I’m trying to install obs-spout2-plugin onto my portable install of OBS 31. Could someone walk me through how to do this, preferably step-by-step?
I’ve tried following the guide on this webpage on extracting the zip, as well as making some substitutions (of where I install it) that make sense to me for a portable install… and I’ve also tried using the installer exe… but so far I run into one of two problems:
Either the files unzip into where I think they ought to go and when I open OBS, there is no Spout option in Sources.
Or the installation files do not appear in the target folder at all after using the installer.
I expect that this folder would be the same required for both the installed and portable versions but I can’t confirm that. The OBS forum might provide the answer to this.
Otherwise you should get assistance from the OffWorld Live Discord forum. I regret that I don’t have an account for that to help further.
My portable install was set up with this file structure: OBS-Studio-31.0.2 folder contains the folders bin, config, data, and obs-plugins.
The obs-plugins folder contains 32bit and 64bit. Inside those folders a bunch of loose .dll and .pdb files, not contained in their own folders.
The data folder contains the folders libobs, locale, obs-plugins (another one), obs-scripting, and obs-studio.
This second obs-plugins folder contains a bunch of folders each with a name of the associated plugin, e.g. a folder named move-transition. These don’t have .dll nor .pdb files in them.
The bin folder also has a bunch of .dll and .pdb but they appear to be default files, not plugins that I added.
I’ve tried extracting the zip into any of the plugins folders that might make sense, but whenever I did so, I never got Spout to show up in the OBS source list. This includes simply putting the files from the zip’s bin+data folders into my bin+data folders.
And when I use the installer, seems like the Spout files never actually end up in any folder I select as their destination.
Wait, the OffWorld Live? Does that have anything to do with Spout?
OBS No longer recommends installation into the obs "plugins" folder. Instead, unzip the attached zip file into "C:\ProgramData\obs-studio\plugins" directory
Try creating this directory and unzipping into it. You should get a “win-spout” folder containing “bin” and “data” folders with the plugin files.
The OffWorld live company developed the Spout plugin for OBS Studio which uses the Spout library. If the plugin still doesn’t show up when you unzip to the folder as above, they would be best to advise on what to do.
Ok, I tried your advice, thanks. Still doesn’t appear to have worked.
I think those directions probably only work for not-portable installations, since portable installations are supposed to be self-contained in their folder.
I’ll see if I can flag anyone down OffWorld.