- Supported Bit Versions
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- 64-bit
- Source Code URL
- https://github.com/norihiro/obs-text-pthread
- Minimum OBS Studio Version
- 27.0.0
- Supported Platforms
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- Mac OS X
- Linux
This plugin aims to show beautiful texts on OBS Studio. The render is more lightweight than the browser source.
Markups
See the Pango Markup Language for detailed markup tags available.
Transition
Fade time can be configurable separately for these 3 cases.
Background I started to develop this plugin was that the browser source was not so stable on Linux at that time. Freetype2 text does not have configurable outline width. Pango text is also a good plugin but it takes 1 to 2 seconds to reload updated text file. I started to look into the source code of pango text and noticed there is a markup feature provided by the library pango.
Unfortunately, pango is developed mainly for Linux and it depends glib, which depends a lot of libraries. On Linux and macOS, it is easy to install these libraries, it takes just a few commands. However, there are no simple step to install these libraries and need to build one by one. I tried to build them on Windows but could not achieve so far.
- Markup
- Font, size, style, ...
- Color
- Subscript and superscript
- Text alignment
- Left, center, and right
- Justification
- Outline
- Configurable width, color, and opacity
- Blur
- Transition
- Fade-in, fade-out, cross-fade
- Slider
- Threaded glyph drawing
- Lower priority to draw glyphs so that other sources and encoders are not impacted
- More frequent polling of the text file than the built-in test source
- Automatic line-break supporting East Asian languages
- Saving PNG images for post production
Markups
See the Pango Markup Language for detailed markup tags available.
Transition
Fade time can be configurable separately for these 3 cases.
- Fade-in; Received a non-empty text when text was empty.
- Fade-out; Received an empty text when text was not empty.
- Cross-fade; Receiving a non-empty text when text was not empty.
- When the text is updated, the old text will move up to disappear and the new text will rise from the bottom.
Background I started to develop this plugin was that the browser source was not so stable on Linux at that time. Freetype2 text does not have configurable outline width. Pango text is also a good plugin but it takes 1 to 2 seconds to reload updated text file. I started to look into the source code of pango text and noticed there is a markup feature provided by the library pango.
Unfortunately, pango is developed mainly for Linux and it depends glib, which depends a lot of libraries. On Linux and macOS, it is easy to install these libraries, it takes just a few commands. However, there are no simple step to install these libraries and need to build one by one. I tried to build them on Windows but could not achieve so far.
