QUESTION · SATURDAY Q&A

If someone is an OBS user, how do you get Zoom sources into this app? Where does OBS come into play?

ASKED BY · Unknown · 19 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:04:14

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John WallacePANELIST

Core Video Pro is completely standalone and not dependent on OBS; it started as a simple Zoom sources plugin for OBS but evolved into its own compositor and audio engine.

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4:13For this app, OBS isn't a part of it at all. So it's just totally unrelated. 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.

4:40And 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 that like a performance meter of some kind?

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