obs-wlroots-screencopy

OBS Studio plugin for efficient screen capture on wlroots-based wayland compositors.

While most compositors have a screencapture implementation through pipewire, it quite frankly just sucks. For some reason, it slows down my games (from 60 fps limited to 30 fps.. like what the hell) and the annoying popup you get on Hyprland is also just annoying. Fortunately, the desktop portal and pipewire simply use a wlroots protocol called ZwlrScreencopyManagerV1, which is what this plugin uses to capture the screen.

Requirements

Your compositor needs to support these experimental protocols:

• Linux DMA-BUF
• wlr screencopy

(see compositor support at the bottom of the page)

Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Run make PROD=1
3. Copy the resulting obs-wlroots-screencopy.so to your OBS Studio plugin directory (usually ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-wlroots-screencopy/bin/64bit/)
4. Restart OBS Studio

Usage

1. Add a new source to your scene
2. Select Screencopy Source from the list of available sources
3. Configure the source