wow I really don't want to implement OBS support for my streaming site, this is going to take weeks by itself and I have a week left to work on this thing.

@sun@shitposter.world What are you talking about? Isn't OBS just RTMP?

@SuperDicq that part works, I am talking about remote-controlling OBS so that when for example, someone subscribes, it shows an animation onscreen in the stream. this requires interfacing with a very complicated websocket API

@sun@shitposter.world As far as I know even the big streamers don't do it like this. They usually just make a web source overlay for notifications instead.

@SuperDicq the animations are triggered by a third party application that connects to both Twitch via websocket and one protocol, and converts them to a different protocol that it sends to your OBS over websocket

@sun@shitposter.world It's not a web source usually?

@SuperDicq I don't know how it's done most of the time but its possible to use a web source. but I know some of them just make a predefined asset in your OBS scene visible

@sun @SuperDicq back when i did a lot of streaming, streamlabs would just give you a link to a webpage and you would use a web source.

now, they have an OBS fork and an OBS plugin that integrates the streamlabs functionality directly instead of being a web source that you drop in. i have no idea how that works, never used it. i think a lot of it costs money so i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people still just use web sources.