Open Broadcaster Software Studio (OBS Studio) - As of 2024 / HN

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# OBS Studio ⮺

Open source - support for win / macos / linux. Most complete with Wayland support.

# install ⮺ / release

• OBS is available as flatpak (directly supported by software installer in linuxMint),
• OBS-Studio-appimage (unofficial)

Notes

• AppImages store profiles in /.config/obs-studio/
• whereas Flatpak store them in ~/.var/app/com.obsproject.Studio/config/obs-studio/

To sync them, copy profiles & scene in the other location. Audio Filter are in stored in scene folder.

If you need to merge them, for scene the best way is to import/export them.

$ cp -r ~/.config/obs-studio/basic/profiles ~/.var/app/com.obsproject.Studio/config/obs-studio/basic/
$ cp -r ~/.config/obs-studio/basic/scenes ~/.var/app/com.obsproject.Studio/config/obs-studio/basic/

see also

• Setting up OBS Studio
  • Useful OBS Studio 3rd party plugins and themes.

Features

• Audio filtering
• recording screen or window
• Game capture

# Vertical Recording

• Setup OBS to Vertically record VS Code Editor for Youtube shorts and Tiktok

# Hardware Keys ⮺

# SimpleScreenRecorder ⮺

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder

# GIF Recorder ⮺

# Peek ⮺

# review ⮺

• Vokoscreen

# see also

• 10 Best Screen Recorders For Linux