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OBS Studio mentions (1062)

• How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

  For product videos I used OBS a lot: https://obsproject.com/ I haven't used Journey, but it seems promising for product Tours: https://www.william-troup.com/journey-js/. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Ask HN: Has anyone achieved Douglas Engelbart's Vision?

  Any specific area? unix,telnet, uucp/news groups/email, linux, sequel/postgres, AI (chatgpt), video/hardware emulation with or/without VM layer. Software defined radio, open broadcaster software[0], etc. [0] obs : https://obsproject.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Recording internal audio + guitar at the same time

  You might want to look into OBS Studio for that. Its free. And a lot easier to setup for that than ableton, cos its for that. Https://obsproject.com/ Then you can import the recordings into Ableton if you want to edit/produce? Source: 5 months ago

• Apologies for the low quality video but I thought this escape was pretty cool lol

  Ther is a thing called obs you can get it here and it's easy to use https://obsproject.com/. Source: 5 months ago

• Simple Question and FAQ Thread

  How to record gameplay on PC using OBS or Nvidia Shadow Play. Source: 5 months ago

ZoneMinder mentions (53)

• You Can Set Up a Home Security Camera System Without Using the Cloud

  That article seemed to be mistly about hand-wavy workarounds for subscription-based services. I presume the author hasn't heard of the well-established, Open Source Zoneminder project, which has excellent camera and data management functionality in a self-hostable Linux environment. https://zoneminder.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Security cams

  Frigate https://frigate.video/ and ZoneMinder https://zoneminder.com/ come to mind. Blue Iris https://blueirissoftware.com/ is not open source but is what I prefer to use for my PoE systems ($80/yr). Source: 6 months ago

• Odroid C1 USB to IP for USB Camera

  I think the simplest way is to set up Motion in the Odroids, and set up a Zoneminder server to manage the streams, record to disk, provide a web interface, etc. Source: 8 months ago

• Child Pornography on Sale from Hacked Hikvision “Baby Monitor” Cameras

  If the camera is ONVIF compatible, and most Hikvision are, it should work with Zoneminder and its mobile Open Source app zmninja. As for the cloud, if you have a public (not necessarily static) IP and your carrier doesn't filter incoming connections, you can use a dynamic DNS such as DuckDNS. It is however always advisable to put any camera behind a firewall, so that whatever it could happen (compromised or not,... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• How do you balance home security with privacy?

  Myself, I use Zoneminder, but I'm aware that is not a viable answer for most. What do you recommend? Source: 10 months ago