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zakk4223 / CocoaSplit

Stream/record your desktop/webcam to twitch/owned etc.
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Long Term Future of CocoaSplit #57

Open VxJasonxV opened 9 years ago

VxJasonxV commented 9 years ago

I only recently learned of this project's existence, and noticed that it's been around for quite some time. I was wondering if you'd given any thoughts towards working on OBS instead, now that it the intention is for it to be cross-platform, and a Mac release has been available since around August, and updated a few times.

I love the flexibility of cross-platform software, but I also love the advantages and integration that native software provides. Having someone talented/capable to work on the core software, but with an OS X lean to make it feel more native seems like two huge wins in my book.

Not to mention that the two seem so similar, that I feel that a combined effort would result in better software for everyone.

LordHDL commented 9 years ago

Zakk can correct me if I'm wrong but he probably started this project because he enjoys it. He's put a lot of work into it and if you check the commits he's fairly active with development. I don't think it's fair to ask him to drop it and work on OBS simply because it's more known or cross-platform. It's not conducive to progress to have only one actively developed option, either. If that was the case there would be no OS X or Linux.

VxJasonxV commented 9 years ago

I didn't ask him to drop it, I merely asked if he's already given any thought to it and simply chimed in with my feelings.

ghost commented 9 years ago

This is not extinct at all. He just moved it to his website. Go under download then CocoaSplit-1.9 and get the latest download. http://www.cocoasplit.com/

VxJasonxV commented 9 years ago

I didn't infer anything about the status of this project, I saw before opening this issue that there had been commits this month. I was shocked that I hadn't heard of it sooner considering how long I've been annoyed with the only other free option I knew of (Adobe's FMLE).

I was only looking to see if @zakk4223 had OBS' cross-platform support on his radar. OBS has been wonderful to use on my non-Mac machine, but it's still incredibly rough on OS X. In my eyes, with something as complicated as streaming really is, what it really takes to make something feel native/natural, combined effort is better than solo efforts.