Window capture with OBS studio (F35)?

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

I'm running Fedora 35 with an Nvidia Q1000 graphics card, using the
Nvidia drivers. I'm use X rather than Wayland:

$ loginctl list-sessions
    SESSION  UID USER SEAT  TTY
          5 1000 lars seat0 tty2

1 sessions listed.
    $ loginctl show-session 5 | grep Type
    Type=x11

I would like to use OBS Studio to produce some videos, but I have been
unable to get the "Window Capture" feature to produce anything but a
black rectangle. I've tried capturing both Chrome and gnome-terminal
windows without success.

I have tried with and without the "Use alpha-less texture format"
checkbox checked.

Has anyone been able to get this to work successfully?

[stan]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:36:05 -0500
Lars Kellogg-Stedman  wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 35 with an Nvidia Q1000 graphics card, using the
> Nvidia drivers. I'm use X rather than Wayland:
> $ loginctl list-sessions
> SESSION  UID USER SEAT  TTY
>       5 1000 lars seat0 tty2
>
> 1 sessions listed.
> $ loginctl show-session 5 | grep Type
> Type=x11
>
> I would like to use OBS Studio to produce some videos, but I have been
> unable to get the "Window Capture" feature to produce anything but a
> black rectangle. I've tried capturing both Chrome and gnome-terminal
> windows without success.
>
> I have tried with and without the "Use alpha-less texture format"
> checkbox checked.
>
> Has anyone been able to get this to work successfully?

I use obs to capture snippets of video from the browser occasionally
or a game sequence (I think that is window capture). Nothing
sophisticated like it is capable of doing. I press the hot key sequence
to start, and then stop, and it just works.  I also use X, but I am
using an amd card, so the driver is in the kernel. I don't think that
should make a difference.

I remember changing the hot key sequence in the running application
itself because there was a collision with something else, and
also setting the save directory from the running application.  I just
looked, and I can't find where those settings are saved.  The main
settings are in ~/.config/obs-studio, but I didn't see anything like
hot keys there. I vaguely recall that there are videos for how to use
it online, so that might be something you could try.