Ubuntu and Wayland with OBS and Screen Capture

To get video capture working with OBS, I’m running OBS 27.1.3 with Screen Capture Pipewire. It must use PipeWire.

I’m running pipewire 0.3.45, which is a newer version than ships with Ubuntu 21.10.

pipewire — version
pipewire
Compiled with libpipewire 0.3.45
Linked with libpipewire 0.3.45

To get the newer version of pipewire, I added the pipewire-debian ppa to my system.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream

I’m using Kooha version 2.0.1 installed from flatpak for the shorter screen video to gif videos.

gif made on Wayland with Kooha

Despite not really understanding what I gain by moving from X11 to Wayland, I continue to use it. I hope that I’ll learn more about Wayland and pipewire over time.