December 2, 2023

If you happen to’re a fan of streaming, you’re going to love this.

The favored OBS reside streaming app has been launched as a brand new beta that’s appropriate with Apple Silicon Macs. The replace provides native help for Macs outfitted with M1 and M2 chips.

The primary beta of OBS Studio 28 offers full native help to Apple’s Silicon platform. Which means that Apple Silicon Macs will be capable to get pleasure from important enchancment within the app’s efficiency. The beta replace additionally added some new options to the OBS reside streaming app.

Whereas some Apple Silicon Macs help apps made for Intel-based computer systems by Rosetta know-how and may’t totally make the most of Apple’s ARM chips, apps with native Silicon help have been confirmed to work sooner with out consuming an excessive amount of energy.

The developer has famous that third-party plug-ins will nonetheless should be up to date to incorporate Apple Silicon help.

In terms of new options, OBS Studio 28 added help for 10-bit HDR video and the brand new ScreenCaptureKit API. This API permits high-performance display screen seize on macOS. As well as, the replace additionally introduced improved help for the Apple VT encoder.

Sadly, the brand new beta of the OBS reside streaming app has dropped help for the macOS 10.13 Excessive Sierra, macOS 10.14 Mojave, Home windows 7, Home windows 8, Ubuntu 18.04, and all 32-bit working system.

OBS Studio 28 beta is now obtainable to obtain on Github for testing functions solely. No phrase but on when the general public model of the app will turn into obtainable.

If you happen to’ve had an opportunity to attempt the brand new beta, please tell us about your expertise within the feedback.

By way of The Mac Observer and GitHub