OBS Studio Lands AV1 & HEVC RTMP Streaming Assist

In time for OBS Studio 29.1, the Veovera Software program Group non-profit has contributed assist for AV1 and HEVC streaming by way of RTMP in order that avid gamers and different creators can stream their content material to the YouTube RTMP server utilizing these newer video codecs.

Opened in a pull request this weekend and already hitting OBS Studio Git is that this HEVC and AV1 codec assist for the Actual-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) implementation. This new code in OBS Studio paired with trendy GPUs dealing with real-time AV1 encoding permits for streamers/creators to utilize AV1 or HEVC for RTMP ingestion to YouTube.

Google at present helps AV1 and HEVC RTMP ingestion as a beta characteristic whereas YouTube’s present RTMP advice being on H.264 utilization. Exterior of streaming to YouTube, this performance for OBS Studio has additionally been examined with FFmpeg performing as an RTMP server.

Extra particulars on this now-merged code forward of OBS Studio 29.1 may be discovered by way of this pull request.