OBS Studio Snap Updated to Core24, AI Features Inbound
A big update to OBS Studio Snap package is available to test, with Canonical rebasing the software on top of Core24 and switching the source code it is built from.
The bump to the Snap core is needed as the latest OBS Studio 31.1 release drops support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as Canonical software engineer Vanda Hendrychová notes:
“Until now the snap has been running on core22; however, official builds of OBS Studio version 31.0 and subsequent releases are only available for Ubuntu 24.04 and later.We have upgraded the base snap to core24 in order to ensure close alignment with […] upstream.”
Additional, the OBS Studio Snap package is now built from the source code used by the official OBS Project PPA, and not the OBS Studio Portable project (which is not actively maintained).
Though this shift will make it easier to maintain the Snap, it’s not without a caveat since OBS Studio Portable bundles a number of “popular third-party plugins out-of-the-box”. The updated version, being built from vanilla source code, does not.
Users can continue to install plugins in the Snap manually, but Hendrychová notes that “OBS Studio plugins are shared libraries, they must be built with the same library versions as those present in the snap”, so suggests the use of an Ubuntu 24.04 LXD container for building.
Intel GPU hardware acceleration is improved in the OBS snap thanks to the inclusion of packages from the Intel Graphics PPA, which is maintained by Canonical. AI plugins “optimized for Intel hardware” will be added in an upcoming release.
Community users are being asked to test the rebased and retooled OBS Studio Snap by installing it from the --candidate channel. Should testing go fine, the update will roll out to all user on the stable channel in the coming weeks.
The OBS Studio Snap package is, like many apps on the Snap Store, not maintained by its upstream developers, but Ubuntu community members who work under the umbrella of ‘Snapcrafters’.
If you plan on testing this update, and you need or want to report issues you find, you should do so by opening an issue on the Snapcrafters GitHub page for the OBS Studio Snap package.
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