Cannot find 'Connect Account' button in OBS 30.0 Ubuntu Snap

[MesabiRangeMike]

Trying to setup streaming for YouTube in OBS Studio 30.0 that I installed on Ubuntu 23.04 via SNAP. I have my streaming key from YouTube. In OBS 'Settings' section I have selected YouTube RTMPS as the Service, Primary YouTube Ingest Server as the Server, entered the Stream Key, hit Apply then OK. I have my Sources selected and can see in the Preview Window the content I wish to stream, but after selecting Start Streaming, nothing is transmitted to YouTube.
Every How-To I can find shows a Connect Account button for enabling OBS to access my Google/YouTube account that missing from my version of OBS. I have run out of other ideas as to what to check/configure. Any help is appreciated

 

[MesabiRangeMike]

I have also configured everything (title, age restriction, etc) on YouTube to receive content from OBS

 

[Harold]

And if you install obs via flatpak or the ppa instead?

 

[AaronD]

I'd strongly recommend the PPA (Debian derivatives, like Ubuntu and family) or whatever your system uses for a native install. Containers like snap and flatpak are self-contained for security reasons more than anything else, and so it's hard to make them talk to things that OBS needs to work completely. It can be done, but it requires you to jump through a bunch of hoops to make the security model into swiss cheese.

So if the primary purpose of the container is no longer functional, why use the container?

 

[MesabiRangeMike]

Finally got it to work. Here's what I did:
1) Launched the game I wanted to stream. Alt Tab'd to the desktop
2) Opened OBS Studio and selected as my Source 'Window Capture (Xcomposite)'
3) Clicked on Settings - Stream - Get Stream Key which opened a new YouTube Studio screen
4) Went back to OBS Studio and selected Start Streaming
5) Went back to the YouTube Studio window and waited for the game graphics to load into the preview window.
6) Played a few minutes
7) Alt Tab'd to the browser and selected End Stream
8) Switched back to OBS and selected Stop Streaming

In my attempts to Google a set of instructions (either text or video) I could not find anything that was specific to both Linux distros or 30.0.0. Most all suggested using Game Capture as the source or omitted using the Get Stream Key to launch the YouTube Studio session. Launching the YouTube Studio session manually never produced positive results.

I'm not sure how to tag this post as closed, but it most definitely is

 

[AaronD]

In my attempts to Google a set of instructions (either text or video) I could not find anything that was specific to both Linux distros or 30.0.0. Most all suggested using Game Capture as the source or omitted using the Get Stream Key to launch the YouTube Studio session.

There are no complete instructions. And most instructions either spread their own misunderstanding that only happened to work by accident for that one specific application on that one rig with that combination of hardware, apps, and settings; or are old enough to be wrong for today's versions of things anyway.

Don't take any set of instructions as complete. More like shopping the knick-knack stores for ideas, buying nothing but putting it all back on the shelves instead, and then making your own with those ideas.

 

[Mr_Anny]

I had this very same problem while distro hopping.
If OBS was included in the distro, the button was missing.
If I installed through Discover, the button was missing.
If I installed via flatpak, the button was there.


Missing button is part of the browser source pack, which is installed via official package.
I landed on Ubuntu Studio in which the OBS was already installed. I removed the installation and installed the official package.

Follow this:

Linux Installation | OBS

OBS Knowledge Base. How to install the latest version of OBS Studio on Linux distros

obsproject.com

 

[AaronD]

I had this very same problem while distro hopping.
If OBS was included in the distro, the button was missing.
If I installed through Discover, the button was missing.
If I installed via flatpak, the button was there.

I don't know why the Flatpak is recommended. It's a container, like several others - snap, docker, etc. - and the purpose of a container is universal compatibility and security, at the expense of efficiency and access.

Meanwhile, OBS needs all the performance it can get, to handle live media smoothly, with direct access to good hardware to further speed that up. Containers don't work well for that.

Maybe the container is to make it run *at all* on other distros than the one it's developed on???

I landed on Ubuntu Studio in which the OBS was already installed. I removed the installation and installed the official package.

Follow this:

Linux Installation | OBS

OBS Knowledge Base. How to install the latest version of OBS Studio on Linux distros

obsproject.com

Don't need to remove the installation. Just install the PPA like the link says, and then the normal update || upgrade process will grab the official version. Same result, less work, for both you and the machine.