Installing obs-studio with nvenc on Ubuntu 16.04

A quick tutorial on installing obs studio from source when using ffmpeg installed with linuxbrew. This way the installation is painless and you can stream with obs studio using nvenc.

sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config cmake git checkinstall
sudo apt install libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpulse-dev libxcomposite-devlibxinerama-dev libv4l-dev libudev-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig-dev qtbase5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libx264-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
brew install ffmpeg fdk-aac speexdsp
ffmpeg -encoders 2>/dev/null | grep nvenc
mkdir -p $HOME/src/
cd $HOME/src/
git clone https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio.git
cd obs-studio
git checkout `git describe --tags --abbrev=0`
rm -rf build && mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DUNIX_STRUCTURE=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
checkinstall --pkgname=obs-studio --fstrans=yes --backup=no --pkgversion="$(date +%Y%m%d)-git" --deldoc=yes --install=no --nodoc
git checkout master
sudo dpkg -i ./*.deb
 

If you’re using linuxbrew / homebrew and cmake is complaining it can’t find some header files, try this: export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=$HOME/.linuxbrew/include/. Or try setting the environmental variables FFmpegPath and speexPath.

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