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Pre-requirements

  • Windows
  • browser
  • 64-bit OBS (not in studio mode)
  • PowerShell with administrator rights
  • JDK/JRE & JRE_HOME environment variable (JRE_HOME\bin\java.exe or JAVA_HOME\bin\java.exe should exist)
  • ffmpeg available from command line / PATH
  • appropriate installation of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio, download here

Installation

  1. Download install.ps1 and obs-thrift-api.dll from the latest plugin release
  2. Copy obs-thrift-api.dll into <OBS home>\plugins folder of your OBS installation (instruction)
  3. Place install.ps1 script into an empty folder to install web interface tools into and run install.pd1 from windows powershell
  4. Open powershell as administrator and run Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted to adjust powershell security settings to run the script
  5. Script will download and install Apache Tomcat and obs-video-scheduler.zip
  6. As a result, installation folder should contain apache-tomcat-9.0.33, data, install.ps1 and run.bat

Video walkthrough of the installation process: youtube

Usage

  1. Run OBS
  2. Create or select a scene to add scheduled videos to
  3. Run run.bat from scheduler folder
  4. Open http://localhost:8080/ in browser
  5. Web interface should show “Connected to OBS” in the upper left corner.

  1. To schedule a video press schedule button to the left of video name in the lower left corner
  2. Drag-n-drop video in the timeline to adjust start time (only round number of seconds allowed)
  3. Double click on scheduled video to remove
  4. Move the slider above the timeline to adjust zoom
  5. Timeline has two timers available: global astronomic time (below timeline) and time from a given start time. To adjust start time use “New start time” and “Reschedule” button or click “Start now”
  6. http://localhost:8080/comm will show information about upcoming video 1 minute before the video start and during the video

Settings

You can open settings on the “settings” link in upper left corner of web interface or directly on http://localhost:8080/settings.jsp; settings are stored in \data\config.json

OBS

Property Default value Description
OBS host localhost localhost for OBS on the same computer or IP address of another computer with OBS in the local network
Video directory on OBS Host C:/videos/ folder with all videos (must end with / and only use forward slashes)

Scheduler

Property Default value Description
Video directory on the server C:/videos/
Scene name Scene1 scene name to add video to (should exist!)
Source name Scheduled Video source name to add video to (should not exist)
Source layer 0 video source will be set to that layer number; 0 -- on top of all; used to add logos on top of the video

Video dimensions

Property Default value Description
Top margin (px) 0
Left margin (px) 0
Width (%) 100
Height (%) 100

Advanced

Property Default value Description
Sources to mute/unmute empty
Disclaimer file name empty video within video directory on OBS host that will be used as intro and outro before and after each video (example: intro.mp4)