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dimtpap / obs-pipewire-audio-capture

🔊 Audio device and application capture for OBS Studio using PipeWire
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/pipewire-audio-capture.1458/
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Plugin fails to initialize in flatpak OBS #15

Closed C-512L closed 1 year ago

C-512L commented 1 year ago

In the flatpak version of OBS unless its given --filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0 permission the plugin will fail when adding a new audio capture with the following error:

warning: [pipewire] Error creating PipeWire core
error: Failed to create source 'Application Audio Capture (PipeWire)'!

I'm not an expert on the Linux audio stack, and I don't know if there is some limitation regarding pipewire audio access through xdg-portal (i checked that easyeffects flatpak also has this permission granted) but in that case it would be good to include this workaround on the README until this gets merged on the main OBS repository.

dimtpap commented 1 year ago

I don't know if there is some limitation regarding pipewire audio access through xdg-portal

Access to the system's main PipeWire remote is blocked in a Flatpak environment, xdg-desktop-portal provides controlled access to a limited part of it. Unfortunately there is no portal for audio yet, only for screencasting.