Questions tagged [obs-studio]
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I need help getting my Razer USA, Ltd Razer Kiyo Pro working in obs and my SCUF Gaming Controller
I need help getting my Razer USA, Ltd Razer Kiyo Pro working in obs and my SCUF Gaming Controller
Cmd terminal lusb devices picture i downloaded the openrazer drivers and still nothing has worked and ...
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Using Hardware-Acceleration with VNC-Server for OBS Encoding
i have the following setup:
Intel Core i5-13500
64 GB RAM
No GPU
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 and connect via VNC which is set up acording to this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/...
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uninstall obs after installing Lunar Lobster
I recently installed Lunar Lobster and OBS will not appear on screen. Should I uninstall and reinstall? If so, should it be done by command line? I'm a new Linux user, so please go easy. Thx
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I can't record my screen in Ubuntu 22.04. Video Output broke
I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04 in a ROG Zephyrus M16 and I wanna to record my screen but neither OBS or GNOME new screen recorder works for me. When I try to record everything works just fine. I see ...
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Echo with OBS, Soundux and Discord
In Ubuntu 22.04 I had a nice setup where I could stream an external audio/video stream mixed with audio and video from my webcam to Discord.
Since Ubuntu 22.10 the audio part causes echo for the ...
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I installed OBS from using .flatpakref but don't know where it is installed
I downloaded the OBS Studio .flatpakref from the official website's flathub link. I was able to run the .flatpakref and get everything installed fine, but I can't find where it downloaded, so I can't ...
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OBS Shuts down when IDLE
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 and OBS Studio and it runs almost perfectly, I can record for hours and It won't crash while I'm recording.
The only issue comes when I pause the recording, I leave the ...
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OBS Studio v25.03 is starting every time I log into KDE, how can I disable?
After every reboot or boot of Kubuntu OBS starts automatically.
I think this happens since about a month.
I tried:
I disabled all checkbox [ ] at
Settings>General>System Tray (one was enabled, ...
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Installing obs-backgroundremoval plugin on Ubuntu 22.04
I already have obs-studio installed on My Jammy machine and its running well. Now, when I try to install obs-backgroundremoval plugin I encounter a conflict in installation. When I try to install ...
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OBS Studio Virtual Camera Button Missing in 22.04
I started OBS Studio 27.2.4 on a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04. The virtual camera button does not appear, though it did in 20.04.
I have tried:
Help > Check For Updates (I'm on the latest version ...
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Configure OBS Screen Recorder for GNOME Dsktop
I am trying to record some footage of my gameplay with obs studio running on Ubuntu 22.04. The problem is, unless I do fullscreen, the recording device does not pick up the selected window. The ...
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OBS Studio virtual camera doesn't work on virtual machine (v4l2loopback-dkms)
I am currently trying to set up the virtual camera in OBS Studio on my Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine (DigitalOcean droplet) by installing the v4l2loopback-dkms module. However, although the virtual ...
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Crashing From Light Multitasking - This can't be normal right?
I would love help to further troubleshoot this. (ubuntu 20.04, nvdia 2070S)
Processor: Intel i9-9900K (16) @ 5.000GHz
I experience crashes from various programs when doing even light multitasking. It ...
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Suddenly unable to install anything after failing to install v4l2loopback-dkms - dpkg insists I must first reconfigure UEFI Secure Boot
Fresh install of 21.10. I decide to install OBS Studio. The guide on https://obsproject.com/wiki/install-instructions#linux says
If you want virtual camera support you need v4l2loopback-dkms ...
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I can't stream nor play normally
Okay, I'm aware there are hundreds of other questions like this one out there and I've read a bunch of them, but the solutions were so specific to each individual case that I just must ask for help.
I'...
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obs-studio duplicate setting panels at bottom glitch
I recorded 100+ educational videos last year using OBS on ubuntu so I generally have a decent idea how to use the program. Having not used it for a hot minute, I decided to run it to setup a new ...
