OBS (recording software) not working with Oculus Home v1.15

dape · May 25, 2017

I used to run OBS to record the mirrored 2D screen of the game. With the latest update of OH it is not working any more. If anyone get's it to work, pls let me know.

Running shadowplay is no option, I uninstalled Geforce Experience when they started to require an account.

mantzfield · May 25, 2017

dape said:
I used to run OBS to record the mirrored 2D screen of the game. With the latest update of OH it is not working any more. If anyone get's it to work, pls let me know.

Running shadowplay is no option, I uninstalled Geforce Experience when they started to require an account.

I've been having the same issue, found a couple of other people but doesn't seem to be widespread.

I've tried uninstalling OBS, repairing Oculus, a different user profile nothings worked. If you enable the cursor capture it picks that up so it seems specific to Oculus outputs. I've had the issue across multiple games including Steam games. Some SteamVR games work but there aren't many.

I've just found tonight that running window capture seems to work (as opposed to game capture, and window capture which both seem to fail now), so I'm going to use that for now unless something else crops up.
I found that AMD ReLive worked for me, but that only supported full screen applications which was pretty useless as so many VR games only output a window, and some you can't force to full screen.

dape · May 26, 2017

mantzfield said:
I've been having the same issue, found a couple of other people but doesn't seem to be widespread.

I've tried uninstalling OBS, repairing Oculus, a different user profile nothings worked. If you enable the cursor capture it picks that up so it seems specific to Oculus outputs. I've had the issue across multiple games including Steam games. Some SteamVR games work but there aren't many.

I've just found tonight that running window capture seems to work (as opposed to game capture, and window capture which both seem to fail now), so I'm going to use that for now unless something else crops up.
I found that AMD ReLive worked for me, but that only supported full screen applications which was pretty useless as so many VR games only output a window, and some you can't force to full screen.

I have OBS setup to "window capture" but it does not work with the mirror screen. It does work when I play ED in 2D though. So it is something that has changed with OH 1.15

mantzfield · May 30, 2017

dape said:
I have OBS setup to "window capture" but it does not work with the mirror screen. It does work when I play ED in 2D though. So it is something that has changed with OH 1.15

Just heard back from Oculus. They said their engineering team is working with OBS to resolve it and all they can suggest at the moment is to keep an eye out for an update on Oculus Home or OBS Studio.

Not ideal but at least they've acknowledged it and are working on it.

BigF · May 31, 2017

I don't use the software that much but last time I used it was working correctly with my DK2, I did have to faf around with it to set it up though. I'll see if I can post my settings here in case they help.

dape · May 31, 2017

mantzfield said:
Just heard back from Oculus. They said their engineering team is working with OBS to resolve it and all they can suggest at the moment is to keep an eye out for an update on Oculus Home or OBS Studio.

Not ideal but at least they've acknowledged it and are working on it.

thanks for the info. At least they are aware of the issue

Redwalljp · Jun 12, 2017

10 days later, does anyone know if there has been an update?

mantzfield · Jun 22, 2017

Redwalljp said:
10 days later, does anyone know if there has been an update?

I've not tried it with Elite but the issue seems to have been resolved with the latest OBS Studio update, I've tested it with Steam and Home games and it seems to be working now.

dape · Jun 29, 2017

It is still partly borked. OBS is recording the mirror window again, so that is working. Unfortunately The Riva Tuner OnScreenDisplay is still not working.