OBS Studio 27.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by smoldesu » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 10:32 PM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #16

herpderperator wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that Apple Silicon (arm64) support is still in progress and all the builds released to date have been amd64 only.

Any idea when it’s coming? I know no one likes that question, but... well, I have an M1 Air, and I’d love to stream some coding sessions or tutorials. So arm64 support would be tasty. Is there some way we could help with the arm64 patching?

My smoothbrained take is that it'll be a little bit, since optimizing it for ARM is going to take a little effort. Like GP said, it's really about the encoders slowly being updated to better support the hardware.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by chrisweekly » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

zbrozek wrote: post #13

OBS is such wonderful software. It's immensely powerful yet approachable and performant. I am not a streamer, but I've found it really useful as an audio/video swiss army knife. Many thanks to the team and community behind it!

Yeah; I'm not a streamer either, but it took me all of an hour to go from "what's OBS?" to enabling use of my iPhone as the video camera for Zoom calls. Haven't had time yet to do anything interesting with OBS "scenes", but it looks similarly, surprisingly straightforward. A+!

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by ehsankia » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 10:47 PM UTC

skrowl wrote: post #14

zbrozek wrote: post #13

OBS is such wonderful software. It's immensely powerful yet approachable and performant. I am not a streamer, but I've found it really useful as an audio/video swiss army knife. Many thanks to the team and community behind it!

Same. Not a streamer, but I use it together with https://catnip5.itch.io/mouse-highlight to record demonstrations / tutorials.

Absolutely, before this you had to use stuff like FRAPS, Camtasia, proprietary webcam software, etc. There was no all-in-one way to record any webcam/desktop.

OBS does it seamlessly and across all combinations. And the staging is neat too.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by j45 » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 10:51 PM UTC

agbell wrote: post #20

geerlingguy wrote: post #3

Excited for this release since it contains M1 Apple VT H264 Hardware Encoding support[1] — I know on my Intel Mac, OBS would massacre the CPU if I didn't have the hardware encoding enabled. On the M1 it's not quite so bad, but being able to use hardware encoding does save a lot of CPU cycles when streaming at higher bitrates! [1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4170

So I've had the reverse issue. With hardware encoding on and external monitors plugged into my intel macbook, everything would overheat and I would get kernel throttling of everything. The external monitors cause the GPU to draw more power, but I'm not sure why that combined with hardware encoding in OBS caused issues. When I switched to software encoding the cpu was a bit higher but everything was fine. Apparently t…

I’ve had the same issue, it’s critical to get fans to cool your MacBook pro since they are not capable of cooling themselves under load, especially i7 or i9.

I have cabinet fans under mine and it works great, just don’t ask me to use a MacBook Pro as a laptop.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by celim307 » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

I remember when it was OBS vs xsplit, looks like OBS won!

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by amnah » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 10:58 PM UTC

geerlingguy wrote: post #3

Excited for this release since it contains M1 Apple VT H264 Hardware Encoding support[1] — I know on my Intel Mac, OBS would massacre the CPU if I didn't have the hardware encoding enabled. On the M1 it's not quite so bad, but being able to use hardware encoding does save a lot of CPU cycles when streaming at higher bitrates! [1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/4170

any chance you know if they plan to support Apple M1 hevc as well?

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by fredleblanc » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 10:59 PM UTC

My favorite OBS feature is that you can bring in transparent browser windows all over the place. As such, I have my work conferencing set up so my time appears in the upper-right corner. I’m on the east coast and everyone I work with is on the west coast. It’s a nice way to remind them of my current time. (It also passive aggressively animated to purple with a moon when its “after hours,” a/k/a 5pm for me.)

I also have shortcuts to pull in live weather conditions, our company stock price, crypto prices for fun, a 1- and 3- and 5-minute timer, as well as a countdown of days until important work events.

It’s fun, and all just a bit of HTML and CSS and JS. (And PHP/cURL/cron to pull stock and weather prices in the background.) All this for free with OBS.

Easily a top 5 app for me.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by fordsmith » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 11:00 PM UTC

kiddico wrote: post #2

* Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim] Wooooh! That's going to turn so many instances of "Oh I've just deleted 30 minutes of filter tuning" into "whoopsy, undo" also: * "(Windows only) Added support for NVIDIA Noise Removal in the Noise Suppression filter" Nice! I wonder how that compares to the old RNNoise option...

Undo/redo would be me :). I put in a lot of effort and spent months working on it to get a basic workable version. I am only just a you g student, so over the last several rcs, Jim refined it and made improvements and bug fixes. I love the team and everyone involved is just a great person.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by crescentfresh » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 11:00 PM UTC

> This fixes the black screen issues on laptops in particular

My youngest wanted to learn how to use OBS so he can begin making videos of his gaming. I tasked him with figuring out everything, from how to download it (I closely monitored this part), install it, and use it. He watched tutorials.

He got so far but got discouraged when he ran into the above issue and started the whole process over again because he thought he must have messed up. We eventually figured out the workaround but so happy to see they've fixed it!

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by pkiv » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 11:02 PM UTC

If you use OBS, I would love show you our product https://www.stream.club. We're bringing OBS into the browser, making it really easy to create live video content.

Our customers find that they can get setup in Stream Club much faster than they can with OBS, and they don't need a powerful computer to do it.

Happy to answer any questions!