OCI container of OBS Studio with 50 plugins included

OCI container of OBS Studio with 50 plugins included(github.com)

93 points by flexiondotorg 2 years ago | 18 comments

Wow! This is great! It was always such a struggle to get stuff like CEF (necessary to show rendered HTML/web pages and chat in a livestream) on Linux. I never even tried to tackle other plugins.

I might start up my livecoding again based on this -- thank you

qingcharles 2 years ago | |

Danny! God, I remember your TV show, 404 Not Found. You should restart that. Did you film it at Capital? I was doing Chips with Everything for .tv at the same time in that tiny, tiny studio.

I was in court testifying about something technical recently and the prosecutor said "And where did you get that?" and I said "404 Not Found" and it was very confusing for them.

kevincox 2 years ago | |

Is OBS packaged by your distro? On NixOS I just started up OBS and I could add the "Browser" input with no issues.

flexiondotorg 2 years ago | | |

This OBS Studio Portable container is built with Ubuntu, because Ubuntu is one of the supported Linux targets by upstream OBS. The OBS Studio Portable container is a ready-to-run, batteries included turn-key solution.

I am a NixOS user and nixpkgs maintainer. I've been working on adding more OBS plugins to nixpkgs and fixing OBS Studio in nixpkgs, but it needs more work:

- For me, it is missing some plugins I rely on and some of the OBS plugins in nixpkgs do not work. I am actively working on this.

- FDK ACC doesn't work in OBS in nixpkgs and the ffmpeg version is not fully API compatible with OBS, meaning some presets do not work. On my list to fix.

- CEF in nixpkgs is not ABI compatible with OBS and cause OBS to segfault when authenticating Twitch. Again, on my list of things to fix.

I have a long history of building a custom OBS Studio on Ubuntu, so decided to make this OBS Studio container with my friends in the Universal Blue project, to get myself a complete OBS setup I can use on NixOS while I continue to work on OBS related fixes in nixpkgs :-)

flexiondotorg 2 years ago | |

Glad you like it :-)

verdverm 2 years ago |

This looks really nice with all the bundled plugins. I'm about to rebuild my streaming setup and move away from streamlabs. Some questions...

Can I dual stream to YouTube and twitch?

Could this work from a kvm setup, allowing me to capture windows from both nested, or windows from Linux?

Might also see what's possible via termina/chromeos

colonelpopcorn 2 years ago | |

There's a great write up on how to proxy/multiplex rtmp streams with nginx on the OBS forums.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-stream-to-...

Edit: That one is newer and maybe more useful. Here's the one I had used before. https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-ow...

flexiondotorg 2 years ago | | |

That is a nifty solution

molesy 2 years ago | |

> Can I dual stream to YouTube and twitch?

Technically yes, but it's against Twitch's ToS as of June:

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/simulcasting-guidelines?lan...

flexiondotorg 2 years ago | | |

I stream to Twitch and also to an unlisted YouTube stream., using livepush.io. I do this so I have an archive of my live stream on YouTube that I can easily publish after 24 hours :-)

qingcharles 2 years ago | | |

Wow, I never knew this, thank you. It's also bullshit. I get why they're doing it, but I don't like it.

flexiondotorg 2 years ago | |

I've been streaming this way for a while now.

Yes, you can dual stream.

- I do this using livepush.io. So one stream out to livepush and they push to multiple services. - However you could run multiple instances of this container and have each stream to a different service. For example one container being the main streaming setup that streams to Twitch but also has NDI or Teleport output that can then be ingested via a second instance of this container that streams to YouTube.

Using this is KVM is technically possible but you'd lose a load of the benefits of running in a container, such as hardware acceleration and seamless integration with your host.

Can ChromeOS running Podman and Distrobox? If so, it should work fine.

verdverm 2 years ago | | |

> Using this is KVM is technically possible but you'd lose a load of the benefits of running in a container

Not understanding why this would hold true, kvm and containers are both virtualization like tools, just at different levels. I think the main hold up would be the lack of many typical OS features. Like not sure how you'd go about setting up GStreamer for this OBS setup

> Can ChromeOS running Podman and Distrobox? If so, it should work fine.

Pretty much any container, and more than one at a time. Better than WSL imho

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/9yds5p/how_to_run...

genpfault 2 years ago |

> The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is a Linux Foundation project, started in June 2015 by Docker, CoreOS, and the maintainers of appc to design open standards for operating-system-level virtualization (software containers). At launch, OCI was focused on Linux containers and subsequent work has extended it to other operating systems.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Container_Initiative

bluetidepro 2 years ago |

Is there a build of something like this for Windows? Would be nice to just get a plugin pre-configured build of OBS. Esp. if you are confident they are all compatible and on latest versions.

flexiondotorg 2 years ago | |

I have an interest in Linux, so making a Windows build is not something I'm interested in but I see no reason why it couldn't be done.

But you raise a good point about compatibility, everything in this container is built from source so everything is API/ABI compatible since the same toolchain is used throughout.