Releases: Xaymar/obs-StreamFX
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 173
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered to Supporters with (early-)access to releases, and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
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Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon or Github - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as (early-)access to (pre-)releases of all projects and more!
What's Changed
New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!
The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.
🔧 Fixes
Shader Texture Inputs no longer corrupt Scene Collections
For quite some time, Shader Texture Inputs were haunted by ghosts from the past, also known as work-arounds and deprecated code. This resulted in Shader Texture Inputs keeping stale references around and requiring an OBS Studio restart to actually update. Several code modernization cycles later, this is now fixed and Shader Texture Inputs immediately update as expected - while also no longer keeping stale references around, so your Scene Collections are safe again.
Dynamic Mask no longer self-references and double-frees its Input mask
This should have gone up in flames way sooner than it did, and yet it was almost completely invisible until OBS Studio 27.1. The bug dates as far back as v0.7 and is pretty severe: The Dynamic Mask filter would increment their own reference count every frame if no Input was selected, and would double-free the Input without clearing the pointer to it. And somehow, this didn't explode until now.
Ubuntu binaries now link against the proper libraries
An oversight in the scripts that generate the binaries resulted in them incorrectly treating C++ code as C. While this didn't seem to cause any obvious problems, it still affected what is actually linked into the binaries, and may have caused completely compatible systems to be treated as incompatible. This has now been fixed, so Ubuntu users should have a better experience.
➕ Additions & improvements
Loadable Bundles on MacOS
With OBS Studio 28.0 came the introduction of Loadable Bundles, a variation of MacOS's Bundle format. This format offers a lot of advantages for almost no drawbacks, and StreamFX from now on uses this packaging format on MacOS. As a bonus, FFmpeg Encoders should now be available on MacOS too.
⚠ This change requires that you cleanly remove old versions of StreamFX first!
As the packaging and installation method has changed, please follow the Uninstallation guide to clean up any left over old files. Failure to do so will result in undefined behavior and may render OBS Studio entirely unusable. You have been warned!
Improved System-wide installation on Windows
Investigation into how OBS Studio actually loads plugins revealed a change that had gone under the radar entirely. Since OBS Studio v0.15.0 it is possible to load plugins from %ProgramData%\obs-studio\plugins, which is a much safer option and now the only supported System-wide installation mode for StreamFX. This functionality has been so hidden that even the official obs-plugintemplate doesn't make use of it. An added bonus is that this should support Steam users of OBS Studio.
User-only installation on Windows
StreamFX can now be installed for individual users, instead of installing for everyone on the system! This is possible thanks to a PR by @abcdw, which allows us to set two environment variable to install and load plugins from %LocalAppData%\Programs\obs-studio\plugins in addition to all the other locations. These installations will conflict with a System-wide install and as such can't coexist, but may still work with the Steam release of OBS Studio.
Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
Split Framerate support for FFmpeg Encoders
All FFmpeg Encoders now support encoding a different framerate than OBS Studio itself is running at. This allows for streaming at 30 FPS while recording at 60 FPS, or even recording at 120 FPS, or other strange things. Note that this is quite literally breaking several specifications, so use at your own risk - if things break, be happy that at least they broke with a noticable impact!
Universal Binaries for x86 & ARM64 support on MacOS
Users on ARM64 devices can now enjoy native ARM64 binaries for less CPU usage, and as such more overall performance on CPU focused tasks. While StreamFX is mostly GPU workloads, some of the internal code does actually do very heavy lifting that benefits from this.
Initial sRGB and HDR support for Sources/Filters/Transitions
With HDR support in OBS Studio finally being available, it was necessary to finally tackle the issue of sRGB and HDR support once and for all. Many Sources/Filters/Transitions will get proper sRGB and HDR support over future releases to catch up with OBS Studio. You can check the Version Information on the wiki to see if a certain feature supports sRGB or HDR yet.
➖ Deprecations & Removals
Deprecation of the AMD AMF (via FFmpeg) encoders
With OBS Studio 28.0 the old obs-amd-encoder project is finally laid to rest and a new AMD AMF integration is provided. This AMD AMF integration is technically and functionally superior to both the old obs-amd-encoder and FFmpegs AMD AMF integration. All users are urged to migrate as soon as possible, as no guarantees are made for how long this deprecated encoder will remain. Additionally, users on Linux should put their focus on the open Pull Requests for Linux support (1, 2).
