[Unsolved/Abandoned] OBS Studio

removed001 · 04-09-2019, 02:28 PM

Hi.

A few days ago I stumbled over a review of the 9 best Screencast tools in 2019. One of them listed was OBS Studio, which is available in the repository of Ubuntu Bionic.

I downloaded and tried to run it, but there's an error message appearing:

Invalid license file data

( Yes, it is the exact exact message

)

I searched the web already, but couldn't find anything on that issue.

Any hints or help here?

Thanks in advance...

hydrurga · 04-09-2019, 02:35 PM

Have you tried installing the latest version from the PPA to see if you get the same error message?

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

TB0ne · 04-09-2019, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RSH

Hi.
A few days ago I stumbled over a review of the 9 best Screencast tools in 2019. One of them listed was OBS Studio, which is available in the repository of Ubuntu Bionic.

I downloaded and tried to run it, but there's an error message appearing:

Invalid license file data

( Yes, it is the exact exact message

)

I searched the web already, but couldn't find anything on that issue. Any hints or help here?

How did you install it? By following their instructions?
https://obsproject.com/wiki/install-...u-installation

I see problems in their forum related to the license-agreement screen, but not about a license-file.

removed001 · 04-09-2019, 08:43 PM

Hi and thanks for the replies.

I just downloaded OBS Studio via the Puppy Package Manager which downloaded three .deb files:

libobs0_21.0.2+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb
obs-plugins_21.0.2+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb
obs-studio_21.0.2+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb

No missing dependencies found.

I don't have apt-get and the installation instructions are for Ubuntu 14 (Tahr) & Ubuntu 15 (Xenial?).

I'm in Puppy Ubuntu 18 (Bionic).

Also I tested: the OBS Package is not found in Puppy Ubuntu 14 (Tahr). So these installation instructions are useless.

TB0ne · 04-10-2019, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RSH

Hi and thanks for the replies.
I just downloaded OBS Studio via the Puppy Package Manager which downloaded three .deb files:

libobs0_21.0.2+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb
obs-plugins_21.0.2+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb
obs-studio_21.0.2+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb

No missing dependencies found.

I don't have apt-get and the installation instructions are for Ubuntu 14 (Tahr) & Ubuntu 15 (Xenial?). I'm in Puppy Ubuntu 18 (Bionic). Also I tested: the OBS Package is not found in Puppy Ubuntu 14 (Tahr). So these installation instructions are useless.

The first post only said Ubuntu Bionic...not Puppy. They're different, as you've discovered. Since Puppy isn't listed as part of their supported OS'es, not sure if it will even work at all. You may want to contact OBS, since that message isn't really a Linux message, but from OBS. Their people may know a way around it. There are also build instructions, which may be what you have to do.
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-st...de-all-distros

removed001 · 04-10-2019, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

The first post only said Ubuntu Bionic...not Puppy. They're different, as you've discovered.

No, I didn't discover. I know this for already more than eight years - as I'm a full time Puppy User since 2011 started using Puppy (Muppy 008.3F) in 2009.

But: since Puppy Ubuntu Bionic (better saying my Art Studio 64) is made from the binaries of Ubuntu Bionic usually almost all the programs downloaded so far do work out of the box. Some of them needed to download some additional dependencies not covered by the PPM. I got also Kdenlive running AND working as well as Openshot in my Art Studio 64, I was just curious if OBS Studio would work also.

The article/review of OBS Studio I found was somehow impressive, so I would liked to test OBS Studio.

Never mind: my LazY Puppy Art Studio 64 (as well as my private 32bit version) has Simple Screen Recorder installed, which does a pretty good job (as one can see on my Youtube Channel and the two GNU/Linux Videos - link in my signature).

I don't want to waste some more time on OBS Studio, as I don't really have an urgent need for it. I'll mark this thread as Unsolved/Abandoned.

Thanks for all the replies, though.

Btw.: this forum is really slow. It sometimes hangs for minutes when trying to preview a post in creation.

ondoho · 04-11-2019, 01:48 AM

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-st...l-Instructions
does not mention puppy.
i guess you need to use the "all distros" build directions.
or snappy.

btw, according to the podcasts i listen to, OBS is really good software.
it's a shame they're so ubuntu-centric.

removed001 · 04-11-2019, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-st...l-Instructions
does not mention puppy.
i guess you need to use the "all distros" build directions.
or snappy.

btw, according to the podcasts i listen to, OBS is really good software.
it's a shame they're so ubuntu-centric.

Thanks for the link. Maybe I will give it a try later.

Re, Ubuntu-Centric: which OS are you running?