OBS plugin

You can add a Looking Glass video feed to OBS as a video source with the included OBS plugin. This provides a lower-latency alternative to capturing the Looking Glass client window with a Screen or Window Capture source.

This may help improve your viewers’ experience watching your stream, and allows you to use your host without them seeing.

Build Instructions

The OBS plugin is included in the main source tree of Looking Glass. The building process is very similar to the client’s.

Dependencies

The OBS plugin requires the following extra dependencies alongside the client’s build dependencies.

  • libobs-dev

Please install this package or the equivalent in your package manager.

apt-get install libobs-dev

Building

These instructions are the same as when building the client.

mkdir obs/build
cd obs/build
cmake ../
make

Installation

The resulting liblooking-glass-obs.so file should be placed in your OBS plugin directory.

mkdir -p ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/looking-glass-obs/bin/64bit
cp liblooking-glass-obs.so ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins/looking-glass-obs/bin/64bit

Setup

Once installed, you can select the “Looking Glass Client” source from the OBS sources menu. The configuration only requires the IVSHMEM file that is used by the VM, and this is pre-populated with the default filename for Looking Glass.

Open Broadcaster Software

The plugin is made for OBS, an open source streaming and recording studio. Find out more at https://obsproject.com/

It’s available under most distributions as obs-studio or just obs.

Screenshots

Adding the plugin as a video source

Adding the plugin as a video source

Plugin configuration settings

Plugin configuration settings