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OBS Studio, the popular free open-source live streaming and screen recording software, announced new major 31.0.0 release today!
The new release introduced native blur filter and background blur for NVIDIA GPUs, based on NVIDIA Video Effects (NVIDIA Broadcast). Meaning you need RTX 20, RTX 30, or RTX 40 series graphics card, and GPU drivers 551.76 (Windows) / 550.54.14 (Linux) or newer.
OBS Studio, the popular free open-source live streaming app, announced new major 30.1 release this Wednesday!
The new release enabled HDR for HEVC over the RTMP protocol, AV1 HDR is not currently supported by YouTube.
OBS Studio 30.1 reworked Image Slideshow source to load files asynchronously, and fixed an issue where the slideshow would loop before showing all images. Existing Image Slideshow sources will continue functioning as before. To change them to the new version, you have to re-create them.
The release also added AV1 support for VA-API video hardware acceleration, and AV1 support for WebRTC/WHIP output.
OBS Studio, the popular free and open-source video recording and live streaming software, announced a new major 29.0 today.
The new release came with great improvements for Windows users, including AMD AV1 Encoder for the RX7000 series GPUs, Intel AV1 Encoder for Arc GPUs, and Intel HEVC Encoder.
It also introduced native HEVC and ProRes encoders, including P010 and HDR and Desk View support for macOS.
Other changes OBS Studio 29.0 include:
It provides official binary packages for Windows, macOS and Linux in its official website.
For Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10, Linux Mint 21, and their based systems, there’s also an official PPA repository contains the latest packages.
1. Firstly, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then, either use Software Updater to upgrade the software package is an old version was installed on your system.
Or, use apt command to install/upgrade the software package:
sudo apt install obs-studio
NOTE: Linux Mint may need to run sudo apt update first to update package cache.
Once installed, search for and launch OBS Studio from ‘Activities’ overview or start menu depends on your desktop environment and enjoy!
To downgrade the software to the stock version that your system repository provides, run command:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
Or, either open Software & Updates and remove the PPA source line under ‘Other Software’ tab:
or run command in terminal to remove the PPA repository:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
Also, remove the OBS Studio if you want by running command in terminal:
sudo apt remove --autoremove obs-studio
Free open-source video capturing, recording and live streaming software, OBS Studio, just got a big update with exciting new features!
It’s the 10th anniversary release that features 10-bit & HDR video encoding support! Thought, the new feature so far works only with AV1 and HEVC encoders, and 10-bit HEVC encoding requires NVIDIA 10-series, AMD 5000 series, or newer GPU.
OBS Studio 28.0 also adds native Apple Silicon support, many third-party plugins may not yet be ready for the native build.
The release is also porting to Qt6. Except for Ubuntu 20.04 PPA package, all others are now based on Qt6. Meaning many plugins may not work until the developers updated with Qt6 support. See most common plugins, that works with OBS Studio 28.0.
Ubuntu 18.04 is no longer officially supported though user may try the Flatpak package that run in sandbox.
OBS Studio HDR
Other changes in OBS Studio 28.0 include:
The OBS Studio website offers the packages for Windows and macOS.
For Linux users, it offers the official packages via both Flatpak and Ubuntu PPA.
Flatpak is an universal Linux package runs in sandbox. In case you want to install the new release in Ubuntu 18.04, try the steps below.
1.) Setup Flatpak daemon
Some Linux, such as Linux Mint, Fedora, Pop! OS has Flatpak support out-of-the-box. But, most other does not, so you may first follow this setup guide to enable it for your Linux.
For Ubuntu 18.04, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run command to add the Flatpak PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flatpak/stable
Then update system package cache via:
sudo apt update
Finally, run the apt command to install the daemon package:
sudo apt install flatpak
2.) Install OBS Studio as Flatpak
After setup the daemon, run the single command below will install this live streaming software:
flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.obsproject.Studio.flatpakref
As a containerized software packages, it may also install the run-time libraries that takes more disk spaces.
Finally, launch it either by searching from “Show Applications” screen or via command below:
flatpak run com.obsproject.Studio
The official PPA has updated the packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 20/21 based systems.
1.) First open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard and run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
Type password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2.) Linux Mint and maybe some other Linux do not update the package cache automatically while adding PPA. So, you need to run the command below instead to do it manually:
sudo apt update
3.) Finally, either update the package via “Software Updater” (Update Manager), or run the command below to install it:
sudo apt install obs-studio
For the Flatpak package, open terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard) and run command to uninstall the package:
flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.obsproject.Studio
For the Ubuntu PPA package, either install PPA purge tool and purge the PPA, which also downgrade all installed package:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
Or, remove the PPA package via apt command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove obs-studio
As well as removing the PPA repository via:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
OBS Studio, the free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming, released version 27.0.0 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04 via PPA.
OBS Studio 27.0.0 features native Wayland support, includes new PipeWire capture source for Ubuntu 21.04+. Also, it adds undo/redo support either from ‘Edit’ menu or via Ctrl+Z /Ctrl+Shift+Z keyboard shortcuts.
Other changes in the release include:
The official Ubuntu PPA has made the packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Ubuntu 21.04, and their derivatives.
1. Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or by searching for “terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.
2. Then either upgrade OBS Studio from an existing version using Software Updater, or run command in terminal to install the software:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install obs-studio
Once installed, launch the software from your system application launcher and enjoy!
To remove the software, either use Synaptic package manager or run command in terminal:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove obs-studio
To remove PPA repositories, launch Software & Updates and navigate to ‘Other Software’ tab, then remove the relevant line from the list.
OBS Studio, free and open-source live streaming and screen recording software, reached 21.1 release a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04, and/or Ubuntu 14.04.
Changes OBS Studio 21.1 include:
The software has a Ubuntu PPA contains the latest packages for all current Ubuntu releases.
1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.
2. For Ubuntu 14.04 you also need to run command to another PPA for FFmpeg library:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next
3. Now you can install OBS-Studio via Synaptic package manager, upgrade the software from an existing release via Software Updater, or simply run commands one by one:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install obs-studio
Once installed, launch the software from Unity Launcher, Gnome Launcher, or other app launcher and enjoy!
To remove the software, either use Synaptic package manager or run command in terminal:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove obs-studio
To remove PPA repositories, launch Software & Updates and navigate to ‘Other Software’ tab.
Want to watch live streams on Ubuntu via your favorite video player? Well, here’s how to do it using Livestreamer which supports most of the big streaming services such as Dailymotion, Livestream, Twitch/Justin.tv, YouTube Live, UStream.
Livestreamer is a Command Line Interface that pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC, Mplayer. The main purpose of Livestreamer is to allow the user to avoid buggy and CPU heavy flash plugins but still be able to enjoy various streamed content.
There is also an API available for developers who want access to the video stream data.
It’s very easy to use this tool. Let’s say you want to watch the stream located on http://twitch.tv/day9tv, just run below command in terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T to open it).
livestreamer twitch.tv/day9tv
[cli][info] Found matching plugin justintv for URL twitch.tv/day9tv
Found streams: 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p (best), mobile_high, mobile_low (worst)
It will find out what streams are available and print them out for you to choose from. Simply give livestreamer the stream as the second argument and playback will start in your video player of choice.
In this case the best stream is a reference to the stream that is considered to be of highest quality, e.g 720p. The –player argument will specify the video player (It will open VLC as the default player if not specified).
livestreamer twitch.tv/day9tv best --player mplayer
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens run below commands to install pip installer:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
Then install Livestreamer via pip:
sudo pip install livestreamer
This will work on all current supported Ubuntu releases, include Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and their derivatives such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS.
