Explanation
LUA script that converts OBS into a random Playout application. After each show it displays a schedule of the next three upcoming shows with a random background music track. After the schedule it plays a short moment of Zen/interlude video before starting the next show.
Setup
Create three scenes in OBS:
Add show.lua to the Tools>scripts page with the + button and configure the script by filling out every field.
Additional notes
If the script cannot find the media for the show or Zen it will auto skip after 1 second.
If not using "Auto Start Stream" select the Schedule scene to kick start the show.
LUA script that converts OBS into a random Playout application. After each show it displays a schedule of the next three upcoming shows with a random background music track. After the schedule it plays a short moment of Zen/interlude video before starting the next show.
Setup
Create three scenes in OBS:
- TV
- Scene must have a Media Source object that will display the shows.
- Recommend using "transform > Fit to screen" (ctrl+F) on the media source if the media you are playing doesn't have the same aspect ratio.
- Schedule
- Scene must have three Text sources and a media source.
- Text sources are used for displaying the next three shows. Apply a transition to them so they animate when they are displayed.
- Media source is used to play background music.
- Zen
- Scene must have a Media Source object that will display the interludes.
- TV.txt
- List of media you want to randomly play.
- Each line should have a path of the media file followed by a title separated by a semicolon.
- Example:
C:\Users\firetime\Videos\show1.mkv;ShowTitle
- Music.txt
- List of music you want to play in the background.
- Each line should have a path to a song you want to play.
- Example:
C:\Users\firetime\Music\song.mp3
- Zen.txt
- List of short clips you want to play before starting a new show.
- Could be a station brand animation or funny clip. this can be disabled by creating a file with a single path to an invalid file. The script will skip once it realized it cant load the file after 1 second.
- Each line should have a path to a video you want to play.
- Example:
C:\Users\firetime\Videos\zen\clip.mkv
Add show.lua to the Tools>scripts page with the + button and configure the script by filling out every field.
- TV List, Music List, Zen List
- absolute paths to the txt files.
- Example:
C:\Users\firetime\Documents\music.txt
- TV Scene, Schedule Scene, Zen Scene
- Exact names of the respective scenes.
- TV Source, Zen Source, Music Source
- "Media Source" sources used to play the respective content.
- Up Next 1,2,3
- Text sources on the Schedule scene.
- Up Next 1 is the next show to be played.
- Up Next 2 is the one after.
- Up Next 3 is the one after that.
- Schedule time
- How long in seconds the schedule is shown for.
- Prevent repeats checkbox
- Will attempt to not select a show with the same title as anything on the current schedule.
- Leave this unchecked if you don't have 4 or more unique titles.
- Auto Start Stream
- Automatically start OBS streaming 1 second after script is loaded.
- Useful when loading OBS in a docker container or VM and want the show to automatically resume after updates.
- Re-count lists button
- Press this button when adding or removing items from any of the lists while OBS is running.
- This will recount the number of rows in the text file that is used in the randomizer.
| Example settings: | Example Schedule: |
If the script cannot find the media for the show or Zen it will auto skip after 1 second.
If not using "Auto Start Stream" select the Schedule scene to kick start the show.