OBS
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
8recommend
2warn against
Nov 14, 2025first mention
Oct 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Each time I use it, there is very little in terms of use cases that don't fit me.”
“obs audio filters with stacked vsts and routing filters can unironically do this programs job better”
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“I use OBS to monitor my video capture.”
switched from Photo Boothon “Web Server on a Nintendo Wii”
“Love OBS and Blender.”
“I screen record with OBS on both KDE and GNOME on multiple machines with no issues”
Caveats and dissent
“OBS was recommended but OBS has a difficult UX.”
“OBS is missing many key features for professional operations”
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All comments 21
“Each time I use it, there is very little in terms of use cases that don't fit me.”
“streams through OBS”
“Only 'parts' of their website are down currently”
“OBS was recommended but OBS has a difficult UX.”
“light video editing (OBS, Kdenlive)”
“obs audio filters with stacked vsts and routing filters can unironically do this programs job better”
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“recording a video with OBS, sometimes my webcam's audio will get desync'd”
“I use OBS to monitor my video capture.”
“Love OBS and Blender.”
“I'm using it together with OBS to post short demo videos of my side project.”
“I use v4l2 regularly with OBS.”
“OBS (what I used) seems to have stopped receiving updates”
“I screen record with OBS on both KDE and GNOME on multiple machines with no issues”
You might be using old clients that are recommended against, as (AIUI) Jitsi stopped being the default with Matrix 2.0 (released ~late 2024 [0]). Is it totally fair to blame users? Not entirely, as some features are still being pushed into ElementX. But it's a known problem, with a known solution (finish ElementX and/or wait for other clients to catch up), and a weakness of an open ecosystem. Moxie wasn't wrong when
“free and open source NDI alternative built into OBS”
“Some of us stream to Twitch with OBS”
“the most user friendly way is to use obs”
“I use OBS with a capture card”
“OBS is missing many key features for professional operations”
“For recording OBS is pretty much the standard.”