OBS Studio Starter Kit
Tags: linux, mac, streaming
Published: 2019-11-14 20:10:45

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title: OBS Studio Starter Kit
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description: OBS Studio Starter Kit for Linux or Mac, tech stream oriented
tags: linux, mac, streaming
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- [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/download) Starter Kit, for Linux or Mac, tech stream oriented.


# Tools

These are some visually attractive eye candy and useful tools that you can show off on your stream, install the ones you see fit...


## Clementine

[Clementine Music Player](https://www.clementine-player.org) is an open source crossplatform Qt5 Music player with very modern and visually attractive UI,
that makes it ideal for playing music while occasionally showing the player on stream and dont get everyone bored quickly,
it uses few resources and disk space because its C, uses less resources than Spotify, and uses no Network by default.

It has a playlist with "Mood bars" that represents the mood of the song using colors (sad music, happy music, slow paced music, etc).
The playlist also has a column "Play Count" so you can see how many times that song has been played on stream.
The Playlist has a Rating colum with 5 Stars widgets, so you can rate the songs too.
It can show random baby Kitten photos for missing music cover photos.
If you dont have Designs for *"Will be back soon"* kind of screens, just leaving the player on shuffle will do, at least for a while.

[![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/juancarlospaco/obs-starter-kit/master/clementine.png "Visually attractive music player!")](https://www.clementine-player.org)


## Webcamoid

[Webcamoid](https://webcamoid.github.io) is an open source Qt5 WebCam app with advanced settings and real time filters and effects,
is very lightweight being coded on C, uses few resources, it can add custom effects to your webcam on real time,
it can cover faces with PNG images, it can blurry faces, it can add face masks, cover you with fire or glowing halo and more fancy toys.

[![](https://webcamoid.github.io/theme/images/screenshots/Effects.png)](https://webcamoid.github.io "Real time effects for your camera")


## Flameshot

[Flameshot](https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot) is an open source crossplatform Qt5 Screenshot app with tools and nice UI, it has a TrayIcon and a window widget,
very nice if you need to take screenshots for your stream.

[![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot/master/img/preview/animatedUsage.gif)](https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot#--------------------------------flameshot---- "Cool screenshots")


## Cool Retro Term

[Cool Retro Term](https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term#cool-retro-term) is a is an open source crossplatform Qt5/QML Terminal app,
with configurable effects, you can disable any or all effects too, copy&paste works, for the rest is a normal terminal app but looks fancy.

[![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070717-16708784-ba42-11e7-8572-a8fcc10d7f7d.gif) ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070716-16567e5c-ba42-11e7-9e64-ba96dfe9b64d.gif)](https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term#cool-retro-term)


## Visual Studio Code

[Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com) is an open source ElectronJS code editor that [has stream oriented plugins](https://dev.to/ninjabunny9000/5-useful-vscode-extensions-for-live-coding-239b),
that allows your viewers to interact with the editor and the code in it using chat commands and more.
It is the only editor that we can find that has stream oriented plugins.

[![](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--s0A4Ri0H--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_66%2Cw_880/https://github.com/clarkio/vscode-twitch-highlighter/raw/master/resources/intro-vid.gif)](https://dev.to/ninjabunny9000/5-useful-vscode-extensions-for-live-coding-239b)


## Orion

[Orion](https://alamminsalo.github.io/orion) is an open source crossplatform Qt5/QML Twitch Desktop Client app, with all basic features working,
emojis and unicode works, copy&paste works, is very lightweight being coded on C++, it wont replace the web but if you only need to watch streams is very comfy.

[![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5585454/27840063-b6429fce-60fe-11e7-9e96-54d6d0657953.png)](https://alamminsalo.github.io/orion)


## SWCursor

[SWCursor](https://github.com/andykitchen/swcursor#swcursor) is a simple C program that allows you to use any PNG image as Mouse cursor,
so you can use your Logo as cursor or an extra big cursor on your stream. You can remove the cursor by closing the program.

[![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andykitchen/swcursor/master/screenshot.png)](https://github.com/andykitchen/swcursor#swcursor)


## Twire

[Twire](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.perflyst.twire) is an open source Android Twitch Client app for Mobile,
is a lot more lightweigth than the official app and the features are almost the same, copy&paste works, emoji and unicode works too.


## BetterTTV

[BetterTTV](https://betterttv.com/emotes/top) is an [open source web browser extension](https://github.com/night/BetterTTV)
that adds extra features to Twitch stream chats like animated emotes and more, is very popular on streams,
if you dont understand why a lot of people on your chat types `monkaS` is probably that you need this browser extension,
you can also add you own customized animated emotes for your chat, also supports not-animated emotes, its free $0 cost.


## ShowMeTheWay

[ShowMeTheWay](https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way) is an open source web service that shows real time updates on [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org),
If you dont have Designs for *"Will be back soon"* kind of screens, just leaving this web on screen will do, at least for a while.

## LiveOpenStreetMap

[LiveOpenStreetMap](http://live.openstreetmap.fr) is an open source web service that shows real time updates on [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org),
If you dont have Designs for *"Will be back soon"* kind of screens, just leaving this web on screen will do, at least for a while.

## Jamendo

[Jamendo](http://jamendo.com) is a web service where you can find free music without copyright nor royalty costs,
you can download full quality music for free to use on your streams and dont get muted, etc.


## LiberaPay

[LiberaPay](https://liberapay.com) is an open source free web service that allows you to take Donations $,
it is like an alternative to Patreon and similar services,
when you stream on a fixed constant schedule eventually people will start asking for a way to Donate to you,
this is the only service we can find that do not take a big chunk of your donation,
with this service 100% of the money goes to you, as far as we know it works internationally.


### Wanted

- FaceRig alternative for Linux is missing ?.


### Next

- OBS Studio advanced tips & tricks coming on a future post...


# Thank you for playing

- [Send your ideas, tools and improvements on the GitHubs!.](https://github.com/juancarlospaco/obs-starter-kit#obs-starter-kit)