Deprecation of the AV1 (via AOM) Encoder
With OBS Studio 27.2.4, the SVT-AV1 and AOM-AV1 encoders were integrated into OBS Studio directly. This integration is functionally identical, and as such replaces the StreamFX provided AOM-AV1 encoder. All users are urged to migrate as soon as possible, as no guaratees are made for how long this deprecated encoder will remain.
Detailed Changelog
0.12.0a173
0.12.0a170
0.12.0b164
- plugin: Only initialize GLAD on OpenGL graphics backend by @Xaymar in #983
- project: Improve templates and UX by @Xaymar in #984
- Code Cleanup by @Xaymar in #985
- gfx/blur/box: Initialize streamfx::gfx::util by @Xaymar in #986
- #818 Don't self-reference when masking is enabled by @Xaymar in #987
- New Crowdin updates by ...
Contributors
Assets 2
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 170
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
 Windows |
 Linux |
 MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or equivalent) Ubuntu 22.04 (or equivalent) |
MacOS 10.15 (or newer) |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or equivalent) Ubuntu 22.04 (or equivalent) |
MacOS 12 (or newer) | |
| CPU | Minimum |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Recommended |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
|||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 29.0.0 | ||
| Recommended | 29.0.0 | |||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio System Libraries must match chosen Ubuntu version! |
||
What's Changed
New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!
The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.
🔧 Fixes
Shader Texture Inputs no longer corrupt Scene Collections
For quite some time, Shader Texture Inputs were haunted by ghosts from the past, also known as work-arounds and deprecated code. This resulted in Shader Texture Inputs keeping stale references around and requiring an OBS Studio restart to actually update. Several code modernization cycles later, this is now fixed and Shader Texture Inputs immediately update as expected - while also no longer keeping stale references around, so your Scene Collections are safe again.
Dynamic Mask no longer self-references and double-frees its Input mask
This should have gone up in flames way sooner than it did, and yet it was almost completely invisible until OBS Studio 27.1. The bug dates as far back as v0.7 and is pretty severe: The Dynamic Mask filter would increment their own reference count every frame if no Input was selected, and would double-free the Input without clearing the pointer to it. And somehow, this didn't explode until now.
➕ Additions & improvements
Loadable Bundles on MacOS
With OBS Studio 28.0 came the introduction of Loadable Bundles, a variation of MacOS's Bundle format. This format offers a lot of advantages for almost no drawbacks, and StreamFX from now on uses this packaging format on MacOS. As a bonus, FFmpeg Encoders should now be available on MacOS too.
⚠ This change requires that you cleanly remove old versions of StreamFX first!
As the packaging and installation method has changed, please follow the Uninstallation guide to clean up any left over old files. Failure to do so will result in undefined behavior and may render OBS Studio entirely unusable. You have been warned!
Improved System-wide installation on Windows
Investigation into how OBS Studio actually loads plugins revealed a change that had gone under the radar entirely. Since OBS Studio v0.15.0 it is possible to load plugins from %ProgramData%\obs-studio\plugins, which is a much safer option and now the only supported System-wide installation mode for StreamFX. This functionality has been so hidden that even the official obs-plugintemplate doesn't make use of it. An added bonus is that this should support Steam users of OBS Studio.
User-only installation on Windows
StreamFX can now be installed for individual users, instead of installing for everyone on the system! This is possible thanks to a PR by @abcdw, which allows us to set two environment variable to install and load plugins from %LocalAppData%\Programs\obs-studio\plugins in addition to all the other locations. These installations will conflict with a System-wide install and as such can't coexist, but may still work with the Steam release of OBS Studio.
Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
Split Framerate support for FFmpeg Encoders
All FFmpeg Encoders now support encoding a different framerate than OBS Studio itself is running at. This allows for streaming at 30 FPS while recording at 60 FPS, or even recording at 120 FPS, or other strange things. Note that this is quite literally breaking several specifications, so use at your own risk - if things break, be happy that at least they broke with a noticable impact!
Un...
