• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 21:02
CEST 03:02
KST 10:02
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Classic Games #3: Rogue vs Serral at BlizzCon9[ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt1: Ascent10Maestros of the Game: Week 1/Play-in Preview12[ASL20] Ro24 Preview Pt2: Take-Off7[ASL20] Ro24 Preview Pt1: Runway13
Community News
WardiTV TL Team Map Contest #5 Tournaments0SC4ALL $6,000 Open LAN in Philadelphia7Weekly Cups (Sept 1-7): MaxPax rebounds & Clem saga continues29LiuLi Cup - September 2025 Tournaments3Weekly Cups (August 25-31): Clem's Last Straw?39
StarCraft 2
General
Weekly Cups (Sept 1-7): MaxPax rebounds & Clem saga continues #1: Maru - Greatest Players of All Time Team Liquid Map Contest #21 - Presented by Monster Energy Classic Games #3: Rogue vs Serral at BlizzCon What happened to Singapore/Brazil servers?
Tourneys
Maestros of The Game—$20k event w/ live finals in Paris RSL: Revival, a new crowdfunded tournament series WardiTV TL Team Map Contest #5 Tournaments Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament SC4ALL $6,000 Open LAN in Philadelphia
Strategy
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 491 Night Drive Mutation # 490 Masters of Midnight Mutation # 489 Bannable Offense Mutation # 488 What Goes Around
Brood War
General
Pros React To: SoulKey's 5-Peat Challenge BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ BW General Discussion ASL20 General Discussion BSL Team Wars - Bonyth, Dewalt, Hawk & Sziky teams
Tourneys
[IPSL] ISPL Season 1 Winter Qualis and Info! Is there English video for group selection for ASL [ASL20] Ro16 Group B [ASL20] Ro16 Group A
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Muta micro map competition Fighting Spirit mining rates [G] Mineral Boosting
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Borderlands 3 Nintendo Switch Thread Path of Exile General RTS Discussion Thread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion LiquidDota to reintegrate into TL.net
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread The Big Programming Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine
Fan Clubs
The Happy Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Linksys AE2500 USB WIFI keeps disconnecting Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread High temperatures on bridge(s)
TL Community
BarCraft in Tokyo Japan for ASL Season5 Final The Automated Ban List
Blogs
The Personality of a Spender…
TrAiDoS
A very expensive lesson on ma…
Garnet
hello world
radishsoup
Lemme tell you a thing o…
JoinTheRain
RTS Design in Hypercoven
a11
Evil Gacha Games and the…
ffswowsucks
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1461 users

Experimental BW Capture plugin for OBS - Page 2

Forum Index > BW General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
Andreas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Norway214 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-02 22:42:40
January 02 2013 22:37 GMT
#21
I was playing on a somewhat old version of Fighting Spirit. Didn't think the maps mattered, I'll do a quick run to see if other maps are effected.

EDIT: Tested it on 4 different maps with all 3 races, same thing happens everywhere. I uploaded a small video to show the effect: http://lutro.priv.no/obsbw.mp4
Andreas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Norway214 Posts
January 07 2013 17:39 GMT
#22
So I tried streaming with it just now and the picture just froze at the join game screen

I tried alt-tabbing to restart the stream or switch scenes, but the OBS window was impossible to grab a hold of, there were some really weird graphical glitches with duplicate taskbars (not visible in the VOD of course).

http://www.twitch.tv/raziel2p/b/354913054?t=2m20s
puppykiller
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States3130 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-19 09:55:46
January 19 2013 09:36 GMT
#23
So I tried it and this is what I got lol http://www.twitch.tv/puppykiller3/b/358436990. Where did I go wrong... can I not use a video capture device?
Why would I play sctoo when I can play BW?
Galetmonster
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden151 Posts
February 11 2013 03:03 GMT
#24
Same issue as andreas http://www.twitch.tv/yukela/b/366195608 happens at 3:30, changed frame again around 5:00 but from there one its completely stuck.
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
February 11 2013 03:11 GMT
#25
Oh snap, how did I miss this, awesome! Gonna try it when I get time to play with it a bit.

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but most people use the colorfix reg.
All candles lit within him, and there was purity. | First auto-promoted BW LP editor.
SynC[gm]
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States3127 Posts
February 11 2013 05:01 GMT
#26
I dunno if this is the same as what Galetmonster posted, but the frame seems to just stop at the 3:20-3:30 mark, but the sounds are still going on in the background... It's as if OBs crashed from that point on. Any help with this? =/

Example 1
Example 2

Both happen at around the 3:20 mark.
twitch.tv/dizzywee
NotJumperer
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States1371 Posts
February 11 2013 17:20 GMT
#27
--- Nuked ---
IskatuMesk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada969 Posts
February 11 2013 17:50 GMT
#28
On January 02 2013 13:44 R1CH wrote: 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.


