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.
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16 comments
hardpenguin Oct 7
NVIDIA users also need to upgrade at least to driver version 550.54.14.I know this is beta but this would be kinda difficult to me to achieve ☺️
$ aptitude search nvidia-driver
(..)
v nvidia-driver-bin-340.108 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-390.157 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-418.226.00 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-450.248.02 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-460.106.00 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-470.256.02 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-525.147.05 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-535.183.06 -
(..)
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Have they fixed AMDs AMF being detected correctly?
AMF works fine via ffmpeg in the advanced options but but there own code fails to detect it.
Edit:
I have cake
Last edited by pete910 on 7 October 2024 at 3:52 pm UTC
AMF works fine via ffmpeg in the advanced options but but there own code fails to detect it.
Edit:
I have cake
Last edited by pete910 on 7 October 2024 at 3:52 pm UTC
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NVIDIA users also need to upgrade at least to driver version 550.54.14.I know this is beta but this would be kinda difficult to me to achieve ☺️
$ aptitude search nvidia-driver
(..)
v nvidia-driver-bin-340.108 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-390.157 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-418.226.00 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-450.248.02 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-460.106.00 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-470.256.02 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-525.147.05 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-535.183.06 -
(..)
550.54.14 was released back in February. The PPA is your friend, although it really shouldn't be needed.
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Philadelphus Oct 7
My current job ends in three days, and with all the free time I'm about to have on my hands I figure I might give this whole "streaming" thing a try. 
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My current job ends in three days, and with all the free time I'm about to have on my hands I figure I might give this whole "streaming" thing a try.
I'm sorry to hear that.
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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.
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NVIDIA users also need to upgrade at least to driver version 550.54.14.I know this is beta but this would be kinda difficult to me to achieve ☺️
$ aptitude search nvidia-driver
(..)
v nvidia-driver-bin-340.108 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-390.157 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-418.226.00 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-450.248.02 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-460.106.00 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-470.256.02 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-525.147.05 -
v nvidia-driver-bin-535.183.06 -
(..)
550.54.14 was released back in February. The PPA is your friend, although it really shouldn't be needed.
Small hint: 32 bit packages for nvidia-driver-560 in focal (20.04) and jammy (22.04) are missing in the PPA currently. They are present in noble (24.04).
Related to OBS it's not relevant if support for pre 24.04 has been dropped anyway.
Last edited by Corben on 14 October 2024 at 1:38 pm UTC
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Didn't AMD's AMF switch to Vulkan video? OBS should just use latter directly (but it doesn't have AV1 encoding yet).
Last edited by Shmerl on 14 October 2024 at 3:05 pm UTC
Last edited by Shmerl on 14 October 2024 at 3:05 pm UTC
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Maybe it's me who did something wrong in the settings, but when I tried OBS Studio it caused a serious hog on my system resources. Games that ran steadily in 144fps suddenly struggled around 100-110fps with the game plus the webcam in OBS. That's a pretty severe drop.
Isn't that you guys experience too? May it be there's some settings I just haven't got right?
I'm on an ultrawide 3440x1440 resolution, rtx3080.
Isn't that you guys experience too? May it be there's some settings I just haven't got right?
I'm on an ultrawide 3440x1440 resolution, rtx3080.
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it 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.
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Will be checking it out shortly. Looks promising 
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Didn'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.
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How is vulkan video encoding broken in radv? amf will have to go through it anyway, unless you use amdvlk with it.
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unless you use amdvlk with it.
Thats whats needed to use AMF up until very recently. Well I presume AMD's prop driver is amdvlk
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it 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. :)
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Oh yes. I just suddenly was thinking of the hog being serious.it 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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