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Welcome. This is the director's control-room for the group-chat.
You can host a group chat with friends using a room. Share the blue link to invite guests who will join the chat automatically.
Known Limitations with Group Rooms:
A group room can handle up to around 30 guests, depending on numerous factors, including CPU and available bandwidth of all guests in the room. To achieve more than around 7-guests though, you will likely want to disable video sharing between guests. Using &broadcast, &roombitrate=0 or &novideo are options there.
Videos will appear of low quality on purpose for guests and director; this is to save bandwidth and CPU resources. It will be high-quality within OBS still though.
The state of the scenes, such as which videos are active in a scene, are lost when the director resets the control-room or the scene.
Further Notes:
Links to Solo-views of each guest video are offered under videos as they load. These can be used within an OBS Browser Source.
You can use the auto-mixing Group Scenes, the green links, to auto arrange multiple videos for you in OBS.
You can use this control room to record isolated video or audio streams, but it is an experimental feature still.
If you transfer a guest from one room to another, they won't know which room they have been transferred to.
OBS will see a guest's video in high-quality; the default video bitrate is 2500kbps. Setting higher bitrates will improve motion.
VP8 is typically the default video codec, but using &codec=vp9 or &codec=h264 as a URL in OBS can help to reduce corrupted video puke issues.
&stereo=2 can be added to guests to turn off audio effects, such as echo cancellation and noise-reduction.
https://invite.cam is a free service provided that can help obfuscuate the URL parameters of an invite link given to guests.
Adding &showonly=SOME_OBS_VIRTUALCAM to the guest invite links allows for only a single video to be seen by the guests; this can be output of the OBS Virtual Camera for example
For advanced URL options and parameters, see the Wiki.
INVITE A GUEST
Guests can use the link to join the group roomGuests hear others
CAPTURE A GROUP SCENE
Use in OBS or other studio software to capture the group video mixAuto-add guests
⚠This can cause guests to be too quiet or have feedback/echo issuesPro-audio mode Hide audio-only sources Remote Monitoring Invite saved to cookie Ask for display name Show display names Show active speakers Show welcome message Show fullscreen button
⚠This can cause video playback to lag1080p60 Video if Available Auto-select default microphone Auto-select default camera Compatibility mode Hide settings button Hide file sharing Hide screen share Can select an Avatar image ⚠Uses more CPU and freezes the video if the guest doesn't keep the tab visible.Virtual backgrounds Disable animations ⚠Pretty experimental and limited browser support, though relatively low CPU usage.P2P Chunked-mode
⚠Only use with powerful computers and small groups!!Guests see HD video Disable self-preview Display 'raise-hand' button Enable audio compressor Enable equalizer as option Show guest setup tips Prefix screenshare IDs Sharper screen share Screen share bitrate 30 FPS screen share Screen share only
⚠Uses a server to restream data, rather than p2p.Stream via server Mini self-preview Show rule-of-thirds grid Director-only guests
📡Only see the director's video Muted; guest can unmute Muted; director can unmute Mic-only option Camera muted on join Guest joins with no camera Obfuscate with Invite.cam
Hide audio-only sources Hide screen share
🎛️ 8-channel output ⚠This can cause audio clicking issuesPro-audio mode 💉Can reduce packet loss video corruption in OBS on PCUse H264 codec
Show active speakers Green background Fade-in videos Animate mixing Square corners
Show display names Sort by name Add margin to videos ⚠This can cause video playback to lagUnlock video bitrate ⚠This can cause higher CPU load for everyone in the roomIncrease sharpness
Force mono audio Include Director Hide tally Crop video to fit Vertical video mode
To publish this browser window, click the start publishing button below and then select the current browser window, with audio-selected if desired. The stream will go live afterwards, automatically.
note: To stop the stream, simply close this browser window.
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See the documentation for help on using the remote OBS controller
Change guest settings
Cannot see videos
Cannot hear others
Broadcast mode
Mini preview
Raise hand button
Show labels
Transfer to room
Room password
