This might be my FAVORITE OBS update... EVER! OBS 29.1 - Lossless Audio, Safe MP4, Better Stingers!

OBS Studio 29.1 brings not only AV1 streaming to YouTube, but lossless audio and more! This might be my favorite update ever. Here's my first look at the beta - just remember it's a beta!

TIMECODES:
00:00 This update was WAY bigger than I expected
00:35 SIMPLE MODE IS UPGRADED
01:02 Lossless Audio! HUZZAH
01:41 32-bit Float is MAGIC
02:44 THIS IS A BETA!
03:01 New corruption-safe MOV & MP4 containers
04:30 What I'll be using now
05:35 AV1 Streaming to YouTube! (AMD/Nvidia/Intel)
06:20 Stinger Transition buffering! (Yay performance)
08:09 A CRUCIAL stream upgrade for free
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[ClaudioBOsorio]

I don't even stream, but your videos give me a lot of joy because I like this topic. I'd like to thank you for keeping up, and I thank all the developers, they are doing a great job and sometimes go unnoticed.

[FifthSparkGaming]

I just recorded my voice in 29.1 - The audio quality is amazing, my voice sounds way better! Thanks for this!!

[Aktzin]

This looks REALLY good for streaming! I can't jump on the AV1 train yet, but having H265 support with RTMPS will be good for improving the quality of my current streams while also keeping the latency of my stream the same!

[pxmonkeederp]

I don't think folks understand how huge having 32-bit float for audio is. It's a nice safety net, but if you set your audio recording up correctly (noise gate on voice, compression and eq on all busses, mixing to limit masking, and a hard limiter on master bus) and edit the audio for your videos so your overall loudness is -18dB to -14dB LUFS, you'll be gravy.

[dwadekingbosh]

I've been watching your videos a lot recently. Been equipping myself with encoder knowledge and upgrading my streaming set up. Your videos have been vital to that effort. Thank you so much!

[vextakes]

This is huge. U could technically get lossless audio before but not with mkv. This makes it so much easier

[deldarel]

That's huge! It's like, with streamfx going behind a pay wall, Andilippi has us on the effects front, but OBS decided to have us on the encoding front.

[renaharada]

And here I thought only AV1 support was added for the RTMPS, but seeing H.265 getting support as well, DANG I may have to update my OBS to experience it myself and provide feedback 🔥

[Colonal]

Very happy you put a "What Ill be using" section, it makes it very easy to understand the best options!

[radiantrepose]

As always thank you for providing these updates. I'm getting more into streaming soon and have been loving your content. The world of audio and video codecs, software, and file formats is so deep! At the end of the video, it took me so long to realize that your Windows Taskbar is running a Windows XP skin, and I sat there for longer than I'd like to admit figuring out how you were running a beta version of OBS on XP lol 😅

[TheNerd]

WoW OBS finally cought up to other tools that where able to do this over 10 years ago xD
PS: Adobe Premiere does not officially support mkv for a couple years now. One of the reasons why I switched to Davinci (other than the basically non existent HDR workflow in Premiere)

[BenjiDWJ]

All of these new features and improvements definitely sound incredibly exciting and very interesting indeed. 😄👌

Cheers! 🥃🥃

[Pabula]

Great video adam, thanks for sharing, cant wait to see 29.1 out of beta. Wondering how did you skin your WIndows with XP theme?

[joshua_lee]

I've been using the lossless audio feature using a custom ffmpeg script in obs for years. I'm excited for this.

[janusdk]

Multiple audio tracks in the simple output mode! Great! I am
a casual amateur late for the OBS party, but was surprised multitrack audio was not directly in my face, and multitrack video is not
directly supported. I’m happy with simple encoding options for recording, but want multitrack for all things editing.

[DoartYT]

Dude… the way you changed from a video of 7 years ago till now, it's incredible. 🤯

[mineturte]

It's live on the public release!! couldn't be happier right now ☺

[SuperDerek]

I've really been digging the synth-wave you were playing in today's video dude! I've wanted to support you through using Backingtrack in the past, but a lot of what I've heard seemed way too high octane for my streams. This vid has changed my mind though, think I'll give it a shot in my next stream! I can't wait for these features to be included in the stable build! I had a question for clarification though about the stinger feature -- does the stinger stay pre-loaded in RAM the entire duration OBS is open? Or does that just mean that you hit the transition button, it waits to load the whole video into RAM, and _then_ transitions?

[GAnimeRO]

Finally lossless audio!
As someone who has no idea how to set up ffmpeg and only uses the "Advanced" tab with the "HEVC" codec, this update is so amazing!

I dunno if you have time for this or if this is anywhere in your topic range for your videos, but could you maybe consider talking to us about colour ranges when recording videos and when streaming? (like, what would be the best settings to record near lossless videos with and what is best for streaming, etc.)
Like, that 4:4:4 and 4:2:0 thing.
Also how, even if you choose Full (S)RGB 4:4:4 (at least on AMD wth HEVC), the recorded video still seems to be 4:2:0 when looked at with with the programme "MediaInfo".

[ENunn]

glad we finally got lossless audio, its been a long time coming!!!

have you had any issues streaming with hevc to youtube? i can't seem to maintain a smooth stream with hevc. it looks like everything's dumbed down to 30p on stream, but there's no dropped frames being reported nor does my stream drop. im streaming at 1440p60. when i stream with h264, it's smooth.