OBS docks missing in Bazzite... Oh and AMD encoders

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Does anyone know how to restore the missing docks.

Twitch Chat and Stream information in OBS, on Bazzite?

And for that matter… Does anyone know how to get the AMD hardware encoders working to?

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the docks do not work in wayland, this is because of the embedded chromium used by obs iirc.

you can get around it by running obs in x11 mode (you can do this by disabling the wayland socket in flatseal), but that can introduce other issues, but worth a shot.

the “amd hardware encoder” is accessed through the gpu agnostic VAAPI (or FFMPEG VAAPI) encoder

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Hi,

I am on Bazzite as well and installed the flatpak version of OBS and I have both the docks and hardware encoders. Docks are in the usual place, “Docks” tab in OBS taskbar and they function well, you can resize them, stick them among other docks etc. Keep in mind though you will not have Twitch Chat and Twitch Stream information docker as they are basically web-pages streamed into OBS and I don’t Linux version supports it yet.

Encoders are also there. You just need to choose FFmpeg Vaapi AV1 or whichever encoder you want. AMD encourages using VAAPI encoders over AMF and stopped developing its own proprietary AMF encoders for Linux a while ago. Hope this helps.

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FFmpeg VAAPI is not showing my OBS, when streaming, just software .264

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Are you using flatpak version of OBS? That’s what I did. Streaming options are indeed more limited compared to recording, but I still have FFmpeg vaapi h264.

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need to change it before you start the stream

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the option that lists the device (in my case “on Navi 23” is the hardware encoder on the gpu) is the right one

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The regular VAAPI one might cause crashing issues. I opened a bug report on OBS forums and tried troubleshooting with its developer but no joy, the VAAPI one always caused crashes for me, although I only tried the AV1 encoder so H264 might work properly. The one named “FFmpeg VAAPI” is the one shipped with OBS Studio and the one without FFmpeg in the name is a “third party encoder” as the developer puts it.

For stability go with the FFmpeg VAAPI H.264. You can pick the device once you choose it in encoder options so no need to worry. If there are no crashes though, feel free to use whichever.

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Yeah, I am using the flat pal version.

Maybe it didn’t install correctly