OBS Studio 29.1 Beta 1 Released With New AV1/HEVC Streaming Over RTMP

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OBS Studio 29.1 Beta 1 Released With New AV1/HEVC Streaming Over RTMP

Days after landing AV1 and HEVC streaming support over RTMP to allow game streamers and other livecasting with OBS Studio to YouTube to happen via AV1/HEVC as an alternative to H.264, OBS Studio 29.1 Beta 1 has been tagged...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-29.1-Beta

[tildearrow]

new lossless audio recording options of FLAC/ALAC/PCM

This is great! Been waiting for 6 years.

[luno]

this is great release, AV1 youtube live streaming was pretty smooth, fragmented mov/mp4 is lifesaver features, finally PCM

[arabek]

Those are the features I've been waiting for a long time! Couldn't be more happy. Excellent work OBS Devs!!! (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

[Quackdoc]

interesting to see that obs cannot stream using opus when using their tradition streaming settings, odd choice

[jbennett]

Would like to point out a Linux-specific fix that bugged me enough to actually go write the pull request to fix it: The Pulseaudio output device selector was actually showing input devices. This change means users can now send monitoring output directly to a Pipewire virtual device.

[Cryio]

Dunno about 29.1 Beta, but 29.0 stable allows HEVC streaming via HSL on YouTube already, so eh?

[Quackdoc]

Dunno about 29.1 Beta, but 29.0 stable allows HEVC streaming via HSL on YouTube already, so eh?

indeed, but it's still not AV1 which is way better, also hls streaming is kinda a pain and even higher latency then rtmp.

[galad]

Are the hardware AV1 encoders actually better than the hardware HEVC encoders? In the end it seems the good old and fast x264 is still better than any hardware encoder.

[Quackdoc]

Are the hardware AV1 encoders actually better than the hardware HEVC encoders? In the end it seems the good old and fast x264 is still better than any hardware encoder.

yes. hwenc av1 is far better in quality:size then x264 slow within 8000kbps I find. and it gets better the more resolution you crank. x264 is still far better for higher fidelity stuff, but when it comes to streaming, AV1 with hwenc is better