I just needed a program to capture a portion of the screen under my mouse and stream it as a webcam device to Zoom, so I can screen cast a portion of my gigantic workstation desktop (6480x3840) to people with 1920x1080 screens, while following my mouse cursor around.
OBS was one stop along my journey to get there, as there's some Lua and Python scripts that achieve something similar, but not quite exactly what I wanted with multi-screens, so I began trying to modify the script to do what I needed it to do.
In the end I'm going with something called "SparkoCam" which achieves this easily with no hassle, but it costs $40. Since $40 is less than what an hour of my time is worth, it was kind of a no-brainer to abandon the hassles of learning Lua (a many hour detour) and fiddling with OBS Studio to get what I wanted. I have no real use for Lua outside of this, so it would be time wasted on this one project.
I felt the same way, hesitating to use a hardware RT music platform that is scripted in lua because "omg another lang", but I couldn't find an alternative. I bit the bullet and ... man it really is easy to use, forgiving and absurdly productive. You should reconsider, because learning lua is so easy, with so many resources out there for any question ... and then you know a "real" language and not just some OBS tech.
I simply don't have any reason to use Lua now. I replaced OBS with software that just works, and that saved me countless hours of hacking a new language to do something that may not even work how I need it to. $40 is money well spent, and Lua will have to wait for another project, if one ever comes up. And if OBS hadn't injected so much extra stuff I'd probably settled on a Typescript-to-Lua toolchain to do the work, because I just don't really have time for context switching to languages I'll only ever use for a single project.
I just needed a program to capture a portion of the screen under my mouse and stream it as a webcam device to Zoom, so I can screen cast a portion of my gigantic workstation desktop (6480x3840) to people with 1920x1080 screens, while following my mouse cursor around.
OBS was one stop along my journey to get there, as there's some Lua and Python scripts that achieve something similar, but not quite exactly what I wanted with multi-screens, so I began trying to modify the script to do what I needed it to do.
In the end I'm going with something called "SparkoCam" which achieves this easily with no hassle, but it costs $40. Since $40 is less than what an hour of my time is worth, it was kind of a no-brainer to abandon the hassles of learning Lua (a many hour detour) and fiddling with OBS Studio to get what I wanted. I have no real use for Lua outside of this, so it would be time wasted on this one project.
I felt the same way, hesitating to use a hardware RT music platform that is scripted in lua because "omg another lang", but I couldn't find an alternative. I bit the bullet and ... man it really is easy to use, forgiving and absurdly productive. You should reconsider, because learning lua is so easy, with so many resources out there for any question ... and then you know a "real" language and not just some OBS tech.
I simply don't have any reason to use Lua now. I replaced OBS with software that just works, and that saved me countless hours of hacking a new language to do something that may not even work how I need it to. $40 is money well spent, and Lua will have to wait for another project, if one ever comes up. And if OBS hadn't injected so much extra stuff I'd probably settled on a Typescript-to-Lua toolchain to do the work, because I just don't really have time for context switching to languages I'll only ever use for a single project.
Interesting!