Contributors
Assets 2
StreamFX 0.12.0 Beta 164
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
Windows |
Linux |
MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or equivalent) Ubuntu 22.04 (or equivalent) |
MacOS 10.15 (or newer) |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or equivalent) Ubuntu 22.04 (or equivalent) |
MacOS 12 (or newer) | |
| CPU | Minimum |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Recommended |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
|||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 29.0.0-beta2 | ||
| Recommended | ||||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio System Libraries must match chosen Ubuntu version! |
||
What's Changed
New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!
The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.
🔧 Fixes
Shader Texture Inputs no longer corrupt Scene Collections
For quite some time, Shader Texture Inputs were haunted by ghosts from the past, also known as work-arounds and deprecated code. This resulted in Shader Texture Inputs keeping stale references around and requiring an OBS Studio restart to actually update. Several code modernization cycles later, this is now fixed and Shader Texture Inputs immediately update as expected - while also no longer keeping stale references around, so your Scene Collections are safe again.
Dynamic Mask no longer self-references and double-frees its Input mask
This should have gone up in flames way sooner than it did, and yet it was almost completely invisible until OBS Studio 27.1. The bug dates as far back as v0.7 and is pretty severe: The Dynamic Mask filter would increment their own reference count every frame if no Input was selected, and would double-free the Input without clearing the pointer to it. And somehow, this didn't explode until now.
➕ Additions & improvements
Loadable Bundles on MacOS
With OBS Studio 28.0 came the introduction of Loadable Bundles, a variation of MacOS's Bundle format. This format offers a lot of advantages for almost no drawbacks, and StreamFX from now on uses this packaging format on MacOS. As a bonus, FFmpeg Encoders should now be available on MacOS too.
⚠ This change requires that you cleanly remove old versions of StreamFX first!
As the packaging and installation method has changed, please follow the Uninstallation guide to clean up any left over old files. Failure to do so will result in undefined behavior and may render OBS Studio entirely unusable. You have been warned!
Improved System-wide installation on Windows
Investigation into how OBS Studio actually loads plugins revealed a change that had gone under the radar entirely. Since OBS Studio v0.15.0 it is possible to load plugins from %ProgramData%\obs-studio\plugins, which is a much safer option and now the only supported System-wide installation mode for StreamFX. This functionality has been so hidden that even the official obs-plugintemplate doesn't make use of it. An added bonus is that this should support Steam users of OBS Studio.
User-only installation on Windows
StreamFX can now be installed for individual users, instead of installing for everyone on the system! This is possible thanks to a PR by @abcdw, which allows us to set two environment variable to install and load plugins from %LocalAppData%\Programs\obs-studio\plugins in addition to all the other locations. These installations will conflict with a System-wide install and as such can't coexist, but may still work with the Steam release of OBS Studio.
Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
Split Framerate support for FFmpeg Encoders
All FFmpeg Encoders now support encoding a different framerate than OBS Studio itself is running at. This allows for streaming at 30 FPS while recording at 60 FPS, or even recording at 120 FPS, or other strange things. Note that this is quite literally breaking several specifications, so use at your own risk - if things break, be happy that at least they broke with a noticable impact!
Univ...
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 151
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
Windows |
Linux |
MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or equivalent) Ubuntu 22.04 (or equivalent) |
MacOS 10.15 (or newer) |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or equivalent) Ubuntu 22.04 (or equivalent) |
MacOS 12 (or newer) | |
| CPU | Minimum |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Recommended |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
|||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 28.0.0 | ||
| Recommended | 28.0.0 or newer | |||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio System Libraries must match chosen Ubuntu version! |
||
What's Changed
New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!
The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.
🔧 Fixes
Shader Texture Inputs no longer corrupt Scene Collections
For quite some time, Shader Texture Inputs were haunted by ghosts from the past, also known as work-arounds and deprecated code. This resulted in Shader Texture Inputs keeping stale references around and requiring an OBS Studio restart to actually update. Several code modernization cycles later, this is now fixed and Shader Texture Inputs immediately update as expected - while also no longer keeping stale references around, so your Scene Collections are safe again.
Dynamic Mask no longer self-references and double-frees its Input mask
This should have gone up in flames way sooner than it did, and yet it was almost completely invisible until OBS Studio 27.1. The bug dates as far back as v0.7 and is pretty severe: The Dynamic Mask filter would increment their own reference count every frame if no Input was selected, and would double-free the Input without clearing the pointer to it. And somehow, this didn't explode until now.
