[Newhouser]

Does anyone use OBS to record Teams or Zoom meetings? If so, what is the best way to set it up?

I wish their website had a getting started guide for this purpose but I haven't found one.

[wpm]

In OBS, add a new "Source". Which choice you use will depend on your operating system, but on macOS they're using the built-in APIs in the OS to do the captures. I think on Linux and Windows it's "Application Capture" or "Window Capture". Choose your Zoom meeting window. Mess with the size/position as you please, and hit record. The OOBE setup that OBS takes you through on first launch should choose reasonable settings for output and audio pickup, but do a test recording first in your Personal Room and see if its picking up everything right. At least on Linux/Windows I don't think anything special needs to be done to pick up Desktop Audio. On macOS, you might need to add a "macOS Audio Capture" source as well.

I use OBS all the time in the opposite direction, using the Virtual Cam plugin to serve video and content to a Zoom share. I have kinda draft of a walkthrough of my setup, with some explaination of like, the hierarchy of things and terms in the UI and how it all mixes together, that I haven't published but if there is a dearth of good basic setup docs for stuff it might light a fire under my ass to actually publish what I have and add some stuff for recording.

[favorited]

I'd love to hear more about your setup. The last time I tried messing with virtual webcams on macOS, most of the OSS options were still using the deprecated DAL API, which stopped working in Sonoma (without setting a `system-override` from Recovery Mode).

Do you know if your setup is using the new CMIO APIs? Or did you need to set the `legacy-camera-plugins-without-sw-camera-indication` override?

[minimaxir]

On macOS with current OBS, "Screen Capture" will include the system audio automatically, while "Window Capture" will not.