Screen Capture not showing anything

Grand Captain Speedy Dash

Grand Captain Speedy Dash

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Yesterday, I started having issues with OBS crashing, which after reinstalls and clearing my sources, I got past only to run into another issue of Screen Capture not showing anything. I've tried numerous things including more reinstalls, restarts, and installing all updates but the issue persists. The Screen Capture adjust based on the size of the window/screen I select but doesn't even pick up my cursor (Show cursor is selected). I've tested Discord and it is able to capture my screen just fine meaning the issue lies with OBS. Also to note, "Video Capture Device (PipeWire) (BETA)" does work even while "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" doesn't encase that information is useful.



Kernel: Linux 6.19.3-2-cachyos
DE: KDE Plasms 6.6.0
Flatpak OBS 32.0.4
 
A few things don't look great before I even get to the Screen Capture.

Code: 
14:30:12.041: Loading up OpenGL on adapter Mesa llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits)

OpenGL is running in software mode. That's definitely not what you want - what sort of system are you running on? Does it have an iGPU or dGPU?

Code: 
14:30:12.170: LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME variable is set, this could prevent FFmpeg VAAPI from working correctly
14:30:12.170: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_h264_supported
14:30:12.171: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_h264_supported
14:30:12.171: FFmpeg VAAPI H264 encoding not supported
14:30:12.171: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_av1_supported
14:30:12.171: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_av1_supported
14:30:12.171: FFmpeg VAAPI AV1 encoding not supported
14:30:12.171: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_hevc_supported
14:30:12.171: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_hevc_supported
14:30:12.171: FFmpeg VAAPI HEVC encoding not supported

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME is set, but none of the hardware accelerated encoders seem to be working.

Also to note, "Video Capture Device (PipeWire) (BETA)" does work even while "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" doesn't encase that information is useful.
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This is useful - the video capture plugin (or library) is quite separate from the screen capture; so it helps to narrow down the cause.

Can you try to run the command (in the terminal):

Code: 
ls /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal*
 
Sorry about the late reply but it started working Monday afternoon so I stopped checking the forums. My guess of the problem after reading the log file was that it was failing to access my Nvidia GPU, possibly trying and failing to use Intel integrated graphics as well, and as a side effect my CPU usage was very high from OBS simply being open.


Thanks again for trying to help even if it fixed itself by the time I would of seen your post.
 
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