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Experimental BW Capture plugin for OBS

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R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-02 04:45:46
January 02 2013 04:44 GMT
#1
Streaming BW has always been a pain due to the full screen color palette, necessitating windowed mode or some ugly hacks to get it working. I wrote a plugin for OBS (obsproject.com) that captures full screen BW and performs the proper palette conversions. Unfortunately it isn't perfect, for some reason the out of game palettes have incorrect values, but the in-game palettes I tested seemed fine. The cursor will also not be visible in battle.net screens.

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Download:
http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/BWCapture.zip

Put it in your 32-bit OBS/plugins/ folder, a new source option called Brood War Capture should then become available. Will not work with w-mode, only normal full screen BW.

Note this isn't tested much at all and is very much still proof-of-concept stage, as I only have a single monitor to work with here it was impossible to tell if this was actually working properly. Let me know!
AdministratorTwitter: @R1CH_TL
Cele
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany4016 Posts
January 02 2013 04:47 GMT
#2
wow, this is great. Will it be used for TLS? :D
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Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
January 02 2013 05:00 GMT
#3
I gave this a go and it crashed OBS

Using windows 8

this is the screen i got when it crashed (with the dll in)
http://i.imgur.com/dSAnC.png

i clicked retry, and it crashed, and i got this crash report

http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Kiante/OBSCrashLog20130102_3.txt
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R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-02 05:01:30
January 02 2013 05:01 GMT
#4
Oh, you need to be using one of the OBS test builds due to API changes.

http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=68
AdministratorTwitter: @R1CH_TL
Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
January 02 2013 05:01 GMT
#5
oh okedoke i'll update
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EchOne
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2906 Posts
January 02 2013 05:01 GMT
#6
Thanks R1CH! I hope this helps people who've only been able to stream BW in windowed mode so far.
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WhuazGoodJaggah
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Lesotho777 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-02 10:01:46
January 02 2013 09:54 GMT
#7
ASWESOME! Makes me even sader that fucking microsoft doesn't release dx10 for winXP.

EDIT: couldn't get it to work, Win7 x64, screen stays black T_T
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Monokeros
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States2493 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-02 11:47:07
January 02 2013 10:42 GMT
#8
Mine didn't show up on the source list when I right click do you just put the dll in the plugins folder or do you need to make a seperate folder inside it?

Edit:nevermind i restarted my computer and it shows up now.
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partouf
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Netherlands405 Posts
January 02 2013 11:27 GMT
#9
from screenshots it seems just 1 color from the palette not working? I don't know if you published the source anywhere, but might be just a tiny oversight someone else might pick out from code review
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mca64[KDV]
Profile Joined May 2012
Poland463 Posts
January 02 2013 11:39 GMT
#10
nice, but most streamers uses Xsplit... Is there any chance to upgrade your plugin resource for FS?
Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
January 02 2013 11:48 GMT
#11
change to OBS, it's better
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mca64[KDV]
Profile Joined May 2012
Poland463 Posts
January 02 2013 12:53 GMT
#12
What is better?
puppykiller
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States3130 Posts
January 02 2013 13:13 GMT
#13
I would be curious to see how well this works. I am starting to regret having made the decision to switch to w-mode.
Why would I play sctoo when I can play BW?
mca64[KDV]
Profile Joined May 2012
Poland463 Posts
January 02 2013 13:16 GMT
#14
tried to test it but my GPU isnt supported
Monokeros
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States2493 Posts
January 02 2013 13:21 GMT
#15
I've been using uscreencapture up until now and it haven't had any issues, aside from the initial regedit to get the reso right. Is there anything specific that this does differently? I noticed that it captures the actual game instead of just a "work-around" that uscreencapture is where it just captures that section of your monitor instead.
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Black[CAT]
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Malaysia2589 Posts
January 02 2013 14:23 GMT
#16
uscreencapture makes me unable to use my webcam, webcam can't capture anything, just black screen only. So this plugin will be the best once its perfected :D
You mean ESPORTS isnt a synonym for SC2? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Proud owner of a Filco Majestouch 2 with Cherry Blue Switches- BW or SC2? Why not both?
Skeggaba
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Korea (South)1556 Posts
January 02 2013 17:12 GMT
#17
R1CH coded something for BW.
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Profile Blog Joined September 2010
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
January 02 2013 17:17 GMT
#18
Ill test this when I start streaming again
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Andreas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Norway214 Posts
January 02 2013 17:18 GMT
#19
Wow, this is amazing! I don't mind the out-of-game palettes being screwed up, however, it seems like perfectly white gets converted to brown in-game. This includes the text messages in the middle of the screen telling you you have too few minerals etc. Otherwise this seems... perfect!
R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
January 02 2013 19:05 GMT
#20
Ah, which map does that happen on?
AdministratorTwitter: @R1CH_TL
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