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So if I wanted to stream some live coding, can I do the whole thing on my XPS laptop with OBS?

What's the setup look like for someone who has done this?

Open OBS, add a window capture, maybe add your webcam in the corner, go to settings, put in your stream key for Twitch/YouTube/whatever, maybe tinker with the quality settings (bitrate/encoding/etc), click start streaming.

Even better, OBS now supports directly logging into Twitch, which then also gives you windows to set stream description and see user chat, all within OBS.

I don't see that in my OBS and I'm on the latest version, is it yet to make it to a tagged release or is that in one of the OBS forks like Streamlabs?

EDIT: Looks like it's in the source for a long time but my distro doesn't compile OBS with the built-in browser, which I'm guessing is a requirement

Correct, our service integrations are reliant on CEF and the browser source features. Our Flatpak is an option if your distro's repo doesn't have it compiled for some reason.

LogiTech camera, OBS, 3x monitors. Place OBS on 1st, other tools on 2 and steam 3 (you tell OBS which rectangle of your screen to share, feed camera into OBS, fiddle with broadcast layout and just send it to twitch. I got a Ryzen7300 (or something, I'll edit) and 64G RAM and the video card is NVS510. Works awesome, but I close out all other stuff before streaming. So I don't leak anything on accident.

yes. on modern hardware, OBS is relatively lightweight until you add several video sources. for coding you should be fine if your laptop is less than 5+ years old

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