The best tool for video recording and livestreaming is about to get another upgrade with OBS Studio 31.0.0 Beta 1 out now.It's in Beta meaning it's not quite ready for everyone, but a good time to test everything works as expected ahead of the next stable release.
For this release NVIDIA Kepler GPUs are no longer supported for NVENC, NVIDIA users also need to upgrade at least to driver version 550.54.14.
New features include:
- Added NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur.
- Added preview scrollbars and zoom/scale indicator.
- Added v210 format support for AJA device capture.
- Added Amazon IVS service integration.
- Added QSV AV1 Screen Content Coding.
- Enabled first-party YouTube Chat features.
Pictured - OBS Studio on Linux
Some Linux-specific changes too:
- Disabled the (currently unsupported) built-in Automatic Scene Switcher when using Wayland on Linux.
- Changed display and window capture on Linux to not capture implicitly.
- Improved screensaver inhibit functions on Linux in Flatpak
- Fixed two crashes with the QSV encoder on Linux.
Support for Ubuntu 22.04 was also removed, so you'll need to upgrade for it.
There's various other bug fixes and improvements like an NVENC upgrade. See the changelog for more.
Notice: This article originally went up last week, a bit too early, the Beta was properly released two days later so it has been republished today.
Quoting: ShmerlDidn't AMD's AMF switch to Vulkan video? OBS should just use latter directly (but it doesn't have AV1 encoding yet).Maybe, but also note that vulkan video encoding is broken in the amd radv driver and the vulkan video encoding in ffmpeg also seems to have issues. Using vulkan video encoding directly is much more complex than using amf.
Quoting: Shmerlunless you use amdvlk with it.
Thats whats needed to use AMF up until very recently. Well I presume AMD's prop driver is amdvlk
Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: Beamboomit caused a serious hog on my system resources.I am now imagining this pig with a deep frown of concentration running diagnostics on your system.
LOL but isn't that what it's called, resource hog?
/runs off to Google this
... phew, it was. That's good to know, that my vocabulary is fairly intact. :)
Quoting: BeamboomOh yes. I just suddenly was thinking of the hog being serious.Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: Beamboomit caused a serious hog on my system resources.I am now imagining this pig with a deep frown of concentration running diagnostics on your system.
LOL but isn't that what it's called, resource hog?
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