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If you want to have the stable versions, please install the package obs-studio from [community].

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.