OBS Studio 31.0 Released With New Features For Screen Recording & Screencasting

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OBS Studio 31.0 Released With New Features For Screen Recording & Screencasting

OBS Studio 31.0 was released this evening as the newest feature update to this open-source, cross-platform software for live streaming and desktop screen recording purposes. OBS Studio remains a leading choice across operating systems for screen recording, game livestreaming, and similar purposes while the new v31.0 release tacks on even more features...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-31.0

[GraysonPeddie]

sudo pacman -Syu

No new update for OBS Studio yet. Waiting for Arch to compile the latest build of OBS Studio. I'm still on 30.2 at the moment.

[Quackdoc]

Thankfully, I have found replacements for everything I needed OBS for, I do wish there was a good open source stream compositor alternative to OBS.

OBS has a lot going for it, but the management and buggyness of OBS is really a massive nuisance to work around. OBS denied pipewire capture because it was a "hole punch around portals", saying any PR to add it would be denied effectively telling anyone who doesn't like/use portals to go screw off. Really hope we see an alternative to OBS that doesn't have really dumb managerial decisions holding back the software, in the meantime, best of luck to anyone who needs obs, hope it doesn't break on you until at least a good alternative is found.

[carguello2]

Removed support for Ubuntu 22.04

Huh, 22.04 is not that old to drop support for, 🤔
I guess this only applies to their PPA anyway...

[Daktyl198]

Thankfully, I have found replacements for everything I needed OBS for, I do wish there was a good open source stream compositor alternative to OBS.

OBS has a lot going for it, but the management and buggyness of OBS is really a massive nuisance to work around. OBS denied pipewire capture because it was a "hole punch around portals", saying any PR to add it would be denied effectively telling anyone who doesn't like/use portals to go screw off. Really hope we see an alternative to OBS that doesn't have really dumb managerial decisions holding back the software, in the meantime, best of luck to anyone who needs obs, hope it doesn't break on you until at least a good alternative is found.

Never once had an issue with OBS breaking or crashing on me in thousands of hours of using it, though I don't load it down with plugins. Also, OBS added native Pipewire capture ages ago.

[Quackdoc]

Never once had an issue with OBS breaking or crashing on me in thousands of hours of using it, though I don't load it down with plugins. Also, OBS added native Pipewire capture ages ago.

no, it's only via portals, you cant use pipewire directly, also lucky on it not breaking, it breaks way to often for me, even when using the flatpak

[woddy]

For me OBS has always worked very well.

[ahrs]

Thankfully, I have found replacements for everything I needed OBS for, I do wish there was a good open source stream compositor alternative to OBS.

OBS has a lot going for it, but the management and buggyness of OBS is really a massive nuisance to work around. OBS denied pipewire capture because it was a "hole punch around portals", saying any PR to add it would be denied effectively telling anyone who doesn't like/use portals to go screw off. Really hope we see an alternative to OBS that doesn't have really dumb managerial decisions holding back the software, in the meantime, best of luck to anyone who needs obs, hope it doesn't break on you until at least a good alternative is found.

Is there any reason why you couldn't make your own .so plugin to do this? Why does it have to go in upstream (although it'd be nice to have PipeWire support without needing Portals)? There's wlrobs which is a plugin for Wlroots compositors, maybe we need a pwobs plugin too:

https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs

[Quackdoc]

Is there any reason why you couldn't make your own .so plugin to do this? Why does it have to go in upstream (although it'd be nice to have PipeWire support without needing Portals)? There's wlrobs which is a plugin for Wlroots compositors, maybe we need a pwobs plugin too:
https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs

no, I mean I could also just use gstreamer plugin, but why would I want to invest into a program ecosystem that cares so little about it's users that it won't even let you expose functionality already 99% implemented?

[ahrs]

no, I mean I could also just use gstreamer plugin, but why would I want to invest into a program ecosystem that cares so little about it's users that it won't even let you expose functionality already 99% implemented?

You do have a point, it took them long enough to add support for portals in the first place. The Flatpak actually had support before it was even merged. I don't think Linux is their primary focus at all, not when most streamers use Windows. It doesn't really matter though if you can use plugins or GStreamer, etc, anyway though.