High-quality video won't make or break a livestream, but it certainly helps — and now it's considerably easier to provide. OBS Studio 29.1 is now available with support for AV1 stream encoding ...

OBS Studio finally ends NVENC encoding support for Nvidia's over-decade-old Kepler GPU architecture, which powered the GTX 600 and 700 series.

At CES 2024, Nvidia and Twitch announced a collaboration with OBS called “Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting” — a complete overhaul of the traditional streamer-to-Twitch pipeline and encoding ...

OBS Studio, a popular video streaming software suite, has updated to version 28.1, bringing support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40-series Ada GPUs and hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. ...

OBS Studio version 29 is now available to all and the headline feature is support for AV1 encoding on AMD and Intel Arc GPUs.

The codec already supported frame parallel encoding on a more significant number of threads using the "--fp-mt" parameter, but in version 3.5, the option is available by default.