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OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by edent »

phone8675309 wrote: post #15

What's up with the recent Flatpack/Snap fetish? Doesn't anybody just get their software into a distro anymore? Edit: EFF's recommendation for certbot, their ACME/LetsEncrypt client, is to use snap on a freaking server. Why?

For me, Flatpaks are much more convenient. They contain all their dependencies, so I never get stuck apt-get'ing a bunch of random libraries. They're usually updated by the publisher, rather than waiting for a distro.

I had lots of problems with snaps - slow loading times, mismatched styles, breaking with no decent error messages.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by TingPing »

rijoja wrote: post #9

Maybe a bit off topic but what is the status of wayland capture support anyway? Normally I used ffmpeg with x11 and that worked great. However due to the security model of wayland this doesn't seem nearly as easy to implement. I think they went with some kernel level grabbing support that needed root?

Capturing has been working for a while. The compositor provides a stream over Pipewire.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by Cu3PO42 »

jcelerier wrote: post #20
phone8675309 wrote: post #15

What's up with the recent Flatpack/Snap fetish? Doesn't anybody just get their software into a distro anymore? Edit: EFF's recommendation for certbot, their ACME/LetsEncrypt client, is to use snap on a freaking server. Why?

Which distro can I use right now except maybe ArchLinux if I want the latest OBS ? Like, right now ?

If you go to the OBS Installation page [1], they list a number of repositories for various distros. They seem to maintain their own for Ubuntu, which appears to contain the latest version and the repository for openSUSE Tumbleweed does as well, although it does not appear to be maintained by the OBS Project.

If you refer to the features described here, they might not be in any release yet and you might need to build from source.

[1] https://obsproject.com/wiki/install-instructions#linux

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by ptheywood »

spicybright wrote: post #5
detaro wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean exactly? OBS can create a fake webcam, and I don't see why that would be related to wayland.

In windows yes, I've never had luck under linux myself.

It's built into 26.1 rather than requiring the plugin (which I could never get to work for me under linux), although if installed via snap you have to enable v4l2loopback manually

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by matthiasv »

jjice wrote: post #18

When I made the jul over to full time Linux last February,this is something iran into and was confused about. Wayland was the default on Ubuntu, and it worked great! Except for a lot of applications that just wouldn't load... After some reading, I moved to X, but I can't wait for the day Wayland is ready to go. Will there ever be a good way to run things like dmenu on Wayland? I'm still a novice, but will all X progr…

With XWayland there is no urgent need for conversion. And "a lot of applications that just wouldn't load" sounds pretty fishy to begin with.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by marcodiego »

phone8675309 wrote: post #15

What's up with the recent Flatpack/Snap fetish? Doesn't anybody just get their software into a distro anymore? Edit: EFF's recommendation for certbot, their ACME/LetsEncrypt client, is to use snap on a freaking server. Why?

There is a recent version of gimp on flathub. Available for arm, arm64, x86_64 and, sometime ago also, x86. I tried on my raspi2 (old raspbian version), my rock-pi4 (armbian, arm64), my raspi 3 (raspbian), an old 32 bits x86 and 3 x86_64 (different ubuntu versions each). A single command, 4 different archs, 7 different machines, 7 different distros, the same gimp version all working. This was simply not possible before.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by phone8675309 »

jcelerier wrote: post #20
phone8675309 wrote: post #15

What's up with the recent Flatpack/Snap fetish? Doesn't anybody just get their software into a distro anymore? Edit: EFF's recommendation for certbot, their ACME/LetsEncrypt client, is to use snap on a freaking server. Why?

Which distro can I use right now except maybe ArchLinux if I want the latest OBS ? Like, right now ?

Debian unstable is another one

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by marcodiego »

Cu3PO42 wrote: post #25
jcelerier wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which distro can I use right now except maybe ArchLinux if I want the latest OBS ? Like, right now ?

If you go to the OBS Installation page [1], they list a number of repositories for various distros. They seem to maintain their own for Ubuntu, which appears to contain the latest version and the repository for openSUSE Tumbleweed does as well, although it does not appear to be maintained by the OBS Project. If you refer to the features described here, they might not be in any release yet and you might need to build…

Installing a bunch a different repositories for every new version of a software you want is a risky recipe to get a system that will break something on upgrade or that you get barred from upgrade because of some packages or can't upgrade some packages... things like these.

On the other hand, even with ubuntu 16.04 (supported until recently) you can easily get the latest version through flatpak.

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