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pkviet / obs-studio

OBS - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
https://obsproject.com/mantis/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Add support for more audio tracks to be captured in recordings. #50

Closed ryantheleach closed 3 years ago

ryantheleach commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm somewhat frustrated by OBS's default audio channels of 6. I'm hoping to record live performances, and having 6 channels for post-editing isn't enough.

Describe the solution you'd like 8-10 audio tracks would be enough for my usecase, but it does seem odd that OBS doesn't allow as many as your system can handle.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Running an external audio recorder, and resyncing the video and audio up afterwards.

Recompiling OBS myself to add more channels.

pkviet commented 3 years ago

Yeah that's something I did consider. The main problem is that the tracks are hard-coded everywhere in the UI of obs: so it's really shitty to add tracks because they're not coded as vectors (in which case the track numbers could be set by a one line change in the code). In UI, currently there are custom qt widgets for each track for instance, e.g. track1widget, ... track6widget . The track number is hardcoded. In summary it's a big big hassle which would require a big rewrite. Since I don't use more than 6 tracks, there's 0 odds that I'll implement it. It's not worth the time for me, given it's a hobby project on which I earn mostly 0 money (or symbolic, like 0.1$ donations. I'm not kidding. I've had donations of that amount.)