Arch Linux User Repository

If you don't want to build this package yourself, hourly builds are available at https://aur.chaotic.cx

Here's a patch to make the package build with the latest git version. It also solves the issue with CMake files not ending up in the right directory (required for building external plugins like obs-streamfx and obs-vkcapture). I made the version number match what OBS uses by default.

https://gist.github.com/HannesMann/829a0bcd2a6f12933c4393f3dc0e7383

Hello same as the comments below and

-- OBS:  Application Version: 28.0.0.beta1 - Build Number: 1
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:15 (project):
  VERSION "28.0.0.beta1" format invalid.

Since about 1-2 weeks I am getting this error

[ 38%] Built target decklink
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

In file included from /var/tmp/pamac-build-***/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/plugins/vlc-video/vlc-video-plugin.h:9,
                 from /var/tmp/pamac-build-***/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/plugins/vlc-video/vlc-video-plugin.c:6:
/usr/include/vlc/libvlc_media.h:735:52: error: unknown type name ‘libvlc_picture_type_t’; did you mean ‘libvlc_media_type_t’?
  735 |                                         bool crop, libvlc_picture_type_t picture_type,
      |                                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                                    libvlc_media_type_t
/usr/include/vlc/libvlc_media.h:773:51: error: unknown type name ‘libvlc_picture_type_t’; did you mean ‘libvlc_media_type_t’?
  773 |                                        bool crop, libvlc_picture_type_t picture_type,
      |                                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                                   libvlc_media_type_t
[ 24%] Building C object plugins/linux-pipewire/CMakeFiles/linux-pipewire.dir/pipewire.c.o
In file included from /var/tmp/pamac-build-***/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/plugins/vlc-video/vlc-video-plugin.h:10:
/usr/include/vlc/libvlc_events.h:266:13: error: unknown type name ‘libvlc_picture_t’
  266 |             libvlc_picture_t* p_thumbnail;
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/vlc/libvlc_events.h:274:13: error: unknown type name ‘libvlc_picture_list_t’
  274 |             libvlc_picture_list_t* thumbnails;
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [plugins/vlc-video/CMakeFiles/vlc-video.dir/build.make:76: plugins/vlc-video/CMakeFiles/vlc-video.dir/vlc-video-plugin.c.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1240: plugins/vlc-video/CMakeFiles/vlc-video.dir/all] Error 2

I also get the same errors after removing all build-files from pamac

Is there a reason the CMake files for the includes are not installed with this package?

obs-studio from community contains

usr/lib/cmake/
usr/lib/cmake/LibObs/
usr/lib/cmake/LibObs/LibObsConfig.cmake
usr/lib/cmake/LibObs/LibObsConfigVersion.cmake
usr/lib/cmake/LibObs/LibObsTarget-relwithdebinfo.cmake
usr/lib/cmake/LibObs/LibObsTarget.cmake

I lied, Its not building for me as I am getting the errors I mentioned earlier concerning > cairo You can see my comment below with the details like these: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_pdf_surface_add_outline'

** I was able to get this to build by installing the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/librsvg-git first. But also I have Anaconda installed and had to deactivate that because I've had Anaconda installed for a long time and now I'm just scared of removing it. I will some day.... just not today.

Wait, ignore this. I was able to build this after reading @seo.disparate 's comment.

specifying a cmake option -DENABLE_AJA=OFF when invoking cmake Thanks @seo.disparate those flags worked.

Haven't been able to get this to build:

-- OBS:  ENABLED    obs-filters
-- OBS:  ENABLED    obs-transitions
-- OBS:  ENABLED    rtmp-services
-- OBS:  ENABLED    text-freetype2
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find LibAJANTV2 (missing: AJA_LIBRARIES_INCLUDE_DIR AJA_NTV2_LIB)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:594 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  cmake/Modules/FindLibAJANTV2.cmake:98 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
  plugins/aja/CMakeLists.txt:17 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/user/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

