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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 sprash »

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…

> I'm still a novice, but will all X programs need to be converted?

No. Because Wayland is fundamentally different from X the following won't ever work:

* Window managers

* Programs that need to know their absolute window coordinates

* Windows that want to draw to the root window

* Programs that want to capture the screen via XGetImage()

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by marcodiego »

This is very good. Not only because it illustrates the maturity of wayland, this is been done using pipewire. The last remaining pieces of the puzzle are finally being placed. A modern linux distro will give you on the desktop a good oomd, good video drivers, pipewire, wayland, GTK 4, GNOME 40, a modern kernel, compiler, dev-tools... and modern cross distro software through flatpak/snap/appimage. There are still things to improve and fix, but the desktop has never been so promising.

The sad thing: I've been hearing/saying basically this for decades.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by sprash »

infomax wrote: post #13

Support for Wayland is getting up there. Just five days ago the bounty to support Wayland in Barrier was funded [1] [1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109#issuecomment...

> Support for Wayland is getting up there.

After almost 13 years of development the progress is rather embarrassing.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by cbanek »

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.

I use the virtual camera on linux daily. No problem. But I had to install later packages that weren't on apt.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

#35

Post by Cu3PO42 »

marcodiego wrote: post #30
Cu3PO42 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't personally take issue with Flatpak (though I don't really like Snap), in fact I would likely publish my own applications as Flatpak if I needed to, I just wanted to answer the question of the grand parent.

I can't really speak for the Ubuntu PPA, but the openSUSE repository is the big third party software repository that almost everyone uses anyway. I'm not sure if it's quite accurate to call it the equivalent of the AUR, but it should be similarly widespread.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by freeone3000 »

marcodiego wrote: post #30
Cu3PO42 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How does flatpack solve these issues in a way a PPA doesn't?

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

#37

Post by sc00ty »

rowanG077 wrote: post #19
jhoechtl wrote: post #10

Totally unrelated but: The day I can wireless screencast my Linux Laptop to my home television I will lite a candle.

I do this daily and it's very easy. Just use chromecast

Can you actually cast your desktop? I was under the impression you could only cast browser tabs.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by rowanG077 »

sc00ty wrote: post #37
rowanG077 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do this daily and it's very easy. Just use chromecast

Can you actually cast your desktop? I was under the impression you could only cast browser tabs.

I can cast my desktop. Latency is abysmal though so no gaming.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by m45t3r »

marcodiego wrote: post #32

This is very good. Not only because it illustrates the maturity of wayland, this is been done using pipewire. The last remaining pieces of the puzzle are finally being placed. A modern linux distro will give you on the desktop a good oomd, good video drivers, pipewire, wayland, GTK 4, GNOME 40, a modern kernel, compiler, dev-tools... and modern cross distro software through flatpak/snap/appimage. There are still thin…

Well, there is another reason for optimism: Wayland is supported in ChromeOS and WSL2, and it seems to be the base for any modern integration with other operational systems (macOS ARM maybe?).

> The sad thing: I've been hearing/saying basically this for decades.

I don't think Linux distros will ever be popular compared to the commercial OSes, since for one thing to be popular nowadays you need to invest money in many things like branding and marketing so something is mainstream.

But looking in another way, in the past I would say that desktop Linux was dying, and nowadays it is more live than ever, so this is something.

Re: OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

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Post by yobert »

sprash wrote: post #33
infomax wrote: post #13

Support for Wayland is getting up there. Just five days ago the bounty to support Wayland in Barrier was funded [1] [1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109#issuecomment...

> Support for Wayland is getting up there. After almost 13 years of development the progress is rather embarrassing.

It's a hard problem to solve. Wouldn't you agree?
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