I Replaced OBS - OmaBroadcast For Omarchy With Teleprompter, Browser Sources And APV Capture
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I love OBS, but I needed something simpler that did the handful of things I actually use — and recorded in a proper editing format instead of a delivery codec. So I built OmaBroadcast on top of FFmpeg 9.1 for Omarchy. This is a quick tour of what's in it, plus a rant about why H.264 and H.265 were never meant to be recording formats and why Samsung's APV codec is the most interesting thing to happen to capture in years.
WHAT'S IN IT
Teleprompter — drop a script in (I had Claude write me a ten-point prompt about coffee), set speed and size, and park it off-screen while you talk to the lens. I don't know why this isn't built into everything.
Studios — scenes, basically. Automatic studio switcher, output timer, remote scripting, and a projector output that throws a studio onto a completely separate screen.
Browser source — a real browser inside the app with an interactive mode that pops out so you can drive it on another display while it's being recorded. Edit the CSS, set the size, 1920x1080 and away you go.
Text, images, displays, button layouts you can rearrange, and transitions — fade, cut, add your own.
Inputs — cameras, iPhone tether over cable, or network streams if you've got one of the paid streaming apps.
Built-in help — ask it to walk you through something, or how to set up a green screen, and it shows you where everything is.
Presentations — it opens Omarchy presentations and plays them to screen.
THE FORMAT RANT
H.264 and H.265 are delivery formats. Every camera manufacturer on the planet has convinced you they're acquisition formats. They're not. They're what you send out, not what you cut with. That's why post-production lives on ProRes, and why Canon and Sony have their own intra-frame flavours — they edit properly. Even an iPhone shoots ProRes now, so you've got no excuses.
The problem with ProRes is the licence. Enter APV — Advanced Professional Video, from Samsung. ProRes-level 10-bit quality, DaVinci Resolve already edits it, and it's open with no licence fee. FFmpeg spotted it and accelerated it with Vulkan in 9.1 (still on the dev branch), and because OmaBroadcast uses that Vulkan path, the little laptop over there can capture APV at 50fps. I record in APV proxy mode and edit it like ProRes. Hats off to FFmpeg.
HARDWARE
Tested on an RTX 5060 Ti, a 3060, a 3050 and an Intel Arc B580 — all fine. Vulkan is GPU-agnostic so it should run on anything with a decent driver. One rule: record high-bandwidth footage to a fast SSD. Spinning discs are asking for trouble.
WHAT'S NEXT
If you watched the last two videos you know the plan: get the ProRes encoders working on Apple Silicon. Once that's done OmaBroadcast encodes to ProRes as well as APV, and the M2 and M3 Max over there become proper production machines. This laptop gets a job the moment I'm happy with Omarchy on the M platform.
As with all my toys, this does the job for me. If it does the job for you too, have a play and let me know how it runs on your hardware. PRs welcome. Link below.
00:00 - Start
00:09 - INTRO
03:10 - NEWS
05:00 - INSTALL
08:25 - GREEN SCREEN
11:49 - STUDIO MODE
15:38 - AI REMOVE
20:50 - TELE PROMPTER
26:10 - FINAL WORDS