That’s why, instead of creating a fork or just maintaining a plugin, I decided to go the long hard route of proposing everything to OBS Studio itself. But free and open source software allows us to do that! Fortunately, not only OBS Studio is distributed under GPL, it also is a pretty popular app with an active community. Sadly our hands are tied when it comes to proprietary apps, there’s just no way to contribute. The built-in screen recorder of GNOME Shell already works, but most importantly, we need to make sure applications are able to capture the screen properly. This required some work throughout the stack: from making Mutter able to hand DMA-BUF buffers to PipeWire to improving the GTK desktop portal to creating a plugin for OBS Studio to fixing bugs in PipeWire it was a considerable amount of work.īut I think none of it would matter if this feature is not easily accessible to everyone. I’ve been blogging sparsely about my quest to make screencasting on Wayland a fluid and seamless experience for about a couple of years now.
As of today, I’m happy to announce that all of the pull requests to make OBS Studio able to run as a native Wayland application, and capture monitors and windows on Wayland compositors, landed.
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