How to livestream the games like the Pros with OBS

The tool used by many of the Twitch's most popular streamers is completely free and open source.

Chantal "Sylvanas" Frey playing Overwatch. She adds a webcam feed and sponsor logos to her stream using OBS.

OBS Studio is developed by a small team working in the open. Most of the code has been written by jp9000/Jim, but several other developers also have made serious contributions to the project. OBS Studio's main website has many active forums in which users post plugins that they have created, resulting in a rich plugin ecosystem.

Open Broadcaster Software

Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is a little more complicated, but completely free. Once you’ve downloaded and installed OBS from here, you’ll need to log in to Twitch first. OBS does not support the ability to log in to Twitch directly, so you’ll need to obtain a “stream key” from Twitch, which you can get here. This key changes periodically, so you may need to update it each time you stream with OBS. Once you have it, follow these steps:

• In OBS, click the Settings button in the lower right corner.
• Select “Broadcast Settings” in the left-hand pane.
• Next to “Streaming services,” select Twitch.
• Next to “Play Path/Stream Key,” enter the key you acquired from your Twitch dashboard.
• The first time you set up OBS, you may be prompted to change some video settings, depending on your setup. These will be displayed at the bottom of the window in red text. If any of these exist, fix them before moving on.

There are plenty more settings you can adjust here based on your video needs, l. When you’re done, you can move onto setting up broadcasting. Starting a stream will require a little more setup than XSplit, but it’s still fairly straightforward. To get started, follow these steps:

• Open the game you want to stream.
• In OBS, right-click in the “Sources” box.
• In the Add > menu, choose “Window Capture.” (You can also use “Desktop Capture” if you want to be able to share more than just your game window, but for now we’ll keep it simple.) 
•  Name the source and press Enter.
• In the dropdown at the top of the next dialog box, choose the window of your game. Click OK.
• When you’re ready to begin broadcasting, click Start Streaming.

How to Record Games on PC

1. To record your gameplay on the PC, you can use either of the applications that we talked about in the broadcasting section. Both have simple screen recording options as well. However, XSplit has an extra fee to record in anything beyond 720p without a watermark. This may not be that big of a deal for some, but since we have a completely free option with OBS, we’ll focus on that. To record your gameplay with OBS, follow these steps:
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• Select the “Settings” button in the lower-right hand corner of OBS.
• Click “Broadcast Settings” in the left-hand pane.
• Next to “File path”, choose the directory where you’d like to save your output files.
• If you want to broadcast and record at the same time, select “Automatically save stream to file”.
• Click OK.
• Open the game you want to play and add it to the Sources pane.
• Click Start Recording.

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