The latest version 28.0 of the popular free streaming tool OBS Studio has improved HDR support, support for a color depth of up to 10 bits and a native version for the M processors of the Apple silicon brand. A visually modernized user interface is also part of the update.
Update of GUI toolkit and new default theme
The first thing that catches your eye after the optionally portable start of OBS Studio 28.0 is the optically discreetly renovated graphical user interface (GUI) with its new standard theme “Yami”. But there is much more behind it, because the open source tool switches to the free GUI toolkit Qt v6 and its frameworks, which has far-reaching consequences.
The following operating systems are no longer supported with the update to OBS Studio 28.0 and will no longer receive official support in the future.
- Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (“Bionic Beaver”)
- macOS 10.14 (“Mojave”)
< li>macOS 10.13 (“High Sierra”)
As seen in the According to the developers' official release notes, support for all 32-bit operating systems will be completely removed. The update offers the following new features under Windows 11 and Windows 10 as well as Linux and macOS from 10.15 (“Catalina”).
- Improved HDR support
- 10-bit color depth support
- Qt 6 as new GUI framework
- Native support for Apple Silicon
- New standard theme (“Yami”)
- Improved AMD encoder *
*) only on Windows!
Pascal and Navi for 10-bit HEVC and HDR
HDR and 10-bit color depth can only be encoded with AV1 and HEVC, which requires at least a graphics card from the GeForce GTX (“Pascal”) or Radeon RX 5000 (“Navi”) series . Intel's Quick Sync Video and Apple's VT do not yet support these two features.
Support for M1, M2 and upcoming Apple chips
For the first time, OBS Studio 28.0 comes with native support for the Apple M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra processors as well as the M2 based on the Arm architecture, which replaced the x86 processors from Intel's Core i series in the Mac .
Numerous optimizations and the obligatory error corrections associated with each new release have also been incorporated into OBS Studio 28.0. The release notes are particularly extensive this time.
With the release of OBS Studio 28.0, the developers are also celebrating the 10th anniversary. The Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) version 1.0 was released on September 1st, 2012.
Download and try out OBS Studio
< p class="p text-width">As usual, the new OBS Studio 28.0 can be downloaded directly below this message from the ComputerBase download area for Windows, macOS and Linux. The streaming tool is also available on the Flathub sales platform as a Flatpak package.
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