Audio device and application capture for OBS Studio using PipeWire

This plugin adds 3 sources for capturing audio outputs, inputs and applications using PipeWire

Binary installation

Get the linux-pipewire-audio-(version).tar.gz archive from the latest release
If OBS Studio is installed as a

• Regular package: Extract the archive in ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/
• Flatpak: Extract the archive in ~/.var/app/com.obsproject.Studio/config/obs-studio/plugins/
  Note: If the plugin isn't working try running OBS using flatpak run --filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0 com.obsproject.Studio or run flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0 com.obsproject.Studio and then open OBS as usual

Building and installing

Ensure you have PipeWire and OBS Studio development packages, then run these commands

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
cd build
make
make install #May need root

Extra

This plugin is currently in the process of being worked on to merge into upstream OBS Studio. See at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/6207