Wow, I went to watch some TV with my wife, came back, sat down and promptly fell off my chair! Once again, Thank you everyone for contributing, we have now exceeded the required minimum, this additional funding will allow some headroom for any extra hardware that was unforeseen.
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500 dollarydoos! amazing. Letās get this show on the road!
Wuhu, go Sapphire! You should definitely put them in the contributors file too.
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Certainly, all contributors, both financial and hardware will go in there 
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A little late donation from me I hope thatās okay was waiting for the check to come in haha
OBS captures by either specified window via xshm or by screen via xcomposite, either of those should work without a seperate plugin no?
Regardless any capture card should also work just fine, you wouldnt even need the capture card hooked up to your passthrough gpu, just split the signal from your linux gpu to your monitor and cap card then it would capture the fullscreenedā framebuffer being displayed on your linux gpu. No worrying about switching cables
Why re-capture what is already available in ram?
Again, why? We can just feed the frame data straight into OBS
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the capture card method is for multi-pc setups, which is what I use. I have a seperate dedicated machine used for live streaming + recording at the same time while the main rig is used just for gaming.
as for the screen/window capture method, that was just a general idea on using obs without a seperate plugin being needed. Youāre correct in that it shouldnt need to be recaptured if itās stored in memory already, my point was that the existing method should work, albeit redundant
another idea would be to maybe feed the framebuffer as a webcam/capture device, so that you could add it in obs as a video device? this would also mean youd then be able to use things like guvcview with the source, although I suppose thatd also be redundant as it would be going framebuffer->fake camera device->framebuffer
just throwing some ideas around
When it doesnāt require a heavy CPU penalty, a more direct hook is pretty much the logical way to go, but it will have to be a plugin for OBS or committed with OBSā official code. We just need someone to write the hook.
Iād take it up with GoFundMe, this seems like it should be simple to undo.
i am just sad i cannot contribute because gofundme requires credit or debit cardā¦ not the kind of card i haveā¦
i would definitly like to help out on patreon or with a direct paypal transfer
There is 
thanks a lot, must have overlooked that earliereā¦
@gnif have fun with all that hardware, you definitely deserve it
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Iām not super concerned about it. From the looks of it they charged me then immediately refunded the charge each time. No clue why.
Ah, I wasnāt looking that closely.
Iām not really a finance/electronic payment pro, so I canāt really comment on it.
No worries. Looks like lots of money has been put towards the project anyway, and a goodly amount of hardware is also being donated. Iām just glad so many people are interested in this.
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@gnif There is a thread on Reddit that is investigating the Threadripper Passthrough issue. Here is a link to it in case you havenāt seen it already:
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