➕ Additions & improvements
Loadable Bundles on MacOS
With OBS Studio 28.0 came the introduction of Loadable Bundles, a variation of MacOS's Bundle format. This format offers a lot of advantages for almost no drawbacks, and StreamFX from now on uses this packaging format on MacOS. As a bonus, FFmpeg Encoders should now be available on MacOS too.
⚠ This change requires that you cleanly remove old versions of StreamFX first!
As the packaging and installation method has changed, please follow the Uninstallation guide to clean up any left over old files. Failure to do so will result in undefined behavior and may render OBS Studio entirely unusable. You have been warned!
Improved System-wide installation on Windows
Investigation into how OBS Studio actually loads plugins revealed a change that had gone under the radar entirely. Since OBS Studio v0.15.0 it is possible to load plugins from %ProgramData%\obs-studio\plugins, which is a much safer option and now the only supported System-wide installation mode for StreamFX. This functionality has been so hidden that even the official obs-plugintemplate doesn't make use of it. An added bonus is that this should support Steam users of OBS Studio.
User-only installation on Windows
StreamFX can now be installed for individual users, instead of installing for everyone on the system! This is possible thanks to a PR by @abcdw, which allows us to set two environment variable to install and load plugins from %LocalAppData%\Programs\obs-studio\plugins in addition to all the other locations. These installations will conflict with a System-wide install and as such can't coexist, but may still work with the Steam release of OBS Studio.
Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
Split Framerate support for FFmpeg Encoders
All FFmpeg Encoders now support encoding a different framerate than OBS Studio itself is running at. This allows for streaming at 30 FPS while recording at 60 FPS, or even recording at 120 FPS, or other strange things. Note that this is quite literally breaking several specifications, so use at your own risk - if things break, be happy that at least the...
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 134
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
Windows |
Linux |
MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or newer), (or equivalent Distro) | MacOS 10.15 (or newer) |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer), Windows 11 (or newer) | Ubuntu 22.04 (or newer), or equivalent Distro | MacOS 12 (or newer) | |
| CPU | Minimum |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Recommended |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
|||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 28.0.0 | ||
| Recommended | ||||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio |
||
What's Changed
New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!
The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.
Loadable Bundles on MacOS
With OBS Studio 28.0 came the introduction of Loadable Bundles, a variation of MacOS's Bundle format. This format offers a lot of advantages for almost no drawbacks, and StreamFX from now on uses this packaging format on MacOS. As a bonus, FFmpeg Encoders should now be available on MacOS too.
⚠ This change requires that you cleanly remove old versions of StreamFX first!
As the packaging and installation method has changed, please follow the Uninstallation guide to clean up any left over old files. Failure to do so will result in undefined behavior and may render OBS Studio entirely unusable. You have been warned.
Improved System-wide installation on Windows
Investigation into how OBS Studio actually loads plugins revealed a change that had gone under the radar entirely. Since OBS Studio v0.15.0 it is possible to load plugins from %ProgramData%\obs-studio\plugins, which is a much safer option and now the only supported System-wide installation mode for StreamFX. This functionality has been so hidden that even the official obs-plugintemplate doesn't make use of it. An added bonus is that this should support Steam users of OBS Studio.
⚠ This change requires that you cleanly remove old versions of StreamFX first!
As the packaging and installation method has changed, please follow the Uninstallation guide to clean up any left over old files. Failure to do so will result in undefined behavior and may render OBS Studio entirely unusable. You have been warned.
User-only installation on Windows
StreamFX can now be installed for individual users, instead of installing for everyone on the system! This is possible thanks to a PR by @abcdw, which allows us to set two environment variable to install and load plugins from %LocalAppData%\Programs\obs-studio\plugins in addition to all the other locations. These installations will conflict with a System-wide install and as such can't coexist, but may still work with the Steam release of OBS Studio.
Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
Universal Binaries for x86 & ARM64 support on MacOS
Users on ARM64 devices can now enjoy native ARM64 binaries for less CPU usage, and as such more overall performance on CPU focused tasks. While StreamFX is mostly GPU workloads, some of the internal code does actually do very heavy lifting that benefits from this.
