Logitech just bought the software of choice for many top streamers

[steven36]

Logitech is expanding its repertoire by snapping up Streamlabs, the company that created the popular livestreaming app Streamlabs OBS. The peripheral-maker has agreed to acquire the company for $89 million in cash and an additional $29 million in stock, though the latter depends on whether it hits significant revenue growth targets.

 

 

Streamlabs, which is based in California, offers streamers a robust set of tools to be able to broadcast to Twitch, YouTube, Mixer and Facebook. Its app allows users to process and track tips, as well as to read the chat in their room on a single screen with an in-game overlay. It also gives them access to themes and streaming applications that can up their game. Twitch rolled out a similar broadcasting software in August, but it's not as feature-rich as Streamlabs' -- at least not yet.

 

Ujesh Desai, general manager and vice president of Logitech G (that's G for Gaming), said Streamlabs' "industry-leading software is complementary to [Logitech's] existing gaming portfolio, and [they] believe [they] can do even greater things together." The companies didn't reveal what it is they're cooking up exactly, but by acquiring Streamlabs, Logitech will have a stake in both the hardware and software aspects of the game streaming industry.

 

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[mantazzo]

I think this needs a SERIOUS clarification - Logitech bought only Streamlabs, not OBS itself. Streamlabs OBS is just a "fork" of the normal OBS Studio.

OBS Studio remains as an open-source application, and still one of the top choices for streaming (Streamlabs OBS just simplified things a bit for many "starter" streamers, for more advanced stuff standard OBS Studio is still best choice).

[steven36]

On 9/27/2019 at 5:54 PM, mantazzo said:

I think this needs a SERIOUS clarification - Logitech bought only Streamlabs, not OBS itself. Streamlabs OBS is just a "fork" of the normal OBS Studio.

OBS Studio remains as an open-source application, and still one of the top choices for streaming (Streamlabs OBS just simplified things a bit for many "starter" streamers, for more advanced stuff standard OBS Studio is still best choice).

Streamlabs  makes Streamlabs OBS

https://github.com/stream-labs

 

I dont even see nowhere  on github to post a bug report  even. Microsoft and Google make open source  software too . Only thing open source means you can fork it if you want .

 

OBS Broadcaster is not even the same software as Streamlabs OBS Streamlabs  just uses OBS engine  in there software

Quote

 

At its core, Streamlabs OBS is powered by the OBS engine. We want to thank all of the developers over at the OBS project for their years of tireless hard work, without which Streamlabs OBS wouldn't exist today.

 

https://obsproject.com/

 

FYI i dont see nowhere in the OP were they say they bought the OBS engine . They is all kinds of  open source software that uses 3rd party engines  that is better than the back end by itself  they lots of software on Linux that don't have a gui without a front end  or has a featureless gui that others make better frontends   Heck they even whole dristros based on others and it just depends on who you talk too if they think  they better or worse  , So saying anything is just a users opinion .

 

Streamlabs also sell Streamlabs Pro.

https://support.streamlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/223485348-Streamlabs-PRO

 

 

Streamlabs OBS has lots of features   while OBS Studio have very  little features .

https://goandstream.com/obs-vs-streamlabs-obs/

 

The downside to Streamlabs OBS  it's Windows only  witch don't make no sense  ? Since it's built on OBS and Electron it can easily be ported to Linux. But hey you win some and you lose some there is lots of Linux apps that's never been ported to Windows yet. But most Linux users  like tinkering with things while Windows users just want ease of use like Streamlabs OBS can give them.