OBS Studio 31.0 Promises NVIDIA Blur Filter/Background Blur, Refactored NVENC
OBS Studio 31.0 promises several new features including NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur, preview scrollbars, v210 format support for AJA device capture, Amazon IVS service integration, QSV AV1 screen content coding, and support for first-party YouTube Chat features.
Some Linux-specific changes in the upcoming OBS Studio release include improved screensaver inhibit functions when installing OBS Studio as a Flatpak app, improved QSV encoder, changed Display and Window capture sources to not capture implicitly, disabled built-in Automatic Scene Switcher on Wayland, and removed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS support.