The cmakefile log:

eTmp/src.cxx
/home/user/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/src.cxx: In function ‘int main()’:
/home/user/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/src.cxx:2:33: warning: ‘int somefunc()’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
    2 |     int main() { return somefunc();}
      |                         ~~~~~~~~^~
/home/user/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/src.cxx:1:37: note: declared here
    1 | __attribute__((__deprecated__)) int somefunc() { return 0; }
      |                                     ^~~~~~~~
Linking CXX executable cmTC_bd7ee
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/cmTC_bd7ee.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/usr/bin/c++ -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS  -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now  CMakeFiles/cmTC_bd7ee.dir/src.cxx.o -o cmTC_bd7ee
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'


Source file was:
__attribute__((__deprecated__)) int somefunc() { return 0; }
    int main() { return somefunc();}
 

I don't know. I'd give my big toe on my right foot to take 6months to myself locked in a room with c++ books and tutorials where I'd figure this out and not have to post here. Until then....

There's a problem with installation with aur.

==> Starting build()... -- OBS: Application Version: 27.2.0.r141.g13f2d7925 - Build Number: 1 CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:15 (project): VERSION "27.2.0.r141.g13f2d7925" format invalid.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... error: failed to build 'obs-studio-git-27.1.3.r255.gb2c09d352-1': error: packages failed to build: obs-studio-git-27.1.3.r255.gb2c09d352-1

I have a build error:

==> Starting build()... -- OBS: Application Version: 27.2.0.r124.g7dcd22dc9 - Build Number: 1 CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:15 (project): VERSION "27.2.0.r124.g7dcd22dc9" format invalid.

I was able to build this by specifying a cmake option -DENABLE_AJA=OFF when invoking cmake. If -DENABLE_AJA=ON is desired, I think this aur package is a required dependency: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libajantv2 .

As for the VERSION error, I used this:

-DOBS_VERSION_OVERRIDE=$(echo $pkgver | sed 's/\([0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\)\.r\([0-9]\+\)\.g[a-f0-9]\+/\1.\2/')

This sets the "tweak" version number to the revision count (so 27.2.0.r124.g7dcd22dc9 becomes 27.2.0.124). See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/project.html#options as reference.

Why paru is trying to update my obs to version obs-studio-git-27.1.3.r255.gb2c09d352-1

My installed versions is 27.2.0.r103.g02e541038 and this is already newer right?

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155 This was merged yesterday, I suspect some changes to the PKGBUILD will be needed to build.

Yea I am not getting this to build -getting this:

[ 92%] Linking CXX executable obs
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_tag_end'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_svg_surface_get_document_unit'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `pango_color_parse_with_alpha'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_tag_begin'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_pdf_surface_set_thumbnail_size'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_pdf_surface_set_metadata'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_font_options_get_variations'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_svg_surface_set_document_unit'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_pdf_surface_set_page_label'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined reference to `cairo_pdf_surface_add_outline'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit statusc
make[2]: *** [UI/CMakeFiles/obs.dir/build.make:1574: UI/obs] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1858: UI/CMakeFiles/obs.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

I just had issues with luajit and libdl.so. If you have issues building the package, try a clean build first.

Oh well! I didn't notice there was still an old workaround in place which replaced the actual cef-minimal dependency with cef-minimal-obs-studio-browser-bin. Thanks for making me aware, it works after removing it.

@dr460nf1r3, the log you gave are with cef-minimal-obs-studio-browser-bin which put the CEF in /opt/cef. And the actual PKGBUILD check in /opt/cef-obs.

My CEF packages put it in /opt/cef-obs because they provide a specific version for OBS.

Note: OBS has added patches about Media Handling to the CEF that they will use for 27.2.

The package currently fails to compile with CMake Error at plugins/obs-browser/CMakeLists.txt:16 (message): CEF Not found -- set CEF_ROOT_DIR or set BUILD_BROWSER=OFF. in a clean chroot. I also tried using cef-minimal-obs-rc-bin as suggested by @tytan652 but that doesn't help. Full logs are available here :)

You can switch to cef-minimal-obs-rc-bin, since OBS Project fixed crashes on Linux related to it on master.

