While streaming, it is very important to be able to monitor your channel's chat so you can properly engage and interact with your community. To be able to do this you need to be able to be playing your game while keeping an eye on a chat window. The most common solution to needing to be viewing two important program windows in short periods of time is to have two computer monitors. One for your full screen game and the second for your chat and any other additional windows you like to have open during your stream. While a simple solution, it's not a very appealing to those who do not have the fiscal means of obtaining a second monitor. Another solution is using the twitch/YouTube gaming app on your phone or tablet to monitor your chat, but that involves needing a stand for your device to ensure you can view it without straining yourself. So what is the single monitor streamer to do?
Thankfully, there are a couple of options which can solve this problem.
Jan 5, 2017
OBS Studio Automatic Scene Switcher
OBS and OBS Studio both have a nifty feature for switching your displayed scene while a particular window is active, the Automatic Scene Switcher plugin. I feel it's an under-utilized feature which is incredibly easy to setup.
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