Dive

Introducing Dive! A new Flutter toolkit for video recording and streaming. A complete set of packages to build the next generation of Flutter media apps.

Introduction

Dive is a video recording and streaming toolkit built on top of Dart and Flutter with native extensions on macOS. It is a group of Flutter packages for building media apps. In the future, support for multiple platforms will be added.

dive - A Flutter package that provides video capabilities.

dive_ui - A Flutter package for Dive containing Widgets for building Flutter apps for video recording and streaming.

dive_obslib - A Flutter plugin package for Dive that provides low level access to obslib using FFI.

dive

The dive package is a Flutter package that provides basic services for video playback, camera devices, audio, and streaming. This package relies heavily on the dive_obslib package but remains platform indepenent.

dive_ui

The dive_ui package is a Flutter package containing Widgets to build video based Flutter apps. This package relies heavily on the dive package but remains platform indepenent.

This package contains many examples on using dive_ui widgets and dive classes. The examples use the macOS platform folder that contains a Podfile that references the obslib CocoaPods library.

dive_obslib

The dive_obslib package is a Flutter plugin that provides low level access to obslib. This package contains platform-specific implementations with native extensions for Android, iOS, and macOS.

dive_obslib is powered by obslib, a CocoaPods library built from the core of OBS Studio. It utilizes all of the underlying features of OBS Studio excluding the UI code. It includes inputs, sources, outputs, encoders, services, and more.

dive_obslib contains the DiveObsLibPlugin and the dive_obslib CocoaPods library. The dive_obslib pod has a dependency on the obslib CocoaPods library.

obslib CocoaPods library

The obslib CocoaPods library is a wrapper around the obslib Framework that can be consumed by the DiveApp macOS platform Podfile.

obslib Framework

The obslib framework (obslib-framework) is the core of OBS Studio, and is the non-UI code and resources compiled into a reusable framework. The framework is built by an Xcode project.

The framework folder contains an example macOS application that consumes the obslib framework without using CocoaPods and is used to test the framework.

Components of the obslib framework

• header files
• data files
• libraries
• plugins

Libraries:

• libobs-opengl.so
• libobsglad.0.dylib
• libobs-frontend-api.dylib
• libobs-scripting.dylib
• libobs.0.dylib
• libavformat.58.dylib
• libpostproc.55.dylib
• libavfilter.7.dylib
• libjansson.4.dylib
• libavcodec.58.dylib
• libavutil.56.dylib
• libswscale.5.dylib
• libavdevice.58.dylib
• libx264.160.dylib
• libswresample.3.dylib
• libmbedx509.2.16.5.dylib
• libfreetype.6.dylib
• libmbedx509.2.16.5.dylib
• librnnoise.0.dylib
• liblaujit-5.1.2.1.0.dylib
• libmbedcrypto.2.16.5.dylib

Plugins:

• mac-capture.so
• obs-ffmpeg.so
• linux-jack.so
• obs-libfdk.so
• obs-x264.so
• obs-transitions.so
• obs-filters.so
• vlc-video.so
• obs-browser.so
• obs-outputs.so
• mac-syphon.so
• text-freetype2.so
• mac-vth264.so
• image-source.so
• coreaudio-encoder.so
• obs-vst.so
• rtmp-services.so
• mac-avcapture.so
• mac-decklink.so

Dive Folder Structure

dive
 |-- apps
   |-- dive_app
 |-- packages
   |-- dive
   |-- dive_obslib
   |-- dive_ui

Concepts

Input Source

An input source is a camera, microphone, virtual camera, screen capture, or NDI source.

Sources

channel

output

Encoders

Services

VS Code Editor

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