RC -> Release Candidate/Beta

Edit: The issue with CEF 4280 was fixed upstream. (Missing <atomic> headers issue)

This would not compile for me as-is. I tried on two different machines, and it kept failing when compiling the browser source components. I got it to work as follows:

• build cef-minimal with options=('!lto') and install it
• change this PKGBUILD's build dependency from cef-minimal-obs to cef-minimal
• change this PKGBUILD's -DCEF_ROOT_DIR="/opt/cef-obs" back to -DCEF_ROOT_DIR="/opt/cef"

tytan652, thank you for the tip, fixed it and updated the package. I had cef-minimal still installed.

To use cef-minimal-obs you need to change -DCEF_ROOT_DIR="/opt/cef" to -DCEF_ROOT_DIR="/opt/cef-obs".

I needed to install cef-minimal package before installing this via AUR. Please add as dependencie as cef-minimal-obs-bin is not working.

I was actually able to build this with the cef-minimal package by adding options=(!lto) to its PKGBUILD.

Since deleting my cache files and trying again after your dependency changes, the build error has changed: https://gist.github.com/ChrisLane/f133b99aec2809bd579e8ac9a2d6db11

Here is the error log

/home/zangoku/.cache/paru/clone/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/plugins/obs-browser/obs-browser-source.cpp: In lambda function:
/home/zangoku/.cache/paru/clone/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/plugins/obs-browser/obs-browser-source.cpp:166:28: error: ‘class CefWindowInfo’ has no member named ‘bounds’
  166 |                 windowInfo.bounds.width = width;
      |                            ^~~~~~
/home/zangoku/.cache/paru/clone/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/plugins/obs-browser/obs-browser-source.cpp:167:28: error: ‘class CefWindowInfo’ has no member named ‘bounds’
  167 |                 windowInfo.bounds.height = height;
      |                            ^~~~~~
make[2]: *** [plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/build.make:90: plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/obs-browser-source.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1381: plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error: failed to build 'obs-studio-git-27.1.3.r249.gea1ae5914-1': 
error: packages failed to build: obs-studio-git-27.1.3.r249.gea1ae5914-1

@ChrisLane, please clone again or delete your build caches and try building again. If it does not build again, please give me a complete log file of the build.

As @zangoku said, this no longer builds. Also, it no longer runs for me since some python updates: obs: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.9.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

No longer builds since last cef-minimal-obs-studio-browser-bin update.

@val.vgms it builds with 88.2.8 too, so you can use the cef-minimal-obs-studio-browser-bin package

replying to @zangoku

I downgraded cef-minimal to version 87.1.14. Had to edit the PKG build of said package, looking for the details on https://cef-builds.spotifycdn.com/index.html#linux64

no longer builds error: conversion from ‘int’ to ‘CefRefPtr<CefV8Accessor>’ {aka ‘scoped_refptr<CefV8Accessor>’} is ambiguous 120 | CefRefPtr<CefV8Value> obsStudioObj = CefV8Value::CreateObject(0, 0);

Hi. My virtual camera feature disappear in my desk. What is happen?

Any idea why my compile is failing? https://gist.github.com/ChrisLane/c217dea3bd2d6bcda69ea2215291486e

No matter what I do paru tells me that I need to upgrade this application. Should I not be installing this with yay/paru? Is the maintainer going to update this soon?

Building fails with a g_memdup2 undefined reference:-

Consolidate compiler generated dependencies of target obs-x264-test
[ 50%] Linking C executable obs-x264-test
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined reference to `g_memdup2'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: [plugins/obs-x264/CMakeFiles/obs-x264-test.dir/build.make:99: plugins/obs-x264/obs-x264-test] Error 1
make[1]: [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1488: plugins/obs-x264/CMakeFiles/obs-x264-test.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...

I don't know if you already know this.

But since obs-studio use luajit (~lua5.1) and VLC is compiled with lua5.2 or later.

The use of OBS VLC sources will make OBS crash because of the difference between lua versions.

I created vlc-luajit to provide a VLC package which not make crash OBS.

It could be a good idea to replace at least vlc optional dependency with vlc-luajit to try to provide a better experience to users.

Please add pipewire-media-session as an optional dependency. It is required for PipeWire capture to work in OBS Studio.

pipewire screen capture doesn't work for me. As suggested by @Koffiepoeder I've enabled PIPEWIRE support in the PKGBUILD. I created an issue at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4554

OBS upstream includes support for globally installed ftl-sdk. I also packaged that and created an obs-studio-ftl package which is obs-studio stable with ftl-sdk support.

