# Help installing OBS Spout2 plugin on Portable OBS 31 **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [June 24, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://spout.discourse.group/t/help-installing-obs-spout2-plugin-on-portable-obs-31/680 "2025-06-24T05:48:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![spout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@spout](https://spout.discourse.group/u/spout)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 5:46am UTC](https://spout.discourse.group/t/help-installing-obs-spout2-plugin-on-portable-obs-31/680/21 "2026-05-05T05:46:24Z")
I had a quick look with the installed version of OBS that I have. It seems that this version of OBS needs the Spout plugin to be located in “C:\ProgramData\obs-studio\plugins”. The Spout plugin installer creates a folder “C:\ProgramData\obs-studio\plugins\win-spout” I am not sure where the portable version of OBS requires plugins but there is a download that you can unzip to any folder [win-spout-1.9.0-windows-x64.zip](https://github.com/Off-World-Live/obs-spout2-plugin/releases/download/1.10.0/win-spout-1.9.0-windows-x64.zip) Try extracting this in “obs-plugins/64bit” to get “obs-plugins/64bit/win-spout” From my brief testing, the installed version of OBS doesn’t recognize the plugin when it is copied to there, but the portable version might. ---
**Author:** ![bile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/spout.discourse.group/bile/32/270_2.png) [@bile](https://spout.discourse.group/u/bile)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 11:42pm UTC](https://spout.discourse.group/t/help-installing-obs-spout2-plugin-on-portable-obs-31/680/22 "2026-05-05T23:42:25Z")
Yes, thank you! I tried this and had the plugin show up as just sourcename, just how it appeared for @Afterglow. After a little trial and error I found that OBS expects to find the locale info at /data/obs-plugins/win-spout/locale So to install everything you need to copy the contents of “win-spout-1.9.0-windows-x64/win-spout/bin/64bit” → “{obs root folder}/obs-plugins/64bit” and the contents of “win-spout-1.9.0-windows-x64/win-spout/data” → “{obs root folder}/data/obs-plugins/win-spout/” ---
**Author:** ![spout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@spout](https://spout.discourse.group/u/spout)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://spout.discourse.group/t/help-installing-obs-spout2-plugin-on-portable-obs-31/680/23 "2026-05-07T01:55:53Z")
Thanks for your efforts. I tried this and it worked independently of the installed version of OBS. For future reference I created a step-by-step instruction. Could you check that it is correct and complete. #### Installing the Off World Live Spout2 plugin for OBS portable mode 1. Download the [Windows OBS zip file](https://obsproject.com/download) 2. Extract to the required folder for portable operation 3. Create an empty “portable\_mode” or “portable\_mode.txt” file in the root directory ([https://obsproject.com/kb/portable-mode](https://obsproject.com/kb/portable-mode)) 4. Download the latest [Spout2 Plugin zip file](https://github.com/Off-World-Live/obs-spout2-plugin/releases) for OBS (e.g. win-spout-1.9.0-windows-x64.zip). 5. Right click and Extract All to a folder such as : “win-spout-1.9.0-windows-x64” 6. Copy the contents of “win-spout-1.9.0-windows-x64/win-spout/bin/64bit” to “{obs root folder}/obs-plugins/64bit” 7. Create a folder named “win-spout” in "{obs root folder}/data/obs-plugins 8. Copy the contents of “win-spout-1.9.0-windows-x64/win-spout/data” to “{obs root folder}/data/obs-plugins/win-spout/” ---
**Author:** ![spout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@spout](https://spout.discourse.group/u/spout)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 4:13am UTC](https://spout.discourse.group/t/help-installing-obs-spout2-plugin-on-portable-obs-31/680/24 "2026-05-08T04:13:34Z")
The manual installation instructions above should help, but they can be replaced by a single batch file that does everything, This should be copied to the OBS portable root folder along with the Spout2 plugin zip file. It will - - find a zip file starting with “win-spout” - if not found, prompt to download it - extract to to a “win-spout” folder - copy all the files as required - delete the extracted folder Then it is ready to run. All tests are positive. Could you please test this, [Download from here](https://github.com/leadedge/leadedge.github.io/raw/downloads/spout2-OBS-portable-install.zip), copy to the OBS portable root folder and extract the batch file. [Previous page](https://spout.discourse.group/t/help-installing-obs-spout2-plugin-on-portable-obs-31/680.md?page=1)