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@Fishandchips3219/16/2023, 10:19 AM

Attack and dethrone god! Get into the mecha and wear your SOUL!@Keleth

Attack and dethrone god! Get into the mecha and wear your SOUL!@Keleth9/16/2023, 12:18 AM

OBS Linux headaches

I'm always kinda baffled that OBS-Studio doesn't have the browser source in Version 27, despite every google source saying "Oh we incorporated it in version 25"

And every search forum thread I can find is in 2021/2022 saying "Where is it, I don't see it anywhere" And then the threads are locked.

Just linux things, the documentation is usually dogshit terrible and nobody answers questions, and then people wonder "Why isn't anyone using the software on this platform?"

#obs Studio #linux

@Fishandchips3219/16/2023, 10:19 AM

For some reason it is included in the flatpak

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Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF9/16/2023, 12:20 AM

What distribution are you using? This is usually some packaging bs. I had to install a build from the arch user repo instead of the standard repos.

And yeah it's a big problem with package managers instead of just getting binaries directly from the source.

Attack and dethrone god! Get into the mecha and wear your SOUL!@Keleth9/16/2023, 12:22 AM

Currently using Linux mint. I'm not really suave enough to use the advanced builds yet. I have trouble with the limited documentation that I can find, I def can't do it all myself.

Trying to figure out/get all my software working so I can finally yeet windows into the damn sun. I still have a bit of a ways to go with weirder software.

The things you do for a goal of ending Dual Booting...

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF9/16/2023, 12:28 AM

So you probably want to use the OBS PPA instead of Mint/Ubuntu's.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio -y
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install obs-studio -y

This will add OBS's own repository and install obs-studio from there instead of the default repos (also never run a sudo command anyone gives you without double-checking that it's legit). This version of OBS should be built with browser source.

Edit: Yep, just checked the rules file to build the dpkg, it's built with the browser source

Attack and dethrone god! Get into the mecha and wear your SOUL!@Keleth9/16/2023, 12:34 AM

Thanks, That's highly appreciated. And it worked, browser source (and dark mode) and other things are all right there. That's the version I'm familiar with for sure.

I never even thought to get a different repository. I thought the distro repositories just, pulled directly from the source.

I would of gotten the flatpack but like, each of them being several -gigs-?

Like, no, if I wanted software bloat like that I'd stick with windows.

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF9/16/2023, 12:36 AM

So my guess is that Mint probably has a couple different OBS packages available and the default obs-studio package is built without browser source so that it doesn't require Chromium automatically. That's the reason Arch's is the way it is. Generally packages will be built with the Usual Set Of Defaults but sometimes packagers will choose to build with a different set of flags and that's often where headaches start

Attack and dethrone god! Get into the mecha and wear your SOUL!@Keleth9/16/2023, 12:37 AM

The lack of standardization sometimes is just a little -much- sometimes. Like I don't -mind- it but I do notice how little documentation there can be sometimes.

Edit: This is my way of saying I'm not very smart, but I can follow documentation steps and input code if needed.

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF9/16/2023, 1:00 AM

No, it's fine. And the annoying thing in cases like this is that the standardization is supposed to be the benefit of the distro.

For Windows and Mac software, you just download whatever from wherever (assuming they've paid their tithe to Apple or, increasingly, Microsoft anyway) and install it and there's no standards at all. The theoretical deal with selecting a Linux distribution is that the packagers are following some kind of philosophy or adhering to some kinds of UX standards so you can expect to find what you're looking for in the packages. I assumed that OBS being packaged without CEF or a bunch of other things in the default distro was an Arch thing because Arch is like that (by default, you get Hardcore Tools and you're expected to make modifications as you need them). Mint's whole thing is being an end-user focused distro so them also shipping a stripped-down OBS is... weird and dismaying.