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OBS Replay Tool

This was made as a way for me to try and make OBS a good (maybe even better) alternative to GeForce Experience. I thought about doing this because of how much customization when using OBS's Replay Buffer tool instead of Instant Replay from GeForce Experience. For example, in OBS I can record up to 6 different audio tracks, as compared to GE's two tracks limitation. This allows me to separate game audio, mic audio, and Discord call audio.

This is currently a work in progress right now, but from testing it works so far, although I do want to add some features.

Features

• Nvidia Instant Replay-like overlay that shows Replay Buffer status
• Non-obtrusive icon that displays when a clip was successfully saved
• Automatically change your application audio captur source to capture the active application's audio
  • Blacklist to ignore programs
• See what application OBS is currently capturing
• Replays can be saved into their own folders, given a base path to save to. (default is user's videos folder)
• Turn off Replay Buffer when computer is idle for a certain amaount of time (default: 15 minutes)

Setup

(eventually this will have an easy packaged exe to use but for now this is how you use it lol)

1. Clone this repo.
2. Install dependencies: npm i
3. Run npm run start in the terminal.
4. A config.json file should be automatically created with the default settings.
5. Fill in the websocket authentication information, as well as other required fields.
6. You should see a "🔁" icon in the bottom left corner of your screen if your replay is on, and a "🔁 + ❌" icon when it is off.

Config Explanation

You can find all the settings you want to change in the config.json file that's created whever the app is located at.

• OBS Websocket Settings - websocket

  • ip: The IP address of your OBS Websocket (default: 127.0.0.1)
  • port: The port of your OBS Websocket (default: 4455)
  • password: The password of your OBS Websocket (recommended to have!)
    • Note: *if you have a password on your websocket, you should edit this on first launch*.

• OBS-related settings - obs

  • gameCaptureSourceName: The name of the Application Audio Capture source to modify settings of for focusing the capture towards the active application. (default: "Game Audio Capture")
    • Note: you may want to edit this on first launch.
  • baseOutputPath: The base path to use for the Replay Buffer's output directory (default: the user's video directory if left blank)
  • filenameFormat: The format to use for the saved replay's file name. You can find more info here. (default: %CCYY-%MM-%DD %hh-%mm-%ss)
  • turnOffReplayWhenIdle: Disable Replay Buffer when your computer has been idle for a certain amount of time (based on the idleTime setting).
  • idleTime: The amount of time (in seconds) before Replay Buffer is disabled. Does not do anything if turnOffReplayWhenIdle is false. (default: 900 or 15 minutes)

• App Overlay related settings - app

  • updateActiveWindow: When enabled, the Application Audio Capture source set in obs.gameCaptureSourceName will be updated to change to the active application. (default: true)
  • showOverlay: Shows/hides the overlay. (default: true)
  • blacklist: A JSON array of programs for the Application Audio Capture source to ignore switching to. The app names are case-sensitive!
  • isDebug: Show debug messages in the logs. (default: false)
  • showLogs: Opens the log window. (default: false)

TODO

• probably make a first-time setup thing?
• ui for changing settings instead of having to manually modify config.json
• add option to pick which corner to show overlay