See: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ftl-sdk/

As @HurricanePootis mentioned, native pipewire recording was added to obs since version 27.0 (see https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/4287). It seems to me however that this is not enabled by default. To enable this functionality you can add -DENABLE_PIPEWIRE=ON to the build() step in the PKGBUILD (and run obs in wayland mode, see bottom of my post). For me this resolved the earlier requirement for obs-xdg-portal-git on my wayland/pipewire machine for screen recording (a package which doesn't compile for this version anyway, i.e. see my issue @ https://gitlab.gnome.org/feaneron/obs-xdg-portal/-/issues/30):

build() {
  cd $pkgname

  mkdir -p build; cd build

  cmake \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib \
    -DBUILD_BROWSER=ON \
    -DCEF_ROOT_DIR="/opt/cef" \
    -DOBS_VERSION_OVERRIDE=$pkgver \
    -DENABLE_PIPEWIRE=ON .. # <--------- add before '..'

  make
}

After installing this way, to get obs to run in native wayland mode, you also need to install qt5-wayland and finally run obs with the QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland variable set.

@wuestengecko ah, ok.. i forgot i had a custom ffmpeg.. thank you

@Psilovybin All of these have received soname bumps. You either have a partially upgraded system or need to recompile your custom ffmpeg package (which is what provides libavcodec.so).

getting a libaom, libx264 and libx265 error on build usr/bin/ld: warning: libaom.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.58, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: warning: libx264.so.160, needed by /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.58, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: warning: libx265.so.192, needed by /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.58, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

pipewire is now needed as a dependency, or the package will fail to compile

I can confirm what @HurricanePootis speculated about, pipewire is in fact a make dependency now. Not having it installed will cause failure during cmake.

Hey, OBS just pushed a bunch of Wayland patches to the master branch as of 3/31/2021, which now allows OBS to record the entire screen and sections of it using pipewire. In addition to OBS being able to use pipewire as a dependency, it also requires xdg-desktop-portal for OBS to actually use pipewire.

Basically, I am suggesting that you add pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal as optional dependencies for Wayland support.

Also, thinking about it more, OBS probably needs to build against pipewire too, I guess. Not too sure on that, but OBS is obviously now linked against pipewire, so I think there is a pretty high chance that pipewire is also a make dependency.

Edit: Just ldd all of the libraries in /usr/lib/obs-plugins/, and one of them is built against pipewire. I am 99% sure this means that OBS needs to build against pipewire now.

Maybe you could also add obs-vst sub-module.

Here's a patch for PKGBUILD to build OBS Studio with the VST plugin:

--- obs-studio-git/PKGBUILD 2021-03-14 04:12:38.593752926 +0200  
+++ modified/obs-studio-git/PKGBUILD 2021-03-14 04:27:22.926994433 +0200
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@
 source=("$pkgname::git+https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio.git#branch=master"
         "git+https://github.com/Mixer/ftl-sdk.git"
         "git+https://github.com/obsproject/obs-browser.git"
+        "git+https://github.com/obsproject/obs-vst.git"
         "fix_python_binary_loading.patch")
-md5sums=("SKIP" "SKIP" "SKIP"
+md5sums=("SKIP" "SKIP" "SKIP" "SKIP"
          "051b90f05e26bff99236b8fb1ad377d1")

 prepare() {
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@
   cd $pkgname
   git config submodule.plugins/obs-outputs/ftl-sdk.url $srcdir/ftl-sdk
   git config submodule.plugins/obs-browser.url $srcdir/obs-browser
+  git config submodule.plugins/obs-vst.url $srcdir/obs-vst
   git submodule update
 }

Just built the package, and I can say it builds with the browser-plugin now!

Great, thank you max

Just applied the fixes to cef-minimal

Thank you, both. I asked the maintainer of the cef-minimal package to include this fix.

@benklett I had to manually set permission in cef-minimal-3770 (changes) to make it work for obs-studio-browser, I don't think there is a way around it.

