# RSH 021: OBS

When in doubt, we can follow this outline
https://coderefinery.github.io/manuals/obs/

## Topics

- What is streaming?
- What is OBS?
- [Open Broadcast Software](https://obsproject.com/)

- Benefits over Zoom:
- Can be used in tandem with Twitch to broadcast without needing a Zoom broadcast lisence or risking Zoom-bombing

- OBS user interface
- Scenes: to set and configure various `source` settings
- Audio mixer:
- track feature: maybe useful to keep only speaker audio
- Settings:
- Defaults are generally good
- General (mainly related to UI)
- Audio (various devices)
- Video (resolution and so on)
- Output
- Basic arrangement of scenes and stuff
- practical notes

- [name=Radovan] there is also the public hackmd: https://hackmd.io/@researchsoftwarehour/questions - should we not type there?
- [name=Shashank] My bad: will move it there
- thanks :-) I was just unsure where the right place is
- moving from here to there