Current state of web browser plugins for Linux? (Trying to overlay text from MQTT on a video feed)

esranon

New Member
Hi all,

I need to do dynamic overlay of text from various sources as part of a feed.

It looked like the WebBrowser plugin would be perfect for this as I can quickly knock up a webpage that formats things as I need them to look and use it as the overlay in OBS.

Unfortunately, I'm struggling to find a web browser plugin for Linux that works reliably.

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-browser appears to be the "official" plugin, however there are no instructions on how to compile/install this for linux and it's based on CEF so there's a real risk that the old issue of CEF versions (such as https://github.com/bazukas/obs-linuxbrowser/issues/63 ) will rear their head again.

https://github.com/bazukas/obs-linuxbrowser/ and https://github.com/bazukas/obs-qtwebkit have both been archived, and whilst I can get https://github.com/bazukas/obs-qtwebkit working, it doesn't appear to want to run Javascript regardless of the source, so that rules out my plan to use a webpage with javascript to connect to an MQTT topic (the source of my overlay data)

Have I missed a document somewhere? Should I be using something else to overlay this text in real-time?
 

esranon

New Member
Thanks to /r/obs on reddit.com, I have been able to resolve this.

I used the "snap" installation rather than the version from AUR and it comes with all the plugins you would need, including a working web browser and the websockets server.

If you're on linux, and you're not using the SNAP version then I'd strongly recommend switching over to it as it appears to be the most complete.

 
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