To reproduce, uninstall and reinstall cef-minimal.

borowski@TheCloutPC /opt/cef $ ls -lah
total 84K
drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  15K Feb 15 12:00 CMakeCache.txt
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 CMakeFiles
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2.1K Feb 15 12:00 cmake_install.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8.0K Feb 15 12:00 CMakeLists.txt
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 include
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 libcef_dll
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 libcef_dll_wrapper
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.7K Feb 15 12:00 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4.9K Feb 15 12:00 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4.4K Feb 15 12:00 README.txt
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 Release
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Feb 15 16:54 Resources

borowski@TheCloutPC /opt/cef $ ls -lah /opt/cef/libcef_dll_wrapper/libcef_dll_wrapper.a
-rw------- 1 root root 4.8M Feb 15 12:00 /opt/cef/libcef_dll_wrapper/libcef_dll_wrapper.a

HurricanePootis can you do a ls -la /opt/cef and a ls -la /opt/cef/libcef_dll_wrapper/libcef_dll_wrapper.a and post the output here? Mine looks like this:

$ ls -la /opt/cef                                        
insgesamt 84
drwxr-xr-x  9 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 14950 23. Nov 10:35 CMakeCache.txt
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 CMakeFiles
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2060 23. Nov 10:35 cmake_install.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  8140 23. Nov 10:35 CMakeLists.txt
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 include
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 libcef_dll
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 libcef_dll_wrapper
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1662 23. Nov 10:35 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5002 23. Nov 10:35 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4478 23. Nov 10:35 README.txt
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 Release
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 15. Feb 20:42 Resources

$ ls -la /opt/cef/libcef_dll_wrapper/libcef_dll_wrapper.a 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5059888 23. Nov 10:35 /opt/cef/libcef_dll_wrapper/libcef_dll_wrapper.a

@gmes78 Thanks for the heads up.

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/3338 was finally merged!

I will request to merge this package to obs-studio-git.

hi @hurricanepootis I had the same exact issue and solved adding a

sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/cef

in the PKGBUILD before it is actually used by obs-studio-git So my best guess is that there are some permission issues in the cef-minimal package

This package is redundant with obs-studio-git now that Wayland support has been merged to master.

Yeah, I have cef-minimal installed, and I did check /opt/cef to see if it existed.

I just tried it again, and I verified that cef-minimal is installed at /opt/cef, and it was. And, I still get the same FindCEF error.

Hi HurricanePootls, you mean you have this package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cef-minimal/) installed? It installs to /opt/cef and FindCEF finds it without any problems.

I would like to not alter the package to download binaries. I'd like to fix the problem instead.

-- Looking for Chromium Embedded Framework in /opt/cef CMake Warning at plugins/obs-browser/FindCEF.cmake:56 (message): Could not find the CEF wrapper library Call Stack (most recent call first): plugins/obs-browser/CMakeLists.txt:13 (find_package)

OBS is unable to find CEF, even though I have cef-minimal installed.

I made a modifications to the PKGBUILD to download the cef stuff in the src/ directory here

@RX14, The commit was inserted there to make sure rerere worked. Since the PR is now merging cleanly to base without conflicts, rerere is currently not being used at all. I'm reluctant to make changes to the order of merge/rerere/commit stuff, because the current code was well tested when rerere was actually needed. I'd need to create an artificial situation just to be able to test it again, or risk having headaches if I need to setup rerere again in the future.

It is usually better to build packages on a clean chroot, but a workaround I often see to ignore one's own git configs is emptying the HOME env var, e.g. by calling HOME= makepkg

Could you add --no-commit on the merge and --no-sign on the commit stages of git? I have git config commit.gpgsign = true and the PKGBUILD asks me to sign the merged commit, which isn't ideal. Thanks.

Or actually, just do --no-commit on the merge and leave out the git commit entirely?

With the Wayland support merged upstream, this package needs additional dependencies: wayland (as a makedepend), and qt5-wayland (may be optional, not sure).

Built from this version last night (for the obs-browser functionality) and noticed it broke one of my python scripts.

