Remove Video Background Without a Green Screen in OBS Studio

Learn how to remove video background without a green screen in OBS Studio while recording or broadcasting. I assume basic familiarity with OBS.

Software Used

OBS Studio — 27.0.1
OBS Background Removal Plugin — v0.3.0-beta

Download appropriate version based on your operating system.

Open plugin zip and copy above selected files.

Paste to OBS Studio.

Add Camera Filter in OBS Studio.

Add ‘Audio/Video’ Filter. Select Background Removal. You may need to restart OBS studio if it was open at the time of copying plugin files.

Tweak Parameters. Change background color from Black to Green.

Experiment with Segmentation Model.

Add background Media Source. (Image / Video)

Using locally downloaded file.

Background changed.

Reorder media source. Reposition & resize camera video as needed.

Right click on camera and select filters.

From ‘Effect Filters’, select ‘Chroma Key’

Tweak settings if needed. Defaults work fine in most of the cases.

Background replaced without Green Screen.

It’s really an amazing feature.

How to Check an MD5 Checksum of torrent file on desktop/laptop (PC/MAC) in 2023

 MD5 verification of downloaded media or files.

Description:

When downloading files for patching or drivers you may need to verify the file is complete.  This can be done by verifying the MD5 checksum from the steps below on your PC or Mac workstation.

Solution:

Windows

1. Open the Windows command line.
   Press Windows + R, type cmd and press Enter.
   Alternative: You can also open command prompt or Windows PowerShell from the Start menu, of course.

2. Go to the folder that contains the file whose MD5 checksum you want to check and verify.

   Command: Type cd followed by the path to the folder.
   Tip: You can drag and drop a folder from Windows Explorer to insert the path.

3. Type the command below

   certutil -hashfile <file> MD5

   Replace <file> with the filename.
   
   Tip: You can use the Tab key to have Windows complete the file name.
   Example to get the MD5 hash for the file Example.txt:

   certutil -hashfile Example.txt MD5

4. Press Enter.
   Compare the resulting checksum to what you expect:
   

​​​​​Mac

1. Open Terminal.
2. Navigate to the folder that contains the file whose MD5 checksum you want to verify.
3. You can open Terminal right at a folder from Finder.
4. Type md5 followed by the filename:

   md5 <file>

   Dragging and dropping: You can also type md5, then drag and drop the file you want to check onto the Terminal window.

5. Press Enter.

Fix: Windows Update Error Code 0x800f0922

This article will help you to fix Windows Update error code 0x800f0922 received after failure of update installation in Windows 10.

It is often recommended that you install latest available updates in your Windows 10. However, sometimes you may not be able to finish installing updates due to an error code. 0x800f0922 is one of such error code which you may receive with Windows Updates. In this article, we will see why this error code appears and how you can fix Windows Update error code 0x800f0922.

You can see in the above screenshot, the error code 0x800f0922 appeared while installation of a cumulative update is failed. You can receive this error code on any of the Windows edition. In Windows, technically the error code 0x800f0922 interpreted as CBS_E_INSTALLERS_FAILED. When you’re getting this, it means processing advanced installers and generic commands failed. This error code is not specific to Windows Update, as it a general error code. It can be often spotted while installing .NET Framework.

The error code 0x800f0922 can appear due to following reason. PerfCounterInstaller, the installer Windows Update is using, may have its counter database corrupted. You can easily fix it using Command Prompt.

Here’s how to fix Windows Update error code 0x800f0922.

Fix: Windows Update Error Code 0x800f0922

FIX 1 – Using Command Prompt

1. Right click Start Button or press W8K + X keys and select Command Prompt (Admin) to open Command Prompt as administrator.

2. In the Command Prompt window, type following command and press Enter key. It will simply fix the counter database.

lodctr /R

If the command execution is successful, you would receive ‘Info: Successfully rebuilt performance counter setting from system backup store’ message.

3. Next, execute the following command to make the counter consistent and resync them with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

winmgmt.exe /RESYNCPERF

 

 Once these command executed successfully, you can try installing the updates again. You’ll no longer receive the error code 0x800f0922 now.

FIX 2 – Using DISM Restore Command

If FIX 1 doesn’t solve this issue for you, try running DISM restore command.

In the Command Prompt window, you can execute following command:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth