Please note that Hardware Acceleration option is automatically turned on so if you start having any issues, make sure to go check that off.

This means the source that usually gives everyone’s CPU a run around the block now has reduced resources, a greatly improved performance, and allows the addition of rendering functionality with programs like WebGL, which will reduce RAM, CPU, and GPU usage even greater.

Hardware acceleration has been added to the browser source for Windows.

Let’s list the major points to this update! A handful of bugs squashed, features tweaked or added, and hotfixes were in this update. Windows and macOS users can snag system installers from the OBS Project downloads page.OBS Studio continues to improve on its already great design. Linux users can get OBS Studio from Flathub, download the latest release from the OBS GitHub releases page, or use the official OBS Project PPA to install/update on Ubuntu-based distros.

Dynamic bitrate now recovers faster after a dropĪs you’d expect, a sled-load of bug fixes also roll out in this update, and there are a collection of minor, miscellaneous UI tweaks for eagle-eyed users to spot.

Support higher refresh rates in Video Capture Device (Windows).

Right click to ‘Inspect’ individual browser docks.Ability to mute individual browser docks.Encryption and authentication support for SRT, RIST outputs.Improved Display Capture screen naming & saving (Windows).Replay Buffer memory limit now 75% of system RAM.Media key support on Linux features in the latest update, which will please this want to control playback using their keyboard’s next, prev, and player/pause keys. On the macOS side, OBS Studio 29.0 adds native HEVC and ProRes encoders, including P010 and HDR, and supports macOS Desk View (an over-heard webcam feature requiring an iPhone 11 or later).

Also Windows-only, Intel HEVC encoder is now available in OBS Studio. OBS Studio 29.0 introduces support for AMD AV1 encoding on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs, and Intel AV1 encoding on systems Intel Arc graphics on Windows only (no Linux support with this yet). A new version of open source screencast software OBS Studio is available to download.

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