OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

Post by gibspaulding » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

pmontra wrote: post #141

lvh wrote: post #20

If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland, and screencasts on that have long since been a complete pain in the neck with per-compositor "solutions" that mostly don't work quite right. Fortunately someone who works on Gnome wrote the obs-xdg-portal plugin that should fix this, at least for Gnome and hopefully soon for wlroots and KDE once they fully support the underlying portal API. Unt…

> If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland I'm a single data point but I'm running Ubuntu 19.10 and I'm not running Wayland. I don't remember if I opted out during the installation or if I wasn't given the choice. The top reason to stay on X11 is that no screen sharing application work with Wayland (Meet, Slack, Skype) and I need them a few times per week to work with my customers. Thi…

Post by davrosthedalek » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 6:05 PM UTC

marksomnian wrote: post #119

grawprog wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Wayland by default prevents applications from accessing other application display, input and output, So it breaks the entire linux philosophy of using input and output streams to pipe data between different modular applications? >This might have been fine in the past, but is not really OK any more Says who? Personally I like my computer being able to access other things on my computer. It kind of makes it more usefu…

> So it breaks the entire linux philosophy of using input and output streams to pipe data between different modular applications? Not really. To use your analogy, the way that X works - every application being able to read the framebuffer of any other - is the equivalent of every application running as root and being able to read and modify any file on the system. When you consider that applications running under Way…

Post by Igelau » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

Proziam wrote: post #149

gok wrote: post #111

I've been using OBS to run a trivia game over YouTube. It's kind of a piece of shit. The Mac port is horrible. None of the widgets work properly, all the menu items are in the wrong place, and it supports essentially no system keyboard shortcuts. Like cmd+F doesn't do "Find…", it randomly resizes the thing you're editing. It's everything bad about Qt apps in one place. It also ships with its own 180MB copy of Chromiu…

Have you tried Streamlabs OBS?

Post by timClicks » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 6:10 PM UTC

Post by Igelau » Wed, Apr 01, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

gok wrote: post #111

I've been using OBS to run a trivia game over YouTube. It's kind of a piece of shit. The Mac port is horrible. None of the widgets work properly, all the menu items are in the wrong place, and it supports essentially no system keyboard shortcuts. Like cmd+F doesn't do "Find…", it randomly resizes the thing you're editing. It's everything bad about Qt apps in one place. It also ships with its own 180MB copy of Chromiu…