This is likely to be something you already know, but in case you don't, every menu background and their associated elements have a unique 256 color palette in starcraft independent of the game palette, and if you try to mix and match those in a mod that replaces those pcx files, you get some major color distortion going on because it needs those specific palettes in those areas. You can grab those palettes from the various Background pcx files. However I have no idea how battle.net's ui works.
zoNin
Profile Joined May 2009
Canada57 Posts
February 15 2013 08:59 GMT
#29
On February 11 2013 14:01 SynC[gm] wrote:
I dunno if this is the same as what Galetmonster posted, but the frame seems to just stop at the 3:20-3:30 mark, but the sounds are still going on in the background... It's as if OBs crashed from that point on. Any help with this? =/

Example 1
Example 2

Both happen at around the 3:20 mark.


the same thing is happening to me
theqat
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States2856 Posts
February 15 2013 15:23 GMT
#30
On February 12 2013 02:20 Jumperer wrote:
does OBS use more computer power than FME?


It should use considerably less. Give it a shot if you're unsure, the install and setup is very painless compared to FMLE or xsplit.
zoNin
Profile Joined May 2009
Canada57 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-15 16:06:35
February 15 2013 15:51 GMT
#31
I'm pretty sure its one of the new test builds that's breaking it and causing it to lock up, because i was using this a while ago it must have been an older obs build because it never froze this new one however is making the screen lock up i think.

*maybe not i tried it on an older version which is the one I was using before I think, so odd :S
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-15 18:33:49
February 15 2013 18:26 GMT
#32
OBS uses comparable CPU time to XSplit when I'm streaming BW in WMode. With XSplit it used to have small stutters, but with OBS everything is smooth, even on slower encoding speeds and 10 quality on like 500 kbps upload.

You can actually make OBS capture the inside BW window (no title/minimize/maxmize/etc. bar) and outside window (with the title bar/etc.) in WMode automatically and you can still see overlays, unlike XSplit which automatically captures just the game, not the overlays - it's just indispensable for casting.

The only con is that the bitrate varies a lot more (and is higher) than XSplit so it dropped some frames until I configured it a bit better, but the bitrate is still more than XSplit. I'll try to further tweak it to reduce the spikes. Maybe it's because of the higher quality of sound.

I like the interface way more, it's faster and cleaner. I just love it. As for ease of use/setup, OBS and XSplit are pretty much the same, maybe I'd give a tiny edge to OBS.

Thanks for the plugin R1CH (and all the work on OBS), it's awesome, going to use OBS + BW Full Screen plugin all the time when I stream me playing.

If I knew/understood more I'd help code for it. :<

Btw, is there any way to add overlays when streaming full screen? They don't have to be visible inside the game, just on the output and the OBS preview. There must be some way to capture the overlays and mix them in as a source with the full screen bw output source.
All candles lit within him, and there was purity. | First auto-promoted BW LP editor.
Birdie
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
New Zealand4438 Posts
February 15 2013 20:41 GMT
#33
On February 16 2013 03:26 quirinus wrote:
OBS uses comparable CPU time to XSplit when I'm streaming BW in WMode. With XSplit it used to have small stutters, but with OBS everything is smooth, even on slower encoding speeds and 10 quality on like 500 kbps upload.

You can actually make OBS capture the inside BW window (no title/minimize/maxmize/etc. bar) and outside window (with the title bar/etc.) in WMode automatically and you can still see overlays, unlike XSplit which automatically captures just the game, not the overlays - it's just indispensable for casting.

The only con is that the bitrate varies a lot more (and is higher) than XSplit so it dropped some frames until I configured it a bit better, but the bitrate is still more than XSplit. I'll try to further tweak it to reduce the spikes. Maybe it's because of the higher quality of sound.

I like the interface way more, it's faster and cleaner. I just love it. As for ease of use/setup, OBS and XSplit are pretty much the same, maybe I'd give a tiny edge to OBS.

Thanks for the plugin R1CH (and all the work on OBS), it's awesome, going to use OBS + BW Full Screen plugin all the time when I stream me playing.

If I knew/understood more I'd help code for it. :<

Btw, is there any way to add overlays when streaming full screen? They don't have to be visible inside the game, just on the output and the OBS preview. There must be some way to capture the overlays and mix them in as a source with the full screen bw output source.

It should work fine if you add in images and such, as long as you layer them correctly.
Red classic | A butterfly dreamed he was Zhuangzi | 4.5k, heading to 5k as support!
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-15 22:02:27
February 15 2013 21:50 GMT
#34
On February 16 2013 05:41 Birdie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 16 2013 03:26 quirinus wrote:
OBS uses comparable CPU time to XSplit when I'm streaming BW in WMode. With XSplit it used to have small stutters, but with OBS everything is smooth, even on slower encoding speeds and 10 quality on like 500 kbps upload.

You can actually make OBS capture the inside BW window (no title/minimize/maxmize/etc. bar) and outside window (with the title bar/etc.) in WMode automatically and you can still see overlays, unlike XSplit which automatically captures just the game, not the overlays - it's just indispensable for casting.

The only con is that the bitrate varies a lot more (and is higher) than XSplit so it dropped some frames until I configured it a bit better, but the bitrate is still more than XSplit. I'll try to further tweak it to reduce the spikes. Maybe it's because of the higher quality of sound.

I like the interface way more, it's faster and cleaner. I just love it. As for ease of use/setup, OBS and XSplit are pretty much the same, maybe I'd give a tiny edge to OBS.

