{"id":5026,"date":"2015-06-14T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2015-06-14T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T14:39:38","slug":"open-broadcaster-software-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/open-broadcaster-software-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Open Broadcaster Software in Ubuntu 15.04\/14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/openbroadcastsoftware-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/openbroadcastsoftware-icon.png\" alt=\"openbroadcastsoftware-icon\" width=\"247\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/openbroadcastsoftware-icon.png 247w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/openbroadcastsoftware-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a quick tutorial for Ubuntu users how to install Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), a free and open source software for recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or recording services.<\/p>\n<p>OBS features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC.<\/li>\n<li>Support for Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVENC.<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited number of scenes and sources.<\/li>\n<li>Live RTMP streaming to Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and more.<\/li>\n<li>File output to MP4 or FLV.<\/li>\n<li>GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming.<\/li>\n<li>DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc).<\/li>\n<li>Windows 8 high speed monitor capture support.<\/li>\n<li>Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_5030\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-linux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5030\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-linux-600x452.jpg\" alt=\"Sorry that OBS doesn&#039;t work for my laptop&#039;s integrated graphics card. Picture from linux distro community forum\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-linux-600x452.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-linux-450x339.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-linux.jpg 1106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry that OBS doesn&#8217;t work for my laptop&#8217;s integrated graphics card. Picture from linux distro community forum<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Install Open Broadcaster Software in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Open terminal from the Dash, Application Menu, or by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard. When it opens, copy and paste (Ctrl+Alt+V) below commands and run one by one:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> OBS requires ffmpeg, <b>Ubuntu 14.04<\/b> and <b>Ubuntu 14.10<\/b> need to add below PPA via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev\/ffmpeg-next<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ffmpeg-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ffmpeg-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"ffmpeg-ppa\" width=\"550\" height=\"106\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ffmpeg-ppa.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ffmpeg-ppa-450x86.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> OBS has an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~obsproject\/+archive\/ubuntu\/obs-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\">official Ubuntu PPA<\/a> that currently supports Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Ubuntu 15.04. To add the PPA, run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject\/obs-studio<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"obs-ppa\" width=\"550\" height=\"93\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-ppa.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/obs-ppa-450x76.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally, refresh your system package cache and install the OBS package by running below two commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install obs-studio<\/pre>\n<p>For 14.04 Trusty and 14.10 Utopic, above command also installs the ffmpeg libraries from the PPA you added in step 1.<\/p>\n<p>Not clear enough? 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