I applied the patch from the community build, which patches os_dlopen in obs itself to work. https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/tree/packages/obs-studio/trunk

If you don't want to build this package yourself, hourly builds are available at https://aur.chaotic.cx

Thank you for the report. I modified the PKGBUILD to make the git pull request merge hack more resilient.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/obs-studio-wayland-git.git
cd obs-studio-wayland-git
sed -i.bak "s/git commit --all --no-edit/#git commit --all --no-edit/" PKGBUILD
makepkg
sudo pacman -U obs-studio-wayland*.zst

works for me.

After trying twice, I got this error maybe this would help know what's going wrong :

  -> Cloning obs-studio-wayland-git git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/var/cache/aura/vcs/obs-studio-wayland-git/obs-studio-wayland-git/obs-studio-wayland-git'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 96, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (96/96), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (88/88), done.
error: 5189 bytes of body are still expected MiB | 193.00 KiB/s
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading obs-studio-wayland-git git repo
    Aborting...
aura >>= There was a makepkg failure.

I'm facing the same problem as you @Humar.

@benklett thank you :)

Joan31, it was already changed to cef-mnimal. This package contains CEF 4280 at the moment. I now changed to require a minimum package version of 87 of Chromium which equals to 4280.

Hm, as of yesterday it tries to merge branch master into branch wayland and once I commit I get:

On branch wayland nothing to commit, working tree clean ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting... error making: obs-studio-wayland-git

anyone else having the same problem?

Hi Please note that current master requires CEF 4280 for full and correct functionality of just added features.

See wiki install instructions: https://obsproject.com/wiki/install-instructions#linux

And why: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-browser/issues/219

Thanks :)

Jiminimonka, the package is already using cef-minimal.

"cef-minimal-3770" doesn't work with the latest version - the build needs to be changed to "cef-minimal" and it functions perfectly, and allows full docking functions too.

Hi Please note that current master requires CEF 4280 for full and correct functionality of just added features.

Add it as a dependency, it don't work as is

Is there anyway of installing the git version with obs-linuxbrowser-bin? I normally use the repo version, but it is so outdated now. I get the following:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
obs-studio-git: /usr/lib/obs-plugins/icudtl.dat exists in filesystem (owned by obs-linuxbrowser-bin)
obs-studio-git: /usr/lib/obs-plugins/libcef.so exists in filesystem (owned by obs-linuxbrowser-bin)
obs-studio-git: /usr/lib/obs-plugins/natives_blob.bin exists in filesystem (owned by obs-linuxbrowser-bin)
obs-studio-git: /usr/lib/obs-plugins/snapshot_blob.bin exists in filesystem (owned by obs-linuxbrowser-bin)
obs-studio-git: /usr/lib/obs-plugins/v8_context_snapshot.bin exists in filesystem (owned by obs-linuxbrowser-bin)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

@bkb Please don't flag AUR packages as out-of-date to report bugs nor to ask for support.

You need to install a capture plugin to be able to capture the screen (wlrobs-hg or obs-xdg-portal-git)

@Snoop05, Done! Thank you for the suggestion. Please report if you have any issues with obs-xdg-portal-git, since I'm still using wlrobs.

I suggest using https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/3338 that includes all previous patches and also allows current obs-xdg-portal-git to build

Is the non-git version no longer being updated in the repository? Do we now just have to reliably update through the git source version?

The patches have finally stopped working for this package. The way to probably do this properly would be to maintain a git repo that merges the changes in the wayland PRs. I also have stopped using wayland because it isn't in a state that I can use yet.

If anyone wishes to adopt this package and fix it up, replace wlrobs-hg with wlrobs.

v4l2loopback-dkms should be an optdependency.

@Arisu Thanks

@ajddavid452 there you go, I wanted this as well https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obs-studio-browser/

can someone release a stable version on the aur? or atleast just release the browser source plugin on the aur? I want to use the browser source plugin but I don't want to use upstream for stability reasons

make[2]: *** [plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/build.make:96: plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/obs-browser-source.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1385: plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:172: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error making: %!s(func() string=0x55bf33568e80)

@Arisu Thank you very much. That helped a lot.

I was searching for solutions and I almost opened an issue on their repo. But never crossed me that was a font problem. It makes sense because the things working properly are images and overlays.

