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Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by herpderperator »

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

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

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by deeblering4 »

TillE wrote: post #9
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...

It was such an obvious missing feature. Though to be fair, implementing undo/redo functionality is often nontrivial. However, there's still no way to save/export scenes, aside from simply copying your entire app data directory. I just have a basic layout with few tweaks so it's not the worst thing ever, but for any streamer with a complex setup and carefully adjusted filters, moving to a new computer or whatever must…

Exporting and saving scenes can be done with export scene collection. It’s kind of clunky in terms of workflow but I’ve had success exporting/importing scenes across computers.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by zbrozek »

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!

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by skrowl »

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.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by Buttons840 »

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!

Agreed. PSA: OBS can be used to create videos as well.

I first used OBS to create a video presentation for school. Most of the time I was showing slides, but occasionally I would switch to a full view of myself (as required by the assignment). Or you can do the common view of big slides and a small video of the speaker in the corner.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

#16

Post by sillysaurusx »

herpderperator wrote: post #11
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

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?

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by omegote »

I considered OBS a really nice piece of software, specially after a 10-year long track record of testing desktop capture software like Camtasia and the like. After fighting myself with ffmpeg (libav) to build a simplified desktop capture software myself, my appreciation for OBS has increased even more, because dealing with libav or anything multimedia is definitely a pita.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by zamadatix »

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...

From my experience the NVIDIA filter is miles better both in detecting noise as well as suppressing just the noise but has significantly more latency and will incur a decent perf hit on the GPU (~10% FPS or so if the GPU is the bottleneck).

These days if it's live is use RNNoise and if it's for a recording I use Nvidia's filter.

Re: OBS Studio 27.0

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Post by agbell »

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 this is related to VRM overheating and people have workarounds posted on reddit, but it seem like switching to software encoding made it go away for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/gs6bal/2019_mbp...

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT207359

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