Obs-text-pthread

Jul 20, 2023

OBS Studio Plugin: Rich text source plugin for OBS Studio

This plugin displays text with many advanced features.

  • Markup
  • Text alignment
    • Left, center, and right
    • Justification
  • Outline
    • Configurable width, color, and opacity
    • Configurable shape of corners
    • Blur
  • Transition
    • Fade-in, fade-out, cross-fade
    • Slide
  • Threaded glyph drawing
    • Lower priority to draw glyphs so that other sources and encoders are not impacted
    • More frequent polling of the text file
  • Automatic line-break supporting East Asian languages
  • Saving as PNG files for post production


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