Deprecation of the AMD AMF (via FFmpeg) encoders
With OBS Studio 28.0 the old obs-amd-encoder project is finally laid to rest and a new AMD AMF integration is provided. This AMD AMF integration is technically and functionally superior to both the old obs-amd-encoder and FFmpegs AMD AMF integration. All users are urged to migrate as soon as possible, as no guarantees are made for how long this deprecated encoder will remain. Additionally, users on Linux should put their focus on the open Pull Requests for Linux support (1, 2).
Deprecation of the AV1 (via AOM) Encoder
With OBS Studio 27.2.4, the SVT-AV1 and AOM-AV1 encoders were integrated into OBS Studio directly. This integration is functionally identical, and as such replaces the StreamFX provided AOM-AV1...
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 117
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
Windows |
Ubuntu, Debian, ... |
MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or newer), (or equivalent Distro) | MacOS 10.15 (or newer) |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer), Windows 11 (or newer) | Ubuntu 22.04 (or newer), or equivalent Distro | MacOS 12 (or newer) | |
| CPU | Minimum |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Recommended |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
|||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 28.0.0 | ||
| Recommended | 28.0.0 or newer | |||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio |
||
What's Changed
New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!
The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.
Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
Loadable Bundles on MacOS
With OBS Studio 28.0 came the introduction of Loadable Bundles, a variation of MacOS's Bundle format. This format offers a lot of advantages for almost no drawbacks, and StreamFX from now on uses this packaging format on MacOS. As a bonus, FFmpeg Encoders should now be available on MacOS too.
⚠ This change requires that you cleanly remove old versions of StreamFX first!
As the packaging and installation method has changed, please follow the Uninstallation guide to clean up any left over old files. Failure to do so will result in undefined behavior and may render OBS Studio entirely unusable. You have been warned.
Universal Binaries for x86 & ARM64 support on MacOS
Users on ARM64 devices can now enjoy native ARM64 binaries for less CPU usage, and as such more overall performance on CPU focused tasks. While StreamFX is mostly GPU workloads, some of the internal code does actually do very heavy lifting that benefits from this.
Deprecation of the AMD AMF (via FFmpeg) encoders
With OBS Studio 28.0 the old obs-amd-encoder project is finally laid to rest and a new AMD AMF integration is provided. This AMD AMF integration is technically and functionally superior to both the old obs-amd-encoder and FFmpegs AMD AMF integration. All users are urged to migrate as soon as possible, as no guarantees are made for how long this deprecated encoder will remain. Additionally, users on Linux should put their focus on the open Pull Requests for Linux support (1, 2).
Deprecation of the AV1 (via AOM) Encoder
With OBS Studio 27.2.4, the SVT-AV1 and AOM-AV1 encoders were integrated into OBS Studio directly. This integration is functionally identical, and as such replaces the StreamFX provided AOM-AV1 encoder. All users are urged to migrate as soon as possible, as no guaratees are made for how long this deprecated encoder will remain.
Shader Texture Inputs no longer corrupt Scene Collections
For quite some time, Shader Texture Inputs were haunted by ghosts from the past, also known as work-arounds and deprecated code. This resulted in Shader Texture Inputs keeping stale references around and requiring an OBS Studio restart to actually update. Several code modernization cycles later, this is now fixed and Shader Texture Inputs immediately update as expected - while also no longer keeping stale references around, so your Scene Collections are safe again.
Detailed Changelog
0.12.0a117
0.12.0a106
- #881: Texture inputs to Shaders are unstable by @Xaymar in #884
- Deprecate AMD AMF encoders by @Xaymar in #885
- Deprecate AOM AV1 encoder by @Xaymar in #886
- Add missing deprecation notices by @Xaymar in #889
- New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in #867
- cmake: Fix bad version strings by @Xaymar in #887
- project: Updating contr...
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 106
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
Windows |
Ubuntu, Debian, ... |
MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or newer), (or equivalent Distro) | MacOS 10.15 (or newer) |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer), Windows 11 (or newer) | Ubuntu 22.04 (or newer), or equivalent Distro | MacOS 12 (or newer) | |
| CPU | Minimum |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Recommended |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
|||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 28.0.0 | ||
| Recommended | ||||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio |
||
What's Changed
New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!
The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.
Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
ARM64 Support on MacOS
As OBS Studio 28.0 and beyond support ARM64 and x86-64 now, StreamFX now also supports this architecture natively. Note that you may need at least MacOS 11.0 for the ARM64 binaries to load correctly.
Deprecation of the AMD AMF (via FFmpeg) encoders
With OBS Studio 28.0 the old obs-amd-encoder project is finally laid to rest and a new AMD AMF integration is provided. This AMD AMF integration is technically and functionally superior to both the old obs-amd-encoder and FFmpegs AMD AMF integration. All users are urged to migrate as soon as possible, as no guarantees are made for how long this deprecated encoder will remain. Additionally, users on Linux should put their focus on the open Pull Requests for Linux support (1, 2.
Deprecation of the AV1 (via AOM) Encoder
With OBS Studio 27.2.4, the SVT-AV1 and AOM-AV1 encoders were integrated into OBS Studio directly. This integration is functionally identical, and as such replaces the StreamFX provided AOM-AV1 encoder. All users are urged to migrate as soon as possible, as no guaratees are made for how long this deprecated encoder will remain.
Shader Texture Inputs no longer corrupt Scene Collections
For quite some time, Shader Texture Inputs were haunted by ghosts from the past, also known as work-arounds and deprecated code. This resulted in Shader Texture Inputs keeping stale references around and requiring an OBS Studio restart to actually update. Several code modernization cycles later, this is now fixed and Shader Texture Inputs immediately update as expected - while also no longer keeping stale references around, so your Scene Collections are safe again.
Detailed Changelog
0.12.0a106
- #881: Texture inputs to Shaders are unstable by @Xaymar in #884
- Deprecate AMD AMF encoders by @Xaymar in #885
- Deprecate AOM AV1 encoder by @Xaymar in #886
- Add missing deprecation notices by @Xaymar in #889
- New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in #867
- cmake: Fix bad version strings by @Xaymar in #887
- project: Updating contributing guidelines by @Xaymar in #894
- New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in #890
- project: Updating contributing guidelines by @Xaymar in #895
- Fix a huge number of warnings by @Xaymar in #893
- third-party: Update obs-studio to 28.0.0 by @Xaymar in #901
- code: Fix GCC warning diagnostic pragmas by @Xaymar in #902
- New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in #897
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 77
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
Windows |
Ubuntu, Debian, ... |
MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer) | Ubuntu 20.04 (or newer), (or equivalent Distro) | MacOS 10.15 (or newer) |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2 (or newer), Windows 11 (or newer) | Ubuntu 22.04 (or newer), or equivalent Distro | MacOS 12 (or newer) | |
| CPU | Minimum |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Recommended |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
|||
| Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series | ||||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 28.0.0-rc1 | ||
| Recommended | 28.0.0-rc1 or Latest | |||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio |
||
What's Changed
New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!
The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.
Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
ARM64 Support on MacOS
As OBS Studio 28.0 and beyond support ARM64 and x86-64 now, StreamFX now also supports this architecture natively. Note that you may need at least MacOS 11.0 for the ARM64 binaries to load correctly.
Detailed Changelog
0.12.0a77
- New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in #817
- Improve GitHub integration by @Xaymar in #841
- project: Fix incorrect tabs in YAML by @Xaymar in #842
- Improve metadata generation by @Xaymar in #837
- cmake: Add support for Qt6 by @Xaymar in #866
- New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in #832
- Further improve CI and Github integration by @Xaymar in #843
- ci: Remove Code Signing with self-signed certificate by @Xaymar in #873
- Fix compilation errors with Debug and/or Profiling by @Xaymar in #876
- Deduplicate CI build pipeline by @Xaymar in #874
- Remove Auto-Dependency System by @Xaymar in #870
- Working on source code [Refactor] by @GermanAizek in #836
- obs/gs/effect: Revert #836 by @Xaymar in #880
- Update libOBS to 28.0.0-rc1 by @Xaymar in #878
0.12.0a45
- Improve CMake build script(s) by @Xaymar in #813
- ci: Add GCC back to the build by @Xaymar in #820
- Add ClangCL, and update Windows SDK requirements by @Xaymar in #821
- ci: Allow failures for experimental CI tests by @Xaymar in #824
- ci: Use specific LLVM/Clang versions by @Xaymar in #825
- project: Add support for multi stage release cycles by @Xaymar in #823
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 45
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
Windows |
Ubuntu, Debian, ... |
MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 | Ubuntu 20.04, (or equivalent Distro) | MacOS 10.15 |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2, Windows 11 or newer | Ubuntu 22.04, (or equivalent Distro) | MacOS 12 | |
| CPU | Minimum |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
||
| Recommended | Any x86-64-v2 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series | |||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 27.2 | ||
| Recommended | ||||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt 5 FFmpeg 4.4 |
||
What's Changed
🆕 The update cycle is now split into "Alpha", "Beta", "Candidate" and "Stable"
The old two stage update cycle was starting to show its faults resulting in additional support cases, mainly due to it poorly communicating the meaning of "Testing" in software. Therefore future versions of StreamFX will now offer "Alpha", "Beta" and "Candidate" update channels, which will hopefully end up being clearer to the end user.