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Screen Recording is Very Choppy
I've tried many apps to record my screen on Ubuntu, such as Kazam and OBS Studio, but they all result in the output file being choppy and laggy. There are no problems with audio, just the video. At ...
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Adding specific lib to flatpak runtime
I'm using OBS Studio installed using Flatpak. One of my installed plugins requires additional library installed on system. Can I make that Flatpak sees this specific lib file somehow?
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OBS Wayland screen capture not working on GNOME
I've been trying to capture my screen with OBS for so long on Wayland, but never got it working really.
I run Ubuntu 21.04 with GNOME 3.38.4 and Wayland, OBS 27.1.3, xdg-desktop-portal 1.8.1-1, xdg-...
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I can't capture my screen
I have installed obs-studio in ubuntu 21.04 version. I have faced following problems:
Not screen capture, just black window
Terrible voice after finishing the record
Not able to uninstall after 2nd ...
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Screen recording softwares not working in ubuntu 21.04 [duplicate]
Screen recording softwares such as Kazam and Simple Screen Recorder are not working in my ubuntu 21.04 pc. The screen gets recorded but when I view the video only black screen appears with mouse ...
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OBS Studio snap does not show webcam or virtual camera
I have installed the snap version of OBS Studio, and followed the instructions on this webpage: https://snapcraft.io/obs-studio
I want to use the virtual camera option to blur my background in other ...
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Obs-studio is installing VLC without permission
My laptop is running on ubuntu 20.04. I installed obs studio with sudo apt install obs-studio. Now vlc app is installed with it.It don't even ask for any permission.Did i just installed anything bad ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 any screen recorders not working. Showing black screen only!
I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04(also 21.04). I used to install obs studio and Kazam to record my screen. In OBS-Studio if I select only window recording it records but the fullscreen option is not ...
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How to use the OBS-ndi plugin (4.9.1) with OBS (25.0.3) ; Ubuntu studio (20.04.2)
OBS (Open Broadcasting Sofware) seems to work well as natively installed in Ubuntu Studio.
I like !
I now try to use the OBS-ndi plugin, in order to team up two computers for streaming. For that to ...
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OBS 27 has no Wayland option on Ubuntu 21.04
So, as you can see I have pipewire installed but there is no option for it. And yes, I installed OBS from its PPA that means it is up to date (27.0.1)
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Quadro K2100M OBS Studio not working
Before I updated (clean install) from 18.04 to 20.04, OBS worked fine on my Nvidia Quadro K2100M. After updating, I am met with the below messages. This happens in the launchpad and unofficial snap ...
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How do you install Obs studio on 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo"?
I downloaded Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" but I hit a does not have a Release file issue:
I couldn't work out how to raise an issue on the ppa site.
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Upgrade to Ubuntu 21.04 blanked the OBS Studio preview windows
I've been using OBS Studio under Ubuntu 20.10 (and older) for the last four years (but at a novice level only) with Intel integrated graphics CPU. Used the "official" Ubuntu repository for ...
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Route OBS filtered audio to applications such as Zoom or Discord
I am trying to achieve this (apparently) easy task where I want the OBS filtered audio to be used as input for programs such as Zoom, Discord and similar.
On Windows I simply use Virtual Audio Cable ...
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OBS Studio Virtual Camera won't work
I've found some guides which say that this used to be complicated, but is now as simple as
sudo apt install obs-studio && sudo apt install v4l2loopback-dkms
This does indeed give me a "...
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No Desktop Audio in OBS Studio
I have installed the very latest OBS 26.1.1 on my Ubuntu 20.10 system (64-bit) via the official PPA.
However, no matter what I do, I cannot get the Deskop Audio channel to work, even though everything ...
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OBS studio start and stop shortcut-keys
I installed OBS studio version 25.0.3 on ubuntu 20.04 and want to make a youtube video by screen recording, but I don't want people to see when I click on stop record button in my video. So is it any ...
