Andi Stone

Andi Stone

@andistone.uk

I build OBS plugins and streaming tools. Founder of StreamUP. I stream most weeks, make the odd cover song, and post the behind-the-scenes of building things solo.

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Ten hits on Robotnik before he could do anything about it. Didn't flash up gold, but that's some good time save.

OBS Scroll filter won't play again after it finishes? With Loop off, it only resets when the speed goes back to 0. Automate that with a Move Value filter and it's 1 click.

Chase levels in Crash 1 are not my thing. I was nowhere near that boulder and it still crushed me. It had turbo. That's all it was. Racing TheStampStories.

Spun on a run pad in Crash 2 and it threw me straight back out of the section. Mid speedrun. Please tell me that wasn't just me.

I 3D printed a clamp to hold my Stream Deck to any keyboard, not just my Corsair K55. A ratchet does the adjusting. Except the teeth aren't big enough yet, and I put the USB-C hole on the wrong side. Back to the printer.

Record a single source in OBS to its own file. Source Record filter, then pick when it records: always, streaming or recording. Run a few at once and you get a separate file for each. Skip the NVENC (new) encoder, it doesn't work with it.

First ever Crash 2 run. Warp into the Snow Biz room, jump at the portal and fall straight through the doorway into nothing. Died in the warp room. Mid speedrun. I swear my PC is exploding.

We've got a baby on the way, so I've put up a silly £1,000 Dono Goal on stream. Hit it before the end of the year and I'll do the Sando Hundo with @huds601.co.uk and everyone.

I've watched smaller channels blow up on a video idea I'd already made. So I'm reposting my old videos. Bad timing can bury a good video, so give it another go.

I stream in an attic. Window shut, all the gear on, bright lights, about a thousand degrees. I can feel the sweat dripping. My wife thinks my room smells like curry. Maybe I am a curry.

New Crash 2 PB. 1:01:13, down from 1:07:13. Missed the first hit on Cortex and still took 6 minutes off. Sub 1 hour is right there now.

Earlier in this run I went from 4 seconds ahead to 4 minutes 10 behind. Thought it was dead. Then back-to-back golds and a 1:07:13. That's 7 minutes off my PB in 1 day.

Will it work with @aitum.tv Stream Suite? I get asked this so much. Aitum Stream Suite and Aitum Vertical are OBS plugins, so your other OBS plugins should work alongside them.

Met Tosti at TwitchCon. I was very drunk, he was drumming at the open mic, and I just got in his car. Never met him before. OfficeDrummer was with us, so I felt a bit safer. If he goes missing, people will care.

Never press reset while you're live. I did, my whole layout fell apart, and I nearly overwrote the file I was fixing. The backup saved me. Back up your scenes, people.

Changing the same settings on every new source in OBS? Source Defaults by CodeYan. Set up a default source once and every new one of that type copies it. Audio monitoring on media sources, sorted. Works for filters too.

4 OBS plugin updates this week. A new toolbar that swaps out the Controls dock, DistroAV ready for OBS 33, and a karaoke key changer that now installs on Ubuntu 26.04. Do you still keep the Controls dock open, or did you bin it years ago?

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I do this every week. New OBS plugins, what actually changed, no waffle. Follow along if you want it in your feed.

4 OBS plugin updates this week. A new toolbar that swaps out the Controls dock, DistroAV ready for OBS 33, and a karaoke key changer that now installs on Ubuntu 26.04. Do you still keep the Controls dock open, or did you bin it years ago?

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DistroAV 6.2.1 to 6.2.2. Sends video between OBS and other machines on your network with NDI. It now installs to the new OBS 33 folder, and you can switch NDI output on and off remotely. Installed it with Homebrew on a Mac? Move to the DistroAV tap. https://andi.lol/obs-528-2026w43

4 OBS plugin updates this week. A new toolbar that swaps out the Controls dock, DistroAV ready for OBS 33, and a karaoke key changer that now installs on Ubuntu 26.04. Do you still keep the Controls dock open, or did you bin it years ago?

One chat box for Twitch and YouTube. I added my YouTube channel to StreamUP Chat, typed test, and it landed in both. Turn on platform icons and you can see where every message came from. YouTube support is in testing right now.

Can you copy a scene to another scene collection in OBS? Yes. Source Copy by Exeldro, under Tools. Save the scene or copy it, switch collection, paste. Everything comes across with it.

Chat said OBS feels bloated. I think it's the opposite. OBS ships with nothing extra and you add only the plugins you want. Bloated or not? Tell me below.

If/Else in Streamer.bot. Check a variable, drop sub-actions straight into the True and False groups, all in 1 action. The bit everyone misses: wrap the input in percent signs, like %number%.

OBS 33 has new snapping guides. Blue lines show when a source lines up edge to edge or with another source, and hidden sources are ignored.

Scrolling text ticker in OBS, no plugins. Text source, Scroll filter, limit the width to 1920, then add 5 spaces at each end so the message has a gap before it repeats.

This isn't a browser source. It's one OBS text source. Wave and tornado text, an image dropped straight into the text, and a button built in seconds. This is ProText, my new plugin, in early access for StreamUP members.

Elgato 4K Pro in OBS and the picture looks off? Your console sends 4K, your canvas is 1080p, and OBS squashes it down. Set the capture device to a custom 1920x1080 so everything matches.

I had the best camera assistant for today’s thumbnail! He’s only 3 and a better content creator than me!

OBS is moving every plugin into one folder: C:\ProgramData\obs-studio\plugins. In OBS 33 it's optional. From OBS 34, plugins anywhere else won't load. It's a hidden folder, so turn on View > Show > Hidden items to find it.

OBS only monitors to 1 device. Audio Monitor by Exeldro lets any source go to any output with its own volume. Turn the game down in your headphones while your stream still hears it at full level.