Broadcasting With Obs

Broadcasting/Recording with OBS Studio

OBS Studio is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming, available on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Download and install OBS Studio

Official download page

Installing on Windows

The Windows release of OBS Studio supports Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. The installation is done via the usuall windows installer.

Installing on Linux

The Linux release is available officially for Ubuntu 18.04 and newer. FFmpeg is required.

sudo apt install ffmpeg

After installing FFmpeg, install OBS Studio using:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
sudo apt install obs-studio

You can find more information about building and installing OBS Studio on other Linux distros here.

Setting up the screne with OBS Studio

When you first start OBS Studio, a default scene will be created and there will be also no sources setup as shown here:

One scene you could create is by inserting a picture or a screencast from Mixxx.

• If you want to insert a picture, just click on the "+" and select "Image".
• If you want to insert a screencast, just click on the "+" and select "Screen Capture"

Do not forget to also insert the audio input from Mixxx by clicking on the "+" and selecting audio input.

A scene could look like this: