obs_media_info

This project is an attempt at making a OBS Studio plugin.

The plugin display the current playing track info (title, album, artist) and artwork.

Data is collected though the MPRIS 2 or Windows.Media.Control interfaces so a lot of players should be supported (VLC, Spotify, Firefox, ...).

Screenshot

Windows

Get Latest dll from the release tab.

Build

• Get a copy of obs.lib and w32-pthreads.lib. You can get them from building the obs source code. Or by using the lib_from_dll.ps1 PowerShell script on obs.dll and w32-pthreads.dll from your obs installation.

From the MSVC console (important):

powershell
. ./lib_from_dll.ps1
New-LibFromDll obs.dll
New-LibFromDll w32-pthreads.dll

• Download obs source code (for the headers) here. And unzip it to an obs_studio folder.

• Build the project

build_msvc.bat

Install

Place the obs_media_plugin.dll in the obs plugins directoty (OBS-Studio-27.0.1-Full-x64\obs-plugins\64bit).

Linux

Build

$ apt update
$ apt install build-essential pkgconf # requiring make gcc pkgconf
$ apt install libdbus-1-dev libobs-dev

% make

Install

Place the obs_media_plugin.so in the obs plugins directory.

% mkdir -p $HOME/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs_media_info/bin/64bit
% cp obs_media_plugin.so $HOME/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs_media_info/bin/64bit/
or
% ln -s "$(pwd)/obs_media_info.so" $HOME/.config/obs-studio/plugins/obs_media_info/bin/64bit/obs_media_info.so

Or in the systemwide directory /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/ (distribution dependant. Archlinux: /usr/lib/obs-plugins/).

$ cp obs_media_plugin.so /usr/share/obs/obs-plugins/

TODO

• Not relying on ffmpeg to download images files (linux)
• Build using cmake like others obs plugins

Note

• If you are using Firefox for media playback, make sure media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled is set to true (default)