The option does not appear in the filter section

[riannast22]

After watching several videos from different people, I have followed each one step by step to the official tutorial that appears on the plugin installation website and when I go to apply the filter, the backround removal option does not appear.

[royshil]

@riannast22 this points to a compatibility issues
can you plz share your OBS logs?

[maykonlma]

I have the same problem.

16:00:53.002: Using EGL/X11
16:00:53.002: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
16:00:53.002: CPU Speed: 4099.748MHz
16:00:53.002: Physical Cores: 6, Logical Cores: 12
16:00:53.002: Physical Memory: 15905MB Total, 5867MB Free
16:00:53.002: Kernel Version: Linux 6.1.0-23-amd64
16:00:53.002: Distribution: "Debian GNU/Linux" "12"
16:00:53.002: Session Type: x11
16:00:53.002: Window System: X11.0, Vendor: The X.Org Foundation, Version: 1.21.1
16:00:53.003: Qt Version: 5.15.8 (runtime), 5.15.8 (compiled)
16:00:53.003: Portable mode: false
16:00:53.027: OBS 29.0.2.1-1+b1 (linux)
16:00:53.027: ---------------------------------
16:00:53.050: ---------------------------------
16:00:53.050: audio settings reset:
16:00:53.050: samples per sec: 48000
16:00:53.050: speakers: 2
16:00:53.050: max buffering: 960 milliseconds
16:00:53.050: buffering type: dynamically increasing
16:00:53.056: ---------------------------------
16:00:53.056: Initializing OpenGL...
16:00:53.086: Loading up OpenGL on adapter NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce GT 730/PCIe/SSE2
16:00:53.086: OpenGL loaded successfully, version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 470.256.02, shading language 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
16:00:53.104: ---------------------------------
16:00:53.104: video settings reset:
16:00:53.104: base resolution: 1920x1080
16:00:53.104: output resolution: 1280x720
16:00:53.104: downscale filter: Bicubic
16:00:53.104: fps: 30/1
16:00:53.104: format: NV12
16:00:53.104: YUV mode: Rec. 709/Partial
16:00:53.104: NV12 texture support not available
16:00:53.104: P010 texture support not available
16:00:53.105: Audio monitoring device:
16:00:53.105: name: Default
16:00:53.105: id: default
16:00:53.105: ---------------------------------
16:00:53.106: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-captions.so'
16:00:53.107: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-output-ui.so'
16:00:53.109: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers may not be installed
16:00:53.109: Failed to initialize module 'decklink.so'
16:00:53.135: [pipewire] Available captures:
16:00:53.135: [pipewire] - Desktop capture
16:00:53.135: [pipewire] - Window capture
16:00:53.142: obs_register_source: Tried to register obs_source_info with size 408 which is more than libobs currently supports (400)
16:00:53.142: obs_register_source: Tried to register obs_source_info with size 408 which is more than libobs currently supports (400)
16:00:53.142: [obs-backgroundremoval] Plugin loaded successfully (version 1.1.13)
16:00:53.142: [obs-backgroundremoval] Failed to open config file /home/maykon/.config/obs-studio/plugin_config/obs-backgroundremoval/config.ini
16:00:53.142: [obs-backgroundremoval] Failed to open config file /home/maykon/.config/obs-studio/plugin_config/obs-backgroundremoval/config.ini
16:00:53.429: [obs-backgroundremoval] Latest release is
16:00:53.497: NVENC supported
16:00:53.497: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display in vaapi_device_h264_supported
16:00:53.497: FFmpeg VAAPI H264 encoding not supported
16:00:53.503: [obs-websocket] [obs_module_load] you can haz websockets (Version: 5.1.0 | RPC Version: 1)
16:00:53.503: [obs-websocket] [obs_module_load] Qt version (compile-time): 5.15.8 | Qt version (run-time): 5.15.8
16:00:53.503: [obs-websocket] [obs_module_load] Linked ASIO Version: 102201
16:00:53.509: [obs-websocket] [obs_module_load] Module loaded.
16:00:53.532: [vlc-video]: VLC 3.0.21 Vetinari found, VLC video source enabled
16:00:53.532: ---------------------------------
16:00:53.532: Loaded Modules:
16:00:53.532: vlc-video.so
16:00:53.532: text-freetype2.so
16:00:53.532: rtmp-services.so
16:00:53.532: obs-x264.so
16:00:53.532: obs-websocket.so
16:00:53.532: obs-transitions.so
16:00:53.532: obs-outputs.so
16:00:53.532: obs-filters.so
16:00:53.532: obs-ffmpeg.so
16:00:53.532: obs-backgroundremoval.so
16:00:53.532: linux-v4l2.so
16:00:53.532: linux-pulseaudio.so
16:00:53.532: linux-pipewire.so
16:00:53.532: linux-jack.so
16:00:53.532: linux-capture.so
16:00:53.532: linux-alsa.so
16:00:53.532: image-source.so
16:00:53.532: frontend-tools.so
16:00:53.532: decklink-output-ui.so
16:00:53.532: decklink-captions.so
16:00:53.532: ---------------------------------
16:00:53.532: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
16:00:53.584: All scene data cleared
16:00:53.584: ------------------------------------------------
16:00:53.587: pulse-input: Server name: 'PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.65) 15.0.0'
16:00:53.587: pulse-input: Audio format: s16le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels
16:00:53.587: pulse-input: Started recording from 'alsa_output.usb-0c76_USB_PnP_Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.monitor' (default)
16:00:53.588: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Desktop Audio'
16:00:53.588: pulse-input: Server name: 'PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.65) 15.0.0'
16:00:53.588: pulse-input: Audio format: s16le, 48000 Hz, 1 channels
16:00:53.588: pulse-input: Started recording from 'alsa_input.usb-0c76_USB_PnP_Audio_Device-00.mono-fallback' (default)
16:00:53.588: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux'
16:00:53.588: v4l2-input: Start capture from /dev/video0
16:00:53.589: v4l2-input: Input: 0
16:00:53.598: v4l2-input: Resolution: 1280x720
16:00:53.598: v4l2-input: Pixelformat: YUYV
16:00:53.598: v4l2-input: Linesize: 2560 Bytes
16:00:53.598: v4l2-input: Framerate: 10.00 fps
16:00:53.599: v4l2-input: /dev/video0: select timeout set to 500000 (5x frame periods)
16:00:53.600: Switched to scene 'Scene'
16:00:53.600: ------------------------------------------------
16:00:53.600: Loaded scenes:
16:00:53.600: - scene 'Scene':
16:00:53.600: - source: 'Video Capture Device (V4L2)' (v4l2_input)
16:00:53.600: ------------------------------------------------
16:00:54.330: adding 42 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 42 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)
16:00:54.330:

[Purgator]

Same here. I have the same problem (plugin not showing), and the same error log message saying that the config.ini is missing. I created an empy config.ini file and the error log is gone.
Still, the plugin never appear on the list.

[Purgator]

Anyone knows a working plugin alternative for this purpose ?

[royshil]

Anyone knows a working plugin alternative for this purpose ?

the config.ini missing is benign
the problem is elsewhere
but the plugin does load - it just doesn't complete the initialization and OBS abandons it

are you compiling from scratch?

[Purgator]

Nope, I did the most normal stock installation ever. I don't know if the OP has the exact same issue though.