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

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Post by pkulak »

axlee wrote: post #41
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…

Does Wayland do anything better than Xorg? Every time I see it mentioned, it is about how it does not support this or that core feature of Xorg (e.g multiple displays with custom pixel densities/scaling, screen sharing apps being broken, etc...). What is Wayland's reason for existing?

I'm kinda new to Linux as a desktop, and thus went straight to Wayland, so these kinds of comments from ol'-timers are super interesting to me.

I run a Wayland desktop, and I start it by typing it's executable from the TTY after I log in. No fuss, no muss.

Everything works great, except there was this one game I wanted to try out that's a Windows .exe and needs to run in Wine and I couldn't quite get it to run in Wayland. So I installed xorg-server and an X window manager. Tried to just run it from TTY and it complained that there was no X server running. Okay, turns out I need another program to start X, then start my window manager, as a kind of desktop chaperone. Finally get that worked out, try running my game, and the screen tearing is a nightmare. So now I have to run a compositor in there as well to be an intermediary in the already extremely complicated X protocol. And since X needs to run as root (I think?), half the time I try to start it, I get odd permissions errors, or it tries to use the wrong TTY. As someone going the _other_ direction, I can't fathom how anyone puts up with X.

The good news, is that after it did it's initial setup and install in X, the game now seems to run fine in Wayland. :D

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

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Post by rlyshw »

stephen_g wrote: post #79
rlyshw wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been looking into building a containerized FFMPEG stream routing solution but haven't been able to think of a good use-case. What is your alternative destination after Facebook RTMPS?

We’re just trying to stream to YouTube and Facebook at the same time. Actually, ffmpeg is the other solution I was looking at playing with on the weekend.

FFMPEG is a great tool for any IP video streaming workflow. You can easily define multiple outputs. Check out the live streaming guide: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

I just haven't yet found a good way to export active stream status from the CLI out to other interfaces for the tool I'm working on.

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

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Post by LockAndLol »

talkingtab wrote: post #73
bnycum wrote: post #35

If you are looking for a more robust solution Streamlabs OBS[1] is more popular in the livestreaming community, it's OBS on steroids. It is also open source, and just released a beta on Mac like this week. [1]: https://streamlabs.com/

A link to the Mac beta? And no Linux version, right?

No linux version, no. They concentrate on twitch / game streamers. Most gamers are on windows so Linux doesn't even pop up on their radar.

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

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Post by mistersquid »

adamfeldman wrote: post #47

I've been trying to find a way to easily use my green screen outside Zoom. Have been tinkering with OBS: https://www.rightpoint.com/thought/2017/12/19/improving-your... , https://streamshark.io/blog/chroma-key-software-live-streami... I'm looking for an actively-developed macOS virtual webcam tool, as CamTwist's website is showing a PHP error, and their Mac software doesn't seem to be notarized: http://camtwiststudio…

Last week, HN's front-page featured "Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera" [0] that ended up generating an RFC. [1]

You might find some encouraging and helpful information there, if you haven't seen those links already.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682022

[1] https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15

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

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Post by adamfeldman »

mistersquid wrote: post #94
adamfeldman wrote: post #47

I've been trying to find a way to easily use my green screen outside Zoom. Have been tinkering with OBS: https://www.rightpoint.com/thought/2017/12/19/improving-your... , https://streamshark.io/blog/chroma-key-software-live-streami... I'm looking for an actively-developed macOS virtual webcam tool, as CamTwist's website is showing a PHP error, and their Mac software doesn't seem to be notarized: http://camtwiststudio…

Last week, HN's front-page featured "Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera" [0] that ended up generating an RFC. [1] You might find some encouraging and helpful information there, if you haven't seen those links already. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682022 [1] https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15

Thank you!!

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

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Post by Scottopherson »

dashesyan wrote: post #55
Scottopherson wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/ I haven't found an OSX or linux solution unfortunately.

Tobi Lutke (Shopify CEO) has put out a $10,000 bounty for cross platform virtual camera for OBS https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1242641154576965634 https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568 https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/15

This is great, there seems to be genuine motivation within the project to get this implemented.

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

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Post by m4rtink »

raegis wrote: post #80
axlee wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Wayland do anything better than Xorg? Every time I see it mentioned, it is about how it does not support this or that core feature of Xorg (e.g multiple displays with custom pixel densities/scaling, screen sharing apps being broken, etc...). What is Wayland's reason for existing?

I'm doing my classes online with Zoom. For whatever reason, under Wayland I can not choose individual windows to share--I can only share the whole desktop. I switched to Xorg and now I can share individual windows in Zoom. I honestly don't care to support proprietary software, but application writers must do extra work to support both.

Wayland by default prevents applications from accessing other application display, input and output, while on X it is basically free for all. Any application can see what any other application is displaying, read it's input & send it it input events.

This might have been fine in the past, but is not really OK any more with efforts to make things more secure (eq. to prevent a malicious application to read you password entry, make screenshots of sensitive data, inject input events to your secure sessions, etc.).

The side effects is that new protocols need to be developed that applications can use to request access to display/input/output of other applications in legitimate cases (such as screen sharing in your case) & not all is in place for that yet.

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

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Post by nindalf »

pkulak wrote: post #91
axlee wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Wayland do anything better than Xorg? Every time I see it mentioned, it is about how it does not support this or that core feature of Xorg (e.g multiple displays with custom pixel densities/scaling, screen sharing apps being broken, etc...). What is Wayland's reason for existing?

I'm kinda new to Linux as a desktop, and thus went straight to Wayland, so these kinds of comments from ol'-timers are super interesting to me. I run a Wayland desktop, and I start it by typing it's executable from the TTY after I log in. No fuss, no muss. Everything works great, except there was this one game I wanted to try out that's a Windows .exe and needs to run in Wine and I couldn't quite get it to run in Way…

> I can't fathom how anyone puts up with X.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

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