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How to screen capture DOSBox output using OBS?

Just downloaded OBS Studio, and would like to record a working session in DOSBox. Most of the setup worked so nicely, but I suppose that I should have expected a few problems.

Under "Sources", I have added a Window capture, which worked immediately with the timer I have. However, I then tried adding "Game Capture" to capture the DOSBox window. This does not work, and only shows a blank screen (pictured below).

  • "Window Capture" also has the same effect (blank screen).
  • "Display Capture" does have the benefit of capturing the whole display (including the DOSBox window). This works after a fashion, but is clunky, and I am not planning on running DOSBox in fullscreen. For my setup, would like to simply capture the DOSBox window.

OBS works so well in capturing other programs, I must be doing something wrong somewhere.

Any advice on where I should look next?

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Solution

  • After reading through this rather snarky post, it seems the problem is not with OBS.

    https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/dosbox-problem.58407/

    In the dosbox.conf file, in the [sdl] section, I made the following change:

    Previous value (OBS not able to capture):

    output=surface

    Current value (enables capture in OBS):

    output=opengl

    This worked immediatly using DOSBox-0.74-2 and OBS-Studio-26.0.2

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