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Please do not flag it out of date because of the version number.
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If you want to have the stable versions, please install the package obs-studio from [community].

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).