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How can I install the browser source plugin in obs (Open Broadcaster Software) studio?

Zanna
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prashanth padala
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The Browser source for OBS Studio webpage says:

There is not currently a Linux build of this browser plugin, but in the meantime bazukas has built obs-qtwebkit, another browser source based on qtwebkit.

Using the latest version of OBS Studio from ppa:obsproject/obs-studio (currently version 0.16.2) will simplify the installation of obs-qtwebkit.

Installation

Make sure you have necessary dependencies installed, which are obs-studio and qt5 and qt5-webkit development packages. You may need to set OBS_INCLUDE and OBS_LIB env variables (see Makefile).

On Ubuntu 16.04 you may need to install the developer libraries to compile.

sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev  
sudo apt-get install libqt5webkit5-dev

Run make in the obs-qtwebkit directory to build the plugin. If your OBS version is < 0.11.2, run OBS_PLUGIN_BUILD_OLD=1 make

Run make install to copy plugin binaries into $HOME/.config/obs-studio/plugins. If your OBS version is < 0.11.1, run OBS_PLUGIN_INSTALL_OLD=1 make install

karel
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    These instructions are a bit out of date. Go here for current: https://github.com/bazukas/obs-linuxbrowser – GenericJam Oct 08 '17 at 22:57
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The browser plugin does not come with the version of obs that comes with ubuntu studio. To fix this, sudo apt-get remove obs-studio ; sudo apt-get autoremove to get rid of the default version, then install the version from OBS's own PPA. See their website for instructions: https://obsproject.com/wiki/install-instructions#linux

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  • best answer for me, allowed me to get OBS 26.1.1 on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS ( with the new integrated browser source feature ) , working great ! – neofutur May 20 '21 at 20:40