Open Broadcaster Software also known by its acronym as OBS is a free and open source application for the recording and transmission of video over the internet (streaming), maintained by OBS Project.
Open Broadcaster Software is is a multiplatform application which can be used on Linux, Mac and Windows, it is written in C and C ++ and allows real-time video source capture, scene composition, encoding, recording and broadcasting.
Main new features of the OBS Studio 23 version
This new release of OBS Studio 23 brings a series of improvements, for its version of Windows the code has been rewritten, including NVIDIA NVENC encoding To activate the hardware layout, the ability to connect to accounts on Twitch and Mixer was provided, a panel with Twitch and Mixer chat was added.
But he also has interesting work in general, as well as on the Linux side.
The Linux version of OBS Studio 23 now has support for the VA-API interface to enable GPU-based video acceleration for those who use the Intel VA-API driver more commonly or also as the video acceleration status tracker in Gallium3D, as an alternative to VDPAU support.
OBS Studio 23 too has several new audio filters, batch reshaping support, multi-track audio support for Ffmpeg output, reverse polarity, limiter and expander and a variety of other changes.
In addition to it flow repackaging batch mode has been implemented (remuxing) and the ability to automatically repackage recorded content in MP4 format has been added.
In the instant replay script, VLC support has been added as a video source.
Finally the addition of an optional information panel with statistics can also be highlighted (enabled through the menu View -> Docks) and a new tool for outputting to Decklink devices.
How to install OBS Studio 23 on linux?
For those who are interested in being able to install this new version of OBS on their Linux distribution, They can do so by following the instructions we share below.
Installing OBS Studio 23 from Flatpak
In general, for almost any current Linux distribution, the installation of this software can be done with the help of Flatpak packages. They should only have the support to install these types of packages.
In a terminal they just have to execute the following command:
flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio
In the event that you already have the application installed by this means, you can update it by executing the following command:
flatpak update com.obsproject.Studio
Installing OBS Studio 23 from Snap
Another general method of installing this application is with the help of Snap packages. In the same way as Flatpak, they must have the support to install these types of packages.
The installation is going to be done from a terminal by typing:
sudo snap install obs-studio
Installation done, now we are going to connect the media:
sudo snap connect obs-studio:camera
sudo snap connect obs-studio:removable-media
Installation from PPA
For those who are Ubuntu users and derivatives, they can install the application by adding a repository to the system.
We add this by typing:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio sudo apt-get update
And we install the application by running
sudo apt-get install obs-studio && sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Installation on Arch Linux and derivatives
In the case of Arch Linux, Manjaro, Antergos and any other derivative users. We can perform the installation by typing the following command in a terminal:
sudo pacman -S obs-studio
Installation on Fedora
Finally, for those who are Fedora users just type the following:
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm sudo dnf install obs-studio
In case those NVIDIA users want to enable hardware accelerated encoding, you should make sure you have CUDA installed on your system (in case it is an older card, install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-cuda):
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda