OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support

Re:OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support by infomax on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:02AM (#26646697)

Support for Wayland is getting up there. Just five days ago the bounty to support Wayland in Barrier was funded [1]

[1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109#issuecomment...

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Re:OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support by sprash on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:38AM (#26647886)

> Support for Wayland is getting up there.

After almost 13 years of development the progress is rather embarrassing.

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Re:OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support by yobert on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:59AM (#26648154)

It's a hard problem to solve. Wouldn't you agree?

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Re:OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support by sprash on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:09AM (#26648282)

Taking screenshots/streaming is not a hard problem. However Wayland artificially turns something as simple as taking a screenshot into a hard problem what was before a simple function call to XGetImage(). As exercise I recommend to implement a native screenshot application in both X11 and Wayland.

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Re:OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support by marcodiego on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:45AM (#26648726)

I think you're completely ignoring the security implications of "a simple function call to XGetImage()".

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Re:OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support by sprash on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @12:00PM (#26648898)

What are the security implications? Programs that call XGetImage() when sandboxed in a Xpra/Xephyr session will get back nothing.

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Re:OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support by marcodiego on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @12:49PM (#26649603)

Will get nothing... that means the screenshot won't be taken.

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