. Video Source Plugin
With this plugin, you can play various video files from file system straight to the OBS stream. It is possible to constantly play the same file or create a playlist.
3. Simple Scene Switcher
This is a simple OBS Studio plugin to automatically change (area) for a stream. Allows you to switch the scene depending on the active window, select one of the saved areas and much more.
4. DirectShow Audio Source
To use more than two audio devices in OBS Studio, there is a DirectShow plugin. It allows you to record high-quality audio from, for example, a webcam and other audio device. You can also play music from the file system. The plugin allows you to mix multiple audio devices in one stream.
5. CLR Browser Source
This is another plugin for displaying web page content and receiving alerts in OBS Studio. It only works on Windows and has all the same features as the Browser Plugin Source.
6.OBS Remote
This OBS Studio plugin is no less interesting. It allows you to control the program remotely. You can change the contents of the scenes and streaming areas, watch the stream using a browser from a second computer, tablet or smartphone.
7.AMD Advanced Media Framework Encoder
Another plugin for Windows only. It implements modern algorithms for hardware-based video stream encoding on graphic cards from AMD. This allows you to greatly improve the performance of video processing.
8. Text Source Plugin
Like other OBS Studio plugins, or at least most of them, Text Source is designed to display additional information in the main video stream. In this case, it is plain text that can be given various effects. You can customize the text color, text size, shadows, style, and word gap.
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In this article we reviewed the best plugins for obs studio, they will help you make your streams better and show more information in them. Hope this article was helpful for you.
Hello dear friend, today we will start installing the plug-in with the program and setting it up, our goal is to finally launch this donation on our stream and so let's get started. We will need:
The "CLR Browser" plugin is used to display donations, new subscriptions, etc. All this is displayed on the screen during the stream, viewers can see it from a customizable picture and sound alert. For all the buns to work, you need special service for example DonationAlerts.ru.
So let's get back to the plugin itself. To begin with, we should download the latest version of "" from the official website, the plugin already comes with new versions of the program.
Setting BrowserSource in OBS Studio
- 1. After downloading and installing, launch “OBS Studio”, select “Scene Collection” in the upper left corner, select “Create”, enter the name “DonationAlerts”, this collection will be specifically for donation through the DonationAlerts website (there is also a donation service, settings for it can be found on our website)
- 2. Go to donationalerts.ru, go to the “Notifications” tab, click “Show embed link”, a link will appear under this item, copy the link that appears (copy carefully without skipping characters, otherwise nothing will work for you). We do not close the browser and the page; it will still be useful to us.
- 3. We return to "OBS Studio" then click on the "Sources" field right click click, select "Add" -> "Browser", enter a name for example: "Browser-DonationAlerts paid messages" -> "OK" In the "URL" field, replace the link with ours, do not touch anything else, click "OK".
- 4. Now we are testing the setting, for this we go to the site donationalerts.ru in the tab "Alerts" which we have not closed, click on the gear next to the link "Make a test alert". As a result, we see the following result in the "OBS" viewport studio.
For accommodation in right place and window transformation, select "Browser-DonationAlerts paid messages" in the source, select the desired size by dragging the red frame around it, or select a position on the screen by holding the left mouse button inside the frame and selecting a new position.
Setting up the CLR Browser in OBS Classic
- 1. We launch OBS Classic, create a scene, right-click on the scene field, select “Add” -> “Scene” in the list that appears, enter the desired name, for example, the name of the game, save.
- 2. We go to donationalerts.ru in the “Alerts” tab, click “Show embed link”, a link will appear under this item, copy the link that appears (copy carefully without skipping characters, otherwise nothing will work for you). We do not close the browser and the page; it will still be useful to us.
- 3. We return to “OBS Classic”, then right-click on the “Sources” field, select “Add” -> “CLR Browser”, enter an arbitrary name, for example, the site from which the donation is made, in our case, donationalerts.ru
- 4. Next, in the "URL" field, replace the link with ours, do not touch anything else, click "OK".
- 5. Now we need to test our setup, in the "OBS" click on the "Preview" button.
- 6. We go to the site donationalerts in the tab "Alerts" which we have not closed, click on the gear next to the link "Make a test alert".
As a result, we should see this result in the OBS Classic viewport.
To position and transform the window during Preview, select "CLR Browser" in the source, click on the "Change Scene" button and select the desired size and position on the screen, in order to fix the desired result, click "Change Scene" again .
Installing the CLR Browser plugin for OBS.
CLR Browser Plugin necessary to work with services that provide such features as notifications on the stream about, etc.
Here some of my very good friends launched the service Stream-Alert.ru for Twitch streamers. I have already tried one of their widgets " " and it turned out to be very convenient. No more worrying about creating a post before you start streaming.
So, you should already have installed and configured a program for video broadcasting. Now you need for OBS Classic and for .
On the page you will see two download links: 32bit and 64bit. After you have downloaded the desired zip archive, extract its contents to a folder C:\Program Files\OBS\Plugins or C:\Program Files (x86)\OBS\Plugins(if you have 32). Folder path " plugins"You may have a different one, depending on where you installed OBS before.
If the plugin does not work (does not start), then I advise you to update MS Visual C++ and .NET. Links are on the plugin page.
Now start OBS and if in the box " Sources:" it became possible to add "", the plug-in was successfully installed.
In the CLR Browser Options window, in the " URL"insert special widget link, which provides a service (website).
