Installing the CLR Browser plugin for OBS.
CLR Browser Plugin is necessary for working with services that provide such features as notification on the stream about, etc.
Here some very good friends of mine launched the service Stream-Alert.ru for Twitch streamers. I have already tried one of their widgets "" and it turned out to be very convenient. No more worrying about creating a post before starting a stream.
So, you should already have a video broadcasting program installed and configured. Now you need for OBS Classic and for.
On the page, you will see two download links: 32bit and 64bit... After you have downloaded the desired zip archive, unpack its contents into a folder C: \ Program Files \ OBS \ Plugins or C: \ Program Files (x86) \ OBS \ Plugins(if you have 32). Folder path " Plugins"you may have a different one, depending on where you installed OBS earlier.
If the plugin does not work (does not start), then I advise you to update MS Visual C ++ and .NET... The links are on the plugin page.
Now start OBS and if in the box " Sources:"it became possible to add" ", then the plugin has been successfully installed.
In the CLR Browser options window, in the " Url"insert custom widget link that provides the service (site).
Open Broadcast Software or OBS is free and open source software for streaming audio and video data to the Internet. The program is completely cross-platform and can run on Windows, Linux or MacOS. It's a great alternative for programs like Wirecast and XSplit.
OBS uses a standard real-time messaging protocol for broadcasting, and therefore can broadcast data to any service that supports it, such as Yotube. Despite the wide capabilities of OBS, the program also supports many plugins. In this article, we'll take a look at the best OBS Studio plugins you can use.
Users will have to browse many forums to find OBS Studio Video plugins. To facilitate this task, we will further consider the best plugins that can be used with the program.
Many people are interested in how to install the plugin in obs studio. Everything is very simple here. It is enough to put the plugin folder in the OBS Studio folder. On Windows, Program FIles is used, on Linux, these files are placed in one of the directories of the home folder, most often ~ / .config / obs-studio / plugins.
1. Browser Source Plugin
With this plugin, you can embed various content into your video streams. These can be web pages, SWF files, CSS code, and more. In fact, using the plugin, you can render entire websites to stream and do everything that could be done in a regular browser.
2. Video Source Plugin
With this plugin, you can play various video files from the file system directly to the OBS stream. It is possible to continuously play the same file or create a playlist.
3. Simple Scene Switcher
This is a simple OBS Studio plugin to automatically change (area) for streaming. Allows you to switch the scene depending on the active window, select one of the saved areas and much more.
4. DirectShow Audio Source
To use more than two audio units in OBS Studio, there is a DirectShow plugin. It allows you to record high-quality audio, for example, from a webcam and other audio device. Also you can play music from the file system. The plugin allows you to mix multiple audio devices in one stream.
5. CLR Browser Source
This is another plugin for displaying web page content and receiving alerts in OBS Studio. It only works on Windows and has all the same features as the Browser Plugin Source.
6. OBS Remote
This OBS Studio plugin is just as interesting. It allows you to control the program remotely. You can change the content of scenes and areas for streaming, watch the stream using a browser from a second computer, tablet or smartphone.
7. AMD Advanced Media Framework Encoder
Another plugin for Windows only. It implements modern algorithms for hardware encoding of the video stream on graphics cards from AMD. This can dramatically improve video processing performance.
8. Text Source Plugin
Like other OBS Studio plugins, or at least most of them, Text Source is designed to display additional information in the main video stream. In this case, it is a regular text that can be given various effects. You can customize the text color, size, shadows, style, and word breaks.
conclusions
In this article, we reviewed the best plugins for obs studio, they will help you make your streams better and show more information in them. Hope this article was helpful to you.
Hello dear friend, today we will start installing the plugin with the program and configure it, our goal is to finally launch this donate on our stream and so we will start. We will need:
The "CLR Browser" plugin is used to display donations, new subscriptions, etc. All this is displayed on the screen during the stream, viewers can see it by a customizable picture and sound notification. For all the buns to work, a special service is required for example DonationAlerts.ru.
And so back to the plugin itself. To begin with, we should download the latest version of "" from the official site, the plugin is already included with new versions of the program.
Setting up BrowserSource in OBS Studio
- 1. After downloading and installing, launch "OBS Studio" select "Scene collection" in the upper left corner, select "Create", enter the name "DonationAlerts", this collection will be specially for donation work through the DonationAlerts website (there is still a donation service, settings for it can be found on our website)
- 2. Go to donationalerts.ru in the "Alerts" tab, click "Show embed link", a link will appear under this item, copy the link that appears (copy, carefully without missing the symbols, otherwise nothing will work for you). We do not close the browser and the page, it will still come in handy for us.
- 3. Return to "OBS Studio", then click on the "Sources" field with the right mouse button, select "Add" -> "Browser", enter a name for example: "Browser-DonationAlerts paid messages" -> "OK" In the "URL" field we replace the link with ours, do not touch anything else, click "OK".
- 4. Now we test the setting, for this we go to the donationalerts.ru website in the “Alerts” tab which we have not closed, click on the gear next to the “Make a test alert” link. As a result, we see the following result in the “OBS Studio ".
To place the window in the desired place and transform it, select "Browser-DonationAlerts paid messages" in the source, select the required size by dragging the red frame around it, or select a position on the screen by holding the left mouse button inside the frame and selecting a new position.
Configuring the CLR Browser in OBS Classic
- 1. Launch "OBS Classic", create a scene, right-click on the scene field, select "Add" -> "Scene" in the list that appears, enter the desired name, for example, the name of the game, save.
- 2. Go to donationalerts.ru in the "Alerts" tab, click "Show embed link", a link will appear under this item, copy the link that appears (copy, carefully without missing the symbols, otherwise nothing will work for you). We do not close the browser and the page, it will still come in handy for us.
- 3. We return to “OBS Classic”, then click on the “Sources” field with the right mouse button, select “Add” -> “CLR Browser”, enter an arbitrary name, for example, the site from which the donation is made, in our case donationalerts.ru
- 4. Next, in the "URL" field, replace the link with ours, do not touch anything else, click "OK".
- 5. Now we need to test our setting, in the "OBS" click on the "Preview" button.
- 6. We go to the donationalerts website in the “Alerts” tab which we have not closed, click on the gear next to the link “Make a test alert”.
As a result, we should see the following result in the "OBS Classic" viewport.
To place in the desired place and transform the window during the "Preview", select in the source "CLR Browser", click on the "Change scene" button and select the desired size and position on the screen, in order to fix the desired result, press "Change scene" again ...
