Package for use inside of /home folder

[MichaelTunnell]

I think it would be a good idea to package the plugin for use inside of the user's /home folder so you don't need to invoke sudo to install the plugin.

I have attached a modified version of 0.1.0 that would be installed in /home/username/.config/obs-studio/plugins/

obs-pulseaudio-app-capture-0.1.0.tar.gz

Note: because I have pipewire I was not able to test to make sure it worked due to issue #2

[PipeL1n3]

I just wanted to try this out, but i´ve used snap to install obs-studio, so i followed their instructions and put yours version to ~/snap/obs-studio/current/.config/obs-studio/plugins/ but it never shows up, not as a source to add or in logs.

[caimandepamer]

I just wanted to try this out, but i´ve used snap to install obs-studio, so i followed their instructions and put yours version to ~/snap/obs-studio/current/.config/obs-studio/plugins/ but it never shows up, not as a source to add or in logs.

Hi! @PipeL1n3, try this:

first install the .deb:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads-t460/obs-pulseaudio-app-capture_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb
then you can review which and where files was installed:
dpkg -L obs-pulseaudio-app-capture

now copy the installed files from default location to "snap" location:

mkdir -p ~/snap/obs-studio/1284/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-pulseaudio-app-capture/data/locale/
cp /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/obs-pulseaudio-app-capture/locale/en-US.ini ~/snap/obs-studio/1284/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-pulseaudio-app-capture/data/locale/
cp /usr/lib/obs-plugins/obs-pulseaudio-app-capture.so ~/snap/obs-studio/1284/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs-pulseaudio-app-capture/

this work for me, hope this can help you!!

[PipeL1n3]

@caimandepamer
Finally got it working, but not with what you wrote.

first installing .deb via dpkg will fail if obs-studio (.deb version) is not installed. I´ve downloaded the .deb and extracted the .so and .ini.
Then I tried the folder-structure as you mentioned above, but it again never showed up in log, but after trying some structures i´ve seen on other plugins, this one is finally working for me:

• snap/
  -- obs-studio/
  --- 1287/
  ---- .config/
  ----- obs-studio/
  ------ plugins/
  ------- obs-pulseaudio-app-capture/
  -------- bin/
  --------- 64bit/
  ---------- obs-pulseaudio-app-capture.so
  -------- data/
  --------- locale/
  ---------- en-US.ini

But thanks, as your post brought me to try it again, now lets see how its working :)

edit:
well thats exactly the structure that is mentioned in the snap description of OBS studio ... i thought i´ve tested this before ... maybe i´ve forgot the data/ folder or there was a typo.