u/manos-dok694

Is wireplumber necessary for recording on OBS? Can I switch it out?

I installed arch for the first time ever like 2 weeks ago and it's been pretty fun figuring things out, Im currently using hyprland and I've just been testing some things out. The issue I came across initially had to do with youtube, as I realized videos wouldn't load. Eventually i realized this had to do with wireplumber conflicting with pulseaudio probably, so I just disabled the wireplumber service as a whole and it worked fine.

However, today I tried to install obs in order to screen record and the screen record (pipewire) option would just display a black screen. Eventually I figured out that if i enabled the wireplumber service again obs would work, but youtube wouldn't (ofc).

So the problem is this; wireplumber is conflicting with probably pulseaudio which is my main audio manager (I've already put a lot of work to configure pulseaudio everywhere in all my programs and i don't really wanna start over with pipewire) but I need wireplumber to use obs. Is there any other way I can record my screen in obs without pipewire?

P.S. Sorry if the answer lays inside a 12 year old forum on a Chinese website, I didn't find anything.

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u/manos-dok694 — 13 hours ago