[OBS](https://obsproject.com) is a popular Free And Open Source streaming software, with advanced capacities for your live streams.In the current page, you will find some advices to handle your live chats using OBS.
![Screenshot of a Peertube live, replay, with the chat included at the bottom of the videostream.](/peertube-plugin-livechat/images/embed_chat_in_livestream.png?classes=shadow,border&height=200px "Embeding the chat in a livestream")
You can use the "{{% livechat_label share_chat_link %}}" feature to generate an URL to your chat.This button should be near the chat if you are the video owner (unless it was desactivated by your server admins).
![Screenshot of the "{{% livechat_label share_chat_link %}}" dialog, where the "{{% livechat_label read_only %}}" option is checked.](/peertube-plugin-livechat/images/share_readonly.png?classes=shadow,border&height=200px "Share link popup")
![Screenshot of the OBS software, where the chat was added as web browser source.](/peertube-plugin-livechat/images/embed_chat_in_obs.png?classes=shadow,border&height=200px "Embeding the chat in OBS")
You can use the "{{% livechat_label transparent_background %}}" option to have a transparent background in OBS.If you want to customize the background transparency, you can add this CSS in your OBS browser source's settings:
Note: you can entirely customize chat colors. This is undocumented yet, but you can try this: in the modal, check «use curent theme colors», then you can try to manually change color values in the URL.You must use valid CSS color values, and they must be properly URL encoded.