For AMD and Intel GPUs, AV1 encoding is now available in OBS Studio 29.
To support the most recent encoding capabilities of contemporary GPUs, one of the most widely used recording and streaming programs has been updated. Following Intel and NVIDIA, whose newest graphics architecture was the first to disclose enhanced AV1 encoding and decoding, AMD’s RX 7900 series delivered improved AV1 encoding with Navi 3X RDNA3 architecture.
With the support of AMD Radeon series, gamers and streamers may now capture their gameplay using the most effective codec. This does not, however, imply that they can stream via AV1. Unfortunately, streaming providers do not yet support this codec.
The NVIDIA Video and Audio filters have also been improved in OBS Studio 29.0. Now that temporal processing is supported, the quality of the masking should increase. Additionally, OBS now automatically uses the P5 setting for the NVENC encoder, which should enhance performance and compatibility.
Features
- Support for the Windows RX7000 series GPUs’ AMD AV1 Encoder has been improved [AMD/Jim]
- The Intel AV1 Encoder for Arc GPUs on Windows [Intel/Jim] now has more support
- Though it is available, CQP is not yet fully supported.
- Windows now has added support for Intel’s HEVC encoder [yuriy-chumak/rcdrone/Jim]
- An upward compressor filter [pkv] was added.
- A 3-band equalization filter was added [Jim].
- Support for native ProRes and HEVC encoders, including P010 and HDR [Developer-Ecosystem-
- Engineering/PatTheMav/gxalpha], has been added to macOS.
- Support for the Mac Desk View [Developer-Ecosystem-Engineering] has been added.
- Update channels have been added so that Windows users can choose to get beta or release-candidate releases. [Rodney]
- The server side preparations are still ongoing, therefore the built-in updater may not be accessible until later in the OBS 30.0 beta testing period.