@JcNils this is actually an open pull request on the obs-browser repo: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-browser/pull/228

Until this makes it to master, a workaround is to set font-size to 16px (or any value you'd like) in custom css like so:

body {
    font-size: 16px;
}

I am having some problems with browser source on Manjaro.

It generally they are super small. https://i.imgur.com/1uclU5J.png

Or some things gigantic and other small https://i.imgur.com/0QY8vn6.png

On windows it works normal, I need to test it in another linux distro. I wonder if it something related to the cef building.

This package doesn't build with the current cef-minimal and hasn't for awhile, please change the depends to use cef-minimal-3770 which was made for you/this

To get this working with Browser Source, I changed make depends "cef-minimal" to "cef-minimal-3770" - which I had already installed. Now I can drag in browser sources as intended. Using KDE-Plasma desktop environment, no issues at all.

EDIT: I see someone already said this.

Unable to build obs-studio-git lately https://s.natalian.org/2020-05-26/1590463639_2560x1440.png

obs-ndi-git requires it

@jprobichaud on linux, adding a browser source automatically adds an audio channel. Have you checked advanced audio properties and/or tried to unhide all audio sources? (right click in the Audio Mixer panel -> Unhide All)

I'm struggling with the Browser source. It seems I can't capture the audio from the webpage, which would be quite useful when attempting to use obs.ninja (or when I test with a youtube video)!

I've tried with cef-minimal-3770 and cef-standard I don't see the "use audio" checkbox when I add a browser source (like it would on windows).

Should I also install obs-browsersource-git manually? Is it just an issue on my side?

For anyone that had trouble installing obs with cef-minimal-3770, my bad I just noticed I forgot to add "provide cef-minimal". Now it works and you can i.e. select it in yay.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

@Arisu Your fix worked great. Thank you.

@benklett In order to temporarily fix the package build, I created an aur package that provides fixed version cef=3770 called cef-minimal-3770 (version as recommended by obs browser devs).

If you agree with using this new package, please replace makedepends cef-minimal with cef-minimal-3770.

This does currently not build. Also why is there a package version that includes a git commit, when the source is just pulled from the master branch, but no specific commit?

@Arisu 75.0.11 I couldn't find the package, can you give a download link, to downgrade

@friday13 you need to downgrade your cef version (for example, downgrade cef-minimal/cef-standard to 75.0.11).

