{"id":47681,"date":"2024-12-07T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=47681"},"modified":"2024-12-07T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:07:02","slug":"obs-studio-31-0-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/obs-studio-31-0-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"OBS Studio 31.0.0 Released! Added NVIDIA Background Blur & Amazon IVS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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!<\/p>\n

The new release introduced native blur filter and background blur for NVIDIA GPUs<\/b>, based on NVIDIA Video Effects (NVIDIA Broadcast<\/a>). 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.<\/p>\n

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For Intel users, the release added hardware accelerated QSV AV1 Screen Content Coding<\/b> support, which will gain quality improvements range from 20% to 40%.<\/p>\n

OBS Studio 31.0.0 also added Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)<\/b> service integration. It now auto-detects and allows selecting SDI v210 pixel format in the AJA capture plugin.<\/p>\n

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And, the full feature set of the YouTube Chat dock<\/b> in OBS has been unlocked by removing custom scripting\/CSS logic.<\/p>\n

This will allow users, who are logged-in to YouTube Chat and\/or the YouTube Control panel, to utilize features already supported in the YouTube Chat plugin, such as creating polls, managing Q&A sessions, emoji fountains, moderation tools, and many more.<\/p>\n

The new OBS release also improved the preview UI. It added scrollbars to the preview, so users can move around the preview without using the spacebar + clicking. And, there are as well zoom\/scale indicator.<\/p>\n

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For Linux, it disabled the (currently unsupported) built-in Automatic Scene Switcher when using Wayland, changed display and window capture to not capture implicitly, and improved screensaver inhibit functions for the Flatpak package.<\/p>\n

Other changes in OBS 31.0.0 include split NVIDIA Audio Effects from Noise Suppression, refactored the NVENC implementation with SDK 12.2 features, such as split encoding, as well as:<\/p>\n