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How do you get Zoom sources into OBS, and where does OBS come into play with this app?

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Core Video Pro evolved from an original OBS plugin idea into a standalone app because managing large Zoom panels in OBS was too complicated; the OBS plugin is free but separate from the app.

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3:57the feedback of our community and make sure those things are important and shown. So I'm curious if so if someone's an OBS user, like obviously, this is a standalone app, but how do you get, so you joined the meeting from this app, but where does OBS come into play? Yeah, so for this app, OBS isn't a part of it at all. So it's just totally unrelated.

4:19Yeah, so Core Video, what I originally started with was just like, it would be cool if I could get Zoom sources into OBS. That was my only idea. And then after working with OBS, I thought, this is really complicated. I don't know that my friends who I'm trying to build this for would actually have success doing a larger panel within OBS and trying to manage that.

4:41And then that's what led me to like, let me see what I can do and see what I can kind of frame out and then start making actual function underneath the UI I designed. It's amazing. I'm having a hard time seeing the text that's in the buttons in the lower, the bottom there in the toolbar, but is there, is that like a performance meter of some kind? Yeah, you can

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