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Skylar B.

Skylar Brown

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/5/2019

"Open Broadcast Software: Fast, easy, and free, with a catch"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OBS Studio?

Open Broadcast Software (OBS) allows us to livestream commercials for our new albums and songs on Facebook Live, Twitch, YouTube, and other livestreaming platforms. With a stream key, OBS can channel video and audio to a professional page, making it easy for us to promote our titles and get more views. OBS also allows looping videos, to stream to services for as long as four hours of unattended streaming at a time! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OBS Studio?

While OBS holds the feature to stream prerecorded messages on loop, Facebook doesn't allow OBS to loop prerecorded video. When we do decide to stream prerecorded video, it has to be a four hour long video, and the title in Facebook Live must note that it is prerecorded. It can't be a third-party ad either. Also, most computers can't run OBS unless you have a dedicated graphics card with drivers, or if you change the frame rate to 10fps and the resolution to approximately 950px. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OBS Studio:

When using Open Broadcast software, make sure that you have a very good graphics card and the right drivers for that graphics card. The Mac system only use software encoding; if you want hardware encoding, you have to boot into Windows and install the necessary drivers to work with OBS! Also, if you use software encoding, be sure to change the framerate to 10fps and make the resolution lower for best functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OBS Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?

With OBS, we are solving the problem of not enough views on our Facebook page. OBS uses Facebook Live, which notifies all followers of our videos, giving us more exposure and potential buyers of our albums. This allows us to also raise funds for new albums by accepting patreon donations within the live video itself! OBS can be managed with TeamViewer so that we can go about our day, refreshing the feed when 4 hours have passed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.