It helps to know what you are looking to accomplish. OBS is interesting since it can be used to either record or stream. It also mixes audio/video sources so it's useful for podcasting applications. For a communication tool then your search will probably take you in a very different direction.
As an example, if you were looking to create a tutorial where you walk through using an application on your computer as you narrate what you are doing, OBS is a very good solution since it can combine a video feed of your desktop with a video feed of your face (webcam). Either live, through a streaming server or recorded to a file on your hard drive for sharing later. Works well on Slackware which is nice. On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 5:02 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, Alexander Case wrote: > > > As a possible alternative, I've been using OBS Studio for webcam > > recording, in addition to streaming and recording some games, and it's > > worked pretty well for me in that role, and that's available for Linux. > > Alexander, > > I installed it and looked at the introductory video for the Master Class. > Looks really good. > > I need to better understand which software is better for recording from the > camera and which is better for displaying what's on the screen here. I > don't > know that I'll do any streaming. > > Since I'm new to all this I need to learn terminology, software, file > formats, and what I don't know that I need to know (Rumfield's > unknown-unknowns). > > All suggestions and pointers to resources is very welcome. > > Thanks, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
