OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output

Following the release of OBS Studio 30.0 last November, OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 was released today as what will be the next feature release for this open-source software that is popular with livestreamers and other game streaming / desktop recording purposes...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-30.1-Beta

[andyprough]

Also exciting on the Linux side is adding a video capture device of PipeWire for the source type, for further enhancing the integration around the PipeWire audio/video streams management solution for the Linux desktop.

This will be useful. I tried screen recording some video with OBS a couple weeks ago in Gnome wayland sessions and the audio and video streams were constantly misaligned. Maybe running audio through pipewire will help?

To be fair to OBS, I didn't try much in terms of troubleshooting, and since OBS does have a huge amount of config options it's possibly something I could have fixed. But I was very much hoping it would work without a lot of tinkering.