SESean-Der·Dec 18, 2025Submission
OBS Studio Merges WebRTC/Whip Simulcast Support
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obs-studio
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OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
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What it is
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
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Where it is used
- Lowkey (Lowkey Electron desktop app) — Lowkey integrated OBS Studio via the obs-studio-node library into its Electron desktop application to provide native, high-performance screen recording functionality used in the shipped Lowkey app. Source
What people are saying
Seems like you need to first understand a situation before you have a knee-jerk reaction to something and start calling people assholes. From one of the OBS contributors: >…
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- obsproject/rfcs · linked in 5 of the same discussions
- glimesh/broadcast-box · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 25 | 4 | 21 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 20 | 3 | 17 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 23 | 9 | 14 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 5 | 7 |
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What Hacker News says
8 sources2016-01-23
https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr/issues/431
2019-01-04 (only took 3 1/2 years to resolve!)
https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/issues/22
2020-03-07
https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG/issues/51
2020-03-07
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2471
2020-03-24
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/6389
2023-09
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/
2023-11-17
https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/149
In The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)Yes we are :) When OBS merges the PR [0] things are going to get very interesting.
Before you needed to run expensive transcoding jobs to be able to support heterogenous clients. Once we get Simulcast the only cost will be bandwidth.
With Hetzner I am paying $1 a TB. With AV1 or H265 + Simulcast I am getting 4K for hundreds of users on just a single server.
We will have some growing pains, but I am not giving up until I can make this accessible to everyone.
[0] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/10885
In FFmpeg merges WebRTC supportI am so incredibly excited for WebRTC broadcasting. I wrote up some reasons in the Broadcast Box[0] README and the OBS PR [1]
Now that GStreamer, OBS and FFmpeg all have WHIP support we finally have a ubiquitous protocol for video broadcasting for all platforms (Mobile, Web, Embedded, Broadcasting Software etc...)
I have been working on Open Source + WebRTC Broadcasting for years now. This is a huge milestone :)
[0] https://github.com/Glimesh/broadcast-box?tab=readme-ov-file#...
[1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/7926
In FFmpeg merges WebRTC supportOBS merges pacing support for WHIP
2 points · Open discussionOBS-Wiki – Streaming with Whip
3 points · Open discussion