You can set up OBS Studio to support your preferred video style. (Jim Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0) Setting up scenes If you're recording videos on the desktop, like I am, then click the Optimize just for recording radio button and click Next. The first time you launch OBS Studio, the software runs an auto-configuration wizard to determine the best settings for recording videos. On the login screen, enter your password, click on the gear-shaped icon in the lower-right corner, and select GNOME on Xorg. That means when I want to record videos with OBS Studio, I need to log into my GNOME desktop using an Xorg session. However, OBS Studio does not support Wayland, at least not in the Fedora build.

But my graphics card is from Intel, so I don't need to run the extra steps. If you have an NVIDIA graphics card, there's an extra step in the installation guide to install hardware-accelerated video support.

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Once the RPM Fusion repo is set up, you can install OBS Studio with this command: $ sudo dnf install obs-studio If you don't already have RPM Fusion set up on your system, you can add the repository on Fedora using this one-line command: $ sudo dnf install $(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm $(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Fortunately, the OBS Studio website has an installation guide that walks you through the steps to install OBS Studio via the RPM Fusion alternative repository. I run Fedora Linux, which doesn't include the OBS Studio software by default. But with Open Broadcaster Software, also called OBS Studio, I've found recording these videos to be pretty straightforward. When I started the channel in August 2019, I didn't know anything about recording videos. I manage a YouTube channel for the FreeDOS Project, where I record 'how-to' videos with FreeDOS running inside the QEMU PC emulator software.

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