Help installing OBS Spout2 plugin on Portable OBS 31

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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

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.

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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/”

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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

  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)

  4. Download the latest Spout2 Plugin zip file 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/”

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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, copy to the OBS portable root folder and extract the batch file.