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.”
What is a core? It’s a base snap providing a runtime environment – the essential system libraries, tools, and dependencies snaps need to run (across all Linux distributions).
Additional, the OBS Studio Snap package is now built from the source code used by the official OBS Project PPA, and not built from code provided by the unofficial OBS Studio Portable project (which is not actively maintained).
This shift will make it easier to maintain the Snap, but it’s not without a caveat: OBS Studio Portable includes “popular third-party plugins out-of-the-box”. The updated version, being built from vanilla source code, does not.
Intel GPU acceleration is improved in the new build – and AI plugins are planned!
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 testing version due to the inclusion of packages from the Intel Graphics PPA, also maintained by Canonical. AI plugins “optimized for Intel hardware” are going to added in an upcoming release.
Community users are being asked to test the rebased, retooled OBS Studio Snap by installing it from the candidate channel. Those with a stable version installed can switch by running snap refresh obs-studio --channel latest/candidate.
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‘. The OBS Studio offer an official DEB and Flatpak on Flathub.
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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