OBS Studio

OBS Studio is free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming, licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

Installing Plugins

Plugins are available from the obs-studio-plugins package set.

They can be installed by either wrapping the package with wrapOBS:

environment.systemPackages = [
  (pkgs.wrapOBS {
    plugins = with pkgs.obs-studio-plugins; [
      wlrobs
    ];
  })
];

or using Home Manager:

{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
  programs.obs-studio = {
    enable = true;
    plugins = with pkgs.obs-studio-plugins; [
      wlrobs
    ];
  };
}

Including both obs-studio and (pkgs.wrapOBS {... in environment.systemPackages will result in a package collision; if plugins are needed, only include the "wrapped" version, which sets the plugins directory to include Nix-managed plugins (see pkgs/applications/video/obs-studio/wrapper.nix.

Using the Virtual Camera

The virtual camera requires the v4l2loopback kernel module to be installed, like so:

{ config, ... }:
{
  boot.extraModulePackages = with config.boot.kernelPackages; [
    v4l2loopback
  ];
}