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ffmpeg freezes using webcam at 1080p or 60fps - Logitech Streamcam OBS Studio
I need to use my Logitech Streamcam webcam at 1080p (1920x1080) at 60fps but it neither work in OBS Studio, nor in guvcview nor if I want to save the output as a video file, ffmpeg freezes :( Thanks ...
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Trouble with OBS studio in Ubuntu 20.04
When I use OBS studio in Ubuntu there is no video shown in the Preview section - it is just black. This is not the case in Windows, so I was wanting to uninstall it then reinstall it to see if that ...
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Unable to find ScreenSharing option in Settings on Ubuntu 20.04
Other people have a screen-sharing option in the settings->sharing. But I don't have it. From this answer, I realized that the minimal installation is the root cause. Although I have tried that ...
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Extremely low framerate (5 FPS) for high resolution webcam Aukey PC-W1
Frame rate is only 5FPS@1920X1080 for Aukey PC-W1 although the webcam is capable of 30fps at that resolution.
product page http://test.aukey.com/products/1080p-webcam-pc-w1
In some programs like VLC ...
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OBS won't detect hardware render and DaVinchi Resolve won't recognize OpenGL GPU
I have an AMD RX 580 GPU and OBS won't detect hardware render AND DaVinchi Resolve won't recognize OpenGL GPU. I use the mesa drivers. Why is it not working?
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Troubleshooting graphic driver issue to run OBS Studio (Intel i5 M520)
I recently installed OBS Studio under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad T410). While I didn't encounter any issue during the installation, I am unable to run OBS Studio itself, as I ...
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All video recording apps are blurry and slow
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My videos are blurry and laggy when I try to record myself. It effects all the recording programs from cheese to obs. For some reason Google Meet is slightly better but still suffers the lag ...
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Why are my colors separated/shifted when using obs/v4l2sink/v4l2loopback?
Im using OBS with v4l2sink and v4l2loopback to edit my video for a remote trainig.
The preview in obs looks fine, but the video has some serious color shifts in any tool I try to display the ...
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OBS Studio shows an error and does not start
my OBS-Studio(v25.8.0) download from the snap store not start. it how error. I use ubuntu 20.04.1
my terminal output.
duggal@duggal-X556UQK:~$ obs-studio
Qt: Session management error: None of the ...
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Trouble with hardware encoding on OBS on Bay Trail
I've been having trouble for a while with OBS (repository, Flatpak, and Snap versions); only software H.264 encoding is exposed. vainfo shows the following info:
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva ...
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OBS Studio - Blank Screen problem on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
I installed OBS Studio from Ubuntu Software Center. I get the following error:
It looks like you haven't added any video sources yet, so you will only be outputting a blank screen. Are you sure you ...
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How to install VLC 64-bit version in Ubuntu?
How to install VLC (VideoLAN) 64-bit version in Ubuntu 18 (also 64-bit)?
Already installed VLC from Ubuntu Software App and also from terminal, but don't know how to specify the 64-bit version, ...
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OBS screen record stopping after awhile
I'm having headaches with OBS, I recorded things that when I started the recordings it looked fine on OBS, then upon reviewing the footage I found I'd been duped by OBS.
I got this for many ...
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Live videoediting for Google Hangout
I need to edit the video recorded by my webcam "on the fly" and to stream it to a Google Hangouts call. What I want to do is to remove the background of the video (and possibly substitute it ...
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OBS Studio Screen, Still Comes Black When I Running Under Xorg
After a Days I Wanted To Stream My Gaming To Youtube, But I Got A Problem: My OBS Screen is Black
I have tried this:
I Have Checked My Ubuntu Session, That Won't running Under WayLand, And Its On ...
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How do I automatically run modprobe v4l2loopback on boot?
I'm using OBS Studio and would like to have a virtual video output saved permanently so that it can be run when the application is launched.
This command creates the virtual output:
sudo modprobe ...
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OBS NVENC Doesn't work Out of Box on 20.04?
I just installed Kubuntu 20.04 and OBS,but NVENC doesn't seem to work for some reason even though I have nvidia-driver-390 installed and configured via System Settings.
Settings:
Error on Start ...
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