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How To Run Two OBS Studio Programs On One Computer
Jun 4, 2025
Want to run two OBS Studio programs on the same computer? In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to launch multiple instances of OBS for advanced streaming or recording setups. Great for content creators who need more flexibility in their workflow! WATCH: https://youtu.be/jnEVohpnMss
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In this tutorial, I'm going to show you
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how to run two OBS windows on the same
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computer just the same way I have set
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this one. And for this, you don't need
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an extra computer. You only need just
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one computer and then run various tabs
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of the same program and perform
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different tasks such as live streaming
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while you're recording at the same time.
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If you'll find this video helpful, I'll
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kindly request that you support me by
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liking it and also by subscribing to
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this channel. All right, let's get into
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it. So by opening multiple OBS tabs,
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you'll be able to perform various
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functions simultaneously. For instance,
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you can use one tab to live stream while
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the others you use it to record your
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normal videos. Now there are two ways
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you can achieve this. Either by using
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one computer and then you'll be able to
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open the app twice for you to get
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different tabs of the same program. On
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the other hand, you can also use two
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computers and then run one program on
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each. All right, as you can see, I am
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recording with this first OBS program
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and I like to go ahead and open another
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tab. To do that, I'll just go to my OBS
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program here and then double click on
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it and then tap on yes to open it. Let
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me minimize this and wait for the other
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tab to launch. And look at that. Now
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here you are told OBS is already
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running. Just go ahead and tap on launch
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anyway. If we tap on launch anyway, it
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will proceed and launch another OBS tab
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that you can use. So, let me change the
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user interface
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here. And here we go. Now, we have
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another OBS window here that we can use.
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So, if I hover over here, you can see we
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have
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two. We have
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this and
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this. Now we have these two OBS Studio
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apps or programs running on the same
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computer. For this I'm recording this
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video. You can see it is running. Now
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for this I can proceed and maybe set up
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a live stream. And to do that let me
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just show you an example but I'll not
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launch it. If I go to stream here and
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maybe go ahead and look for media source
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then go add
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one. I can choose any and then tap on
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okay. Now you can see and now I have to
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program I can go ahead and launch this
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live stream and then it will stream my
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videos while at the same time I'm
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recording my tutorials here. So that's
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how you open to OBS windows on the same
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computer. If you have any other question
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kindly let me know in the comment
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section. Otherwise if this video is
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helpful please like it and also
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subscribe to this channel. Thanks for
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watching and let's meet in the next
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video.