Open Broadcaster Software/Quick start with simple screen capture

This is your quick start with simple screen capture with Open Broadcaster Software.

Use cases

 * quick streaming an online conference from your browser web or other tools
 * quick sharing your presentation from LibreOffice or other tools

Features

 * really simple setup

Disadvantages

 * you should mute audio notifications from other applications

Requirements

 * 5 minutes
 * an operating system with modern audio support
 * GNU/Linux operating distributions are OK
 * PulseAudio is OK
 * OK Microsoft Windows
 * no macOS
 * Open Broadcaster Software (install)

Quick Setup
This guide is for OBS 25 (2021). Please update if it will be needed.


 * 1) Open Open Broadcaster Software
 * 2) Plug headphones
 * 3) Close any other app playing sounds (but BBB) and disable all notifications
 * Tip: important to don't send OnAir the dlin of your e-mails / Telegram messages...
 * 1) File > Settings > Audio > Disable everything
 * Tip: you don't want to send OnAir any audio as default
 * 1) first scene "Welcome"
 * 2) Image: pick a start splash image
 * 3) Media source: weird jingle (in loop)
 * 4) Text: write something like "Welcome, starts at ...."
 * 5) second scene "OnAir"
 * 6) window capture on BigBlueButton
 * 7) audio output capture
 * 8) third scene "Pause"
 * 9) Image: pick a splash image
 * 10) Media source: another weird jingle (in loop)
 * 11) Text: write something like "Welcome, starts at ...."
 * 12) fourth scene "Final"
 * 13) Image: pick a splash image
 * 14) Media source: another weird jingle (in loop)
 * 15) Text: write something like "Thank you! That was really long but I'm still alive dehydrated and tired! Now let's go out to see the sunlight! asd"
 * 16) Edit > Advanced Audio Properties
 * 17) Test each scene
 * 18) if you do not ear something in your headphones, select "Monitor and output" on that element
 * Enable for "Media"
 * 1) if you do not want to ear something in your headphones, select "Monitor off"
 * Eventually disable for "Monitor output"

That's all!