Quoting: Rodney

Quoting: Pendragonweird that there's no Linux version under Steam o.O ...seems like an obvious inclusion

also re: downloading:
you can also, ya know.. just get it from the Ubuntu repository for those that run it

Shipping Linux versions of an app on Steam isn't super easy since it has to be "portable", meaning that it has to include (most of) its dependencies and be compiled against an older glibc to run on a wide variety of systems.
In OBS' case this is just a lot of work since it has a fuckton of dependencies that need to be compiled essentially from scratch to work in the Steam Linux Runtime or at least on an older LTS distro.

All in all we just didn't have the time yet. There were many other things in the works that should make this easier though.

Additionally, you have to build against Ubuntu 12.04 for SteamOS. Meanwhile OBS 27.2 supports 18.04 LTS at minimum (mainly so that the modern browser component works), which'll likely change to 20.04 LTS minimum in the next major version.

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Quoting: massatt212does it have a browser now?

Both the official PPA and the Flatpak include the browser source & browser panels.

If your distro does not ship the browser component, it is up to them to fix it - we do not consider OBS Studio "feature complete" if the browser component is missing. However, some distros purposefully do not include CEF/Chromium-based browser components in their package managers - if that is the case for yours, you'll have to build OBS yourself with the browser source included per the build instructions.

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Quoting: Guppybut I'm not sure why that's preferable to simply using the build in 'share desktop/window/chrometab' in those ?

What am I missing about this feature?

The two most common usecases:

1. Greenscreen / camera effects (usually for fun)

2. A fully "composited" view - that means animated slides + the speaker's webcam in one view. This also means that for something like a presentation (eg. teacher), switching between captured windows, pre-prepared presentation slides, their face etc is smoother and doesn't break the flow.

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There are many steps required to get OBS Browser to work properly on Linux. One of those steps is in this RC too, improving macOS compatibility (they don't have service integration yet either) is a step towards the goal of getting it working on Linux too.

The focus this update was mostly to clean up the list of pull requests for the base repo. 89 PRs were merged. That's a lot of code for Jim to review and test in under 2 months.

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Quoting: DraconicroseNow if only they would fix the bug where OBS doesn't create an output file.

Have you reported this on the OBS forums or on Discord? This tends to be an edge case, and the more edge cases we know about, the more of them we can fix. It definitely shouldn't happen.

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