{"id":8460,"date":"2023-04-14T21:47:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T21:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2023-04-14T21:54:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T21:54:40","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/14\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-142\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 142"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I never heard of OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), until I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irsdl\/status\/1645764384214450176\">this<\/a> Twitter thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/obsproject.com\/\">downloading<\/a> it, trying it, tinkering with it&#8230; I actually found it far more confusing than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screentogif.com\/\">Screen2Gif<\/a>, but this is because it offers a lot more advanced options, tweaking, and&#8230; supports scripting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A-HA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moment I learnt about scripting, I immediately went to OBS&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/obsproject.com\/kb\/scripting-guide\">Scripting Help section<\/a> and started reading it with an intention of creating a small PoC. My thought process was: if I can write an OBS script that executes program or command of my liking anytime OBS starts, I am totally writing a new blog post in the series&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also browsed the OBS Forum posts&#8230; and while doing so, I quickly discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/obsproject.com\/forum\/resources\/obs-autostarter.1265\/\">this OBS script<\/a> that implements everything that I wanted to demo in the &#8216;I will write it when I can PoC it&#8217; post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booooo to me actually learning OBS Scripting, Hurrah to you reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This script is a beauty. It executes programs of your liking at the time OBS starts, and kills them when OBS exits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now I feel terrible, because I have contributed NOTHING to this post other than describing other peoples&#8217; work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never heard of OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), until I saw this Twitter thread. After downloading it, trying it, tinkering with it&#8230; I actually found it far more confusing than Screen2Gif, but this is because it offers a lot more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/14\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-142\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8462,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions\/8462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}