Install errors on Mac OSX 10.15.5

[PhilRowe]

Hello! very excited to try out this plugin but its not working on my Mac at the moment. Installation ran fine however the new dock was not showing in the view -> dock menu. Initial message in obs logs showed:

12:47:24.348: Referenced from: /Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/media-controls/bin/media-controls.so
12:47:24.348: Reason: image not found
12:47:24.348:
12:47:24.349: Module '/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/media-controls/bin/media-controls.so' not loaded

I tried copying the media controls plugin from /Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/media-controls to /Users/philiprowe/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/media-controls and then started receiving the following error message:

13:24:31.575: os_dlopen(/Users/philiprowe/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/media-controls/bin/media-controls.so->/Users/philiprowe/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/media-controls/bin/media-controls.so): dlopen(/Users/philiprowe/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/media-controls/bin/media-controls.so, 257): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets
13:24:31.575: Referenced from: /Users/philiprowe/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/media-controls/bin/media-controls.so
13:24:31.575: Reason: image not found

I then tried installing qt5 framework via brew and OBS failed to launch, no errors were shown in the logs relating to the crash.

[Jamie-]

Also just tried to install this on Mac and getting the same issue with the same errors. I haven't tried to install Qt etc though, just followed the instructions on OBS forum.

Edit: Ah, this is a known issue: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/media-controls.125774/post-471317

Unfortunately my attempts to get it working on Mac are not working at the moment. I hope to find a developer with more Mac experience to help me with that.

For reference I'm running OBS 25.0.8 also on 10.15.5

[Jamie-]

I compiled OBS from source with this plugin as documented in the README and it does appear in the Docks menu and I can open it up just fine.

However, the icons don't work properly and none of the buttons in the entire application are clickable (the timeline slider works great). Though I don't think the button clicking problem is related to this plugin. I need to do some more investigation.

[ucomesdag]

The library is not static linked, and thus it needs to be distributed with the Qt Framework.

Update, OBS.app has the Qt Framework already included (duh), this fixes it:

install_name_tool -change /usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore media-controls.so
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui media-controls.so
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets media-controls.so

Or use this already relinked binary: media-controls.so.zip to replace the installed media-controls.so.

[NReilingh]

If you get an error upon launch after installing the relinked .so, just open up Security & Privacy in System Preferences, General tab, and you should see a warning about the file with an "Allow" button that you can click.

[mrgroen]

Thanks i needed this! 😄

[exeldro]

@ucomesdag so I could add those lines to https://github.com/exeldro/obs-media-controls/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml to make correct Mac builds?

[ucomesdag]

@ucomesdag so I could add those lines to https://github.com/exeldro/obs-media-controls/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml to make correct Mac builds?

Yes, that should work. Ideally when the whole thing is build statically it should all link to the same included framework.

[exeldro]

Fixed by #5