Thanks for the plugin R1CH (and all the work on OBS), it's awesome, going to use OBS + BW Full Screen plugin all the time when I stream me playing.

If I knew/understood more I'd help code for it. :<

Btw, is there any way to add overlays when streaming full screen? They don't have to be visible inside the game, just on the output and the OBS preview. There must be some way to capture the overlays and mix them in as a source with the full screen bw output source.

It should work fine if you add in images and such, as long as you layer them correctly.


Thanks! :D Just checked it out, this is amazing, I've always wanted to have an overlay while streaming full screen! :DDDD

Now too bad I don't have a second monitor for chat. xD

Edit: Seems you can disable and enable overlays and other windows obscuring the software window capture if you enable or disable aero.
All candles lit within him, and there was purity. | First auto-promoted BW LP editor.
zoNin
Profile Joined May 2009
Canada57 Posts
February 15 2013 21:58 GMT
#35
now tell me how you get it to not freeze on you xD
BlueStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Bulgaria1167 Posts
February 15 2013 23:49 GMT
#36
BOW R1CH!!!
Leader of the Bulgarian National SCBW/SC2 team and team pSi.SCBW/SC2
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-16 02:44:07
February 16 2013 02:42 GMT
#37
On February 16 2013 06:58 zoNin wrote:
now tell me how you get it to not freeze on you xD


lol I don't know, it just doesn't. I've got W7 64 bit, and using 32 bit OBS (obviously, since this plugin is only for 32 bit).

Try the latest version, of OBS and all software.

It freezes only when you stream with OBS and this plugin? Does it freeze when you play music/youtube or stream with other software while playing?

EDIT:
Btw, there's a simple auto scene switcher plugin that works with BW:
http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1785
All candles lit within him, and there was purity. | First auto-promoted BW LP editor.
Arisen
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2382 Posts
February 16 2013 07:39 GMT
#38
I tried installing but when I go to add Broodwar as a scene (either game or software) it won't come up under sources. Yes BW is running. I don't know if this is a result of adding this into the pluggins folder or not, but I had and removed BW on my scenes list previously when i got frustrated with windowed mode

anyone know what to do?
"If you're not angry, you're not paying attention"
Zamkis
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada114 Posts
February 16 2013 08:48 GMT
#39
R1CH, you're amazing, still coding stuff for BW after all these years. Cheers to the wizard!
Destruction is a work of an afternoon, Creation is a work of a lifetime.
zoNin
Profile Joined May 2009
Canada57 Posts
February 16 2013 15:00 GMT
#40
On February 16 2013 11:42 quirinus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 16 2013 06:58 zoNin wrote:
now tell me how you get it to not freeze on you xD


lol I don't know, it just doesn't. I've got W7 64 bit, and using 32 bit OBS (obviously, since this plugin is only for 32 bit).

Try the latest version, of OBS and all software.

It freezes only when you stream with OBS and this plugin? Does it freeze when you play music/youtube or stream with other software while playing?

EDIT:
Btw, there's a simple auto scene switcher plugin that works with BW:
http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1785


hmm I am also on W7 64bit and do the same, I tried streaming just with the software capture and streamed just surfing the web to see if it froze or broke but nothing happend, it's only happening when I use the BW Plugin sadly
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 8h 58m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
NeuroSwarm 150
Livibee 87
RuFF_SC2 74
StarCraft: Brood War
Artosis 801
sSak 171
NaDa 26
Dota 2
monkeys_forever791
LuMiX1
League of Legends
JimRising 325
Counter-Strike
fl0m1856
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox359
Other Games
FrodaN2212
C9.Mang0235
Maynarde124
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• davetesta36
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• RayReign 8
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Doublelift4538
Other Games
• Scarra1502
• imaqtpie1170
Upcoming Events
Afreeca Starleague
8h 58m
Snow vs Sharp
Jaedong vs Mini
Wardi Open
9h 58m
OSC
22h 58m
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1d 8h
Afreeca Starleague
1d 8h
Light vs Speed
Larva vs Soma
PiGosaur Monday
1d 22h
LiuLi Cup
2 days
RSL Revival
3 days
Maru vs Reynor
Cure vs TriGGeR
The PondCast
3 days
RSL Revival
4 days
Zoun vs Classic
[ Show More ]
Korean StarCraft League
5 days
RSL Revival
5 days
[BSL 2025] Weekly
5 days
BSL Team Wars
5 days
RSL Revival
6 days
Online Event
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

BSL 20 Team Wars
Chzzk MurlocKing SC1 vs SC2 Cup #2
HCC Europe

Ongoing

KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 3
BSL 21 Points
ASL Season 20
CSL 2025 AUTUMN (S18)
LASL Season 20
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1

Upcoming

2025 Chongqing Offline CUP
BSL Polish World Championship 2025
IPSL Winter 2025-26
BSL Season 21
SC4ALL: Brood War
BSL 21 Team A
Stellar Fest
SC4ALL: StarCraft II
EC S1
SL Budapest Major 2025
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
MESA Nomadic Masters Fall
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.