Open Broadcaster Software is a free and open source application for recording and streaming video over the Internet, maintained by OBS Project.
The launch of the new version of NOTE Studio 28.1 and in this new version the most outstanding novelty is the introduction of support for “accelerated” AV1 hardware encoding for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series “Ada” GPUs.
For whom it is still unaware of OBS Studio, they should know that the objective of OBS Studio development is to create a free version of the Open Broadcaster Software application that is not tied to the Windows platform, supports OpenGL, and is extensible through plugins.
The difference is also the use of a modular architecture, which means the separation of the interface and the core of the program. Supports transcoding of original streams, video capture during games, and streaming to Twitch, Facebook Gaming, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox, and other services. To ensure high performance, it is possible to use hardware acceleration mechanisms (for example, NVENC and VAAPI).
Main new features of OBS Studio 28.1
In this new version of OBS Studio 28.1 added ability to use NVENC encoders provided on NVIDIA video cards for hardware acceleration of video encoding in AV1 format on the Windows platform. the encoder supports NV12 and P010 color formats and is available for graphics cards from the NVIDIA RTX 40 series.
In addition to it in OBS Studio 28.1 Updated settings for NVENC encoders have also been preset. Presets are divided into three different classes: Preset, Tuning, and Multipass. The Preset class offers settings for quality levels P1-P7 (the lower the level, the lower the quality). The Tuning class is used to prioritize latency over quality (suggested modes are high quality, low latency, and very low latency). The Multipass class determines whether the second pass is used when encoding (proposed modes: disable second pass, quarter resolution, and full resolution).
Of the other changes that stand out of this new version:
- The “Always On Top” option has been moved to the View menu.
- Provided the ability to select a specific source for the virtual camera.
- In studio mode, the mix has been adjusted.
- Fixed screenshot issues with Direct3D 9 games on Windows 11 22H2.
- Fixed a crash on windows virtual camera resolution change
- Fixed Discord crash with Windows Virtual Camera
- Fixed crashes with macOS apps when loading virtual camera
- Fixed Steam version launching version x86_64 on Apple Silicon devices
- Fixed stats widget appearance issues
Finally if you want to know more about it of this new version, you can check the details in the following link
How to install OBS Studio on linux?
For those who are interested in being able to install this new version of OBS on their Linux distribution, They can do so by following the instructions we share below.
Installing OBS Studio from Flatpak
In general, for almost any current Linux distribution, the installation of this software can be done with the help of Flatpak packages. They should only have the support to install these types of packages.
In a terminal they just have to execute the following command:
flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio
In the event that you already have the application installed by this means, you can update it by executing the following command:
flatpak update com.obsproject.Studio
Installing OBS Studio from Snap
Another general method of installing this application is with the help of Snap packages. In the same way as Flatpak, they must have the support to install these types of packages.
The installation is going to be done from a terminal by typing:
sudo snap install obs-studio
Installation done, now we are going to connect the media:
sudo snap connect obs-studio:camera
sudo snap connect obs-studio:removable-media
Installation from PPA (Ubuntu and derivatives)
For those who are Ubuntu users and derivatives, they can install the application by adding a repository to the system.
We add this by typing:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio sudo apt-get update
And we install the application by running
sudo apt-get install obs-studio sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Arch Linux and derivatives
In the case of Arch Linux, Manjaro, Antergos and any other derivative users. We can perform the installation by typing the following command in a terminal:
sudo pacman -S obs-studio