🆕 Experimental support for Windows 11, Ubuntu 22, and MacOS 12
In order to quell the increase in reports of problems on Windows 11, Ubuntu 22 and MacOS 12, StreamFX now offers separate binaries for each Operating System version that is supported. In the far future, support for Windows 10, Ubuntu 20 and MacOS 11 will be dropped as it is likely that everyone has moved on by then. Please ensure that you've picked a version of StreamFX that matches the Operating System you have installed.
🆕 Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG
A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.
🛠 Smaller binaries for Linux
As linux binaries started to get bloated out of proportions, the new binaries are stripped of all debug information. While this may make crashes harder to figure out, this should drastically reduce the size of the downloaded binaries for Linux users. Hopefully with no side effects.
Detailed Changelog
0.12.0a45
- Improve CMake build script(s) by @Xaymar in #813
- ci: Add GCC back to the build by @Xaymar in #820
- Add ClangCL, and update Windows SDK requirements by @Xaymar in #821
- ci: Allow failures for experimental CI tests by @Xaymar in #824
- ci: Use specific LLVM/Clang versions by @Xaymar in #825
- project: Add support for multi stage release cycles by @Xaymar in #823
StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 1
⚠️ Pre-Releases are not meant for Production usage!⚠️
These releases are offered for early adopter Supporters and are not meant for Production usage. They are offered with no warranty or guarantees and the StreamFX project and its maintainers explicitly reject any responsibilities for damages or unexpected changes resulting from the use of these releases. Additionally, the project and its maintainers are not interested in any bugs, crashes or freezes found by using these releases, as we have enough automated tests to cover most functionality. Please use the Stable production-ready release if you do not wish to encounter unusual problems.
Support the development of StreamFX!
Maintaining a project like StreamFX requires time and money, of which both are in short supply. If you use any feature of StreamFX, please consider supporting StreamFX via Patreon - even as little as 1$ per month matters a lot. Supporters also get a number of benefits, such as access to pre-releases of all projects and more!
System Requirements
Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!
The installation of StreamFX requires that you follow certain instructions, as well as fulfill a minimum hardware and software requirement. Please ensure that you have read and verified both before asking for help, as many issues can be fixed by reading both of them in their entirety.
System Requirements
Windows |
Ubuntu, Debian, ... |
MacOS |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum | Windows 10 21H2 | Ubuntu 20.04, (or equivalent Distro) | MacOS 10.15 |
| Recommended | Windows 10 21H2, Windows 11 or newer | Ubuntu 20.04, (or equivalent Distro) | MacOS 12 | |
| CPU | Minimum | Any x86-64-v2 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series | ||
| Recommended |
Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE |
|||
| Memory (RAM) | Minimum | 4 GiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | 8 GiB (free) | 6 GiB (free) | ||
| Video (GPU) | Minimum | DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total) | ||
| Recommended | DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total) | |||
| Disk Space | Minimum | ~50 MiB (free) | ||
| Recommended | ~50 MiB (free) | |||
| OBS Version | Minimum | 27.2 | ||
| Recommended | ||||
| Other | Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 |
Qt 5 FFmpeg 4.4 |
||
What's Changed
Detailed Changelog
0.12.0a1
- Updated translations from Crowdin. (#778, #786)
- @IceStormNG Added a DNxHDR encoder based on FFmpeg. (#784)
- Refactored some C++ wrappers around libOBS to improve stability and crash resistance. (#806)