Maybe the dependency should be temporarily updated to this specific version?

``` 53 | inline BrowserClient(BrowserSource bs_, bool sharing_avail, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ make[2]: [plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/build.make:93: plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/obs-browser-source.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/friday13/.cache/pikaur/build/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/build' make[1]: [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1382: plugins/obs-browser/CMakeFiles/obs-browser.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/friday13/.cache/pikaur/build/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/build' make: ** [Makefile:169: all] Error 2 ~~~

Does this package crash when applying any changes to "Settings"? The "stable" package obs-studio does that.

Arisu, thank you for the fix. I confused the browser source with the linux browser source and thought it was in.

benklett, thanks! Unfortunately, the browser plugin isn't used by cmake.

CMake Warning:
  Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:

    CEF_ROOT_DIR

I tried changing submodule.plugins/plugins/obs-browser.url with submodule.plugins/obs-browser.url and it works.

Arisu, I added the plugin.

Building the browser plugin on linux was recently merged into master. Would it be relevant to enable it in this package?

git submodule init plugins/obs-browser

Add cef-minimal as a makedepends

cmake args: -DBUILD_BROWSER=ON -DCEF_ROOT_DIR="/opt/cef"

As of (at the latest) 2020-02-12 mbedtls no longer appears to be an optional dependency. If you're failing to build because of type errors in rtmp.c, that's likely the issue.

Hey I'm getting the following:

CMake Error at UI/xdg-data/cmake_install.cmake:45 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot find
  "/mnt/WDC/Cache/aurutils/sync/obs-studio-git/src/obs-studio-git/UI/xdg-data/com.obsproject.Studio.desktop".
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  UI/cmake_install.cmake:71 (include)
  cmake_install.cmake:46 (include)

EDIT: I got it to work by applying the following:

diff --git a/UI/xdg-data/CMakeLists.txt b/UI/xdg-data/CMakeLists.txt
index 9acd14e83..45a1dba43 100644
--- a/UI/xdg-data/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/UI/xdg-data/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ configure_file(
 install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/com.obsproject.Studio.appdata.xml
        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/metainfo)

-install(FILES com.obsproject.Studio.desktop
+install(FILES obs.desktop
        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/applications)

 install(FILES ../forms/images/obs.png

I can reproduce the FTL issue, but I do not know how I could help you. It's probably best to ask on discord about it https://discord.gg/obsproject

I'm having the same issue as aspiringnobody, RTMP works great, FTL video is crystal clear and near zero latency. Audio however sounds like a Darlek being put in a tumble-dryer I rebuild OBS last week so it's the latest release of both the git pull and the OBS-Studio install

OBS Studio 23.2.1 relased https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases

MIXER/FTL audio isn't working properly for me; the audio is poping/cracking to such a degree that you can't recognize the actual audio signal at all. Works properly on twitch and on MIXER/RTMP.

Just tried building the package and found a fix for the problem, will update the package later.

You have to add "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib" to the cmake options in the PKGBUILD.

I can confirm this same issue; wanted to rebuild for latest git but was unable to because obs-linuxbrowser-bin needs a newer version than this claims to be (despite the fact that it installs a new version from git). Removed obs-linuxbrowser-bin and was presented with some files that already existed; so I removed obs-studio-git and attempted to reinstall, and was presented with:

Failed to commit transaction: conflicting files: obs-studio-git: /usr/lib64 already exists in filesystem

I'm getting an error:

Failed to commit transaction: conflicting files: obs-studio-git: /usr/lib64 already exists in filesystem

@joir2000 first install mbedtls and again not connect server

Note : If you want to stream with ssl, for example to stream to facebook, you'll have to install mbedtls first.

filthyAUR, good to know. I notified the devs about this. Thank you for your investigation.

Okay, the issue was me using 4.0.0-dev versions of VLC. Those apparently break libvlc for OBS on some ways :(

@benklett Fresh copy of the repo, already disabled ccache and disabling parallel compilation didn't help. I still get the same error.

filthyAUR, That's unfortunate. Sadly I am not able to reproduce.

Have you tried starting with a fresh copy of this repository, disabling ccache (if you have it enabled ofc) and disabling parallel compilation?

Currently getting theese errors while building:

/usr/include/vlc/libvlc_media.h:841:41: error: unknown type name ‘libvlc_picture_type_t’; did you mean ‘libvlc_media_type_t’?
/usr/include/vlc/libvlc_media.h:870:40: error: unknown type name ‘libvlc_picture_type_t’; did you mean ‘libvlc_media_type_t’?
/usr/include/vlc/libvlc_events.h:242:13: error: unknown type name ‘libvlc_picture_t’
make[2]: *** [plugins/vlc-video/CMakeFiles/vlc-video.dir/build.make:63: plugins/vlc-video/CMakeFiles/vlc-video.dir/vlc-video-plugin.c.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1076: plugins/vlc-video/CMakeFiles/vlc-video.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:152: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Error making: obs-studio-git

laichiaheng, because it has a vlc video source plugin: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins/vlc-video

Why does it need vlc?

Benklett - Thanks :-D

It uses luajit rather than normal lua I think - either way it works great for me now with both after I rebuilt from your latest commit.

EDIT: I already installed luajit-git manually

HamishTPB, I added python and swig as dependencies.

I could not add lua support because it would not compile. ATM I do not have further information on why this is happening, but I will update the package when this is fixed.

The new version of OBS studio has scripting support but this is not enabled in this build (spoke to OBS peeps and they said it has to be enabled explicitly). Can it be enabled, please?

Thank you for your comment copygirl,

I changed the PKGBUILD according to your comment. Please report if anything breaks.

Trying to install this package along with obs-linuxbrowser gets me the error "obs-studio and obs-studio-git are in conflict.".

I asked around and this appears to be because obs-linuxbrowser requires obs-studio>=20.0.1 and this package only provides obs-studio, not obs-studio=$pkgver. Specifying the version for virtual provisions appears to be required. Alternatively, of course, one could remove the version requirement on the other package.